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Show SEEKING GAMBLERS' CHANCES. When condemnation proceedings were proposed last spring as to the un-lised un-lised and probably forfeited water right claimed bj the smith Light and Railway Rail-way company, t'lty Attorney Dey .is a prudent official, said that he did not wish 10 reel the fai of a million-dollar municipal Improvement on the uncertain uncer-tain determination In court of an untried un-tried nnd doubtful question He said that the clnim of authorlf In the city to condemn a water right might be. valid, it might not, and it .ns certainly Injudicious to proceed wl'h the spending spend-ing of a million dollars on the proposition proposi-tion that It was a valid right, when It wan only a claim which the courts mltfht not sustain. But nothing of the kind daunted mm hi Morris On the contrary, he plans, whether consciously or not, to have Just that state of the case brought in which City Attorney Dey considered unadvlsable. The Mayor could have obtained the Knudsen mill water right last winter or spring at a rate lhat he himself consldererl ffir He wouldn't ior dldn t, which amounts to the same thing, 1 close with It. But he went right on spending money and letting contracts. con-tracts. Just as though he already had that right and till he needed to do was to tender the money he thought Knudsen Knud-sen should receive, and take the water right. But things were doing in the meantime. mean-time. Knudsen was not called on for his right. He was not even notified thai the 1 Ity would take It for a stated price He didn't know that Morris would take It at all. The signs were against it So Knudsen not only held on to his right, but proceeded tO develop another and larger right which he had filed on five years ago, and arranged to pui In machinery for a light and power plant, having obtained a market for the product. pro-duct. Naturally, when, after months of delay. Mayor Morris let Knudsen know that the city was ready to take his water right, that right In the meantime mean-time having been reinforced by the second sec-ond right and the Improvements thereon, there-on, was not for sale at the r,ld price. The Mayor waited on Knudsen and pleaded for a day, to get what his procrastinating pro-crastinating folly had let pass by, for the old price; but In vain Thnt Is the reason why Morris Is now beginning a condemnation suit against Knudsen, resting his case on the doubtful doubt-ful Issue upon which City Attorney Dey ret lln , i t.i spend the citys money. And that is why the city la certain to be tied up in a long and uncertain tangle tan-gle of litigation, With the gamble that In the end It may find that It has spent Its money In vain |