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Show iMloF.iDAno Judge Beatty Decides That Sheep Must Stay at Home. I The famous Idaho-Utah sheep case which was entitled Jesse M. Smith and others vs. Thomas G. .Lowe, state, sheep inspector of Maliis anH hi denuties. was ' decided late yesterday afternoon :by Judge Beattyin Boise against the Utah men. The action was the outcome of an attempt on the part of Idaho officials last spring to prevent Utah sheep men from I grazing . their flocks on the public j domain in Oneida county, Idaho, by seizing them and holding them under quarantine. The plaintiffs 1 sought an injunction' to restrain 'the inspector and his deputies I from enforcing Governor Hunt's quarantine ', proclamation and I Judge Beatty, of the federal court, issued a limited restraining j order On March 30th last deciding that "holding clean bill of health from the federal -sheep inspector was sufficient ito, entitle Utah sheep to graze On the "public domain of Idaho, and that the Idaho sheep inspection law was void from being contrary to the interstate commerce act." The defendants de-fendants interposed a demurrer and as it went to the merits of the case the last decision of Judge Beatty in favor of the Idaho men disposes of it. This decision practically practi-cally ends the : 'case for "it was rendered in acordance with two recent decisions of the supreme court of the United States. It mpjns that Utah sheep owners must keep their ilocks altogether inone Btate or the other.They can't graze ' them at certain seasons in Utah and during other seasons in Idaho. News. |