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Show WATER DECISION IS SWEEPING ONE WASHINGTON. May 2 The supreme court today decided that the government waa not required to par th Cbandler-Dunbar Cbandler-Dunbar Water Power company fSftO.OOO. se adjudged by a Michigan federal court, for water power appurtenant to land condemned for th construction of additional addi-tional locks and canal in the 8t Mary fiver. It was held that the flow of a navigable navi-gable stream waa In no sense th property prop-erty of the owner of adjacent land or nf the owner of the bed of th liver. Th decision Is regarded a a precedent making one WASHINGTON. May The supreme court held today that tb dty of Denver, Den-ver, In steps looking toward tne Taction Tac-tion of a municipal water system, was not compelled to buy th private plant of the Denver Union Water company or renew the eopmany's 180 franchise. The court held that th contract between the cltv end the company wa limited to twenty years. |