Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1911 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

loteresting Paragraphs from the Various Departments OF JASPER COUNTY CAPITOL The Legal News Epitomized— Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Judge Marvin came over from Monticello Monday and again took up the Marble ditch matter. Yesterday he was out over the ditch. —o*- *—* New suits filed: No. 7767. Sarah C. Jarvis, et al. vs. Joseph A. Akers; suit on note Demand $460. No. 7768. Thomas J. Mallatt vs. Alfred Moore, et al.; suit on note. Demand $175. The petition for the proposed improvement of Fprest, Cullen and Washington streets and College Road to St. Joseph’s College, was not presented to the board of commissioners and will not be presented at least until next month, we are told. A remonstrance is ready to file whenever the petition is presented, but we do not know the number of signatures to either. Sheriff Hoover arrested , John Platt Monday morning on an old grand jury indictment, charging him with having sold intoxicating liquor without a license, towit: On April 30, 1910, one quart of whiskey to Fred Irwin. The indictment was returned by the April, 1910, grand jury, but John has been away since that time until very recently. He gave bond for his appearance in court Sept. 11, with Hiram Day as surety.

Benjamin R. Faris, a former resident of 'Gillam tp., a*nd one of the county commissioners when the new court house was built here, died at his home in Medaryville Sunday morning, aged 70 years. He leaves two daughters and six sons. Since the death of his wife some two years ago, one of the daughters has kept house for him. The funeral was held at Medaryville yesterday and burial made in the Independence cemetery in Gillam tp. Mr. Faris had been in poor health for several years y but his death was rather sudden. County Commissioner-elect William Hershman was down from Walker tp., on business Monday, making the trip in his auto Mr. Hershman, as is generally known, is not only an excellent farmer but is quite a noted poultry fancier as well. He has had excellent luck with his poultry crop this year and will have some nice birds to enter in the shows next winter. He does not share in the seemingly general belief that Jasper county will harvest a bumper corn crop this year. He says when the farmers come to husk out their crop they will find it'has been damaged a great deal by the hot dry weather, which came a£ a time when the; corn was too far advanced. Had corn been at the stage it usually is at the beginning of July the yield would have been better, but it has been a few weeks in advance of the season all summer.

There was quite a crowd of bidders on hand Saturday to try for the Dexter ditch contract, and a dozen of therm put up certified checks to back up the bids they might make, but before the bidding proceeded Attorney W. H. Parkinson, for Thompson & McAdams, Lafayette attorneys who have been retained by -MfSv-C. M. Williams, appeared and served notice that their client would resist payment of her assessments on the ground/ that the court had no jurisdiction in the case ordering the improve-

merit, etc;, and would enjoin the construction of the ditch. It had been thought the ditch would sell at 7 to 1% cents per yard, but none of the bidders would : come below 10 cents, and the county surveyor rejected the bids and returned the checks to tlie bidders. Later in the afternoon B. D. Comer of Union tp., offer-* ed to take the contract at cents, and it was awarded to him. Mrs. Williams and the John Makeever estate is heavily assessed for this proposed ditch, and has fought the proceedings from the first, alleging that the schema, is illegal and unjust. An appeal taTen to the supreme court was decided adversely to the remonstrators, but the principal grounds on which a 'reversal is now hoped for, as we understand, is that the original ditch, which this takes in, was a commissioners’ court ditch and the courts have held that proceedings for cleaning, enlarging or extensions must be brought in the same court as that in which the original ditch was constructed. The case will be contested to a finish, we are told. Sheriff Hoover has another star boarder, in the person of John Webb, a former fireman at the Babcock & Hopkins elevator, who was fined $lO and trimmings, $15.10 in all, by Squire Irwin _Saturday and bound over to the circuit court in default of S3OO surety of the peace bonds. Webb married Mrs. Lillian Row-en-Sayler about a year ago, but they had practically parted, he going to Chicago and she remaining here with her mother. Friday night he came down from the Windy City on the 11:05 and went to Mrs. Rowen’s house and demanded to stay all night. He had been partaking of too much lake water ajid was qujte imperative in his demands, flourishing a gun to lend emphasis to his remarks. While his wife made her escape with her two children to her brother’s Arlie Rowen's, Webb went to bed and the officers were called and put him in jail, taking charge of his revolver and some “lake water’’ that he had _not yet gotten outside of. Saturday he was arraigned with the above result. He told the* sheriff yesterday that he could get money to pay his fine, and if the surety of the peace -proceedings were dismissed he would pay up and vamoose ; that he couldn’t give no S3OO bounds to cover that charge. It is probable the matter will be fixed up by dismissal of the latter proceedings and his wife will get a divorce.

Proccedings in comnissiioners’ court: Contract awarded to John Eger for groceries for poor far-m for ensuing year at $177.92; Roth Bros. 200 pounds roast beef at $26; E. VanArsdel, dry goods, $65.15. Interest reported on county funds for month of August as follows: First Nat. Bank, Rensselaer. $69.78 Trust & 8. Bank, Rensselaer 26.03 State Bank, Rensselaer j ... . 32.56 State Bank, Remington.'.... 24.49 Bank of Wheatfleld 6.63 The bond of Jesse Nichols, who was re-appointed Supt. of poor farm on June 6, for a period of two years, commencing Sept.. 1, 1911, in the sum of SI,OOO, with H. G. Daniels, Stephen T. Comer and Isaac D. Walker, as sureties, was approved. Fees collected by the various county officers for the quarter ending Aug. 31 were reported as follows: Auditor, $37; clerk $143.50; recorder, $453; sheriff, $492.03. A petition for a railroad election in Newton tp., to vote a 1 % per cent subsidy to tne Purtelle railroad, signed by O. C. Halstead and 27 others, was filed Monday. Attached to the petition is an undated letter from Purtelle agreeing to put up a sufficient bond to cover the cost of the election in case the subsidy fails to carry; and a request from O. C. Halstead and B. M. Makeever that the commissioners do not call t'he election until said bond has been filed. The proposed route of the proposed railroad as set out in the petition, is along the north line of sections 19, 20, 21, 22 and w% of 23, in said towntownship. The assessed valuation of the township, is about $730,000, so the proposed . subsidy would amount to about SII,OOO. ~ ' ' i 1 ■■ 1 • • Why don’t you get envelopes printed with your' name and address in one corner f None of your letters can then get lost. Looks business-like and makes a good impression on those, you write to. You can get 100 for 50 cents at this office.