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The Enterprise, White Salmon, WA., August 25, 1911, page 1

RIVAL COMPANIES FIGHT
Engineer Walsh of Northwestern Arrested on Charge of Trespassing on Squaw's Land

F.J. Walsh, engineer in charge of the building of a dam on the lower Klickitat for the Northwestern Electric Co., and Mr. MacInnis, a Lyle merchant, working with the same company, were arrested at Lyle Saturday on a warrant charging them with trespassing on the lands of Emma Dave, a squaw, and brought before Justice A.B. Groshong of this place. They were released under bonds to appear in court Aug. 28.
The arrest on charges of trespass is only one of the skirmishes between the Northwestern Electric, an organization of California capitalists who have come into Oregon and Washington to acquire and develop power sites, one of which is on the White Salmon, and Keasey, Humason & Jeffrey, Portland real estate dealers developing the town site of Lyle.
The latter company has leased all the land of Emma Dave, the Indian, for a term of 99 years at $200 a year. This lease carries with it the gorge where it intends to build its dam.
The Northwestern has sought to acquire the land, and the matter was taken into court, the decision of the superior judge being in the form of an injunction restraining the Northwestern from entering upon or using any land in controversy except a 40-foot strip for flume or pipeline. It is further more restrained from using or diverting the water of the Klickitat to an extent which will impair the fishing on the Dave lands, which is of serious import, for in summer the river runs low and a power company would need about all the water running.
The power site of the Northwestern is above the Indian land and in starting work on their $100, 00 dam Walsh and McInnis are charged with trespass for cutting wires and traveling across other than the 40-foot strip in getting to their site.
F.C. Lehman, agent for Keasey, Humason & Jeffrey, says they intend to fight the Northwestern to a finish, claiming that the California company is trying to tie up all the power sites in the country, while they on the other hand desire the power for the development of the town of Lyle.