The Jasper weekly courier. [volume] (Jasper, Ind.) 1858-1922, 1922-03-31
HoOSier News
Briefly Told

liuttltu VII Nial Stc VI iloltne III Nou-
nection with disturbances at Fran
cisco June 10. 1921. when the super
intendent Of the Francisco coal mine
and his family were driven from home
by vigilantes numbering several hun
dred. Following the plea entered for
the defendants by their attorneys the
prosecuting attorney and the special
assistant prosecuting attorney recon-
mended as punishment fines not TO ex-
coed $50 for each of the 40 defend
ants. The state does not know where
several OF the defendants are at the
present time, and the action does not
dispose of the cases of the missing
persons.
napolis-1nternal revenue COL
lectiOns I'm Indiana due on 1871 busi-
ness. from January l 10 and including
March IS, amounted to S5..21. S9O.56, or
$50 per cent Of the collections during
the corresponding period last year, Nj.
Bert Thurman, collector of internal
revenue for Indiana, said. The col
lections during the corresponding
period last year amounted to S1O,Ool,-
257.O2. The individual returns on in
comes less than $1,000 this year were
about 40 per cent of the number filed
last year.. while the number on in
comes more than 5000 was about 50
per cent of last year The corporation
returns were about co per cent of last
year, Mr.. Thurman said.
In 3..I.-
cubic feet of helium gas, worth about
$50 LOCO cubic feet, could be eX-
tracted from the present average an
nual output Of natural gas in Indiana,
the state geologist said In discussing
the rarity of helium gas. its value in
aerial navigation, the report from
Washington, ID. c., that Indiana is
one of five states where helium gas
is to be found in natural gas, and the
! history of its discovery. Indiana
natural gas wells at the present time
are found. for the most part. in Della
ware. Madison, Hancock, Henry,
Grant. Blackboard Randolph. Jay,
Shelby, Wayne and Fayette counties,
said the geologist
napOlis.-Veteran of the World
war who are i'm soldiers homes in In
diana are as. o. L." il an opinion
sent to David n. Foster, member of
the board of the Indiana State Sol
diers' home, by Attorney General L.
s. Lesh holds water In a letter Mr..
Foster asks IF part of adjusted
compensation can be withheld when
he becomes a member of the home.
In his answer Mr.. Lesh ruled il law
full for the board of trustees to make
Ii condition that soldiers, unmarried,
receiving a pension, shall pay into the
home all over SIG.
Terre Haute.-Plans for sending
speakers before all of the Parent
Teachers associations during the VigO
county milk festival, April 81 TO May g.
have been made by committee of
the Parent-Teacher councils. Thirty
five schools i'm and near the city will
be visited in series of Is meetings
between April 20 and May ., and the
purpose of the festival will be ex-
planned by speakers from Purdue uni
versity, the department of agricul-
ture and Terre Haute persons.
IndianapOlis.-Inv by the
state board Of tax commissioners in
Indianapolis. Marion county and 81
others of the 81 Indiana counties
has disclosed, members of the board
believe, that real estate in Indilna
has been appraised at considerably
less than its real value and the board
is urging tax assessors this season tC
stick close TO 100 pc. cent true
cash valuation on the basis of normal
market conditions.
Princeton.-The PatOka township
farmers organization, meeting in the
! Gibson county courthouse, voted unani-
mousIy to ask the Gibson county
commissioners TO grant no more stone
roads for three years. The farmers
also took action against the building
of any more schoOlhOuSes, except in
case of emergency. during the same
period. More than 100 members OF
the organization were present.
Indianapolis.-Gove McCray an
nounced the appointment of DIR. Byron
f. Biggs as superintendent of the In
diana school for Feeble Minded Youth
at Fort Wayne. He is TO take charge
about May 1. Doctor Biggs is now
medical superintendent of the Missis
sippi Colony for the Feeble Minded al
Ellisville. Miss.
Huntingburg. - Dubois county Is
leading in the agricultural survey OF
six counties in this district, which in
cludeS Dubois, Pike, Perry. Crawford
Spencer and Warrick, ii has been an
nounced at the headquarters here.
Terre Haute-Members of Honey
Creek Grange, No. 1, adopted resolu
tions cOndemning strikes or cOndi-
lions which will have a tendency tC
delay the return TO normal industrial
life.
ianapOlis.-GOvernO McCray has
designated Friday, April u. as Arbol
day.
Muncie.-The threatened coal strik,
is regarded with no apprehension by
the management of Muncie's indus
tries and public utilities. All an
nounced that they had supply o.
fuel or hand sufficient to last tire,