D. H. CRONIN. Publisher. O'NEILL. NEBRASKA Simple rare Is quite the rule now »oth at Buckingham palace and at Sandringham, and this will continue as long as the war is on. Meals In the royal household have never been so elaborate during the present reign as thcv were In King Edward's time. King George is not nearly so much of an epicure as his father was. He has to be exceedingly careful what he eats, and he avoids rich foods both for preference and of necessity, for he occasionally ■uffers from gastritis. Both the king end queen prefer boiled fish, and meat cooked quite, plainly, without an abun dance of cunningly seasoned sauces which delight the heart of a clever French diet. A recent dinner menu at the palace consisted mainly of boiled turbot, a dish of cutlets, a fruit salad, send a savory. Champagne Is rarely drunk except on special occasions, and when It is the bdttie is not placed in a silver holder or covered with a napkin. But the label and everything which might signify the brand is removed. New York city is trying the experi ment of ( losing certain highways to traffic daily and letting the youngsters romp in them. Huge signs are placed across these thoroughfares reading: Street closed for play.” Miss Ruth Rob inson. chief play organizer, says: "It brings an ache to the heart to see how reluctant some of the babies are to cut loose and ploy in the open street, Play seems lnextrieably associated in their little minds with guilt. No one. after watching for an hour or two the healthy spirit that grows among the children in these alloted play streets can doubt their benefit to the little peo ple of New York." Play is the best constructive factor in child growth. Even kittens and puppies will not thrive unless permitted to play.. Play Is tlie most skilful of physical trainers and moral teachers. Judge Robert O. Harris tells of a rather embarrassing introduction which former Ambassador Curtis Guild once received when he went to speak ut a republican rally In the western part of Massachusetts. According to Judge Harris it went something after this fashion: "The voters decided that the town committee ought to have a rally with tlie best speaker it could get. We . couldn't get Governor Robinson, we couldn't get Senator Hoar, nor Tom Reed, but we did the best wo could, and I now have the honor of introducing1 Mr. Curtis Guild, of Boston." Charles Hoffbauer. the artist, who while a student in Parts won a second medal at the Salon with his first pic ture, a feat never before or since du plicated. Is now at the front with his regiment In Franco. For two years prior to the w ar breaking out ho was engaged In making some elaborate decorative work for the Richmond confederate me morial. He is, perhaps, best remem bered by his famous painting In the Luxembourg, called “War," showing a dead soldier. In a woodland, on a white horse. Kenneth W. Tinker, age 6, son of Harry Tinker, who Is the owner of an independent telephone company, largely of rural subscribers, at Clio, Mich., Is pne of the youngest telephone opera tors in Michigan, If not in the United ptates. Without any assistance he has mastered the switchboard with such a degree of proficiency that It Is no longer necessary to have a more experienced operator near by to take the more dif ficult local calls. There are 21 f. sub scribers to the system on 27 party lines. The Italian earthquake, coming In the midst of the great war, recalls one curious effect of a seismic shock In )S88. The cables, connecting Australia with the outer world, were suddenly firoken by a distant earthquake, and the government, under the impression, that an enemy had cut the lints, mo-1 bill zed the naval and military forces In readiness to repel attack. A dust-laying compound, the basis of which Is molasses, has been success fully made use of In the South African Mines. The preparation, which con tains a small quantity of some ll-.ln fectant, forms a thick coating on 'he underground walk and surfaces and closely covers all dangerous noxious Matter. A Cairo correspondent writes to the Manchester Guardian that, owing to the falling of tho Nile, Egypt will have to Import nearly all her rleo this year The Nile has not been so low for nearly 100 years, and tho facilities for water ptorage have been insufficient to relieve the distress. Princess Shakovskayu Is the only woman aviator In the great war. She Is laid to be In active service at the front In east Prussia. At. first her applica tion was rejected because of her sox but she demonstrated that she muld manage a flying machine as well tu a man and was finally accepted. The United States of America is bv far the greatest steel producing coun try on earth. Germany comes next With Great Britain thlrJ- The figures for 1910 (the latest at hand for th. moment) show this country to beeoual In steel products to both Germany and the United Kingdom. The little town of Subetha, In Kansas possesses a citizen by the name of H lUder Haggard. Nor Is this all. Robert X/OUls Stevenson was reportwl the other day in the Sabetha Herald as haviny paid a visit to his grandmother