The Alaska daily empire., 1915-03-24
IAWYER BARNES IS
 WINNER IN POETRY


 WINNER IN POETRY
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 E. NJ. Barnes. former Juneau lawyer who was debarred from practice for writing the famous Peaches and 1 Cream" letter which jury declared was obscene literature. has broken into the poetry column again In Los Angeles. This time tho eccentric bar rister won out.
 The clipping about Burns is taken from the Los Angeles Herald. Is says:
 Verse today, (0Iarch D won over prose in tho legal fight that followed battle between bulldog and a Pomeranian.
 The dog-fight was @ regular battle but it had nothing on the contest that was staged in justice court when Attorney E. N. Barnes of poetry di. vorce fame. hurried his epic into the camp of the opposition.
 Attorney Barnes enjoys the dis. tincdon of being the only man who ever filed a divorce action In poetic language.
 But when he was retained by Clyde Winton. owner Of the bulldog that battled with C. B. shouies Pomeran- ian pup. Attorney Barnes hurled dac. tylic iambic and several other kinds Of poetic dynamic.
 Today Justic Brown ruled in favor of the bulldog and the poetry and against the poor Pomeranian.
 Here's the Plalnt
 As Attorney Barnes sets forth in his brief
 1.-TWO dags one day met on the green. One was a bun and one Pomerion ' Winton. who owned the bulldog, was sued by Shouies for SS5. value of the Pom" and 2 per cent interest and costs.
 Shoules claimed his dog was peace able, a regular country dog with no bad habits. He said Winton's bull a vicious city dos attacked and kill cd the Pomeranian.
 winton denied this. He set uD the theory Of self-deiense He attacked the character Of the Pomeranlan and declared it a vicious brute
 But here is Attorney Barnes poetic brief for Winton and the bulldog. 1t tells the story
 Poetry That Won. TWO dogs ono day met on the green One was a bull and one Pomerian- The bull was trotting down the street, The other thought the bull he would
 eat.
 Now tho bull had notions of his own, Even though Q pup and not half
 grown, And when the other commenced to
 chew.
 Then che Oullpup this Pomerian slew. That's an there is about this fight, Now. sure. sir. that's not an awful
 sight
 And why take up the precious time or this Honorable Court and also mine? The fee I've got has long been spent; I'm not quite broke. but badly bent In justices court I'm not often seen, In the practice there may be green. in the Supreme Court In 1880 ] got my sheepskin. it's old and dirtay. And since that time I've not heard
 or read or setting damages for a dog that's
 dead.
 What market price has a dead dcg? The papers tell of a fat hog, Or of a beef or of chicken, But not of dog that's got licking The market price Is Che guags of
 stuff.
 And in this case it's not enough To carry costs to the plaintiff here Or buy his lawyer 9 stein of beer Oh, Ho. see the nigger in the fence Since the lawyers mention it, thence
 from thence, NOV lnc lbu5 DL il"ytt1 Vhi! Als Hi5N
 places; Times are so hard only few play
 the races Some scent a fee with the aid of their
 nose,
 Then when he amelt this dead dogs
 toes.
 "A fee ] see. suing this soda fountain
 man. m haste to Court as fast as can To raise the costs may have to soak
 my watch I'm little afraid of this ease !" make
 botch." And that's the starter of this great
 biz suit;