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Show WILL GET BUSY AFTER VACATION 4 . V Many Supreme Court Cases Advanced for October Hearing. f WASHINGTON, June 1. CoincMent with tha closing of tha term of tha su prema court o tha United States and the departure of tba justice, for their summer vacations, haa been tha planning plan-ning of aa immensa amount of work for tba eonrt when it maeta again next October. Oc-tober. . ' Thirty-Aye esses, anma of them , of far-reaching importance, had been advanced ad-vanced for bearing on the nrat day of tha next term "or as soon thereafter as practicable." 4 Tha quoted phrase is estimated to be equivalent to a month, for it ia said that it will take at least that time to hear the arguments in all these cases. Among th esses advanced are ia eluded those involving tha validity of th indictment of Charlea F. Monday and others, growing out of tha so called Streeey land claims in Alaaka and of tha indictment of James A. Patten and othera on charges of violating tha Sher-man Sher-man anti-trust law ia "cornering" the cotton market. Tha review at tue trial of Frederick Hvde and othera oa a charge of land frauds oa tha Pacific coast will constitute atill another prominent case. I la addition to these th court will have under advisement during tha summer sum-mer about a dozen eases whieh ware argued during tha term just closed, but not decided. Probably the most important impor-tant of the is that involving th constitutionality con-stitutionality of the federal employer liability act of 1908. According to a nummary by Deputy Clerk Mahar of the work done by the court during the term juat ended. Soft case were filed and 454 disposed, of. The latter aumber include 16 opinions. During tha preceding term 603 eases, were filed and only 395 case disposed of, including 176 opinion. |