Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1901 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The commissioners estimate for new bridges in Pulaski county for next year is $15,000. Indianapolis democrats nominated Charles Maguire for mayor. Charles A. Book waiter is the republican candidate. The city election occurs in October. We are glad to see that all of the republicans of Nebraska did not indorse Governor Savage’s pardon or parole,rather—of Bartley, the embezzling ex-state treasurer, who was serving a sentence in the penitentiary for his crimes. The state convention rebuked the governor for his action, and public sentiment was so strong against it that he has revoked the parole and has ordered Bartley sent back to prison.

Several of the township trustees will ask their advisory boards to appropriate money enough to allow them to publish their annual reports in full instead of simply an abstract such as the law requires. The people are entitled to know for just what purposes the money has been spent and the abstract required by law only shows the totals of money received and paid out in each fund. To give the report, in full shows each item of expenditure and for what purpose expended, a much more satisfactory way than that contemplated by the law of last winter. —Benton Review.

Construction Commissoner Fish of the Monon now has the big drain completed all but three anti a half miles in the branch near Medaryville. The few inches of stone found in the bottom at the lower end of the earthwork of the n ain ditch has been taken out slick and clean by Lawrence Thrasher, thus leaving nothing there to check the How or any way prevent a free outlet. Dry weather has held up the dredge in the branch for a time, but the rains Saturday and the tirst of the week probably have it going all right, so it will not l>e very long until all of the the big ditch will be doing good service, much to Mr. Fish’s satisfaction.—Pulaski County Democrat. This seems to be a bad year for Perry Heath's friends, whether they be manipulating the funds of Natinal Banks or utilizing federal office to get rich quick. Another man that he placed on Uncle Sam’s pay roll is in trouble for crookedness. This time it is W. F. Hoey, who like Neely hails from Muncie. Ind., and who owes his appointment to be collector of customs at Norgales, Ariz., to Perry Heath’s pull with the administration, who has been arrested of carrying on a wholesale business for smuggling Chinamen to I . S. from Mexico at from S2OO to $30() a head. The joke in this case is that Perry Heath specially recommended Hoey to Secretray Gage as a man whose sterling integrity especially fitted him to a position from which another man had just been removed, about a year and a half ago, on account of irregularities in his office. According to rejiorts on file in the Treasury Department Hoey hardly waited until he got warm in his office before he started his scheme to get rich by smuggling Chinamen across the border from Mexico. It remains to be seen whether Perry Heath’s pull can do as much for this crook as it has done for Neely who robbed the Cuban postal funds and is still untried.