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Show ISSUE IS REFERRED TO DISTRICT COURT Salt Lake. June J. The slate supreme su-preme court yesterday beard In chambers, cham-bers, the application of the rntermoun-tain rntermoun-tain Liquor company to file before that tribunal a petition for the issuance issu-ance of a writ of mandate to compel the city commissioners to issue to it a retail liquor license for the operation opera-tion of a saloon at 4S East First South Street. Chief Justice J. B. Prick announced an-nounced at the opening of court yesterday yes-terday afternoon that tho court had decided to refuse the petition. In giving the decision, Judge Frlck anld that inasmuch as the same case was to be brought before Judge C. W. Morse In the hird district court this morning on a contempt proceedings, that the city commlb6lon would at that time have an opportunity of presenting pre-senting Its excuse for not having obeyed the order of the district court in the maLtcr of the Issuance of the license. "Possibly," said Judge Frlck, "tne commissioners may have sufficient excuse in the judgment of the district court, and In that event the matter would he settled there On the other hand, If the reverse be the case, in the Judgment of this court the case could later he carried to this coiu't for ripHsfon " As a result of the ruling of the supreme su-preme court, the city commissioners, with tho exception of G-eorgeD Kej ser, will appear this morning before Judge Morse In response to his order of a ic' days agp to show cause why they should not be punished for contempt con-tempt in having refused the order of the court to Issuo a liquor license which had been granted. |