Free trader-journal and Ottawa fair dealer. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1920-1927, 1922-12-11
SUIT TO DETERMINE:
TITLE TO VALUABLE.
LIME DEPOSIT OPEN
klNTER HEIRS LAY CLAIM TO
PROPERTY VALUED AT LARGE
SUM CEMENT COMPANY
FIGHTS ALLEGATION.

The hearing on the action brought
by the Kinder heirs of Sale. against
the La Sale County Carbon Coal Co
ond the Matthiessen. Hegeler Zinc
TO to secure the limestone rights on
a lao acre farm on the edge Of Ogles.
by, was opened before Judge Edgar
Eldredgc in the circuit court at l 80
o'clock this afternoon. The limestone
rights on this land Is valued at about
S3OD an acre. II Is estimated.
The hearing Is one of the most i'm.
portant brought before the court In
several years One of the principal
items of contention is based on three
little words, "and other minerals"
which appear in almost every real.
t. transaction. The court must de
eide whether the words had a prop.
er place in the transaction which
eventually conveyed the coal rights
of the land to the Mathhlesscn. Heg.
eler Co., and the coal company.
The Red Star Cement Co., re-.
Gently incorporated concern, has en-.
tered into a contract TO purchase the
limestone on the land. from the Kin.
der heirs. Cement Is made from the
limestone
At the present time four groups
claim the rights to the limestone
They are the Kinder family, the
Matthiessen, IIegcler Zinc Co. and
the La Sale County Carbon Coal Co,
the heirs of the stockholders In the
old Northern Illinois Coal & Iron
Co, organized in the sos by Colonel
+. r. Taylor and the heirs of the
original owner of the plot, James
Convey.
The principal question at stake is,
who owns the minerals above the
top vein of coalp" The Kindcrs claim
they do. and the defendants in the
action which opened this afternoon
claim they do The suit will thresh
out the ownership to the limestone.
as far as the two parties involved are
concerned
The Kinder heirs, who are complain
ants in the action, are: Joseph II. Kin
der, Alfred G. Kinder, Anna Z. X.
Johnson, and Thirza F. Kinder.
The compliments are represented
by attorneys, erald G. Barry, C. T..
woodward and w. l. Hibbs The de-
PENDANTS are represented by attorneys.
Clarence 7. Morse, DUNCAN McDougall
c. B. Chapman, James c. Brown and
Arne q. Hummeland
CIRCUS MANS
Mt. Holly. n J. Dec l1.-Mrs. Doris
Brunen and her brother, Harry c.
Mohr. went on trial today on charges
NJ
band. Honest John" Bruncn. circus
owner Brunen was shot on March
10th. last, in his Riverside home. while
reading newspaper. Both defendants
have protested their innocence. The
chief witness is Charles NJ. Howell.
said vauthorities sto have confessed
firing the shot that killed Brunen at
the instigatlon of Mohr and Mrs.
Drunen
Sues After rs Years.
z Mrs. Lena Wachter. Of Streator,
started a separate .maintanauae suit
against Conrad Wachter. whom she
married twenty-six years ago on Nov.
~, 1894, in the Circuit court this after
noon Mrs. Wachter alleged that the
defendant threatened to do her bodily
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morose' and at intervals during their
married life, has refused to speak to
herfor several weeks at a time.
The couple. according to the bill.
separated November /, 1918. They are
the parents of two daughters and one
son. Mrs. Ida Richard. Lester Watcher
and Loretta Watcher
Mrs Wachter asks that she be grant.
ca the custody Of her youngest daugh-
ter, and that she be given alimony.
The complainant is represented in
her action by attorney, Lloyd Painter
Approves Kline Report.
Judge Eldredee in the circuit court
today approved the final report of the
onion National bank Of Streator.
cohscrvator for the late Joseph Kline.
OF Streator. The report was taken
to the circuit court, on an appeal
from the probate court, when Judge
X, ID. Mills disapproved the attor-
neyS' fees
An appeal was taken today to the
appellate court.