Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 November 1902 — $3,053.17 [ARTICLE]

$3,053.17

Would be due the county from the special fund from the Waukarusa if the bonds were sold. Candidate Halleck and fellow member on November 22, 1897, at the request of Hanley & Hunt, declared that $350.00 of said sum was due said attorneys and the residue $2,703.17, due the county. They determine that this ought to be a personal debt of those who signed the petition which was granted October 15, 1891. The said members caused the venue to be changed to the Cass Circuit Court where a suit is still pending against the following, who are now residents of Jasper county: Stuart C. Hammond, Job Banes, Edward W. Culp, David V. Garrison, Charles J. Borntrager, Charles Malchow, Peter C. Wasqpn, John Kellner, Thomas A. Crocket, Patrick Halligan, Peter Foulks, Andrew Kohler, James D. Babcock, Simon P. Thompson, James F. Erwin and John M. Wasson. This attempt to refrain from the manner of collection as directed by StatGte, and seek personal vengeance at the public expense is another of said Halleck’s so-called wise strokes of public policy. Tax Payers, grind your own ax and let the fellow with the personal axe grind it at his personal expense. Vote for ALLEN. V The man who says that the increased cost in new bridges made it necessary to increase county taxes one-third, don’t know what he is talking about. The same fellows who are now telling you what nice men Halleck et al. are, were two years ago saying the same pretty things of Sim Dowell, and a grand jury indictment is now hanging over Sim for stealing cattle! B. J. Gifford, who has been opposing Halleck all along, is now reported to have changed front and to be for him. If this is true it means that Gifford has an ax to grind and Abe has promised grind it—at the tax-payers expense, of course—if he is re-elected. The county assessor is paid for looking up sequestered property. It is unnecessary to hire experts at an exorbitant per cent, to come here and hold up the county for 25 cents on every 50 cents turned in, leaving the county 50 per poorer than she was before the ferrets “collected” for her.

LIME. HAIR, BRICK and CE-

ment in stock at all times and at lowest prices. From foundation to roof we can furnish anything in building material.

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