The Jasper weekly courier., 1922-04-14
HOOSier News
Briefly Told

Gibson and Pike counties pleaded
Princeton on charges of rioting in con-
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 10 ex-
ceed $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-Internal revenue COL
Iections I'm Indiana due on 1921 busi-
ness, from January 10 and including
March IS, amounted to S5.121 .S9056, 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 $1O,O51,-
2o1.O2. The individual returns on in
comes less than 5000 this year were
about 40 per cent of the number filed
last year, while the number on in
comes more than s. 900 was about 81
per cent of last year. The corporation
returns were about co per cent of last
! year. Mr.. Thurman said.
Indianapolis.-ApprOXimately 100000
cubic feet of helium gas, worth about
$50 1000 cubic feet, could be ex-
tracted from the present average an
nual output of natural gas in Indiana,
the state geOl0gist said In discussing
the rarity of helium gas. its value in
aerial navigation, the report from
| Washington, u. 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, Blackford, Randolph, Jay.
Shelby, Wayne and Fayette counties,
said the geOlOgist.
ianapolis.-Veterans of the World
war who are in soldiers homes in In
diana are IS. 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.
/ ;. Lesh holds water. In letter Mr.
Foster asks 'if q part of adjusted
compensation can be withheld when
he becomes a member of the home"
In his answer Mr.. Lesh ruled it law
/ ful 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 "a to May 6,
have been made by a committee of
the Parent-Teacher councils. Thirty
! five schools in and near the city will
be visited in series of Is meetings
between April 26 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.
| anapolis.-InveStigat by the
state board of tax commissioners in
indianapolis. Marion county and 81
others of the 92 Indiana counties
has disclosed, members of the board
believe, that real estate in Indiana
has been appraised at considerably
less than its real value and the board
is urging tax assessors this season to
stick close to a 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-
mously 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.
ianapolis.-Governo McCray an
! nounced the appointment of DR.. Byron
Il. Biggs as superintendent of the In
diana School for Feeble-Minded Youth
at Fort Wayne. He is TO take charge
| about May /. Doctor Biggs is now
medical superintendent of the Missis-
sippi Colony for the FeebleMinded at
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, it has been an
nounced at the headquarters here.
Terre Haute.-Members Of Honey
Creek Grange, No. l, adopted resolu-
tions condemning strikes or condi-
tions which will have tendency To
delay the return To normal industrial
life.
Indianapolis.-Go McCray has
designated Friday. April 2l. as Arbor
day.
Muncie.-The threatened coal strike