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County Surveyor Resumes
Collection Of Data on
Kokosing Project
APPARENT COST WILL
BE FOUND TO BE HIGH
Already Enough Has Been
Learned To Show Cost
Was Underestimated

Work on the proposed enamel i'm
provement plan for controlling the
waters of the kokosing river was re-
sumed Tuesday by Surveyor YanVoor-
his and assistants 1t has been some
months since the first work was start.
ed and later laid aside because Of the
pressure Of more immediate matte.s.
The surveyors today began running
levels and taking cross sections OF
the river chanel to ascertain the
amount of earth it may be necessary
TO move.
While the plans still are almost
wholly in the embryo stage, enough
has been learned to lead to the con.
viction that the cost of the proposed
improvement has been greatly under
estimated. Today Surveyor Van Voor-
his stated it to be HIS confident belel
that the sum first estimated as suf-
ficient to meet the entire cost will not
be enough for the first half mile Of
the Improvement.
Surveyor Van Voorhis hesitates to
place any figures upon the probable
cost of the project for his figures are
50 incomplete that he can only guess
and estimate. AS the work progress
es, however, the cost of the project
appears to increase rather than to de-
crease and SO rapidly that to some it
may appear almost If not wholly pro-
hibitive.
The county commissioners Monday
adopted a resolution ordering survey
for the paving Of the Bladensburg-
Gambler road with bitiuminous ma
cadam. Approximately 31s miles is to
BE- improved on the Bladensburg end.
Files Lunaey Charge
Sheriff Lytle- Tuesday morning filed
q lunacy charge in probate court
against Victor Lance Of Gambler. He
recently returned from Covington, Ky.
and his talk and actions give rise to
suspicion that he is mentally unbal-
anced,, He has delusion someone
is trying to poison him. Lance was
taken in charge and brought to the
county jail, where he is being held
His hearing was set for Tuesday af
ternoon.
o.
Brings Boys Home
Probation Officer Patrick Purcell
was in Cincinnati Monday, returning
with two boys who had run away from
their homes in the eastern part of the
county. A brief experience of big city
life made the youngsters quite willing
to return home.
Probate Court Statistics
Marriage licenses: April 20, May Il
June %, July l2, August IS, Septem
ber Is, October 81, November 20, De
cember 50, January Z, February IA
March II, total 237. Colored 4. B,
banns 2.
Letters of guardiansh' 80, children
included in same 37 Incompetent per
sons Z, imbeciles 4; total AZ.
Letters of administration: Wills ad
mitted to probate 6S, letters tesla
mentary 4S, letters of administration
issued IS; estates administered upor
1876; total 1876
Committed to state hospital at Co
ulmbus, IA; committed to reform
school, Lancaster, q.
Named Administrative
Ida A. Easterda of Danville ha'
been appointed by Judge Duke, in pro
bate court, administratrix OF the es
tate of Charles Easterday Bond TO
$500 was given James r. Green ant
Clinton NJ. Rice securities. Apprais
ers are Robert Body, +. l.. Spearmai
and Clinton NJ Rice.
Accounts Filed
Matte A. Blue, guardian OF Calli
Hardesty, has filed second partia
account showing: Receipts, $47l.33.
First and final account of w. II
White, administrator Of Elizabetl
Stow, receipts $2O57.S3, expende
$1162.39.
A first and final account has bee
filed by Robert Neiderhouser, admin
istratOr W. W, u. oil catherine Neiaei
houser, showing receipts $l44l.Ol, e'
penditures $l441.O1.
William H. White, administrators
Eliza j. Baugh. Receipts $ls99.o4
Expended $Ss0O5.
saIs Sill Filed