Mrs Fannie Brannlgan. The "safety first" idea, which has recently come into general practice on most American roads. Is an old one in Germany and other Euro peon or, tin tries, where the practice extends to every form of Industry, as well as the railroads. War on rats for the purpose of pre venting the spread of bubonic plague Is conducted not because the rats them selves spread the plague, but rather the fleas which are carried by the rodents. Whaling Is now a well established In dustry off the Portuguese-Afrlenn coast. The "humpbacked" whale av erages 45 feet in length and the occa sional sperm whale about 50 feet. The witch tree of Nevada is so lu minous that a persons standing near it can read ordinary print easily. The tree Itself can he seen for a mile on the darkest nights. Engineers 4n India are trying the novel experiment of catching that country’s heavy rainfall in reservoirs and using it to produce electric power. Ernest Roume, former governor gen eral of the French province In east Africa, has been appointed governor general of Indo-Chlna by the cabinet. Oil-fire locomotives in operation at Ayres have shown an economy of 20 to 80 per cent over coal. The omnibuses of Uondon carried the entire population of the city 100 times to tht course of last year. COMMITTEE REPORTS $60,000 ALLOWANCE FOR NORFOLK ASYLUM Fund to Be Used In Erection of New Building—Governor’s Road Bill Killed. Lincoln, Nob., March 22.—The house }f representatives yesterday recom mended for passage a series of ap propriation hills, lrcludlng tfiO.O'OO for ► new building for the Norfolk asylum. This appropriation had been recom mended by the board of control, hud passed the careful scrutiny of the house finance ways and means committee and received no opposition in the house. An other of these hills apropriated $4,00’> for a septic tank and sewage system at the Hastings asylum and another $6.d0t) for furniture to equip the new building just finished at the Orthopedic hos pital at Lincoln. House democrats, with the aid of a few republicans, fell on a bill for road building that was backed by the gov i ernor, and everlastingly kllied it. Th* ' bill provided for oiling, sanding, grading | and paving, the creation of districts, | and tlie assessment on the abutting I property. In this bill the assessment ! district went back two miles on either I side and a board of viewers were to d« - terrnine whether the Improvements were equal to the cost. If not the paving could not be done unless donations were made to cover the difference. This bill was specifically recommended In the governor’s message, but democrats all over the house fell on it, with a few exceptions. They flayetl it from one end to the other and when the vote was taken 4.1 votes were found against It and 32 for it. The redrafted c ompromise warehouse bill was reported out of senate standing committee and will now have to run tins full gauntlet, sifting committee and all, of both houses. Its chances are slim 1 The new bill, which Is a product ol various other bills, and without the main features of any, provides that »l| I warehouse or elevators In the state which store grain over IS days at a time must become warehouses, undel (he law and be under supervision of ttnj railway commission. Other eleva i tors, etc., have an option of becoming warehouses. The compulsory ware house section applies only to those which are not at terminal points, these companies coming under the optional section. —4— PLUMBERS OBJECT TO THEIR STATUS IN MOVIES Lincoln, Nob,. March 22.—Nebraska plumbers, In their state association meeting, called upon the national as sociation to aid in compelling the mak ers of movie pictures to quit present ing the plumber in an obnoxious man ner, Several speeches were made it! condemnation of the peculiar idea ol humor displayed by scenario writers in depleting the activities of the plum ber. President Krueger declared tha| j the plumber was as straight a class I of workmen as could be found. Yet a film he saw the other duy makes the plumber who came to ilx the water pipe, lap up whisky front a barrel be found In the cellar, make love to the hired girl and otherwise disport himself as a bad character. After a long debate the association decided to hold an executive session to consider what should be done to help I out the master plumbers recently con I vlcted In Des Moines. George H. ; Wentz, of Lincoln, one of the master : plumbers against whom a verdict was I rendered and who got into the trouble j because he was president of the Ne ! brnska association, argued against a | secret session, asserting, that that fact j was potent In Influencing an unfavor I able verdict. ! — 1 CITY ENGINEER PUZZLED OVER UNPLATTED SEWr Lincoln, Neb., March 22.