Jury's Value Was $5,000

JURY'S VALUE WAS $5,000

For the "Cathole" and Considerable Adjacent Property

FOR PARK PURPOSES

Owners Badly Disappointed- It is Said the City Will Pay $2,800 of This

The jury in the park condemnation case came in at 3:30 p. m. Tuesday and found the condemnation of what is called "the cat hole" and the adjacent property a public necessity. It fixed the value of the land condemned at $5,000.

The case occupied all day Monday and Tuesday. At noon Tuesday, after the arguments were all in and during the noon recess, John P. Smith, one of the jurymen, dropped dead at his home. When court reassembled at 1:30 o'clock all the attorneys in the case agreed to a stipulation that the 11 remaining jurymen should decide the case. 

It was a happy lot of claimants with eight happy looking attorneys who were present in the case while it was being tried, and it was a badly disappointed set of men who heard the verdict. The prices set on the land by the jury was evidently below what the owners had expected. The values were as follows: H. G. Prettyman, $2,000 for lots 3, 4 and 5, Block 2 S., R. 13 E. and land lying east of this; $800 for the Laughlin heirs, lots 1 and 2, Block 2 S., R. 13 E; $1,200 for the Moseley property, 138 feet front on Washington street, by 136 fet deep; $800 for the Wheelock land, being 138 feet frontage on Washington street and $200 for the Smith's third addition. 

It is understood on the outside that the city is to pay of this award $2,800 for the Prettyman and Laughlin land and the University the $2,200 for the rest of the land.