Imperial Valley press., 1908-02-29

NOlunJeeIeu alo 70 Jne sat- company and did it's feeble worst to sacrifice the settlers and turn Imperial Valley back to the desert.
 Vieiously Jealous.
 A merchant of Imperial zealously provided the attorneys with an affida- vit to the effect that waste water from the Alamo was flooding lands claimed by some of his relatives. He could show no direct interest in the matter, but hastened to butt in" with reasons why all the valley should be made to suffer for the benefit of one or two persons. He did not mention, however, the fact that the filings on those claims were made as late as last June and with full knowledge of conditions that had then existed for two years.
 Other alleged parties in interest are persons who have filed on land under water, taking the chance of the future, and who ask that the farms of Imperial Valley be ruined in order that they may locate claims at the bottom of SaltOn Sea.
 Attorneys for the salt company ac- cepted such aid of course, and they attempted also to use ammunition fur nished by the newspaper organ of the Paulin faction, reading, in the course of argument, extracts from that public-spirited journal purporting to show that the injunction was doing no harm in the valley.
 SuspiciousIy We'll Informed.
 The organ of the Paullin faction, it will be remembered, announced in ad- vance the closing of the power plant, announced it prematurely, but with knowledge of the purposes of the val ley's enemies. In it's eagerness to see the blow fall, the Paullin organ as serted twice that it had fallen, and was unable to dissemble it's exultation. That the Paullin organ was in close with persons conspir- ing to strike the blow is now clear. If it had been an accomplice in the design to put the Holton Power Com pany out of business, the Paullin fac tion organ would have done just what it did It even went so far in it's gloat- ing as to declare that the decree in the salt works case "annulled the con- tract" between the c. D. Go. and the power company. Doubtless the organ and it's confidential informant allowed the wish to father that thought, but it was an absurd conclusion
 It was incredible that the court in tended the injunction to operate as a boycott on Imperial Valley, that even the most rapacious litigant would at tempt so to use it, or that any person or corporation would apply it to wreak personal revenge. But some things turn out to be true. The Press was not mistaken as to the intentions of the court, but it was mistaken on the other points, not hay ing inside information as to the de signs of those with whom the Paullin organ is in close relations.
 Animus Revealed.
 That The Press was entirely right, when it said of the Paullin organs prediction of a shutdown: 'The ami mus of these persistent efforts to knock the power company is known in the valley, and the purpose of the publication at this particular time is obvious" is demonstrated by the fol lowing excerpts, some of which the salt works attorneys quoted in sup port of their plea that the injunction be made permanent:
 From the Imperial Standard.
 Feb. 12-Under the restraining ord CT of Judge Wellobrn it would be necessary to shut off the water supply of the Holton Power Company.
 The worst inconvenience that will be felt will be in the matter of lights for recourse will of necessity be had to lamps.
 This is going to enforce more care in the handling of water on the irriga- tors of the valley, and something more like rotation in the use of water will