—The city engineer is scratching his head over a little puzzle. A contractor is putting a big storm water sewer through the main retail portion of the town to carry off surplus water that has caused great damage in Uie past. In the work of excavation he has come across six different sewers that nobody in the de partment had ever heard about and of which there Is no official record. The methods of construction and the ma terials used have not been employed for many decades In the making of sewers. Engineer Dobson is inclined to think that possibly the Indians or tuound builders may have built them, although he never heard of either ever taking the trouble to put in sewage plants. ENTRIES NUMBER 18 FOR SCHOOL CONTEST AT FREMONT Fremont. Neb., March 22.—Eighteen high schools have entered the contest of the East Central Nebraska Declama tory association, which will have its an nuut public event here next Thursday night. The schools and the contestants are; Fremont, Hadcssah McGlfftn: Genoa, Marion Joung; Mead, Alberta Hhines; Herman, Leo Cameron; Oak land. Vernie Mossman; Clarkson. Josephine Zrust; Osceola, Mildred Crisp; South Omaha. Frank A. Broad well; Papillion, Ralph Nickerson; Mur dock. Catherine Tool; Mtahoo, Mildred Rodgers; Octavia, Barton Johnson Columbus. Albert Phillips; Ashland. Ethel King; Schuyler, Caritta Range, Bellevue, Karl ttarnstad; North Bend. Katherine Farrel; Sehrihner, Annabelle Zing-erella. —■ WANTS DIVORCE AFTER 48 YEARS OF WEDDED LIFE Lincoln, Neb., March 22.—After being married to Clements c. So'hmalzi for 4S years. Mrs. Henrietta Schtnalzi asks tlie (11511-114 court for divorce and ali mony. She alleges that her husband refuses to furnish her adequate sup port and that he lias been guilty of great cruelty, Sehmalzl in a wealthy farmer. The couple have reared 11 children, the ywmngest of whom is past 20. HOUSE PASSES BILL TO MODIFY LIBEL REGULATIONS Lincoln. Neb.. March 22.—A bill was passed by ihc house which in pait nullities the present law regarding libel ill newspapers. The present bill will al low a newspaper to retract within a certain length of time when convinced that the publication in its former urticle had worked aja injustice on tip party- covered in the article. LONG, ‘SNUG” WINTER CAUSES FEED SCARCITY Ainsworth, Neb., March 20.—Feed m tlie southern part of Brown county is getting scarce. H. W. Hitchcok brought up a bunch of cattle Friday and will teed them here. Many other cases are reported where cuttle will have to oe taken to where feed is or they will suf . fer. Roads are in such a had conditions ttiat neither hue nor corn can be hauled any distance. The waste from two wood pulp mill: in Sweden that use the sulphite process ordinarily regarded .is valueless, is be lug converted into industrial alcohol. G. W, BRYAN TO MAKE PLUNGE AS ASPIRANT FOR BERTHAS MAYOR Will Make Campaign ?Or Mayor on Platform of General City Improvement. Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—C. W. Bry an. brother of the secretary of state, and now publisher of the Commoner, will probably enter the lists in a few days as a candidate for mayor. The present executive, F. ur Thursday morning. The fire orig inated in the rear of the Taylor res taurarr. and was discovered between 4 . nd 3 o'clock. The office of Dr. Carter, just north of the barber shop, was torn down by tile authorities to prevent a further spread of the fire. Tile loss will aesiesrate abput 518,000. HARK! IT'S THEATER OWNERS WHO OPPOSE SUNDAY OPERATIONS They Think Sunday Opening In Lincoln Would Cut Trade During Week. Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—Petitions are In circulation submitting to *1, vote of the people of Lincoln at the May election the question of whether or not theaters shall bo allowed to operate on Sunday. Since frontier days the Sun day theater has been under the ban in the capital city, but with the coming of the movies a strong influence has been worked up that is demanding Sun day opening. The manager of the Oliver, the big opera house, is mayor of the city, but is not in favor of Sunday opening. Sev eral of the moving picture managers are also opposed. They argue that their chief patronage comes from persons who have only a certain amount they can spend for amusement, and if the theater is opened Sunday it will simply be crowded with those who would have gone some week night, and who will leave the week nights lo vacant the aters. —4— DR. NAMSYTH SEES INTELLECTUAL REVOLUTION Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—“The world is on the threshold of a great intellect ual revolution second only to that which followed the reformation and the renaissance," said Dr. George W. Nam sytli, speaking at the state university. “The philosophy of force, which is only another name for the doctrine thal might is right, has had its day. It goes far hack to the days of the ancients, and is having its Inst try out in the European arena of war. It rests on two fundamental errors. One is that it overlooks the fact that the real struggle of men is not with each other, but against their environment and eco nomic production. The other is that i| ignores entirely the fact of association; that men owe their dominant position in the world to the fact that they are members of society, working in co-op eration. The war will be a terrible ! price to pay for freedom from the grip , of this old philosophy, hut Its benefit? will lie In striking out on a new path , of social justice.” I -4 MRS. JENNIE L. BEVERLY IS APPLICANT FOR DIVORCE Madison Neb., March 20.