Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1905 — THEY SAY IT’S NAVIGABLE. [ARTICLE]

THEY SAY IT’S NAVIGABLE.

County Commissioners So Declare the Pleold Kankakee. Ralph W. Marshall, county attorney, appointed last month to investigate the practicability of declaring the Kankakee river navigable, filed a voluminous report of bis investigations and findings, snd on said report the board declared the stream navigable through Jasper county, and it will be the duty of the road supervisors of the road districts through which the river passes, to keep the same free from incumbrances to “navigation.” Some fifty-four tax-payers along the stream remonstrated against its being thus declared navigable, but the report of the board’s special envoy was considered of more force than the proteat of these people; they must therefore take their medicine.