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Show BROW!) HEARING i IS CONTINUED Salt Lake, Feb 2S. All the work of securing a Jury to hear the contest over tho will of Arthur Biown was wasted by the granting of a continuance continu-ance for the term thlp morning by Judge M. L. Ritchie of tbe district court. Beyond tho opening address of O. W. Powers to the Jury, nearly all of last week was taken up with the examination of talesmen, all of which must be done over again at the next term, which opens April 11. The continuance was granted on the motion of Attorney Caesar Robinson Robin-son of Denver, and V. H King declared de-clared that they had relied on their contention that the evidence Judge Powers proposes to Introduce could not he received under the complaint, which had not set forth that tho children chil-dren were the illlcgitlmnte children of Arthur Brown, but merely used tho words "children" and "heirs." In granting the contlnuonce, which was 6toutly oprosed by Judge Powers. .Iud?e Ritchie said that while he believed be-lieved the counsel for tho defense should have interposed their objections objec-tions earlier In the case, he was not disposed to hamper them when they said they were not prepared. Ho therefore" continued the case for the term. There were many disappointed spectators spec-tators In the court room. Interest In the fight which Mrs. Anna Bradley is making to obtain for her children a portion of the estate of the man she slew in a Washington hotel Is keen, and at every session of tho court the room has been crowded. |