Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — Jasper County [ARTICLE]

Jasper County

Jasper is the second largest county in Indiana, having an area of 570 square miles. Population of Jasper C0unty,114,302; Population of Rensselaer, the County Seat, 2,255. Jasper county has gained 3,107 in population since 1800; Rensselaer gained 800. Fine farming and stock raising eouDty. Corn, Oats, Wheat and Hay are principal crops. Onion. Sugar Beet and stock growing largely in Northern portion of County. Fine Lubricating Oil is also found in northern portion and hundreds of wells are now producing while Others are being put down. Price of land ranges from 825 to 850 per Tacre in northern part of county, to 885 to SIOO per acre in central and southern portion.

The White County Independent,* published by Reynolds & Clark at Monticello, in connection with the Daily Journal, has been changed to the White County Socialist, and will hereafter advocate socialistic principles. There has been quite a movement in this line at Monticello and a socialist order has been organized there.

The statutes plainly state that notico of application for liquor license must be published in a weekly paper, and the courts hold that a daily, semi-weekly or monthly publication is not a weekly, therefore publications made in other than a weekly are void, and applicants can easily be defeated for license who do not comply with the law in this particular.

John H. Baker, federal Judge of the district court for the district of Indiana, will retire at the end of the present term of that court, having arrived at the age of 6t> years. The report further says he may engage in the practice of law, and that he could do so without impropriety. We think not. As long ns he draws pny ns a judge it would manifestly be inappropriate to appear as an attorney. If be wants to practice law let him resign his judgeship.

It is gratifying to note that legal journals of the country are gradually taking up the discussion of the Kentuckey requisition cases, and that they all agree that the governor has no discretionary power to refuse a requisition. The last one that has come uuder our notice is Law Notes, which quotes the recent opinion of Justice Beasley, which has heretofore been quoted by The Sentinel, and indorses it as the law. As a legal proposition there is absolutely nothing in Governor Durbin’s contention, for the decision of the courts are as explicit as the words of the constitution and of the statute. The courts all recognize the fact that there is no method of compelling the governors to obey the law, but they are all agreed that the duty ‘imposed is plain, and that a failure to perform it is a clear violation of the law. Indianapolis Sentinel.