Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1905 — Cotton Leak Probe Resumed. [ARTICLE]

Cotton Leak Probe Resumed.

Washington, Aug. 16. —The grand jury of the supreme court of the District of Columbia resumed its investigation into tlie leakage of the cotton crop reports of tlie department of ag-‘ riculture, C. C. Clark, chief clerk of the bureau of statistics of the department, being the first witness. A lot of books and papers were carried into the jury room, it living understood that they were to form tlie basis of a minute examination of tlie methods of the department employed in tlie east In the preparation of tlie crop reports.