The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1901-08-27
Written to Attorney Gen.
erai Sheets.
STATE LANDS LEASED
Columbus Mayor Refuses to
Close Saloons on Sunday,
the Opening Day Of Ohio
State Exposition.
From a staff Correspondent.

From a Staff Correspondent. ~.
Columbus, Aug. 24.--C. B. Matthews,
an attorney for debenture companies,
has written an open letter to Attorney
General Sheets which was called out
by the published statement that Judge
Sheets had written to the attorney
general of Kentucky, asking his CO.
operation in driving the debenture
companies out of the Blue Grass state.
Mr.. Matthews's letter contains some
warm stuff in the way of charges
against the manner in which the cases
against the debenture companies have
been conducted. He declares that At
torney General Sheets's
OFFICIAL DUTY ENDED
when he had secured decision against
the debenture companies from the su'
prene court of this state. He also
denies that the companies are doing
clandestine work in this or any other
state. The sensational part of Mr.,
letter is that in which he
charges Assistant Attorney General
Todd with unprofessional work in
bringing two actions with the same
object in the courts of Hamilton coun-
ty to secure control of funds belong
ing to the debenture companies in or
der that they might be paid out in fees
to receivers and lawyers of the attor-
ney generals selection. Judge Sheets's
reply is looked forward to with expec.
fancy by all who have taken an inter-
est in the cases that have been brought
against the debenture companies and
the fight to drive them out of the state.
A joint session Of the state board
of public works and the state canal
was held at the state
house. The board -
GRANTED A LEASE
at per cent on a valuation of s9,050
for the encroachment upon four and
one.third miles of the canal between
Newark and Hebron by the predeces-
sors of the Columbus, Buckeye Lake
and Newark Railway company. A
lease Tor about three miles of canal
bank between Groveport and Winches.
ter was given to the Columbus, Lam
caster and Scioto Valley Traction COM
pany, the valuation being fixed at
s11 900. A lot and portion of the
Mad river feeder in Dayton were
leased to the Joyce-Friedland company
the valuation being
Sc, 600.
Governor Nash has issued requisi-
tion papers upon the governor of Kan
sas for the return to this state of John
West, alias Z. d. Adams, who is want
ed in Brown county for grand larceny
and who
is UNDER ARREST
in Marysville, Kan. West and William
Gordon, alias John Green, got $4,000
from George Giboney, farmer at Rip
lev, this state. They worked bunco
game on him.
A committee, representing the FEEDER
Vi Iouh6 lNOPiC . ooeiStiNob NoA-
ed upon Mayor Hinkle and urged him
to close all the saloons on Sunday,
/, the day of the opening
of the state exposition. The mayor
refused to do as requested, declaring
that If he closed the saloons on that
day people would flock to the drinking
places in the township, and disorder
and lawlessness would be appalling.
He suggested that the committee be-
gin temperance work with the saloons
In the townships.
Frequent conferences are held by
the druggists, but the war still con-
tinues, and people are still able to get
sure
CURES AT CUT RATES.
Word comes from Cincinnati that
former local Examiner Henry Ketter
has abandoned the idea of testing the
state law requiring engineers to take
out license. Ketter has procured a
license and gone to work, much to the
relief of Chief State Examiner Collier.
The eleventh annual reunion of the
Alumni association of the Ohio Insti.
tuition for Deaf and Dumb will be held
in the city on the grounds of the in
stitution August 80 and 81 and Septem'
ber /. All graduates OF the school
have been invited. Rev. Austin w
Mann, the deaf mute evangelist, will
conduct the services at the institution
on sunday.
State Fire Marshal Hollenbeck has
been notified of the arrest of william
Hurst, a noted firebug, at Evanston