Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1905 — JUST WHAT HE OWES [ARTICLE]

JUST WHAT HE OWES

Exact Statement of the Shortage the Ex-Auditor Has to Make Up." GRAND JURY GETS TO WORK Receiver Has Been Asked fbr—Bad Auto Accident—Gowdy Coining Home—State News Items. Indianapolis, Ind., Sept. 22.—As determined by a preliminary investigation in the auditor’s office, conducted by Warren Bigler, the newly appointed auditor, the actual amount that is now due the state from David E. Sherrick, ex-auditor, is $121,292.46, this being the difference between the amount that the office owes to the state and the amount actually paid into the state treasury. The amount due was reduced from the original figure by the $22,000 bank deposit paid Wednesday. To meet this deficit, the state has in its possession securities of the face value of about $152,- | 000, the real value of which has not j been ascertained. Details of the Statement. The statement made up by Auditor Bigler shows as the total that should have been paid the state since Sherrick's incumbency $1,037,739.57, and the total amount paid over to the state $916,447.1, leaving $121,292.46 due as indicated. The total of amounts that should have been paid is divided as follows: Insurance taxes and fees. sl,030,800.10; land department. sl,562.80; private bank department, sl,183; incorporation fees aud miscellaneous, $2,110: net of building and loan fees over expenses and salary of deputy. SI,B<MI.(X); trust company fees. $220. Has Ask fbr a Receiver. Attorney General Miller hag filed a petition in the Marion county circuit court asking for the appointment of a temporary receiver to take charge of the securities surrendered to the state by David E. Sherrick. Before the Grand Jury. The Marlon county grand jury Investigation of the Sherrick case was slow in getting under way. Governor Hanly. who was expected to lie the first witness, did not enter the jury room until 2:30 p. m. For an hour be remained within the jury room. Warren Bigler, now auditor of state, was before tlie grand jury preceding Governor Hanly. In the absence of the governor in the morning John E. Reed, settlement clerk in the auditor's office, was called. It was almost noon before he was excused. These were the only witnesses heard during the day. JOHN K. GOWDY COMING HOME Will Arrive on His Old Stamping Ground Oct. 21—Has a Nice Nest Egg. Rushville, Ind., Sept. 22. T. A. Jones, of this city, financial agent for John K. Gowdy, consul general at Paris, France, says that Gowdy has notified him that, with his family, he will leave Paris for Liverpool Oct. 2, where they will catch a steamer for America, arriving in this city Oct. 21. via New York and Washington. Jones has been agent for Gowdy for over eight years, and during that time he has safely Invested about SIOO,OOO for Captain “Jack'/ in Rush county soil and other property. He has cultivated the farms and marketed the crops, cared for Gowdy’s fancy sheep, and attended to all of his business here. Gowdy has written that he wants possession of his home here immediately upon his arrival. The house is now tenanted by Mr. and Mm. Frank Mullin.

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Delphi, Ind., Sept. 22.—While Councilman James A. Shirk was driving in bls automobile he lost <-ontrol of the machine, which was running thirty

miles an hour, and it dashed into an open ditch, wrecking the machine on a pile of stone. Victor L. Ricketts, editor of the Delphi Journal, was cut about the head and internally injured. E. L. Burkholder, county commissioner. had a broken leg, and J. W. Thomas. M. M. Murphy and Shirk were slightly Injured. Only One Pillow fbr Her. Muncie, Ind., Sept. 22. Alleging that unless her head Iles on ’a goosefeather pillow, that has been an heirloom in her family for 100 years, her sleep is troubled by fantastic dreams, and her night made horrid by nightmares, Mrs. Edward Martin, wife of a well-known grand circuit jockey, has filed suit against Martin G. Mock to obtain possession of the pillow which, she says, he is unlawfully retaining. He’s Lucky To Be Alive. Elwood. Ind., Sept. 22. Frank Balser, 26 years old, farm laborer, while driving homeward,went to sleep in his buggy, and he was caught by the Chicago express train, which reduced his buggy to fragments, killed his horse, and hurled Balser to one side with a dangerous cut in his head aud many body bruises. Resumed with a Sliding Scale. Hartford City, Ind., Sept. 22.—The Johnston glass factory has resumed operatlou with the Burns sliding scale. On the first shift fifteen of sixteen places are filled and of a total of fortyeight shops forty-three have reported for work.