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Show ! WILLARD WATER CASE SETTLED. ) The settling of the George B. Barker claim against the city by j' the paj'ment of $3,S50 by the present administration euds a long j drawn-out contention which commenced during the first Democratic city administration following Glasmann's second term in office, was J continued through Brewer's two years, end finally ended with the i city confessing defeat. The dispute started with the Brewer administration refusing to honor a warrant for $5,000 drawn in payment of the water rights on "Willard Creek purchased from Frank Moore and others. "While j the conflict was on, M. S. Browning and others took possession of Hi the waters of the creek and built a power plant at the month of I "Willard canyon, setting up a claim to the water by right of appro- ! ' prfation. Bj The conflict was taken into the courts by Barker, to whom had BJ been assigned the rights of Moore and others. Yesterday the city B administration yielded. George B. Barker has the $3,S50, SI. S. Hi Browning and others have the water and the city has had the ex- B; perience. |