Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1921-11-19
ILLINOIS
StateNews

sal of indictments charging Gov.
Len Small and Vernon Curtis with
embezzlement of state funds will open
i'll Lake county court on December 3.
Attorneys for both the governor and
the state informed Judge Claire c. Ed
wards of their agreement TO start ar
gumentS on the motions for dismissal
on that date. The agreement between
the opposing attorneys provides for the
governors legal counsel to present be-
fore November % TO Fred Mortimer,
the states attorney of SangamOn
county, copies of all motions which
they will present on December 3, so
that the states attorney will be pre-
pared to go ahead with the argument.
Permanent injunctiOns fOrbidding
the Illinois commerce commission
to interfere with higher rates
recently announced by the Illinois Bell
Telephone company, were granted in
the Circuit court at Springfield. An
appeal to the Supreme court was i'm
mediately taken by the attorney gen.
eral on behalf of the commission. De-
cision of this case will affect rate APP
plicatiOns from more than 200 Illinois
cities, besides the five cities where
higher telephone rates have been an
nOunced The commission recently
ruled that higher rates must not be APP
piled.
In a corn demonstration conducted
in Macoupin county to determine the
resistance of various varieties of crop
against chinch bugs, the following
acre yields were scored: White Demo
crat, 1915 bushels; Champion White
Pearl, 1915 bushels; Black Hawk,
27.5 bushels; Commercial White, %
bushels; Golden Beauty, 1915 bushels;
Boon County White, 16 bushels; Ar
lingtOn Prolific, 49, bushels; Yellow
Dent, 1925 bushels Pride of the Prai
RE, 1875 bushels; Lancaster Sure crop.
13.5 bushels; st. Charles White. 1915
bushels; Hickory King, 11.75 bushels.
Illinois farmers use more than
| S5,0O0,000 worth of lumber each
year for buildings and other purposes,
according to the state forester. Each
| farm uses about 1000 board feet of
| lumber, he estimates, and there are
| 237 900 farms in the state. The state
! forester named these figures in plea
| for better care of farm wOOdlOts in Illi-
nOis. Scarcity and high prices of tim
| Der mean," he declared, that farmers
should grow more of their own sup
ply"
The United States Grain Growers,
Inc, the new farmer-Owned marketing
organization, now has 1888 members
| in the state, according to a summary
made by the county farm bureau to
| the Illinois Agricultural association.
Counties reported as follows: Nc
Lean, 1920; La Sale, 1850; Kendall,
500; DeKalb, $50; Douglas, 407; YER
million, 6S7; Grundy, 427; Hancock
| $50; Champaign, 256; Livingston, 547.
Construction of the hard road con-
Meeting Springfield and Jacksonville
next spring was assured when the
superintendent of highways announced
that the contract had been awarded.
The contract price is S273,SO0 without
cement and the average cost q mile
with cement is SIS, 800. The contract
for 5.19 miles of roads in Jefferson
county has been awarded for So, 1897
a mile without cement or SIG, 139. IA
for the job.
For the care of Mrs. Frances Gull
laume, aged sixty-four, for one week,
the ST. Frances hospital at Peoria will
receive $4,000 by a decision of the APP
pellate court She offered to give the
| institution the sum named if given
board and lodging for the remainder
of her natural life. The offer was ac-
cepted. One week after her admit
lance to the institution she died. Heirs
filed suit to have the contract an
nulled.
The trial of Lieut. Gov. Fred Ster-
ling, who, with Governor Small, is
charged with the embezzlement of
state funds, was continued until Janu-
airy by Judge Frank w. Burton at
Springfield The continuance was
granted on motion of Mr.. Sterllng's at
torneys, after the case had been called
for hearing.
Illinois will get S3,246, 2S1 of the
$75,OOO,OOO made available as federal
aid for road construction in the vari-
Gus states. The money will be spent
under the supervision of the bureau OF
public roads, Department of AgricuI
ture, under the federal highway act
which was recently signed by the Pres
ident.
An impressive program was ar
ranged by Rockford county Off
Gals, the chamber of commerce anG
school authorities, when GA foreigners
were granted full citizenship. A clas.
In Americanization has been arranged
for them by the chamber of commerce
The Shelby County Fair association
of Shelbyville has certified to the sec
rotary Of state an Increase in capita
stock from $1,000 to $4,000.
There are total of 1896
state banks in Illinois, according tt
report issued by the state auditor
OF this number Isl are at Chicago, g.
in Cook county outside Of Chicago an(
1,175 I'm the dOwnstate. During tn,
month Of October four banks were
closed or liquidated by the auditor.
Three thousand officers and mem
bers Of the Illinois Agricultural associ
alton will be In Springfield Januar!
IL and II for the annual meet of tn,