Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 20, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1899 — Kniman Saloon Case Again. [ARTICLE]

Kniman Saloon Case Again.

Again the temperance people of Kniman and Walker township are on top. The most important case tried by Judge Palmer, this week, was the saloon case of Alfred Ponton, of Kniman, appealed from the commissioners court. When the case first came before the commissioners the temperance people were there with a big remonstrance, but the commissioners did not decide on its sufficiency but ruled the applioaion out od the grounds that his applicant was not filed soon enough, namely on the Saturday before the commisioners met. Judge Palmer ruled against the commissioners on this point and in favor of the saloonist. This left the question as to whether he should have a license, depending on the sufficiency of. the remonstrance; that originally contained 133 names and only 90 were required to defeat the applicant. The latter made a hard fight however, and produced a lot of witbdrawls and names who had no legal right to sign, but the best they could do, Judge Palmer decided that 92 names were all right, and Ponton was defeated by a margin of two names.