The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1901-03-21
KrickbauI0-
VanderSlice Feud.
The Latter Appointed County
Commissioner, But Has Not
Yet Qualified.

Ob YUAN lOds
Quite an excitement was created
last Friday afternoon by the an
nouncement that the Court had ap-
pointed T. J. Vanderslice as county
commissioner, to fill the vacancy
caused by the removal of William
Krickbaum. The law provides that
the appointment shall be made for the
unexpired term, so that if Mr.. Van
derslice qualities for the Office he will
serve until January Ist, 1908.
1t is said that the appointment was
made by President Judge Little and
the Republican Associate Judge,
Kurtz, Judge Fox refusing to assent
to it. 1t is also said that Vanderslice
is hesitating about accepting. What
his own reasons may be for hesitating
we do not know, but it is certain that
the prevailing sentiment among his
friends, as we'll as his foes, is that it
would be a mistake for him to accept,
under all the circumstances of the
case.
1t may be that the appointment is
premature, for Messrs. Rhawn &
Small, of counsel for Krckbaum, went
to Philadelphia on Monday, and on
Tuesday morning appeared in the
Supreme Court ald presented petit
tion asking that the appeal taken by
Mr.. Krlckbaum to that court be
made SnperSedeaS, that is, that all
proceedings be stayed until final
decision, in which event Krickbaum
will continue to hold the Office until
the Supreme Court decides otherwise.
The petition is as follows:
COMMONWEALTH OF In the Su-
PENNSYLVANIA, EX- preme Court
RELATIoNE, JOHN of Pennsyl-
G. HARTMAN, DIS. : vania.
TRICT ATroRNEY, No. II6,
VS.. January T.,
WILLIAM KRIcKBAUM. 1901.
To tie HonOra6e tie /udges Of saia
Court
The petition of William Krickbaum
respondent below, and the appellant
in this Court, respectfully represents
THAT on the nth day of March,
1901, the Court of Common Pleas OF
Columbia County, Pennsylvania, in
certain quo warranto proceedings as
of No. December Term 1900,
aGiudged the petitioner of unlawfully
holding and exercising the Office o
Commissioner of the said county o
Columbia, and awarded writ of in
junction, without notice to the pc
titioner and bond from the relator
enjoining him from exercising the
Office of Commissioner as aforesaid.
2.-That the said petitioner wa.
elected Commissioner of the sale
County for the term OF three years
commencing the first Monday of Jan
nary 1900.
3.-That on the fifteenth day o
March, 1901, the petitioner appealed
according to law to this Court as O
the above entitled Term and No. from
the said judgment of the Court o
Common Pleas aforesaid.
4.-That the said judgment o
custer and exclusion against the pc
titioner as aforesaid is based entirely
upon the fact that the petitioner while
exercising the Office of County Com
missioner as aforesaid became one o
the sureties on the bond of the Treas
urer of the said county.
s.-That the suggestion for thu
writ of quo warranto was filed by thu
said relator at the special instance ant
upon the written request of the sale
T. ]. Vanderslce, charging inter ala
that the SAID petitioner was unlawfully
holding and exercising the Office O
County Commissioner as aforesaid
because he was one of the sureties OF
the bond of the said County Treas
urer as aforesaid.
6.-That it appears upon the fac
of the record and by the proceeding
had in the same case, as a fact no
eontroverted, or denied, that at tn
time the petitioner to wit, the IItl
day of December, 1899, the SAID T
!. Vanderslice was the counsel of tn
said Treasurer and the Drivate cOunse
of the petitioner, and as such counse
advised the petitioner, that it wa
proper for him, although one of tn
Commissioners, of the said county t,
become one of the suretles on tn
said bond.
THAT the said T. J. Vanderslic
after the rendition OF the said judg