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Show COUNCIL TO MEET TO GRANT LICENCES ORDEREDBY COURT New State Law Affecting Larger Cities Pat Into Operation. A special session of tha city council bk. ,;has been called for 4:30 o'clock this afternoon to grant those liquor licenses which have been so ordered by the third district court. The following retail re-tail licenses were ordered granted this morning by Judge C. F. Loofbourow: Schramm-Johnson Drug company for Ave different stores, James Richards, Frank Blatnick, Nicholas Hugo, Pruetal A Franken The court ordered that club licenses be granted to the Elks and Commercial Commer-cial clubs, a wholesale liquor license to M. Wagner, and a manufacturer 'r license li-cense to A. Fisher. The application of the Willis-Horne Drug comuany, Richmond Drug company. com-pany. AJpbonso Yaccimo, 8mith Drug ' company and Owl Drug company were continued. Licenses were denied to Mike Pappos and Mike Scotter because they are not fully naturalized citizens. Must Construe Liberally. That section of the new liquor law which provides that the application for a retail liquor license must be accompanied accom-panied by the endorsemeut-ot five resident resi-dent freeholders of the "voting district" dis-trict" in which the saloon is located, will likely receive a liberal construe-' tion from the judges of the third district-court. It is said that in a number of voting district, in Salt Lake City there are not enough resident freeholders to sign the application, though there are plenty of property owners who are willing to do so. It is said that in one case the application is signed by owners of property prop-erty in the district that it valuade at several million dollars. Corporations Can't Sign. I While the action of the court yes i terday and to. lay in passing favorably ) on a number of applications is nof to be taken as a precedent, it indicates that the courts will rule that a, free-k free-k holder in a certain voting district may ''endorse an application. Another question that came up was that of allowing corporations to sign the applicatioA. It was argued that a corporation could not vouch for the moral standing of the applicant. It is believed that the court will hold that the application must be signed by individuals in-dividuals and not bv corporations. |