People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1894 — KNOCKED! [ARTICLE]

KNOCKED!

TiiC Iroquoi* SMlcli ns Elat as si Flounder. After seveu days of hard struggle, the fate of the noted Iroquois ditch was finally settled by the Board of Commissioners of Jasper county. The case has been one of unusual interest to the people of this county and from the records of the proceedings in the auditor's office we find the following: “The board, after hearing further evidence upon the bene-

tits and damages, lind that the estimated cost of construction will exceed the benefits and the board orders that the proceedings aud petition be dismissed at the cost of the petitioners and direct the auditor to prepare an itemized statement of all the costs, which shall include the per diem of the viewers and engineer,, together with all the costs necessarily made, including the fees of the auditor.” Frank Foltz, attorney for the petitioners, tiled a motion to modify the judgment and decision of the board as to the costs and that the order of dismissal be vacated. The petitioner, are Granville Moody, Wallace Robinson, Warren Robinson, S, P. Thompson and J. A. Robinson, and they asked for an appeal to the Circuit court, and their bond was fixed at SSOO, J. H. Lough ridge also asked for an appeal and ins bond was set at i‘3oo.

£). B. Nowels and lldotheis, wlmj iue defendants in the cast, also aw&ked for an appeal, that rthe case piay have a tinal decision, ajftshtikgir bond was fixed at •$1,500. There is na doubt but what ithe matter may carried to the Supreme Court as ,ii involves a scope, betli of land <and money, and, of course, there »isn«4 ou^t but what the latter will s mie the case for always.