Show LIVELY CONTEST merchants of the county will not pay license the merchants of weber county will resist the collection of the licenses provided for by the county court at the last session of the court a resolution was adopted calling for alie immediate collection of licenses from all county merchants as provided for by statute the merchants have taken legal advice and have decided to contest tho case in the courts judeo rhodes yesterday gave the revolting merchants an opinion on the case in which he holds that the callec tion is not legal for two reasons one of these reasons is that the city merchants have been exempted from the extra taxation and therefore the county storekeepers are not treated with equity then again the opinion holds that the territorial statute is general in its provision fi and under tho present practice or custom each county fixes its own amount of license when under the law the rate should bo general |