—Mrs. Jen nie Li. Beverly filed suit in district j court yesterday for divorce from her | husband, William B. Beverly, who is , proprietor of the Oxnard hotel at Nor folk. Mrs. Beverly states in her peti ! tion that they were married at Sioux ! City In 1003, and charges as cause for suit that her husband lias become ad dicted to the use of intoxicants and baa treated her with extreme cruelty. She asks in addition to decree of divorce i the custody of their two children, a ; son and daughter, and temporary am! permanent alimony. Mr. Beverly has filed an answer admitting the allega tions of Mrs. Beverly’s petition touch j ing the matter of their marriage, that they have two adopted children, and ; property statement, but enters denial ot I all other allegations. FERTILIZING INCREASES CORN YIELD 30 PER CENT Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—Data from the Nebraska experiment station which , were obtained in co-operation with j Nebraska farmers in several counties j show that the average annual yields ' of corn from manured fields during a period of three years, were 10 bushels ! greater than from adjoining fields which were not manured. The average annual yields from the unrnanured ; fields were 26.81 bushels an acre and j the yields from the manured fields were I 36.76 bushels an acre. According to ) data from other experiment stations • the lasting effect of farm manures is j at least 20 years; that is to say, a farm may continue to obtain Increased j annual yields for several years after a good application of farm manurfl or : the turning under of organic matter | in some other form. RECRUIT’S INITIALS SPELL OMINOUS WORD. ’’W-A-R" Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—The last | man to append his name to an applica ; lion for enlistment in the army, before the Lincoln recruiting office closed was W. A. Riley, of Lincoln. He was born on St. Patrick’s day, and enlisted on that day as a matter of celebration. The most significant point to the re cruiting office was the fact that the applicant’s Initials spelled W-A-R. The Lincoln office has been receiving from 30 to 40 applications a month for the last year, and it was closed because headquarters reported that the lists were full. —*— SAYS RAILWAY TRAINMEN NOT PLANNING STRIKE Lincoln, Neb.. March 20.—Chairman Frye, of the grievance committee of the Brotherhood of Railway Trainmen, de clares that there is no immediate pros pect of a strike on the Burlington, and that the men are not preparing for any trouble with the road. There are dif ficulties and disputes over wages and working conditions, hut as yet there lias been no talk of a strike. The claims of the men have been lodged with the federal board and after it has report ed the trainmen will be given a chance to ballot on what action is to he taken. Mr. Frye says that this would take 30 days, and that the officers have every hope of speedy settlement. D!D NOT WANT CORPSE CARRIED OUT FRONT DOOR Lincoln, Neb., March 20.—Relieving it to bo unlucky to have a dead man's body taken out of the front door of his saloon, Frank Splain entered vigorous objections when the coroner started to t carry out the corpse of Fred Kapke. a i German who had died of heart trouble i while talking with some friends tit the lair. As the alley was muddy, the l coroner refused to use the back door, ■ and Air Splain's hunch is still working ! overtime. Kapke was a prominent Grr 1 man, and had just finished a glass of beer when the attack came. In five minutes he was dead. NELIGH—The Jury brought In a verdict ; for the defendant In tlie suit for $25,0Go damages brought by W. \V. (’ole against G. L. Wattles, alleging the alienation of the affections of the plaintiff's wife. GOT ROUGH TREATMENT IN ASKING FOR MONEY Lincoln. Neb., Mureh 18.—As one reason why she should have a divorce and alimony. Airs. Lizzie Hessheimer told the district court that when site asked iter son George to give her some I money for her support, after her hus I baud ltad refused, the young man | pushed her against the wall and then knocked her down, while her husband stood by smiling. She said she was left lying on the floor for half an hour, and after she did get up unassisted site was forced to go to her bed. I JURY ACOUfTS VANCE OF KILLING KRAUSE IN WESTPOINT CASE No Controversy As to Facts In Incident—‘ Unwritten Law” Plays Part. West Point. Neb.. March 19.—Evi dently applying the "unwritten law,” a jury in district, court here late last night brought in a verdict of acquittal tor Joseph Vance, on trial for the mur der of Amandus Krause. There was no controversy as to the facts in the case, as \ a nee shot Krause in the presence of witnesses. Mrs. Vance admitted, on the witness stand, that she had been maintaining illict relations with Krause. The dis covery of his wife’s infidelity. Vance claimed, made him temporarily insane. The jurors deliberated about six hours. Some of tnem wanted to bring in a, verdict for a minor offense, but the majority held out for absolute acquittal, to which the entire panel agreed at a late hour last night. —-4— LARGE CANADIAN LYNX KILLED NEAR BASSETT Bassett. Neb.. March 19.