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Show MISUSE OF II WATER IS CHARGED Government Enters Action ; Against Irrigators; Injunction Injunc-tion Writ Served. Deputy United States Marshal David Thomas has returned from the Uinta basin, where he served a writ or! injunction injunc-tion against the defendant irrigation companies and farmers in the suit brougnt to prevent them from misusing certain waters on Indian lands. Deputy Thomas reports that the irrigation companies com-panies have met with a view to evading, it possible, the terms of the injunction. It is said that a continued appropriation of the waters in question by the irrigation irri-gation companies will result in the ruin of the Indian crops in that region. The writ is returnable tomorrow, when the case will come tin for hearing before District Judge Tillman D. Johnson. The second big irrigation suit to be filed within the past week was opened vesterdav in the case of the Lnited States and Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. I,me, as' custodian for the Indians, against the Cedar A'iew Irrigation Irri-gation company, the Colorado I'ark Irrigation Ir-rigation compa'nv and seventy-five other defendants, to 'restrain them from using us-ing waters alleged to appertain to the Indians on the Uinta and Ouray reservations. reser-vations. Subpoenas will be served on the seventy-seven defendants within the next few davs. It is alleged that the defendants have misused waters intended for the Indian lands to which the water was assigned by the government. A temporary tem-porary injunction against the use of the water in question 'bv the defendants will be asked when the case comes up for hearing. John Itavo. a bartender of Salt Lake, vesterdav filed a petition for involnn-tarv involnn-tarv bankruptcv with the clerk of the United States ' district court. Mayo claims liabilities to the amount of ,in44. fin and puts his assets at $473.30. $'20 of the latter amount being claimed as exempt, while the residue of the assets as-sets consist largely of long overdue accounts. |