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Show ""n'X'- y Hot Time I In Oneidal PRESTON, Feb. 18 Yesterday at Dayton there was held about the warmest meeting, touching such a non-conductor of heat as water Is generally thought to be, that your correspondent cor-respondent ever attended. The meeting meet-ing was scheduled to commence at 2:30 but It was long after time when Joshua Josh-ua Adams, president of the Hoard of Directors on the Oneida Irrigation District, called the meeting to order and stated its purpose, namejy: "To hear the report of its treasurer, S. J. Callen, and discuss ways and means of completing the canal," The report of Callen called fortli much acrimonious controversy. The lie was passed between A. W. Hart and Joshua Adams, and the term "graft" was freely used with Geo. C. Parkinson and A. W. Hart, et al., on the receiving end. Time and again members arose to points of order and chairman Adams tiad the most strenuous stren-uous time of his earthly career. It was seen that the company is now paying pay-ing out $30 per diem for salaries alone, which by the simple process of mathematical math-ematical deduction on the part of Jor1-gensen, Jor1-gensen, of Weston, was shown to .approximate .ap-proximate $,V,000 per'annum. "Ye Gods," thought the stockholders, "where do we get off at?" Thc'further Information was brought out that the state engineer in making out his estimate of cost of completing ing the Oneida canal, placed his computation com-putation so high that at the time he remarked that his figures were ultra-conservative ultra-conservative at $300,000. At the present pres-ent writing, the sum of $525,000 has been expended, there Is an indebted ness of over $20,000, the ditch Is far from being finished and the end is not yet. Several motions looking tothe levying levy-ing of further assessments were put and overwhelmingly defeated. Finally Final-ly a motion by Gassman, of Weston, was carried and tho meeting adjourned. adjourn-ed. Gassman's motion was as follows: "Resolved that meetings be held In each of tho towns within which reside stockholders in the Oneida Irrigation District to discuss all such matters as appertain to the affairs of the com pany." Literature or routn. Kalcker Wlmt books hav helped you most? Hockcr The ones 1 didn't buy witn the money fatlior -"'it nic n fnloe. |