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Show COMMIS.iO.iEKS AND CHEF Of POLICE ARE CITED fdll CONTEMPT Rooming House Proprietor Says Restraining Order Was Violated. An ordar citing all the city eosareis loners aad tka chief of police for eon tempt of the district curt waa isanad by judge C W. Morse this morning on tka affidavit aad petitioa of C 0. Hoffman, proprietor of a rooming kouae at IS Wast Third Houth street. Tka order to skow cause la returnable Friday, Fri-day, February II. Hoffman Died suit against tka elty, the commissioners and tka ebiaf of poll po-ll ea February 0, contending that tka ordinance under wkiek tka commission eta danlad kiss a rooming bouse I i cesses is iaralid. A temporary restraining order or-der waa Issued prevsatiag tke defendants defend-ants from Interfering witk Hoffman's business pending the outcome of tke salt. Tkl( morning attornsys for Hoffman Bled ao affidavit in tke district court alleging tkat Hugh I.. Oleun aad a man named l.uod, acting as agents of tke defendants, violated tke ordar of tke court by esstering. harassing aad dis furlong tke peaae aad quiet of the plaintiff and eausing kii guests to leave their rooms early yesterday morning. Ulenn aad Lund coadueted a raid oa tke Clift kouse at Tklrd Houth aad Mam streets and at Hoffman's place nearby, on tke assumption tkat liquor waa being sold. They arrested H H Curran and Delia Hchaef at tke CUft house, charged witk violatiag tke liquor law, but made no arrests at tke Hoffman Hoff-man house. A similar affidavit citing tke elty commissioners aad tke chief of police for contempt will be lied tkis afternoon, it Is said, by Delia ttchaaf, who, as proprietress of the Clift house, also baa seeured an order from tke district court restraining tkem from interfering witk ker business. In tke affidavit (led tkis morning Hoffman alleges that Detective Olenn ealy laughed at him when he flourished ft copy of the court order la hla faee and deelared be didn t care a whoop for tke order aad that it dida 't amount to anything. Not being ft defendant in the action ea which the order waa obtained, Olenn eanaot be sited for contempt, bat the order expressly obeerrss that the agents and minions of ths defendants are restrained from Interfering with the plaintiff's business. |