Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-10-29
Looks That Way as Between the
County and Milwaukee.
A MEETING WAS HELD YESTERDAY
Resulted in Nothing Except That it
Probably gave the Men on Both
Sides An Insight into the Plans of
the Other.
[From Saturdays Daily.I

The meeulng held yesterday after
noon at the office of JaQues & Jaques |
for the purpose of attempting to bring |
about peaceful settlement of the diff |
culties existing between Wapello |
county's board of supervisors and the |
Milwaukee railroad company, was UNI
fruitful except that it gave the men
on both sides an insight into the posi-
| ton of the other side. There is very
little probability that @ compromise
can be reached, for the propositions,
or even the hints at propositions OF the
two parties to the disagreement are
SO different that each side would have
to give up more than it seems adyis-
able.
Yesterdays meeting was attended
by ]. c. Cook, of Cedar Rapius, gen
eral attorney for Iowa for the Milwau-
llee company, and his two assistants,
Attorneys Baker and Loomis, of Chlca-
go; Captain w. H. c. Jaques and his
son, 10 R., who are connected with the
case by virtue of being associated
with Mr.. Cook on the side of the rail-
road company; John M. McElroy and
~. H. r. Spilman, members OF the
board D. H. Emery, ]. H. Mitchell
and C. D. Fullen, attorneys for the
county.
Go Over the Ground.
The ground was carefully gone over
at this meeting, the object being, if
possible, to effect settlement so that
the injunction case brought by the
county against the railroad company
might be withdrawn The board of
supervisors claims that if the railroad
is built through the county farm along
the line indicated by the surveyors
; stakes, which they say runs within $40
feet of the buildings, the county farm
will be of no further use to Wapello
county as an asylum for feebie-minded
a and decrepit people.
The Boards Proposition.
The members of the board made a
: sort of informal proposition to the
. railroad attorneys to the effect that If
the Milwaukee company agrees to
have a line surveyed across the north
!, west corner of the northwest forty
acres of the farm. and the company
pay for the land that is thus cut of
from the main body of the farm, the
board will go into session and eonsld'
S er the matter with view to selling
the land. This the railroad attorneys
would not agree to.
The RaiIrodd'S proposition.
On the other hand, the railroad at
L toineys asked the members of the
$ board for an estimate of the amount
g that the county would ask of the com,
g pany if the latter build the line as now
y laid out and construct high fence
K which would be practically man,
/ tight, and construct an under crossing
L connecting the two parts of the coun
q ty farm thus separated. This was no
a entertained by the members of the
n board, as it is their claim that the
g farm will be Of no use to the county.
e An Attorneys Views.
u This is the present condition of thu
,e matter and the injunction case agalns
1t the Milwaukee company will come VI
e in district court at Abba next week
T. Meanwhile developments will b
awaited eagerly by the residents G
r Wapello county. A prominent attol
e. ney of this city, when asked today TO
lie his views on the matter. said that i
ut his opinion the county has stron
IN case. He says that in the first plac
of the state laws do not permit the cor
SIS domination of land for public use whe
he it is already being used for the benefi
d. of the public. unless the second publ
as agency is necessary one and cannC
he be brought about unless the land
m question be used. The attorney abov
I'D referred to said that this applies i
u both cases in hand, since the count
IS. farm is already being used as pul
rs lie agency, and that the railroad coul
y. be constructed around or through on
er corner of the farm instead of crossin
ng it,