Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Commissioners’ court will convene Monday. —o—(Co. Supt. Lamson was in Fair Oaks on business Wednesday. —o — The February term of the Jasper circuit court will convene one week from Monday. <"'Yesterday was pension day for pensioners drawing same through the Indianapolis pension office. State Tax Commissioner Matson and State Statistician Peets were here Wednesday and talked to the township assessors, at County Assessor Lewie’ office—or, rather, those that were in, there being only about half them here. —oi— The Democrat would call the attention of its readers who may have ’land interests in the vicinity of Larimore, No. Dak., to the card in its professional column of Albert A. Davis, attorney at law, who is located at Larimore and makes a specialty of looking after real estate interests of non-residents. In the report of the Union tp., trustee, a few errors in amounts occurred as published. In special school fund, $80.85 to L. Davisson for wood, should have read $30.85, and in the road fund, W. A. Hartley, work on bridge, $60.00, should have read $lO. It is difficult for the printer to make out every figure as intended in many reports, and too much care cannot be exercised by trustees in making out same. New suits filed: No. 7569. Henry F. Stitz vs. H. George Bowen, et ai; action to quiet title, venued from Newton county. No. 7570. William W. Demoss vs. Branson Clark; suit for damages, growing out of a tile drain put in through lands of plaintiff and defendant, and others in Milroy tp. Demand $1,200. No 7571. John W. Kline vs. Chairles M. Kline; action to quiet title. —o — The republican patriots are coming out of the woods and letting it be known that “Barkis is willin’.” J. P. Hammond wants the nomination for auditor; Jesse Nichols, Harvey J. Dexter and Judson Perkins that of clerk; A. A. Fell of Carpenter tp., for treasurer; and L. P. Shirer, J. Q. Lewis, W. F. Osborne announce that they will be candidates for re-election to the offices of sheriff, county assessor and surveyor, respectively. The Republican, with its usual bombast, says of the civil suits begun against its owners by the writer, that in self-defense it will file similar suits against The Democrat editor, elleging that one time this paper said something about an alleged “soiled dove editor’’ and recently referred to the whole combination as a pack of wolves, in speaking of tlhe many malicious personal attacks of that paper. Its “cases” wouild be very far-fetched, and were The Democrat editor and others who have been repeatedly libeled by the Republican under its present management to file libel suits against its publishers and owners, the ratio would be about 100 to lin favor of The Democrat. The Republican editors have evidently# studied the Indiana libel laws to little purpose, and they should not worry so about the suits filed against them by the writer, remembering that the truth of their charges would make a complete defense. —o— The damage suit of J. J. Lawler against the C. I. & S. railroad was compromised Friday and a judgment entered against the railroad tor $925 to cover loss sustained by Mr. Lawler from fire alleged to have been started by a spark from an engine. A further damage suit of Mr. Lawler against the C. & E. I, railroad was sent to Carroll county for trial.... Another suit of more than passing Interest was instituted Saturday by Graves & Graves for the board of finance of McClellan tp., against Henry Cannon, trustee of that township, and his bondsmen. The plaintiff Board asks for an accounting from Mr. Cannon, and allege in their complaint that at no time has Mr. Cannon made an accounting of the public funds of the township, that his disbursements were made without authority of law, that the money was expended for purposes other than that for which it was appropriated, and that the same was expended without know’edge or consent of the Advisory Board. The plaintiffs ask judgment for $6,000 and that defendant be

ordered to make a full accounting of his official acts to the Advisory Board. The hearing of the case can hardly be reached this term.— Kentland Enterprise.