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For seven years, conflict occurred between East and West Wapaka with shots being fired over the invisible line. James Smiley was jailed for not giving documents to Western Wapaka, and Mellon Chamberlain was disciplined and removed as clerk by Eastern Wapaka for not calling the board meeting to order in 1854. For the next seven years, shots were exchanged over the invisible line separating East and West Wapaka. After the initial vote taken by Western Wapaka, James Smiley was imprisoned for 10 days in the Portage County Jail for refusing to surrender county documents to the Western Wapaka County Board. In 1854, Western Wapaka resident Mellon Chamberlain was brought under formal discipline and removed from his office as clerk of the board by the Eastern Wapaka County Board after refusing to call the board to order at their annual meeting.