Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1912 — STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF [ARTICLE]

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. MARSHALL WILL STOP RACING Instructs Attorney General to Ask for Injunction Against Mineral Springs Jockey Club Operating Track. Indianapolis, Aug. 23. —Governor Marshall has instructed Thomas M. Honan, attorney general, to prepare a plea for injunction against the Mineral Springs Jockey club, which is preparing to operate a race track at Porter, Lake county, to prevent the races being carried out. The plea will be based on the allegations that the club was organized tn an effort to evade the criminal law’s against race track gambling. The governor declined to reveal the source of complaint received by him in regard to the club; According to information filed with him, the club was organized under the law’s of South Dakota for the purpose of operating a race track and oth?r amusement " enterprises at Porter. The incorporators were members of the Chicago sporting fraternity: