Show SHE CARRIEDTHE DAY Mrs Dudler Victorious In the Conflict Con-flict With the City WATER GOING TO WASTE WBnE cmzs EXPERIENCING EXPERI-ENCING A FAlE Having Failed In the Physical Struggle Strug-gle the City Will Eave Recourse to the Law to Regain Possession of the Stream Which Mis Dudier Has Appropriated If the municipal officials regain posses sian of the largc stream of city water whIch Susan Dudier and her desperate cohorts have kept diverted at the mouth of Parleys canyon ever since the first of the week it will be because the strong arm of the law has been Invoked City Attorney Hall will today sue out an order in the histnict court requiring Mrs Dudber and her aids to show cause why they should not be perpetually restraIned from Interfering with the citys share of Par heys water This course was decided up on yesterday afternoon after Mayor Clark had visIted the point of diversion The controversy will be settled in the courts where all disputed rights should be adjudicated That this matter shouid have been forced into the courts a month ago is the opinion of Mayor Clark and the cIty officials who have not so goner ously considered Mrs Dudlers interest and Ignored the citys rights OFFICIAL FIASCOING Notwithstanding that the city council Tuesday night directed Watermaster Sed don to Immediately go to the scene with a suflicient force of men to turn off the diverted stream and guard it from further interference that official has accomplished nothing More than a third of the Par Icys stream remains wrongfully diverted by Mrs Dudler and in consequence the inhabitants of the city are deprived of an adequate supply of water but the water manter treats the matter very lightly For I the part he is playing in the fiasco of protecting pro-tecting the citys rights the majority of the city officials and hundreds of citizens accord him the full measure of censure Had he stood around sucking his thumbs he would in the Opinion or members of the council have accomplished as much in the line of his duty and In executing councilmanic orders THE GAME OF BLUFF Sunrise yesterday morning witnessed Watenmaster Seddon and a handful of halfscared men whose supply of sand was left behind making the last puny ef font to turn the water back Into the main creek Sheriff Lewis was present to pro serve the peace but it was not broken although the situation looked threatening at times As fast as the citys gang tore out the dam the Dudier folks restored it and thus the monkey play went on Mrs Dudler and her daughter were perpetually I placing themselves In the way ald proved to be adepts as obstrtctiorists The water master pulled off and brought his gang back to town A WATER FAMINE RESULTS Nothing was done yesterday to recover the citys water which is going down the open ditch across the bench and is abso lutely wasted The diverted stream has caused the reservoIr to fall to the lowest point ever known and as a result tho supply in the pipes is so inadequate that pressure is no longer thought of nan many households and public buildings are without a drop of water for ordinary and necessary uses LOOKS LIKE A HOLDUP SCHEME It is beyond dispute that Mrs Dudber and her aids do not use a thousandth pa of the appropriated water they pretend to own by right The trespassers yore anx bus to let go for the balance of the season sea-son if the city would pay Mrs Dudler 100 thereby confessing a right in her worth 10000 at least Two or three y councilmen have advocated the consurn mation of this queer deal All day yesterday two men were guard ing Mrs Dudlers interests and six or eight more men with weapons were secreted se-creted near the dam A mounted courier passed to and fro to keep the gang posted |