Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM, ALL OVER INDIANA. EPPERSON CLAIM IS FILED Attorney General Seeks to Collect $4,250.15 Said to Be Due State From Former Mine Inspector. Indianapolis, June 6. —Thomas M. .Honan, attorney general, has sent to Greene county for filing in the circuit court the complaint in the case of the state vs. James Epperson, former state mine inspector and his bondsmen, in which it is sought to collect $4,250.15 said to be due the state in a showing by the state board of accounts, which recently examined the affairs of office lor the time Epperson was in office. The amount is in addition to $2,6f>7.31 charged back because of irregularities'on the part of Myrtle M. Densford, clerk to Epperson, which Epperson, recently paid. Miss Densford has disappeared. In the complaint the state asks for judgment for $4,500 to cover expenses and the alleged shortage. Of the $4,250.15, $896 is for moneys collected by Epperson for fees, in holding examinations for skilled mine employes and not accounted for to the state, according to the report of the examiners. Epperson reported the collection of $1,860 in such fees, and the examiners found the examinations cost $1,0,00 They say he should be liable for the remainder. The additional sum charged in the complaint, $3,354.15, is for hotel expenses and board when Epperson was in Indianapolis during his term. Epperson lived in Linton and when here paid his hotel expenses and board out of the state funds.