Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1907 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. The White circuit court will convene Monday. n . ~°~ t. Don t forget to have your mortgage exemptions filed this month. •—oNew suits filed: - No. 7160. JohuF- Judy ys. W. L. Wood; action for an accounting. Demand $7,000. The first installment of 1906 taxes must be paid on or before the first Monday in May, else they go delinquent and a penaly will be added. Marriage licenses issued: April 15, Harvey Anthony Messman of Kentland, aged 23, occupation farmer, to Emma Marie Lane of Newton tp., aged 22, occupation teacher. First marriage for each.

—u— . At a meeting of the township assessors of Newton county, held at Morocco last week, the Kentland Democrat says it was decided to assess the land in Grant, Iroquois and Jefferson townships at SSO per acre; Beaver and Jackson at $45; Colfax, Lake, Lincoln and McClellan at about sl6. Another circuit judge, Judge Christianson of the Noble Circnit Court, has rendered a decision against the licensing of saloons, in line with the late decision of Judge Artman of, the Boone circnit court, holding that license to sell intoxicating liqnors is against public policy and is not within the police power of the state. • —o — Carl W. Riddick, editor of the Winamao Republican and secretary of the republican state central committee, was arrested last week, charged with having made a false affidavit last spring to secure a mortgage exemption from taxation. Editor Riddick lays the prosecution to political enemies and says he will have no trouble to prove his innocence.

Riley Ashby, the 12-year-old son of Arthur Ashby a Mt. Ayr harness-maker, was taken in charge by Sheriff O’Connor yesterday morning; The boy had run away from home, claiming abuse, and was found at the railroad station here, where he no doubt intended to catch a train and get away. A telephone message to the station agent resulted in his being caught, we understand. o Judge Wasson of the Carroll circuit court has decided that the saloon ordinance recently passed by the city council of Delphi is invalid; that the council exceeded their authority in passing such ordinance. It provided for the removing of all screens and allowed but one door, and that in the front for ingress and egress to the saloons. The ten saloon keepers in Delphi organized to fight the ordinance and a test case was brought. The ordinance had been passed over the mayor’s veto.

At the special meeting of the county commissioners Monday only one bid was filed for the removal and replacing of the Gangloff and Padgett steel bridges across the Iroquois for passage of the big dredge, and thia was by Firman Rutherford. His bid was $456 on the former and $144 on the latter, which was accepted. The dredge made rather better time the past two weeks than expected, and reached the former bridge about noon Sunday, when it had to stop work until the bridge was got out of the way. John Swisher of the Kankakee country, was in the city Tuesday with the scalp of one old fox and ten young ones, and two young live foxes. He killed the mother of the young ones and with the aid of his dog located .her young, an even thirteen, ten of which be slew for the bounty, sold one and kept two to bring here with him to prove the age of the young. The county pays a bounty of $2.50 each for foxes killed over the age of six months, and SI.OO for those under

six months. Swisher thought the young were over six months old; but the auditor thought differently and only allowed him SI.OO each on the young. —o— Following is a report of the civil docket of the circnit court in the more important proceedings of the term. The jury is called for next Monday aud will probably be here the balance of the term. Wm. Dunn, drawn as a juror from Jdrdan tp., has moved to North Dakota, and Wm. E. Culp, drawn from Hanging Grove, is township assessor, and will be excused from the regular panel: William B. Austin vs. Mack Sullivan and William P. Michael; defendants confess judgment for $112.60 and costs. Benjamin J. Gifford vs. Myrt B. Price et al; dismissed, costs taxed to county, ..St**® ex rel, Jacob Francis vs. Albert Van Doozer; dismissed, costs equally divided.

J*™*® H. Chapman, trustee, vs. Oilando A, Yeoman; dismissed, costs paid. Samuel E. Yeoman vs. C. I. & L. Ry., Co.; dismissed at defendant’s cost. International Harvester Co., vs. Elizur Sage; motion overruled and defendant granted appeal to the appellate court, Emmet L. Hollingsworth vs. John W, Horton and Ida I. Horton, his wife; judgment for $795.25 and foreclosure of mortgage on lots 11, 12,13, block 2, and lot 1, block 3, Columbia addition, which are ordered sold. Jay Timmons vs. William L. York et al; dismissed by plaintiff. Mary C. McConnehay, executrix, vs. Geo. W. Deardurff; dismissed by plaintiff. Delos Thompson vs. John W. Horton; dismissed, costs paid. James H. Chapman vs,, Mack Sullivan and William P. Michaels; judgment for $54,25, and ordered that defendant Sullivan s property be exhausted before levying on property of defendant Michaels. Alfred Collins vs. Marshall P. Warner and John O'Connor, sheriff, T. F. Palmer of Monticello, special judge; defendants forever enjoined from proceeding upon an execution upon judgment claimed to exist against Alfred Collihs, and that proceedings upon a claim of Alfred Collins made incident to a trust pending in the Jasper circuit court wherein JudsonJ. Hunt was receiver, but on which no final judgment has ever been rendered, is not void, and that the same is a present pending proceeding in said court. Costs in injunction taxed to defendants; costs in claim cause taxed to plaintiff. _ The libel case of Abraham Halleck vs. The Democrat editor has been set for trial the fourth Thursday of the term, defendant filing affidavit for change of venue from Judge Hanley. Cases continued for term: Warren T. McCray vs. Fred Wellingtonet al; David H. Yeoman vs. Louisa M. Imes et al; Howard C. Parks vs. Everett Halstead et al; Kennedy-King Co. vs. Coen et al;