Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1909-07-09
A HEAVY TERM
Judge Walters Has Had Many
Difficult Problems to Settle
During the Past Season
HAS LARGEST CIRCUIT IN STATE
Twin Falls and Elmore Counties Have
Serious Legal Complications for
His Honor to Pass Upon

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his resident chambers for the summer
after a strenuous season commencing in
the middle of February holding regular
term of court in the FIVE counties COM
prising his judicial district.
Judge Walters presides over the
largest judicial district within the state
Of which there are eight, while he the
youngest member of the state judiciary.
A number of the most important
cases heard have been held for careful
consideration at chambers which will
occupy the most of the Judges time
prior to the convening of the next re-
gular term in Cassia county the first of
September.
The case determined by Judge
Walters, and which perhaps effected
the greater number of persons was
known as the survey case" arising in
Twin Falls county wherein the settlers
on the Twin Falls tract in one certain
township had built their fences and
other improvements according to the
lines as run by the Twin Falls company
surveyors, it developing later that such
survey did not correspond in many
particulars with the government sur
vey. Judge Walters held that the
government survey must maintain and
that improvements in conflict must be
made to conform with it and upon ap-
peal to the supreme court such decision
was recently affirmed.
Twin Falls county furnished another
interesting legal complication in the
dispute arising between certain citizens
and the county commissioners over the
construction and furnishing their new
court house for which the people of
such county recently voted bonds in the
sum of $150,O00.
The contract to build the court house
Of stone base and brick face was duly
let to a contractor for Sl23, 900 but
subsequently and without re-advertis-
ing the commissioners and the con-
tractor saw fit to change the contract
for it to be built of Boise sand stone
for $50. 0O0 An action was brought
IN the district court testing such
last order by certain citizens and
Judge Walters has issued temporary
Injunction restraining the commissioners
from proceeding until the furthur order
of the court.
Elmore county furnishes troubles for
the presiding Judge in the shape of the
legal complications with which their
irrigation system at Mountain Home is
surrounded and which Judge Walters is
now attempting to untangle by the
assistance of a receiver whom he has
distributing the water to the users and
repairing the canals.
Among the important matters of
Litigation now brewing.is one being in
stituted by the water users on the South
Side Twin Falls tract against the water
users on the Minidoka project and
North Side Twin Falls tract to decree
their respective rights and which Will
involve two or three thousand parties,
and also the action TO be shortly filed
DIV the people financing the big Brunean
irrigation project asking that they be
permitted to widen the south side
-anals and conduct water through them
to their lands, which case will perhaps
have more involved from financial
standpoint than any ever instituted in
this state.
The acreage directly involved in the
twin Falls Brunean project has now
oeen reduced to 500, 900 acres under
The terms of the Carey Act but state
md desert lands will add thousands of
acres more. Whether this immense
.ract can be irrigated at reasonable I
.ost depends on the result of the action !
% be brought before Judge Walters
.ourt.
Judge E. A. Walters adjourned the |
pring term of the district court 1
Tuesday evening after clearing up the I