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Show BIBLE IS NOT GOOD AUTHORITY Tacoma, Wash., March 19. After a hearing, in which the Bible figured as an authority on loprosy, Superior Judge Clifford declined today to issue is-sue a restraining order proventing tho county authorities from fencing , in John R. Early, the supposed leper, on tho property ho occupies h H at Summltvlew, a suburb 'B Expert witnesses declared there was Ijrel practically no danger of-anyone con- jjiq trading leprosy from Early. In an Witt attempt to controvert this, attorneys Far for the Summltvlew residents cited .'(' passages from the Bible. Dr. E. M. i:f Brown, a surgeon in the Philippine fj war, testified that ho did not believe yjp tho Bible competent authority on ' gr medical subjects. aft nn '' |