Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1904 — COURT HOUSE NEWS. [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS.

Items of Interest (lathered In the Offices of the County Capitol. The Phillips ditch is advertised to be let August 3. —o — New suits filed: No. 6690. The W. L. Carnahan Company vs. William R. Crisler et al; action on note and account. —o — Not much is doing in the clerk’s office these days, and only two marriage licenses have been issued thus far this month. The republican county central committee is to meet here to-day on call of Chairman Williams to dicuss matters connected with the county campaign to probably fill up their county ticket. —o Tom McCoy must have had a few dollars salted down, as he has paid the school board the full amount still in his hands as treasurer of same at the time the McCoy bank went under, and a few days ago, paid the Rensselaer Castle Hall Association $365 in his hands as treasurer of that organization. 1 — o — We understand the McCoys are preparing a schedule of their assets and liabilities, together with a list of their creditors, which they are required to file with the referee in bankruptcy, after which the latter must notify each of said creditors of the “first meeting of creditors” to select a trustee. This is about all that is “doing” in the bank matter at this time. —o — W. H. King, a farmer residing west of town, aged *SB years, was declared insane Tuesday by Squire Troxell and Dr. Hartsell, and application was made Wednesday for his incarceration at Long Cliff asylum. Mr. King lives on the farm of his son, Frank King of Rensselaer. He labors under the hallucination that there is gold on the farm, buried there by Indians long ago. He has dug several deep holes in his search for what he believed was buried treasure. Ten years ago, it is alleged, he fell off a wagon and struck on his head, and four years ago was overcome by the heat and was laid up for a few days.