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The Indianapolis Journal
Indianapolis, Marion County, Indiana
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Farmer J.K. Miller arrested in Brazil, Ind., for chopping down Postal Telegraph Co. poles on national road amid farmers' dispute over company's right-of-way franchise from Terre Haute claimant. Trial Monday as test case for line from Indianapolis to St. Louis.
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Brazil, Jan. 30.—J. K. Miller, a highly-respected farmer, living two miles west of Brazil, was arrested to-day, charged with cutting down the Postal Telegraph Company's poles, erected on the national road near his farm. Farmers along the line are indignant at the company, which purchased its franchise of a Terre Haute claimant, whose title they deny. It is charged that one or two farmers have been paid for right of way, and all now demand it. Miller will be tried Monday morning. It will be a test case, involving an issue of much interest, as the line extends from Indianapolis to St. Louis.
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Brazil
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Jan. 30.
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arrested; will be tried monday morning
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J. K. Miller, a highly-respected farmer living two miles west of Brazil, was arrested to-day, charged with cutting down the Postal Telegraph Company's poles erected on the national road near his farm. Farmers along the line are indignant at the company, which purchased its franchise of a Terre Haute claimant, whose title they deny. It is charged that one or two farmers have been paid for right of way, and all now demand it. It will be a test case, involving an issue of much interest, as the line extends from Indianapolis to St. Louis.