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Show Drastic Measures Necessary To Eject Unlawful Holders . o The last chapter in the contro-1 veisy over the title to 3,000 acres of land situated just west of Fayette,! was written last week when officers evicted Milo Bown from the land. The ouster order was granted by Judge Woolley only recently and failing fail-ing to follow the instructions of the court, the sheriff and deputies put j the order into execution. The Mantij I Messenger gives the following j i j graphic description of the proceed-1 ! Sings: "Several days were' required by ! County Sheriff Jas. H. Sanderson's force to round up the loose property : belonging, apparently, to the Bowns, : and remove the same from the duck shooting grounds belonging to the ! Sanpete Fish anl Game club. The : groends, embracing some 3,000 acies I of bottom land, was purchased by the., gun club at a public sale of real es-? es-? ; tate by the county for delinquent . j taxes. The Bowns, who have been in : J possession of the property for years, 1 1 refused to vacate, so it remained f or lj'.he club to obtain an ouster order j from the district court which was granted by Judge Wolley Tuesday of last week. The court directed the sheriff's force to remove the Bowns and their personal property which Sheriff Sanderson proceeded to do last Saturday. "The sheriff's force consisted of himself, his deputy, and Nephi and Otto Ottoson of Manti, who proceeded proceed-ed to the grounds Saturday. They found Milo Bown on the property. Ht was told the purpose of their visit and invited to help remove the property. prop-erty. At first he denied having any interest in the stock and suggested that they had better not go into his house. The officers cared little I abot the ownership of the stock neither did they care to argue aboul the propriety of entering the house The padlock was pried off with th i aid of a pick found convenientlj near. Entrance thus gained " the: j proceeded to gather up tlie persona 1 effects and place them in a wagon preparatory to delivering them to tin j constable at Fayette.. Recognizin; i that the men meant business, Mih I i (Continued on last page.) permitted to sloop on the property Saturday night, but ho was informed by Otto Ottoson, who is the chief representative of the gun club, that j he could not, nor would ho be permitted per-mitted on the grounds at any future time. "The lands have boon practically ruined as a duck shooting grounds this year, due to the Bowns in their efforts to make is as dry as possible. Every stream of water which usually usual-ly spreads over the land was diverted ' into the river and every slough which j could be drained so that hundreds of j acres which usually was excellent j duck grounds were made as dry as possible. Where there have been thousands of ducks other years, there were less than hundreds this year. This condition, however, is only temporary, tem-porary, because water can be applied and great regions flooded again in a few weeks so that the grounds will I attract the great flight of ducks on their southward trip from the IYovo i and Bear River marshes." j Drastic Measures Are Uused to Eject (Continued from first page) fell into line and helped load on a few personal effects which he suddenly sud-denly remembered as being his prop-; prop-; crty. He soon left the scene of ac-: ac-: tivity, however, and joined his two ' brothers, John and Leonard, who occupied oc-cupied a small knoll a short distance from the house and off the club's property. Here the three brothers lounged all day, armed with Winchesters. Win-chesters. j "The officers spent the day gathering gather-ing up the personal effects and cart-1 cart-1 ing them to the town of Fayette. Once one of the Bown brothers attempted at-tempted to interfere with a youngster young-ster who was driving the wagon hauling the junk, but a reprimand from one of the officers soon ended the interference. "Monday was devoted to gathering up the livestock. The day's work assembled 168 hogs, about 40 head of cattle and 40 or 50 head of sheep. No one claimed these until they were near the bridge on their way to the estray pound. One of the Bowns girls met the officers here and stating stat-ing that some of the stock belonged to her, demanded that they be left on the property. She was informed she could claim her property but the officers of-ficers would brook no interference . on her part or that of anyone else in . removing the stock from the land, j Before the estray pound was reached all the property was claimed by one ' or another of 'the Bown family so ' that it was not necessary to trouble that official. "The intervening days have been devoted by the officers to gathering ' : up some additional ragged hogs, turkeys tur-keys and old scraps of machinery, wagons, etc., removing them to Fay-i Fay-i ette. "Milo Bown asked if he could be |