Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1911 — COURT NOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT NOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

loterestiog Paragraphs from the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL e* ■ - , The Legal News Epitomized— Together with Other Notes Gathered from the ■ Several County Offices. The commissioners were still in session yesterday when the Jordan Stone road petition and other matters were taken up. - —o—’ ' . Lee Fisher of Kankakee tp., and county treasurer-elect Fell of Carpenter were onlookers at the county board Of education meeting Monday. Lee went to Otterbein from here. —o —■ Inquiry of Warden Fogarty, while at the Michigan City prison Saturday, elicted the reply that C. L. Bader, the Winamac bridge grafter sent up from this county, was employed in the mail room, which is one of the most favorable positions, in the prison. —o —• A dog afflicted with rabies recently passed through a portion of Gillam tp., and 39 head of hogs belonging to Messrs. Walters and Kauffman were bitten. All of these have died except one, and that one is now sick, we understand. Should it die a test will be made to make sure that hydrophobia was the cause of the deaths of all, as is now practically assured. Health Commissioner IDr. E. N. Loy has declared a quarantine on all dogs in the pounty and is making a strenuous effort to stamp out the disease and prevent further outbreak. See notice elsewhere.

, Concerning the required population for a liquor license, The Democrat man met a very prominent “wet” state senator a few days ago, and put this question to him : . “Senator, in fixing the limit for the granting of liquor licenses, suppose the commissioners fix the limit at 1,000, is a unit of less than 1,000 entitled to a license?” “No, sir. A unit must have 1,000 population where such limit is fixed. Where no change was made in the taw the unit must have 500 population to entitle it to a license. It was the intention to put the matter right up to the people themselves of exending the limit, and I know it was the intent of the legislature to require the 1,000 population for the first license where the limit was so fixed by the county commissioners.” The senator did not care to have, his name mentioned in connection with this question, but was very positive in his statement as to intent of the legislature. He stood among the most prominent “wet” senators in the last general assembly which passed the Proctor liquor regulation taw.