PORTER COUNTY, INDIANA
NEWSPAPER ARTICLES
Valparaiso, IN.
Dec. 27,1898. the officials of this county will try during the coming session of the legislature to have a law passed providing for a way in which delinquent taxes may be collected better than under the present laws. At the present time the delinquent taxes in this county amount to $20,000, nearly 1/5th of which is due the State. There are several town lots in the north part of the county on which delinquent taxes are due from one to 5 years, and there is no way in which the taxes can be collected, as the lots will not sell for the taxes. In Portage and Westchester townships more than !0,000 town lots have been platted and nearly 2/3rds of them sold to non residents, who do not pay taxes, and unless some way is provided for the collection the county and State lose the amount. It is estimated that 3000 Chicago people own lots in this county and the same, to a much larger extent, is the case in Lake County.
Valparaiso, IN.,
Sept. 24,1898. Carl H. Specht, son of Claus Specht, one of the leading merchants of this city, died early this morning of typhoid fever. At the breaking out of the war he went to Chicago and enlisted in Troop K, the 1st Illinois Cavalry, and when the regiment returned to Chicago he came home on a furlough, and was taken down 3 days later. This is the 1st death from this county as a result of the war.
Dec. 27,1898. the officials of this county will try during the coming session of the legislature to have a law passed providing for a way in which delinquent taxes may be collected better than under the present laws. At the present time the delinquent taxes in this county amount to $20,000, nearly 1/5th of which is due the State. There are several town lots in the north part of the county on which delinquent taxes are due from one to 5 years, and there is no way in which the taxes can be collected, as the lots will not sell for the taxes. In Portage and Westchester townships more than !0,000 town lots have been platted and nearly 2/3rds of them sold to non residents, who do not pay taxes, and unless some way is provided for the collection the county and State lose the amount. It is estimated that 3000 Chicago people own lots in this county and the same, to a much larger extent, is the case in Lake County.
Valparaiso, IN.,
Sept. 24,1898. Carl H. Specht, son of Claus Specht, one of the leading merchants of this city, died early this morning of typhoid fever. At the breaking out of the war he went to Chicago and enlisted in Troop K, the 1st Illinois Cavalry, and when the regiment returned to Chicago he came home on a furlough, and was taken down 3 days later. This is the 1st death from this county as a result of the war.