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Show WANT DAM REMOVED Farmers Protest to Roosevelt Again3t Gun Club. SANTA ANA. Cal., Dec. 12 Four hun-dreo hun-dreo ranchers Of the Westminster district, ln the southwest corner of Orange county, I Pave forwarded a petui.ni to President Roosevelt asking P" an investigation into in-to the appropriation ( the waters of Bolsa Chlca bay by Lhe bu.'.sa Chlou Gun club as a duck shooting preserve. The p. titlon recites lhe fact that the club hns bulli a dam across the bay, rendering the navigable Inlet useless for a n purpose After stating th- history of the case, the petition concludes with an appeal to th. President to have the laws Of the War department In reK..rd to navigable streams enforced The ranchers "have been making an unsuccessful fight f-r four years to have the gun clubs dam across the bay removed. |