Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1907 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday.. —Q Township assessor Vandercar. T. F. Maloney, C. R. Peregrine and perhaps a few others were down from Kankakee tp., Tuesday on business before the board of review. \ The Lake county council has at last appropriated $90,000 for remodeling the conrt boose at Crown Point. With skillful manipulation no doubt enough extras can be run in to swell the cost when completed to $200,000.

The American Lubric and Refining Co., have recently given a . mortgage for $75,000 to Warren Nichols, trustee, on their property at Asphaltnm, in this county. The executing of mortgages seems to be about all the activity shown in the “Jasper county oil field” at present. Through an oversight the following marriage license was omitted from the marriage license list as heretofore published: Jnne 12, Roy Odle of Whentfield, aged 21, occupation farmer, to Maggie Ellen Tilton, also of Wheatfield, age 17, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. 1

County Commissioner Fred Wsymire has recently bought 120 acres of land of B. J. Gifford in section 26, Barkley tp., paying therefor 94,616. Carey Eastburn ' of Benton county has also bought 400 acres in section 25, Barkley, at 915.384; and John N. Baker 160 in section 13, Gillam, 93,000.

D. H. Yeoman was at Logansport Monday on business connected with the ditch contract which he and A. V. Farmer have near Royal Center. Their dredge that has been working up in Wheatfield tp., is being taken down this week and shipped to their new job. Mr. Yeoman states that almost 8 the ditch is uncompleted, which they have to dig, and that they will probably have to get another dredge, in addition' to the one they now have, to do the work. The contract price of thier job is about 930,000.

Not much has been said of late regarding the dredging ot the Iroquois river as far down as the C. & E. I. Railroad river bridge south of Brook, but it' seems that the parties that have been pushing the matter are not letting it rest in the least but are busy at work. This week a corps of surveyors are busy at work running lines and depths for the proposed dredging, deepening and straighenmg of the river bed. They have made their headquarters here this week and are nearly through with their work. From what little can be gleaned it seem! that the parties backing the work are confident that the river will be dredged and say that it will be of great benefit to the land along the river. The land owners down this way, however, do not agree with them and when the time comes will undoubtedly put up a fight against the work. —Brook Reporter, luotead of trying to delay or defeat this much needed improvement it would be better for those who have any such ideas in their heads to go to work and carry the improvement on west, as the petitioners in this case have done. The supreme oourt has reversed the lower oourt in the case of Ella L. Riley, wherein John W. Winkley and Ella L. Riley of Monon were arrested several

months ago, charging them with executing a false deed. Winkley and Mrs. Riley were convicted of the oharge and are now in prison. The former did not appeal to the higher oonrts but Mrs. Riley did. whether this decision will have the effect of setting both free, without having to go through trial again, we are unadvised, but it would seem that this would be the case. Miss Kate Rogers, formerly of Rensselaer, now of Monon, the notary public before whom the deed was alleged to have been executed, has brooded over the affair 1 until she has gone insane and was taken to the asylum a few days ago. New suits filed: No. 7176. Andrew Enopinski vs. Josephine .

Knopineki; suit for divorce. . The complaint states that the parties were married Oot. 3, 1900, andkeparated Deo. 1,1901; that defendant had a vile and vioious temper, was quarrelsome, would ourse and swear, called plaintiff vile names, throw's poker at him one time and frequently chased him With a batcher knife; that believing her to be a pore and virtuous woman, which she claimed to be, plaintiff married her, yet three months and four days after said marriage a child was born to her, while they were living near Sheldon, 111., and that defendant tried to induce plaintiff to kill said child, and tried herself to kill it, plaintiff protecting it from her. This child' was given to a family in Jasper county after they moved back to this county, the complaint states It is also averred that defendant was nntrue to her marriage vows and consorted with lewd persons, against the protests of plaintiff.

No. 7177. Leona V. Taber vs. Albert P. Taber; suit for divorce. The parties to this action reside at Remington, and were married Nov. 80,1902, when the-defendent was 19 years of age and plaintiff 16, and separated—so the complaint alleges—March 5, 1907. Failure to provide, intoxioation. oruel and inhuman treatment, gambling, carousing and squandering bis money on and associating with lewd women is oharged; frequently staying away days and nights at a time from plaintiff and child—born May 9, 1906—and consorting with gamblers, drinking men and lewd women; that daring the year of 1906 out of all his earnings he Bent plaintiff but $lO to purchase - necessities for herself and child; that the night previous to the separation defendant remained away from home all night with (the name not being given) a lewd woman of an unchaste reputation and admitted to plaintiff that he had been with said woman and openly boasted that he had been unduly intimate with this woman; that because of his failure to provide she was compel! ed to subsist on the bounty of her grand-father, who is J. O. B. MeDougle, an old and respected merchant of Remington, who was compelled to pay doctor bills and buy herself and child the necessities of life. The complaint asks for the custody of the child, Oscar W. Taber.

No. 7178. Joseph Hessling vs. David D. Gleason; suit for damages because of injury to plaintiff’s left hand, loss of thumb and mangling and disabling by reason of assisting in operating a circular saw mill for defendant in March, 1906. Demand 93,000. No. 7179. Floreuce Ethel Gillam vs. William D. Royalty et al; action to quiet title. No. 7180. Indianapolis Brewing Co., vs. George Strickfaden and Samuel M. Larue, by the firm of Strickfaden & Larue; suit on account. Demand 9145.08.