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Show BORGQUIST IS TO DISTRIBUTE WATER K. H. Borgifuist was appointed commissioner com-missioner in the government irrigation Kiiits against tho irriga tiou companies and fanners in the Uinta valley at the hearings of the two cases yesterday before Judge Tillman D. Johnson in the I l-'edoral court and will distribute the j wateru of the streams in question to ! boLli plaintiff Indians and tho defen- ' limits for the present irrigation season. The appointment of Borgquist was made under an agreement readied by attorneys attor-neys for the defendants and V. W. Ray, United States attorney, representing the Indians. Stipulation was made in the agreement that the Indians are to be given their water first, the amount being be-ing named, and that thereafter Borgquist Borg-quist will distribute water to the defendants de-fendants in the proportions that they , will agree upon among themselves. , Attorneys for tho defendants in both rases yesterday filed demurrers to the I restraining order issued by the court and i made motion for the dismissal of the cases. Judgo Johnson denied both in ! each instance. |