Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1908 — HOGS WILL COME HIGH [ARTICLE]

HOGS WILL COME HIGH

Load That Promises To Bo Costly Before Two Men Tire of Litigation. QUARREL IS OVER THE DOCKAGE Only Fifty Pounds Difference Between the Litigants—Joint Rates on Coat Indianapolis, April 16. William A. Beatty, farmer, and S. M. Miller, stock buyer, both of Raymond, Hl., both wealthy and determined, close friends for years, but who have turned against each other, are in Indianapolis fighting over a load of bogs, and the controversy Is becoming so bitter that It is attracting considerable attention among local stockmen and patrons of this market As near as can be made out from the claims of both men Beatty, who fattened the hogs, called In his friend Miller, the buyer, when his hogs were ready for the market. This was at Raymond. Miller bld $5.50 a hundred pounds, which was accepted, and Miller paid SIOO to bind the bargain. Dominant Issue Comes Up. The question of docking the load was then brought up and a difference of opinion regarding the amount of the dock developed. Miller thought the condition of the hogs warranted a dock of 400 pounds; Beatty disagreed, contending that 350 pounds would be an ample sufficiency. Discussion waxed warm and soon It.became evident that the traders could not agree on this point.

Miller Takes the Hogs by Force. Beatty says Miller and his sons took the hogs from Beatty’s place by force, but not until he liad had the elder Miller arrested. Miller loaded the hogs and consigned them to Tolln,'Mattern A Co., commission merchants at the Indianapolis stockyards. The hogs arrived at the yards Monday morning and were immediately placed on the market. Before the salesman could dispose of them, however, the yard company received a telegram from Beatty commanding that the liogs lie held. The yard company had them locked up. Hogs Are Eating Their Heads Off. Both men then came to this city and engaged lawyers, and the matter will go to court April 24. In the meantime the hogs, locked in a pen In charge of a deputy sheriff are eating about $5 worth of corn a day. Already the telephone and telegraph tolls of the disputants have exceeded the amount of the value of tiie dock In controversy. Beatty, reputed to be worth SIOO,OOO, declares that he has come to Indianapolis prepared to stay all summer, if necessary. Miller Is Just as positive that the hogs will be his in the end. THE LIGHT WENT OUT As They Went Death Came and a Will Just Made Failed of Signature. Muncie. Ind., April 16.—“ The lights are going out. Mary and I don't seem to be able to see very well,” said George Fleming, a wealthy retired farmer, after he had completed the writing out of his will and nothing remained except bis signature to make the instrument valid. Then he lay back on the pillows, sighed and died. Tills strange story came to light when the unfinished will was taken Into the circuit court for probate. It is probable, also, that a new legal point has been raised. The witnesses to the will were In the room and saw him writing it; the documentds in his own handwriting, as can be attested —but the signature Is missing. Th? county clerk refused to record tiie instrument until some formal action Is taken on It by the rfreuit court and rejected it as invalid. Appeals to the Railway Board. Indianapolis, April 16. A petition filed by .the Manufacturers and Shippers’ association, of Indianapolis, with the railroad commission ask the commission to establish joint rates on coal bet ween, the Southern Indiana and the Big Four, hi order to relieve n serious situation which may result in the closing of about thirty coal mines in the southern part of the state, and the closing of factories In sixty northern Indiana cities which get practically all of ttielr coal over the tond and only from the Indiana mines. Joint rates have been suspended by the roads. Moument tbr Tippecanoe Field. battle grounds monument commission. In whose keeping the Tippecanoe monument fund was placed, has let the contract for building the monument, which is to coti $24,500. The monument is to be erected on the battlefield in memory of th*' men who fell at the battle of Tippecanoe In 1811. A bronze figifre of William Henry Harrison will be placed I the foot of the shaft. Wanted $&B,OOO; Got *B,OOO. Shelbyville, Ind., April Five members of the Scott family, in Hancock county, brought suit against the Big Four Railway company several months ago for damages for Injuries by a train ou a crossing. The suits hsve now been compromised for a total of $3,000. The total amount daimed In the suit was $58,000.