The Ordway new era., 1909-09-24
Conspiracy IS CHARGED BY
TWIN LAKES CO..
Sensational Charges Made in Answer and Cross
Complaint.
Court Asked to Compel Disclosure Of Names ALLEGED
spIrstors and Members Of Bob Creek Association.
From the Pueblo Daily Chleftain.

From the Pueblo Daily Chieftain.
Conspiracy to damage the business
OF the Twin Lakes Land and Water
company and TO wrest the control OF
the big irrigation system from the
owners Is charged. and a demand made
for $3.50, 900 damages In a cross com.
plant aud answer filed yesterday In
district court by the defendant COM
pany 10 the case OF Fred Bass and 9TH
ers against the Twin Lakes Land aud
Water company. The cross complaint
Is one OF the most sensational ever
filed In the Arkansas valley and char.
ges outright as a direct allegation that
the conspiracy was hatched by few
persons and that IL Is the intention to
have everybody concerned 10 the case
brought into court In order that thOse
who II is alleged are responsible may
be revealed.
One Of the demands made by the
company Is that the plaintiffs, who
are users OF water under the Bob
creek canal, be compelled by order OF
court. to disclose the names Of mem.
bers OF the Bob Creek Farmers Pro-
tective association, aud also the
names Of all others similarly situated
whom they represent In the suit to
the end that they may be made par.
ties plaintiff to the complaint and
parties defendant TO the defendants
cross complaint.
Some OF those who are interested or
associated with the plaintiffs are
wealthy men Of the Arkansas valley,
and IL Is the avowed intention OF the
defendant company In its answer to
compel the plaintiffs to reveal their
names and to make them parties to
the demand for quarter Of million
damages.
The suit against the Twin Lakes
company was filed some time ago.
Bass and others associated with him
charged that the Twin Lakes compa.
ny had allowed the Bob Greek canal TO
become so run down that 1t could not
flow the required amount Of water
and generally charged such misman.
agement Of affairs that the court was
asked to appoint a receiver for the
property. The suit caused a big SEN
sation in the Arkansas valley, and
further action has been eagerly await.
ed.
MANY INTERESTED.
Hundreds Of persons living 10 the
Arkansas valley are directly interested
10 the suit and hundreds more are In
directly affected. The property In.
volved 10 the action is worth millions
of dollars, the Twin Lakes company
being probably the largest irrigation
system In the state Of Colorado.
In the answer aud cross complaint
which was fled yesterday by Hartman
& Ballreich, 1t is specifically charged
that prior to the bringing Of the &C.
tion the plaintiffs and members OF the
association with which they are con.
nected consplred to bring about the
appointment of q receiver to iDjure
the company and take the manage
ment Of its property away from 1t.
The charge Is made that the plain
tins timed the fling Of their com.
plaIut SO that it was fled late 10 the
afternoon In order that reports might
be made of it by the morning papers
and the Associated Press, and that
this has had a damaging effect by rea.
son of dIscrediting the defendant aud
has embarrassed the business opera.
tions Of the company.
ORIGINAL SUIT.
In the early part Of last June Fred
Bass, D. K. Waugh, A. F. Enyart and
others. of Ordway, Colo, on behalf OF
themselves and other parties similar
~ situated, filed suit 10 the district
oourt OF Pueblo county against the
Twin Lakes Land and Water compa'
nv. 10 which they set up. among 9th.
ar things, that the water company had
not properly managed and controlled
the canal through which the plaint-
lffs and Others were drawing water 70
irrlcste their lands, and that through
~ csrelessness and neglect. Vt had al.
lowed the canal to deteriorate and hll
with debris 10 such an extent . TO
impair the water rlghts owned by the
plaintiffs and Others. They asked
that the court appoint 9 fecsiser %
tske over the adiira of the co.npA ~,
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