People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1893 — The Wakarusha Diteh. [ARTICLE]

The Wakarusha Diteh.

On last Monday Benjamin R. Faris, John Martindale and O. P. Tabor, commissioners for Jasper county, met in joint session with James M. Dye, Perry Spe cer and John M. Russell, commissioners for White county, to hear the proceedings of the long standing Wakarusha ditch case. Frank Foltz acting as attorney for the petitioners and C. E. Mills, J. W. Douthit' and M. F. Chilcote acting for Sellers and Uhl. The demurrer to the 17th and 18th, exceptions of Ida Belle Brown et al, was sustained, while the demurrers to the 23rd and 24th were overruled, and the petitioners then filed a reply to the exceptions of Ida Belle Brown, James Hill and C. W. Horner, and a motion was also filed to dismiss both the petition and proceedings. The joint board men heard the proof and arguments of the counsel and find for the exceptions. Wilson Van Meter had been previously appointed as one of the viewers, but was disqualified on the grounds that he was akin to John W. and Emetine Van Meter and John W. Powell, owners of certain lands that had been assessed. The board then ordered all proceedings from the present, bacK to and including the appointment of Van Meter to be set aside and overruled. The board then adjourned to meet on Tuesday morning. The two ooards were again called together on Tuesday morning and the argument of the motion to dismiss by Ida Belle Brown et al, was then heard and the boards decided to take the same under advisement until next Tuesday, Nov. 21, at 10 o’ciocK. The ooards then adjourned.