Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1901 — ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Amount of unloaned school funds on hand Sept. 1, $3,112.50. —'O — Marriage licenses issued: August 30, Joseph Beicker to Lizzie Ott; August 30, A. J. Charles to Mary A. Nesius; August 31, Taylor Wood to Delia Parker; Sept. 2, George Laßerge to Lillie Wallace. —o — The county council closed its labors Thursday morning and adjourned sine die. The appropriations reached a total of $57,000 in round numbers, a cut of about $5,000 over the estimates made. The tax levy was fixed at 501 j cents, which is 16 cents higher than last year. We will take this matter up next week and show just where the increased expenditures requiring a higher levy, come in. The council also appropriated $4,000 more for 1901 for the tax ferret investigation, making a total of $6,500 thus far appropriated for this purpose. o New suits filed: No. 6170. J. G. Hall & Co., vs. Newton A. Hendrix, etal; judgement and note. Ferguson <fc Wilson, attys. for plff. i No. 6172. Herbert A. Wells vs. Rudolph Miller et al; complaint lon notes and mortgage. W. B. • Austin, atty, for plff. No. 6173. Indiana. Illinois A lowa Ry. Co., vs. John Tuttle. Transcript from Esq. Wiseman's court. Action to recover 22 head of cattle and 4 horses shipped from Minonk, 111., to DeMotte, August 5 or 6,1901, which defendant is alleged to have unloaded and taken possession of in the night time without paying freight charges thereon. Plaintiff levied in Esq. Wiseman’s court, on two of the horses contained in said shipment for freight charges and SSO damages, etc., but defendant replevined. The jury in the lower court found for defendant Tuttle, and rendered judgement against the Ry. Co. for costs of action, amounting to $35.20. The R. R. Co , appeals to the circuit court. No. 6174. William H. Randle and Alfred Randle vs. George W. Tanner and William W. Burns; act ion to recover on a note executed Aug. 25, 1900, to plaintiffs of the amount of $322 for one year, W. B. Austin, atty, for plff. No. 6175 George W. Peters vs Harry H. Jones and Cyrus V. Jones; action for accounting and appointment of receiver, Hanley A Hunt and Foltz, Spitler <fc Kurrie, attys. for plff. No. 6176. The Rens seiner Bank vs. John C. Chilcote et al; action on note. C. E. Mills, atty, for plff. No. 6177. George W. Brown A Co. vs Marion W. Phelps et al; conversion of property. Foltz, Spitler A Kurrie, attys. for plff. No. (>l7B. Gus Larsh vs. W. L. Nowels administrator of the estate of Eph. Fleming, services nursing Mr. Fleming during his illness, $348. Claim transferred from the administrator claim docket to the civil docket. A peculiar state case comes from the court of His Honor, W. H. Robertson, editor of the Wheatfield Telephone, and incidently town clerk of the bailiwick of Wheatfield. Oue H. O. Brown, deputy prosecuting attorney of that commonwealth, is alleged to have dusted the seat of Ross Middaugh’s pants with his foot, said Middaugh, being a minor, whereupon the boy’s father, William Middaugh, has said Brown arrested and Esq. Robertson heard the case and fined Brown 50 cents and costs, $12.55 altogether. Brown appeals to the circuit court, and his superior officer will be compelled to prosecute the case.

Mr Workman, who has charge of the tax ferrets’ work here, was before the county council Wednesday and made a statement regarding the work done thus far and asked the council to appropriate sufficient funds to last for several months, thus avoiding the necessity of calling it in special session again in a short time. Mr. Workman said that there had been, in round numbers, SB,OOO adjusted, of which $3,341.02 had been ..paid in to date, and that there was something like $25,000 to $30,000

in sight, making the total amount to be put on the duplicate as a result of the investigation about $35,000 to $40,000. He stated that he had talked with numbers of the state board of tax commissioners regarding the state bearing its share of the expense of tax investigations, and that the said board had recommended to the Auditor of State that this be done in making his settlement with counties conducting investigations of this character, therefore Jasper county instead of being ont 25 cents on every dollar collected, would receive one-half the total amount due her, the ferrets’ receiving the other half for their work of unearthing it. Regarding the SB,OOO which Mr. Workman stated had been adjusted, we find that not all of this has been placed on the tax duplicate at this writing, it lacking some $3,000 of this amount. The following amounts have been placed on said “omitted tax duplicate” since our last report: AMOUNTS PAID. George E. Hosmer, Hanging Grove tp $516 06 Orpha Timmons, Remington \. 72 68 —O — The September term of the Jasper circuit court will convene Monday. The docket is a very heavy one, there being no less than 51 new civil cases. There are but 4 state cases, but the grand jury which is called to meet Monday at 10 a. m., will no doubt result in several more cases for the term. The petit jury is called for Thursday of the first week of theterm at 10 a. m. Following are the names of the petit jurors; the grand jurors names not being made public: John A. McCullough Jordan tp William H. Hershtnan Walker tp William Rroadie Remington Oscar Hauter Marion tp C. F. Stackhouse Marion tp Henry C. Anderson Hanging Grove tp John Stitts Carpenter tp William M. Hoover Marion tp I. N. Makeever NewtOn tp David Culp Hanging Grove tp John Hudson Carpenter tp Michael H. Robinson Gillam tp Senior Roweu Gillam tp William Hilbert Gillam tp Thomas Jones Kankakee tp John I). Cooper Kankakee tp