| Show s s SHEEP BULK ON ar DISHED up it AT mm COLOR mm 0 ie e of the moat most novel defenses put up by a railroad to prevent adment of a fin a imposed by the rement for the tho violation of regu is s governing common carriers presented to the federal court denver enver col the other day ly denver nver and rio grande in a chae plying ving the national twenty eight jr r law lav for the shipment of cattle e ho e law says that the cattle must unloaded at least once every nty ty eight hours the attorneys athe the road state that they unload chese ese particular cars of sheep ined at calida salida and used every casle easle means that could be resorted without getting down to the doce of force to make the sheep eat food provided them but all in i lust why these sheep would not has never been learned and the road attorneys can give no apsy logical reason but the pleaded their attempt to er 0 a them nourishment before the I 1 renty enty eight hours was up the p were from colton utah Uta hand and re destined for kansas city the thorold road is tobe to be mulcted five hun bun ed d dollars in each case and will ve c to pay fifteen hundred dellaia is less the united states circuit court appeals says that its effort to feed e jhc pat at alida was t equivalent the sheep eating a it square meal th the usual delight thaw haep ex peri ence in eating city food after being on ranches for a few years when the government brought the suit demurrers were filed by the railroad but these have all been overruled by judge lewis just as soon as he did so sc it was announced that the cases would be taken higher the rio grande western was also a party to the complaints |
