Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1906 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Henry A. Steis, the well known Winamac attorney, is moving to South Bend, where he has formed a partnership with Judge Howard. —o — New suits filed: No. 7101. The International Harvester Co., vs. Elizur Sage and the Deering Harvester Co.; suit on note. Demand $l5O. —o — The county commissioners will hold a special session next Saturday, Dec. 22, to let the county stationery contracts and to close up the business of the year. All parties having claims against the county should file same at once, as all appropriations lapse Jan. 1, and claims must be filed five days before the commissioners meet.

During the closing days of court three divorces were grafted. One decree went to Mrs. Viola Marion, from John Marion, and plaintiff’s maiden name of Archer was restored; one to Angelia Porter from Sandusky Porter; and one to Albert M. Kellenberger from Viola Kellenberger. Each of the cases have been heretofore mentioned in this paper. * *—O—■ l Marriage licenses issued: Dec. 12, Charles Earl Schnekenberger of DeMotte, aged 22, occupation farmer, to Caroline Henrietta John of Wheatfield tp., aged 26, occupation housekeeper, First marriage for each. Dec. 13, Daniel Herbert Worrell, of Streator, 111., aged 27, occupation laborer, to Bessie Cooper of Demotte, aged 18, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. There is one important provision in the law providing payment by township trustees for sheep or other live stock, and fowls killed or damaged by dogs, which the trustees say is not generally understood. It is that the owners of such stock must report the damage within ten days from the time of its occurrence. The report must be made to the trustee, and the number and kind of stock or fowls killed or damaged must be reported and the report sworn to, and two disinterested parties must join in the report.

Now, why wouldn’t it be a good idea for Rensselaer people who wanted to see all the gamblers punished who frequented the Rosenbaum gambling place here, to ask to have a special prosecutor appointed to conduct a court of inquiry? Notwithstanding the fact that there was plenty of evidence that could have been gotten against several gambers wbo went unpunished, Prosecutor Graves and his recent grand jury couldn’t find a thing on which to base an indictment ! And one member of that grand jury was one of the alleged gamblers who got off scott free, too! Strange, isn’t it ? —o — The snpreme court hande^ down two important decisions this week relating to saloon remonstrances, one appealed from Benton county in which it held that where an application was pending an appeal to the circuit oourt and before final decision by such court a sufficient remonstranoe was filed, such remonstrance defeated the applicant for lioense the same as though filed three days before the matter first came up in commissioners’ coart. The other case was regarding the vote governing, whether the last general election or a special eleotion if held after the general eleotion. In this it was held that the vote of the last general eleotion must govern.

The item in The Democrat two weeks ago regarding the price paid “Hinky-Dink” Robertson for printing election ballots for Benton oounty in the recent eleotion, stated that he “claimed and was allowed” #2OO. This information was gleaned from the published allowances made by the board of oounty commissioners over there, and as it had been the custom in Benton to allow everything asked for we inferred that S2OO was what

“Hinky” wanted. The Benton Review, however, calls The Democrat’s attention to the fact that we made an error in the amount claimed. “Hinky”' wanted $276.50, and the one republican member of the board voted to allow it. But Benton county tax-payers have been “born again” lately, and now have two democrats on the board. These two democratic commissioners voted to allow only the *2OO, and that is all “Hinky” got.. The Democrat stands corrected.