Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1906 — BOWERS HITS BACK. [ARTICLE]

BOWERS HITS BACK.

The Goodland Herald in its last week’s issue, had an awful- hard roast for Referee Bowers, on account of his alleged dilatoriness in settling up the Fred Gilman estate, but upon which dividends of 18 per cent have oeen paid. The Hammond Tribune now comes back at the Goodland paper and asserts that Mr. Bowers is a hard and constant worker in his office, and denies that he is now teaching a law class at Valparaiso. The Tribune adds further that the chief difficulty in settling the Gilman estate is in collecting notes due to it and says that one of the largest of these is owed by the Herald editor, and intimates that something will be doing pretty soon in reference to that particular account. Down here there has been considable impatience at times -at what seemed Mr. Bowers’ great deliberateness in deciding matters in the McCoy estate, yet the fact also has been recognized that he had some not only very important points to decide involving very large sums, but they were also very much involved and complicated questions, and necessarily required a good deal of time to consider. And that Mr. Bowers has sought an every case to decide every question in accordance with what the justice of the case required, is universally conceded.