Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 171, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1911 — Publisher Victimized on Newspaper Voting Contest [ARTICLE]

Publisher Victimized on Newspaper Voting Contest

Crown Point Star. Mr. Janes, the pony contest man, who has been in Crown Point for the past six weeks conductings the pony contest for the Register office, took a French leave for parts unknown Monday evening, leaving in his wake an unpaid for pony, a considerable feed bill against it, and the failure to produce the second pony which he had promised before the contest came to an end. He had purchased the little animal of Paul Hathaway, of Lowell, but did not pay for it, and Liveryman Hayden was to hold it in charge until settlement came. The contest was closing and Janes, it is supposed, had not the wherewithal to produce the ponies, and to free himself from the obligations he had entered into with Editor Davison, he “hiked” out. He left word that he was going to Seattle, Wash., but if he cuts up many such capers, there are better places for him enclosed with stone walls. Mr. Davison informs us that he will continue the contest and fulfill his promises, though the heavy burden falls upon him. The contest will be for a time In hopes of regaining the loss sustained. These contests usually end with

the newspaper getting the experience and the promoter the money. The contest man agrees to furnish the ponies or other prizes and take a percentage of the business secured —usually half on the new business and twenty-five per cent on the old, and usually the promotor is as crooked as a ram’s horn, which proved true in this case. The second pony came here Wednesday C. O. D., which Janes had ordered from further down the state, and the two mean about S2OO.

John Brown spent last week attending the Marble ditch case now on at Rensselaer, which is also expected will take the whole of this week, and then it will not <be settled. Many thousand dollars is at stake for those north of the Kankakee river, whose lands are already drained by the dyke, and they will fight a hard legal battle before paying ditch assessments on land already dry and raising crops every year. It seems certain the matter will go into the supreme court before being settled, as each side is stubborn and all those interested have money to pay the fiddlers.—Crown Point Star.

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George Williams, apparently a tramp, was found beside the tracks of the Baltimore A Ohio railroad at Gary Monday afternoon suffering from severe injuries received by being thrown from a freight train while passing through the city at an early hour in the morning. Williams said he had been thrown from the rapidly moving train by a couple of brakemen and had lain several hours beside the track before he was found. The man was suffering from several severe cuts and bruises and it was thought one of his arms was broken.

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