The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1911-10-04
Court Minutes.

When our report of the September
court closed last Wednesday the case of
II. S. Sutley VS.. f. G. and o. W. Proper
was on trial. The jury gave verdict for
the plaintiff for S7s7s.
In the case of @. f. Coon VS.. N. Y. &
Pa. Co., known as the pulp-wood case
from Marienvile, the court ordered a
verdict for the defendants. The case of
John Hibarger against the same defend
ants was discontinued.
In the case of Co nmonwealth at the
instance of Jacob Wagner, etc., VS.. Jesse
Carson, the jury gave a verdict for the
plaintiff for $500.
The case OF Com. VS.. G. o. Thomas,
charged with receiving stolen horses and
rig, was continued to November term.
Peter Curico, convicted of assault and
battery, was sentenced to pay fine Of
$4,000, costs of prosecution, and to be
imprisoned in the county Jail for one
year.
In the case of T. d. Collins ct al. VS.. L.
s. Clough ct al, the plaintiff s application
for change of venue was Withdrawn and
the case ordered placed regularly on the
list for trial at November term.
GRAND JURY REPORT.
The grand jury reported that they acted
upon four bills of indictment of which
three were found true bills. They in
spected the county buildings and found
the court house and Jail in good condition,
interior of both and grounds we'll kept.
They visited the county home and report
the county farm in good thrifty condi-
ton, nicely cleaned up and apparently in
good state of cultivation. The different
rooms and wards In the home were nice
and clean and in good shape, the inmates
happy and we'll cared for. They found
that the walks about the grounds are in
bad condition and recommended that they
should be taken up and replaced with
either stone or cement; the cornice on
the roof the same building should be
taken off and roof 80 constructed as to
prevent snow and ice from freezing on
the edge of the roof and damming the
water back and causing the roof to leak
and damage the wall and interior; that
cracks in the top row of stone in the
stone wall be pointed with cement to pre-
vent water from getting into the wall;
that It would add very much to the ap-
pearance of some of the rooms to have
them painted. They recommended that
the road commissioners of Tlonesta and
Harmony townships be instructed to re-
pair the sewers and cut the brush out OF
the public road being parallel with the
river between Jameson run and Dawson
run. The grand jury also presented the
following report on the water power
propositions:
We, the grand jury, September term
Court of Quarter Sessions, have been In
formed that the waters of Tionests creek
are about to be appropriated to corpora.
tion or company and that large dam is
supposed to be erected at the mouth o
Tionesta creek. And we, deeming It g
matter of public interest, do hereby pre-
sent that we have examined the protes
presented to the Governor and the Water
Supply Commission of the State, by the
County Commissioners of Forest county
and that we hereby approve of the action
taken by the County Commissioners in
entering protest against the granting o
the charters and recommend that they
take any action that may be necessary tC
prevent the destruction of property ID
Forest county, especially in the Tionests
valley and Barnett township, by the
granting of the charters applied for.
l.. j. HOPKINS, Foreman