Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 July 1917 — E. P. HONAN NAMED INSPECTOR [ARTICLE]

E. P. HONAN NAMED INSPECTOR

State Geologist Assumes Charge of Oil Inspection. E. P. Honan was notified on July 5 that he had again been appointed deputy oil inspector for this district. The appointment came from Edward Barrett, state geologist, who assumed control of the inspection department on authority of a law passed in 1901, which is still in force and which entitled him to name the inspectors, so he claims. Marion Caldwell, commissioned by the governor as state supervisor of oil inspection, filed a suit in the Marion circuit court Saturday seeking to enjoin Mr. Barrett and the deputies appointed by him from interfering with the oil inspection. Mr. Caldwell had appointed a corps of who assumed the work the first of the year, but the law. of 1901, if in force, disqualifies them from further activities. The matter will be thrashed out in the courts before it is known for certain which of the two officials and his deputies are entitled to have charge of the inspecion of oil.