The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-06-12
Drainage Ditch Commissioner
Insists 1000 Acres Of
Land Were MenaCed.
ONLY COURT RESTRAINT
NECESSARY. HE ASSERTS
Guards Explain How Farmers
Performed Work to Pre-
vent Overflow.

oourty ostuptsd fUI ,,st,ratIut1g ttI.
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works 'u'-on dam lrt night 4 NJ 40.
o'clock by thirty determined men Iic
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h'I'l 'Hp''nN hF dlh'h'E' h''h ."in
missioner ana that n vha done 10 pre-
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nm IN" I"ghUN appointed dfahhs"
n''n commissioner nh' 'Wl'"'I u NY
nl'N 70 h'ep lD'' ai'h Tree It'In III
'tV". ''h., '''n WI Heh,h"th
mhd' N'foNsh lp,"' lE'N,n nL uh
nl'loh' h"Int' h'''u ''"'h Nonl
mayor 'N'th".s'r lHN S'lha'N ma ''d
nun in'' our i'IW Nhd. 'hN 'ifN "'i"
threatened ma oHf losses ""un %"
very heavy ana warned MN ih'' u ~"
flood continued. 10 rl'" We would 't IN"
avn F u" dll n"l procure court re-
@IlnlnE ORDER
coun, ordsf oniyaeir
we .,ouId have f..p..tcI rcs'r,h.
Ing ordS, hnt nothing else Nnn' he'
ing oN''in'd ana '''oi'H ~ rising "n'
efs continuing. ! 'uNN Pos own Ah"nn.
VI" ana drove hF hf h. Yukon q" ~
the stage NJ lhr Ho"7 " was comlnf
up ] Whiri'd " ~ along ih" inc. 'l,h
returned ana Fo' we men together we
went 10 N" dam N" guards threat
en'l ~ shoot us hui ! Questioned MOI,
hHihnfi'r ana 'heN dih no N'lrn''
vas 'h"r" IN my oH''Al cam ~. rn'
Ml ~ '"ntld'h' was rlE'' ih't Nv
" accept VIVA ."''t t'fp"u1,'''ul VI
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Pay'na for p'eh'
We put our dluh through In legal
80 a., ~, 49,. ~, ,h. r,,in,crs,c.
=, ~. d,,rh and a. cos, Tn. c,,y nli.a
II in and had M rirh, 10 do 80 The
river has overilowcd there three times
and thousand " acres have suffered
Inc ci'N anonlu tn'e onn,,fuc'eu y sphi,
W. ',,., tn,D
a. 80 ~ .,'c, ..c.S,,y ,,t 4,
Tho r,,y had n,o,,,r,d r..tf,ininr or.
Der from the rroner court We would
have observed II NJ course
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,.,r, 80 5vnn,,i,s the d,r , lew pisF,,
ago. I'm sure nui last night. when We
were IN danger NJ helns drowned ol,
"" formed our parry ana p'tlo'h''
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.,a ,hn,,, r,,y 90, a, ,rcnipr in
,be der, and turned Nh. channel ~ tho
North canadian river from ~ bed into
H. cutoff
Guard. Relate Story.
Z u,u,,t .,t WILLIAM x, Clair
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a.. ~, ,,d. a, "a, ,n, hu, mad. no
,lsn o, violence
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,,os..usn 10, ,h. crowd ". have
-. -. go. a.. A., "a a.. 40 90.
,ng to do " 90 YOU had better not offer
Resistance The coming rise In the river
would destroy too much property " tho
water flowed through N" original chan.
mel ! am WORKING under orders
l.sd,, Give. Word.
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ohm was ues""leu
No immir.r, psnusr.
Ci,y Engineer guy Y Mrrn,. stated
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