—While George and Frank Kofton, sons of Jo seph Kofton, living seven miles north east of here, were hauling hay they saw what they supposed was a large wolf in a grove on the Kofton ranch. The boys started the bird dog after it and the supposed wolf instantly went up one of the largest trees. The boys were surprised to see such a performance and while one of them went home to get a gun the other boy and dog kept tile animal up the tree. They shot it, hut did not know what it was. I was brought to town and proved to be a very large Canadian lynx. It had tufts on the ears two and a half inches long and paws large as a man's hand, and weighed 60 pounds. Fred Prelle, an old time hunter and trapper, bought it, skinned it and will have it mounted. As far as known here this is the first Canadian lynx killed or seen in Ne braska. The supposition is that it came down the Missouri river and then up the Niobrara. — HALL INSISTS COUNTY TREASURERS MUST REMIT Lincoln, Neb., March 19. — State Treasurer Hall has issued a statement to the press in which he declares that he will invoke the penalty of the law against any county treasurer who de clines to comply with his demand for a monthly remittance of state taxes col lected. He declares that the law does not require hint to send out an exam iner each month to find out how much is due the state from each treasurer, but that it provides for a settlement by the exhibition of accounts to the state nuditor and a penalty for refusal to do so. The treasurer says he is not mak ing this order to embarrass the county treasurers, but because the state has been embarrassed financially in the past when there was state money in the hands of treasurers, who were hold ing it until they chose to let go of it. or every six months. “DRY” CONGRESSMAN TO PUSH SEVERAL PROJECTS Lincoln, Neb. March 19. — Expert dall, formerly of Pawnee county, but who was recently elected in Los An geles as the first party prohibitionist ever sent to congress, is in Lincoln on a visit. Mr. Randall says that recent ob servations at Washington convinced him that the big question there is that relating to liquor. He intends to in troduce four measures at the next ses sion, which he believes have a fair chance to get through. These will pro hibit the Issuance of any government liquor license to a person who cannot show a local license; to deny the use of the United States mails to liquor advertising; to prohibit the transpor tation of liquor in interstate commerce, and to prohibit the use of food prod ucts for the manufacture of liquors. RAILROADS NOT EQUIPPED ON OPERATING STATISTICS Lincoln. Neb.. March 19.—Lincoln Powell, of the state railway cormtiis sion, writing from Chicago to the mem bers of that body’, declares that the state’s experts are accumulating a lot of valuable evidence to submit at the rate hearing when it is resumed short ly. He expresses the belief that the states will make a strong showing in opposition to an increase. The railroad representatives told the Interstate Commerce commissioners that they had no data showing the cost of oper ating trains. The state's experts have, and will submit it. Mr. Powell has been studying the operation of !i,000 different trains running from the Mis souri river to Chicago, and says this will be an important point in the case. FEDERAL GARDENER IS ASSIGNED TO LINCOLN Lincoln, Neb., March 19.—C. H. Ran has been officially designated as the. garden spot of the United States. The department of agriculture has selected this city to try out a number of ex periments in school gardens, and has sent Expert Farrell here to spend it week to get them started. It has de tailed Leo McShane. an expert gar dener, to remain here all summer and superintend the work of the schools in raising both flowers and vegetables. PRESIDENT SELLS HIS COTTON FOR CHARITY Washington, March 19. — 1'resident Wilson today sold a bale of cotton and sent the proceeds to charity in Okla homa. During the "buy a bale of cotton" movement, the president bought sev eral bales and one now is in storage at Boswell. Okla. H. H. Conway, of Paris, Tex., offered to buy it at 10 cents a pound and today the president accepted his offer and directed that the proceeds bo sent to a charity in Okla homa. to be selected by Senators Gore and Owen. AVIATOR KILLED. Dos Angeles, Cal., March 17.—Frank Stites, a local aviator, aged 30, fell 300 feet In tin “air well" at a motion picture . ity near here, jumped from the aero plane when 30 feet from the ground, and died from his injuries shortly aft erward. COPPER COMPANY FAILS. Butte. Mont., March 17.—Charles M. Everett took charge today as receiver of the affairs of the Butte-Duluth Cop per company under appointment of the T'nited States district court. The Provident Security company-, of Duluth, in a petition tiled with the court, al leged the mining company was unable to meet interest payments on out standing bonds and other obligations. The effort of the war on the herring fishery on the east coast of England is indicated by the fact that the total catch to date this season is 40,000 llsh fewer Ilian usual. Ill DCCUPIEO BK RUSSIAN JW' Baltic Seaport Has Been Seized By Invaders — Only Minor Activities Reported on Both Battle Fronts. ( London, March 22.