Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1915 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts ot the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention From Many Places. BIG DITCH CASE FILED. Propose to Reclean Reclamation Ditch—Cost Estimated at Near Half a Million. A petition was filed in the Laporte, Superior court, Thursday, asking tor :he recleaning of the Kankakee river or Reclamation ditch. The petitioners are D. W. Place, et al. It is proposed to reclean the ditch from the B. & O; tracks to the Jasper county line. The cost is estimated at $466,600, and the yardage at five million. The Tuesbery Land Co. has also filed a petition of similar inport. Activity along this line is supposed to have been increased because of the proposed levee system which was threshed out early this spring before Special Judge Bartholomew in Starke circuit .court. However, it is said by the Place petitioners that they are not endeavoring to obstruct the work of the levee petitioners. Both the Place and Tuesbery petitions are far-reaching and practically all land for four or five miles back from the Kankakee will be affected. As yet no notice of the pendacy of the Place petition has been given.—-Starke County Republican.