The Alaska citizen., 1912-04-29

moneys he advanced during the years of I@ln and te11 ra nay for supplies ter rH, defendant
 1h. ,ase or Gerdst er al ys. Will jams e, al has been settled out of court
 Charles Grouse is plaintiff in a ease against Er svcdau wherein the plaintiff a-ks for 'ho sum of S7a wtra interest and costs. This k ou a loan aI,eeed 10 have been mad Alglz. 1n. 1g1l
 DISTRICT COURT.
 Judse Oyerft,)d has fixed inc min mum price that can be bid for the IT pcr.y of rEc Tauaua Electric company. which is To he sold at pub- lie sale ~oen. ar $1sHoo. The order of sale uas recently made upon the petition of Charles Joynr receiver.
 Af'cr rhe transaction of such bus ne-- as was up on Monday. court adjourned aml saturday Members If rac trial jury were excused until ucxt Monday.
 An order of default was entered oa W.Ius-aag in Pe.r Vachon vs. Bodcrl.k Morrison and Roderick Me Lood, and judgment entered against tHc defendants in -re sum of $32G43. with interest of $163.21 and attorneys fees of $aa aH The first cause of ac, ton. $1oo and interest of $1o and at torney's fees of $51 on the second cause. and he sum of $1Go with in terest of $a1i on the third cause. making a total of SS9110.
 In the ease of the Washington Alaska bank vs. J. C, Arnell and John II Iman, the default of Arnen was entered on Friday. Ira D. Or lon was substituted as attorney fer the plaintiff in this case.
 On Friday the court granted the application of PasEo Luketa for the order discharsing him from custody and cXonerating his bondsmen. Luk- eta was tried for larceny in a dwell ing, and a verdict of not guilty" re turned.
 Through his att neys McGowan & Clark Henry C. Crook, on Wednes- day began suit against Frank Ahl- berg and others to compell the de fendants. who are operating oh Gold HiIl to respect his rights 10 the va ter from The Alder and Cripple ditch on lower Ester.
 The plaintiff alleges that he has a lease on $ and SA below of Ester creeks where he has blocked out a large ctiou of pay. 10 sluice which he draws water from the Alder Cripple ditch. The complaint states that in the fall of 1906, Pierson and Magrath staked the water right on Alder and Cripple creeks and there after a ditch was constructed, down the left limit of Cripple across the divide between Cripple and Ester. along the right limit of Ester, across Ester and down a portion of the left limit of Ester 10 Gold Hill The ditch was constructed by certain operators on Ester and the interests divided into 24ths entitling the owners to one hour of the water of the ditch for each 24th so owned. The present owners are Berry & lesson 12-24th. F. R. lesson 214th, lesson & Torrence 224th. Keagley < Wichman 2-24th. Aug Conradt 9 24th, Lazelle < Co. 224th, Pierson & Magrath 22fth. The petition gees on to state that prior to April 22, 1912, he secured permission from Berry & lesson to use the water in proportion to their respective rights On this date the defendants who are operating a mile or a mile and a half below the plaintiff on Gold Hill closed the intake to the plaintiffs Hume, claiming that the plaintiff had no right to the water in the ditch. The plaintiff Crook then se- cured a lease from the several own CTS, entitling him to the use of the water for IS hours of each day but on April 23 the defendants again went to the intake of the ditch and shut eff the flow of water to the plaintiffs workings, and further threatened to destroy the plaintiff intake and Hume with dynamite if he persisted in using the water Crook alleges that the defendants have no right and title to the ditch or water. but unless they are re strained from interfering. he will be compelled to go to great expense to establish a pumping plant tC make good the water from which they are wrongfully depriving him The plaintiff elects to use the water from : a. m. to 12 noon, from 1 D