Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1901 — A BOUT THE COURT HOUSE. [ARTICLE]

A BOUT THE COURT HOUSE.

Marriage licenses: Sept. 7, Charles W. Thompson to Anna Flickenstine. —o — No additionshave been made to the “omitted tax duplicate” since our report last week. —o — The county council made no appropriation for the street improvement about the public square at its meeting last week, the co missioned not having asked for anything. —o — New suits filed: W. B. Austin vs. George W. Tanner, William W. Burns and Geo. W. Houser; complaint on note, J. H. Chapman, attorney for plff. Gather B. Runkle vs. Lawson Bruce et al; action to quiet title. W. B. Austin, atty for plff. ' — o A big farm mortgage was recorded Friday, given Sept. 5, by Samuel R. Nichols, ex-township trustee of Barkley tp., to Warren S. Goodell et al for SII,OOO. The mortgage covers 339 acres of land in Barkley tp. Sept. 6. a second mortgage for $12,748.56 was given by Mr. Nichols to A. McCoy’s bank on same lands, making a total of about $24,000 The county commissioners took another whack at The Democrat man last week by cutting his bill for publishing the annual estimates of expenditures from sl2 to $9. To show how fairly we were treated by the gang it is only necessary to state that we were never asked to appear before them to show cause why it should not be cut, but the figures of the old CowPuncher, of whose ability in this line they have had many a striking example, was accepted and the cut made. The same notice was published by the Journal and a bill for the same amount was filed, and of course they had to cut his bill the same as our’s. This gang, under the leadership of “Honest Abe,” has courted lawsuits ever since it has been in power in Jasper county; it has paid out hundreds of dollars of the people’s money for public printing and other purposes illegally, and of course resents interference from The Democrat in its raids upon the county treasury. Only one member of the gang is financially responsible for a penny in any way, two members being wholly law-proof. Jasper count} - is particularly unfortunate in having such a lot of small-bore officers as these to manage its finances, and while we dislike very much to put the county to the expense of paying for the cussedness of this contemptible set of officers, we have decided to no longer submit to their petty spitefullness, and a suit will be filed to recover the amount of the claim as filed. We are perfectly willing to accept the verdict of competent printers as to whether our bill was a just one or not.