The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1921-06-24
INDIANA
State News

yielded 15S.602, 93S bushels. A wheat
acreage of 2.79s.657 yielded 40 2O7,-
SCI bushels. and LISTS acres yield
ed %. 529. 723 bushels OF oats. Indiana
was the fourth state in the produce
tiOn of corn. Iowa led with 81. 362,
1913 bushels. Other states, in the or
der of their production. were Illinois,
Nebraska. Indiana. Ohio and Missouri.
Figures on mine. quarry and well OPP
eratiOns In Indiana in 1919 show a
large decrease in the number of en-
terprises. as compared with ten years
ago. Producing enterprises included
39S mines and quarries, and 2,156
petroleum and natural gas wells. The
capital invested was given as S63,
19S, 206,. and the value of the products
as $62, s4O252.-
Washington. ID. Give thousand,
five hundred and sixty-four horses
disappeared from the streets of In
dianapolis during the 191O-1920 period.
According TO census figures there
were 10.O99 hOurses in the city in 1910
and 4,J35 in 1920. During the same
period the number of mules ia the
city decreased from 763 to $50. In
1910 there were ] Az, SS7 horses on the
farms in Indiana. and i'm 1920 III, 233.
Mules in 1910 numbered 50, 16S and in
1920 they totaled 10O.35S The state
sheep supported on the farms In 1910
there were 1,346,967 and i'm 1920 the
number was 643,SS9
Princeton.-A special session of the
Gibson county grand jury will be
called TO investigate a demonstration
at Francisco and Oakland City in
which mob of 1000 persons, said to
have been mostly miners, drove all
| foreign residents from their homes.
Ii Is said that efforts are being made
to have the scope of the investigation
extended TO include similar out
break which occurred the same nigh;
near Sturgeon in Pike county, which
is believed to have been staged by a
| part of the same mob.
Coshen.-Sixty thousand dollars in
property left by Alfred Lowry, for
merly mayor of Goshen. who died with
out known relatives and without leav-
! ing will, will 90 to the state of In
diana. A fight for the estate. started
by BerDa g. Whit Osborn of Bridge
port. Marion county, formerly of Dis
ney, Ky. who asserted she was q
niece OF Lowry. ended when the suit
wis dismissed in the Elkhart Superior
| court.
Muncie.-Formal charges of murder
In the first and other degrees were
filed by Clarence Benadum. prosecu-
tor Of Delaware county, against DIR.
Meme " Smith. physician and former
local police commissioner, and Frank
Kubach. an iron worker; Ross Keith,
horse trainer, and jim Maybray, col
ored police character. The charges
were filed as result of the death of
Gus Voida, a Roumanian moonshiner.
Columbia City.-Farmers throughout
Whitley county who have Eeen unable
to dispose of wool at desirable prices
have made arrangements with the Col
umbia Wooden Mills to have their wool
made into blankets. Eleven pounds of
wool makes a double blanket, white or
dyed. of extra fine quality. The wool
is being delivered nj the wooden mills,
The blankets are being made up at a
small cost 10 the farmers.
anapolis.-Benjamin J. Burrls. FOL
four years assistant state superintend-
ent of public instruction. was appoint
ed head of the state school system by
Governor McCray 10 succeed l.. "
Hines. Mr.. Burris will become state
superintendent Of public instruction
October /, when Mr.. Hines will retire
from the office TO become president OF
the Indiana State Normal school al
Terre Haute.
Muncie.-A survey of eastern 1ndi
ana fruit conditions by the Delaware
county agent shows the following: APP
piles. 40 per cent of average; pears, ,,
per cent: cherries. , per cent; raspber
rieS, 30 per cent; blackterries aver
age The strawberry crop perhaps
was 10 per cent of normal, but the Der
rieS generally were small and of poor
quality.
Indianapolis.-The new Indiana state
live stock sanitary board elected DR.
II. c. Julien of Delphi secretary anC
state veterinarian, and DR.. w. ID
Craig Of Indianapolis assistant veteri
marian. Dan &. Reed of Attica. a mem
Der of the board. resigned. The ap
prevail of the governor is necessary be
fore the appointment can become ef
fective.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS McCray ha
appointed Harry NJ. Allen of Peru an'
reappolnted John Paul Ragsdale o
indianapolis as members OF the stat
board of embalmers. Mr.. Allen sue
ceeds Theodore Hunt of Richmond.
Indianapolis.-The state board o
agriculture elected /. Newt Brown o
Franklin. secretary OF the board 70
the remainder OF the year. Mr. Brow
takes Office al once and will fill tn
position made vacant by the deaf
OF Charles +. Kennedy. He is a mem
Der also Of the state board Of par
dons.
Michigan City.-Charles Shepait