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Show oo PERMISSION GIVEN TO SHIP BEERETTE Salt Lake, Sept, 4. On application of the Salt Lake Brewing company Judge C. W. Morse of the district court issued an Injunction yesterday afternoon compelling tho Denver & Rio Grand railroad to accept for shipment into dry territory a brew known as beerette, a substitute for beer. The railroad, since August 30, had refused to handle this product for shipment from Salt Lake to towns In territory where tho sale of intoxicating intoxi-cating liquor is prohibited by law, basing its refusal on the state law passed by the last legislature forbidding forbid-ding railroads to carry intoxicants from wet territory into dry territory Expert testimony to the effect that beerette contained less than one-hclf of 1 per cent alcohol was presented $ to the court, and on this showing i; Judgo Morso issued the order direct- M ing tho railroad to rocetve and carry I the beerette as long as its alcohollo f percentage does not exceed that j? amount r Oscar Lehmann, superintendent of I? the Salt Lake Brewing company, and il Dr. Howard P. Klrtley testified for the brewing company. u oo . it |