Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 134, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 June 1912 — DITCH CASE IS BEGUN BY JUDGE J. W. HANAN. [ARTICLE]

DITCH CASE IS BEGUN BY JUDGE J. W. HANAN.

Borntrager Ditch Remonstrators Will Ee Heard in Attack on Improvement of Lower Iroquois. Judge John W. Hanan, of LaGrange, who was appointed by Governor Marshall to hear the Borntrager ditch remonstrators in their attack on their assessments for the lower Iroquois ditch improvement, opened court on Monday morning and it Is probable that the case will occupy the most of the month of June. Andrew Kahler and Carey Carr, who are for the ditch, were among the first to testify. About all the attorneys in Rensselaer and several from outside cities are lined up with the remonstra* tors, while Attorney Geo. A. Williams is for fthe petitioners.