Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 March 1910 — THE COURT HOUSE [ARTICLE]

THE COURT HOUSE

Items Picked Up About the County Capitol. Miss Vera Parker is now employed as stenographer in The Trust and Savings Bank. —o h— The republicans will hold their congressional district convention at Lafayette Monday. There will be no opposition to the re-nomi-nation of Crumpacker, so far as learned. OH— Auditor Leatherman has sold his one-half interest in z the 160 acre farm which he and Clerk Warner owned in northwest Carpenter, to Mr. Warner. The consideration named in the deed is $5,500. County Chairman Littlefield has called the executive committee together to meet to-day, and it will decide on a date for holding the democratic county convention, which will probably be either Saturday, April 16 or 23. yMarriages licenses issued: James F. Swaim of Union tp., aged 55, occupation farmer, to Mary E. Galbraith of Rensselaer, aged 50, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for each, first wife of male having died Feb. 4, 1904, and female having been divorced from Sylvester Galbraith Feb. 16, 1905. Tom Burt, the. present postmaster of Lafayette, former Tenth district republican chairman and the senior member of Burt-Haywood stationery firm, also of the Lafayette Journal, has sold his business to Mr. Haywood and retires from the job printing and newspaper business. It took ten days to secure a jury in the Sayler murder trial at Watseka,* and the jury was not secured until Wednesday. Two hundred and forty-two talesmen were rejected. This case is of more than ordinary interest in Jasper county because of the murdered banker, John B. Sayler, being related to the Sayler’s here. The downfall of Mr. Bader, the Winamac bridge man, has revealed the fact that not only the particular bridge which caused his prosecution was short in weight, but other bridges furnished by the same company are also inferior and below the quality called for in the contracts. It was this revelation no doubt that contributed to the over-ruling of motion for a new trial and the refusal of the court to show leniency to the convicted man.— Monon News.

0 ' New suits filed: No. 7592. Joseph Burns vs. Sarah E. Burna;; complaint for divorce. The complaint states that the parties were married August 30, 1902, and that on Nov. 6, 1906, without cause or justification defendant abandoned plaintiff and has repeatedly refused to return and live with him, although he was ready and willing to provide defendant a home and support, and that plaintiff had many times requested her to return to him. The parties reside at Fair Oaks. The will of the late Andrew Hicks of Remington was filed for probate with the clerk of the circuit court a few days ago. It was executed Nov. 22, 1909, and was witnessed by A. B. Coleman and Jasper Guy. The instrument provides that after all just debts and funeral expenses are paid all real and personal property of any and every description shall go to the widow, Isabella Hicks, in fee simple absolute to her and her heirs forever. The widow is made executor of the will. The general impression is that the activity in behalf of keeping Mr. Bader out of the penitentiary was because certain ones did not dare let Mm be sent there for fear other disclosures might result, rather than any particular feeling for the convicted man.

It is intimated that Prosecutor Longwell was threatened with political defeat if he pushed the case against Bader. The motives of some people are always open to suspicion, and when they threaten the prosecutor and take such an unwonted interest in behalf of a grafter who is a democrat, unfortunately, it behooves the taxpayers to take notice. —o— The County Council met Tuesday and appropriated SIB,OOO for the building of a new poor asylum, and S3OO for attorney’s fees in the suit of the county to recover the alleged shortage of former treasurer Charles W. Spinney. To provide funds for the asylum bonds will be issued. All the Councilmen were present excepting A. L. Miller. On the asylum appropriation the council voted unanimously, and on the appropriation for attorney fees Councilman McClatchy dissent, ed. The ordinances were placed under final passage yestefday with the above vote.—Kentland Enterprise.

County Treasurer Allman has received the following letter from W. A. Dehority, state examiner, regarding payment of road receipts: Dear Sir:—“ln answer to inquiry made of this Department a few days ago, I beg to say, upon consideration, that where a taxpayer’s road tax has actually been worked * out and a receipt issued therefor, as provid--ed by law, but the tax has been paid in cash to the treasurer, through a mistake as to the fact that it had been worked out, the treasurer may later accept the receipt from the holder thereof and refund the amount, provided that this transaction takes place prior to the June settlement, 1910. It can not be done subsequently, as the law will thereafter be strictly construed.”