Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 119, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 May 1912 — DEMONSTRATORS OBJECT TO RYAN DITCH ASSESSMENTS. [ARTICLE]

DEMONSTRATORS OBJECT TO RYAN DITCH ASSESSMENTS.

Sixty-One File Objections Through Attorneys Dunlap, halleck, Leopold, and Others. [ Yesterday, May 36th, was the last day in which to file remonstrances against the Ryan 5 ditch as reported by the ditch commissioners, and up to 2 o’clock that afternoon sixty-one remonstrances has been filed, largely alleging illegal proceedings and imperfections in the report and complaining of the assessments. The remonstrances ask a retaxing of assessments. Attorneys John A. Dunlap, A. Halleck, Moses Leopold, J. H. Chapman, W. H. Park&oh and A. H. Hopkins have alt filed remonstrances for clients. It is said that most of. those who are remonstrating are in favor of the ditch but are not willing without a contest to submit to the assessments.