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Show ROW IN MEETING Free-foi-All at Conference of Water Company Directors. BOUNTIFUL Jan 10. Peaceful ns this thnvliiK llttb l"wn usually Is. ii vs.-i" Hi scene Monday of a free-for-all tight in whhh half a dozen promlm-nt citizens participated and whi h resulted In com-pllcatlotu com-pllcatlotu tlmt ar- not yt straightened out it miRht be noted in passing that three of the belligerents were Mormon dignitaries. Including a high priest, B patriarch and s itHk- (-ounseiior Trouble Over Water. It was at tho annual meeting of the Stone Creek irrigation coropanj thai the fr&caa started nigh Priest Joseph Bar- li.iw, .i rllreetur In iliis eorpi ra I ion, Ms water, it is alleged, by tapping the springs whii h feed the creeli and despite his ' leslastlcal offlco. the fact that the CltixenS along the cieok arc mm h of the time short of water, has stirred up considerable con-siderable bitterness Inward him Wants the Whole Creek. Patriarch John Tolman, also a director of the company, is not without Mi- ambitions am-bitions In the water Mm- Ho sought to make the filings on the creek a yea! .i." but was forced by public Indignation to withdraw them Now he has corralled the entire creek In order to feed his In pond, and the result Is that t h farmers below are practically without wati r Action Is Taken. Two matters came up at Monday's meeting meet-ing and th all w.i soon Inti nse with the feeling manifesl Finally iii-h Counsellor Cook got into the game and called another an-other director a liar Then tho scone changed fr -m words to blows and in thirty sci'mihIs nr less all Hie directors w-ri mixing mix-ing things without regard i" prize-ring regulations. One of those present who after he cooled down recovered his sense Ol humoi declared that it was funnier than a vaudeville show to sec these aged men i-r i v lug battle. After, the smoke had cleared awaj and quiet was restored six of th sc i directors di-rectors voted tn levj II per share on the 1000 shares of the stock for Improvements. The. board was unanimously sustained nnd also decided to turn the water from Tolman's pond back Into the creek This action was taken today. |