Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — Tax-Ferrets Again at Work. [ARTICLE]

Tax-Ferrets Again at Work.

A representative of Fleener & Carnahan, the tax-ferrets employed by the county commissioners in September, 1897, to examine the county records and unearth sequestered property whibh had been omitted from the tax-dupli-cate, is here and has again taken up the work of investigating the taxpayers. It will be remembered that the. work was stopped by injunction proceedings before it had progressed far, which were lately dissolved by the supreme courtThe contract with the county gives the ferrets 50 per cent, of all money found due the county from this source and reported to the officers for collection and collected by said officials. The Democrat does not regard this investigation with much favor; it is not the sort of an investigation needed or wanted by the people in general.