Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 March 1898 — The End of The Wakarusa [ARTICLE]

The End of The Wakarusa

The Commissioners of Jasper and White counties, at their joint sessions here Thursday, entered an order, of their own motion, dismissing the Wakarusa ditch, and assessing the costs to the petitioners. These costs amount between $3,000 and $4,000. This ditch, which was to have drained an immense scope of country in Marion, Jordan, Milroy and Hanging Grove townships, in this county, and also considerable in White county, met with great opposition and finally was wrecked by the refusal of the White Co. board to appoint other joint viewers, and the circuit court there finally enjoined them from making such appointment. The proposed route of this ditch has since been largely taken by the Culp and Gallagher ditches. The costs on the case have,mostly been advanced by Jasper county, and it is understood that a vigorous effort will now be made to recover them from the petitioners.