Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1912 — COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

COURT HOUSE NEWS IN BRIEF

Intsrestta! Paragraphs froni tli Various Dapartamts OF JASPER 68HMTY CAPITOL

The Legal News Epitomised—Together with Other Notes Gathered from the Several County Offices. Attorney G. A. Williams, accompanied by his wife, was In Paxton, 111., Monday on business. John Sheilhart of the Sharon neighborhood, southeast of town, was fined $5 and costs in Squire Irwin’s court Monday for failure to «end his-8-year-old son to ecboo., as complained of by 'truant~bt!tcer Steward. (Marriage licences issued: Match 22. Lyman Walter Baker, ffigi of Charles W. Baker of Rose lawn, aged 45, occupation laborer, to Ida Tennessee Cox, also of Roselawn, daughter of John T. Thencher of Oklahoma, aged 34, occupation housekeeper. Second marriage for each, male having been divorced nine years ago, ahd female divorced pome time in'(he dim and' distant past, the date not being given in the application. March 25, Howard VJctor Kernel orer of Demotte, aged 28, occupation mining, to Edith Lula Gussman, also of Demotte, aged 25, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each.

Notwithstanding the assertions of two Chicago fur dealers who pro- ! nounced the pelt of a timber “wolf recently killed nev Demoitj as that of a Collie dog, the hunter who killed it and other wolf experts in that vicinity are willing to swear that it is that of a wolf.- It will be remembered that the county! paid a bounty of $lO for the scalp and the owner of the pelt disposed j of the same to B. S. Fendig for $3. Fendig sent the pelt to Chi- ! cago where two fur dealers pro-! noqnced it the pelt of a Coilie dog’ and worth but 25 cents. Age and climatic conditions, sometimes disease, have' much to do with the appearance of the pelt of a furbearing animal, and no doubt the hunter who killed this beast and others well versed on wolves in that locality, honestly believe that the animal was a wolf. They say they have seen and killed too many wolves to be mistaken in this case