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Show LATEST DISPATCHES, GENERAL. SAN FBANl'IjiCO. Cutting OH tho Wntcr Stipplj 1'lic Chico Outruns. San Francisco, 27. For a loop time litigation has been in progress between the Spring Valley water company com-pany and the city, relative to the payment of tho company's charges for water furnished for municipal purposes. The bills referred to amount to $169,000, covering the time from early in 1S72 up to last! month. Tho lower courts have rendered ren-dered decisions in favor of the company, com-pany, but the board of supervisors at a recent meeting refused payment pending tho result of litigation in the supremo court. To-day the president of the Spring Valley company transmitted trans-mitted a communication to the board Btating that unless immediate steps be taken towards a fair settlement and payment for water used in the past, and the making of a proper contract for tho future, and euch steps be prosecuted to a speedy conclusion con-clusion under the law, the corporation will cut off the supply of water from its mains for all ordinary municipal uses of the eity, except the extinguishment extin-guishment of fires. A Chico dispatch states that the parties arrested in connection with the recent outrages there were.to day, sent to Oroville, the county Beat, for confinement. Five of them, Eugene Roberts, T. E. Conway, Thomas Staiubrook, John and Charles Slaughter, were to-day held to answer for murder and arson. John Ma-honey, Ma-honey, Pleasant Slaughter, Henry C. Wright, Adam Holderbnum, N.'T. Jones and James Fay were held for arson. All waived examination, having hav-ing made sworn statements of guilt except Mahoney, who is held on the evidence ol Wright, and will be brought before the grand jury on Monday. More revelationa are ex pected before the grand jury. A scheme of assassination is reported to have been concocted, whereby some six or seven leading citizens were marked for death. The citizens are determined to go to tho bottom of the matter, as it ia atrongly suspected there are some influential parties who tire implicated in and accessory to the recent depredations. |