Show SUES SMELTER COMPANY Plaintiff Wants Damages for Obstruction 1 Ob-struction of Stream John Marti yesterday filed suit in the District court against the American Amer-ican Smelting and Refining company to recover 750 damages alleged to have been sustained by him on account of the defendant filling up the channel of a stream of water thereby causing plaintiffs land to he Hooded In the I complaint It Is alleged that the plaintiff plain-tiff owns a farm at Murray through which runs a stream The defendant company and its predecessors dumped I the slag from Us smelter into the stream darning It up and causing It lo How onto plaintiffs farm The over I low took place It Is alleged In the spring of the year 1S96 1807 and 1S99 damaging plaintiffs crops to the extent I ex-tent of S76U It Is l alleged that T R Jones the manaer of the company acknowledged the liability of the company com-pany by paying plaintiff 530 on account of the damage done In ISO and by promising to remove the obstruction or deepen stream and widen the bed of the |