Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1910 — Judge Wason and Principals Go Over the Puncoast Ditch. [ARTICLE]

Judge Wason and Principals Go Over the Puncoast Ditch.

Judge Wason, who is hearing the suit known as the Pancoast ditch, is trying to get at the bottom of it. Not the bottom of the ditch, but the bottom of the facts connected with the suit brought by remonstrators to its construction. Accordingly this Friday morning the judge,’ the lawyers, the principals, the court stenographer and a number of witnesses went to the scene of the proposed drain and spent considerable time looking oVer the ground. The rabbits tn Newton township thought it was an annual round-up and are said to have scampered... away half frightened to death when the (party approached. It begins to look like this term of court won’t accomplish much beyond some ditch litigation.