—Relative inaction prevails along both battle fronts in Europe, the occupation of the German Baltic seaport of Memel by the Rus sians being the outstanding feature of the developments of the war in the past few days. The Berlin official state ment today says Memel has been taken. Austrian reports by way of Berlin claim that the Russian offensive move ment in the Carpathians through the Lupkow pass has resulted in failure, but direct reports from both Vienna and Petrograd agree that Austrians as well as Russians are making attacks and counter attacks in tiie Carpathians without any decisive results. The Germans still are bombarding Ossowetr. without success according lo the Russians, who claim to have de stroyed the advance trenches of their antagonists. Neither side reports any important actions on the western front during the past week. Berlin, (via wireless to Sayville), March 20.—The German general staff today gave out a report on the pro gress of the fighting as follows: "On the road between Wystcbaete and Yjpres, near St. Eloi, German sol diers captured from British troops a group of houses on the south slope of the Lorotto heights. "In the Champagne district the day generally was quiet, with the excep tion that early in the morning Ger man troops* occupied some French trenches to the north of Beausjour. "French attacks to the north of Ver dun, in the Woevre plain, and at a point near Combras to the east of the heights of the Meuse, all were repulsed, the enemy sustaining heavy losses. French troops made several advances against the German positions at Reicli Aekerkopf and Hartmanns Weilerkopf, but these attacks soon broke down and the French sustained heavy losses under the German fire. "On the eastern front the day was comparatively quiet. Memel. the Prus sian port on the Baltic, has been oeeu pied by the Russians.” NOTED WOMAN WRITER LEAPS TO HER DEATH Mrs. Ellen Heney, Editor of Woman’s Magazine, Ends Life In Delirium. ^ ■New York. March 22.—Mrs. EUen Heney, editor of the Woman's mag azine. published in Detroit, and writer of short stories, plunged five stories from her room to her death at her home here today. She was delirious from typhoid fever at the time and made her way to a window during a brief interval in whic h her nurse had left the room for medicine. Mrs. Heney, who was a sister of W. W. Farley, state excise commissioner had been ill since Sunday. She was 22 years old and came to this city 15 years ago from Binghamton. N. Y. WOULD EXTEND SCOPE OF IOWA OUSTER LAW Amendment Proposed to Make It Apply to Members c£ City Commission. lies Moines, la., March 22.—A groat saving will be made in cities and towns that have occasion to bring re moval proceedings against their of ficials, if an amendment proposed by Senator Foster, of Guthrie county, to the present laws is adopted. This is the opinion of Attorney General Cos son. author of the statutes, under which 26 public ''officials have been ousted or forced to resign. Senator Foster proposes to change the law so that it will apply to " ill county, township, city and town of ficers, elected or appointed.” As the law now reads, it applies to Vie coun ty attorney, members of the boards of supervisors, sheriffs, mayors, police of ficers, marshals or constables. One of the-objects of the amend ment, for instance, is to include the commissioners under the commission plan of city government. It is not right, friends of the amendment claim, to oust a chief of police or other po lice official under a law that cannot reach the superintendent of public safety, who, in many cases, is at the root of the evil conditions. Under the present law a recall and election is necessary to oust any member of tin city council. Sioux City is cited as an argument in favor of the Foster amendment. Action brought under the Cosson law brought about the resignation of tin chief of police. In the case of tin councilman over him, the expense of circulating petitions for recall, court proceedings and possibly a special election will be large. A conservative estimate of such an expense is placed at $5,000. Attorney General Cosson, in tin in terview today declared that the total expense of removing 26 public officers in Iowa, outside the salary and reg ular expenses of his office and the county officers who worked wtih him. was less than $500. At the same time it is estimated enough money has been returned to the public coffers as a re sult of "graft” exposed in these pro ceedings to pay the salary of the at torney general for 10 years. NEW RECORD IS SET BY 1914 COTTON CROP Washington. March 20.—The greatest cotton crop ever produced in the Uni ted States was grown in 1914. Census bureau statistics issued today giving final ginning figures officially place the 1914 crop as a record with 16.102.142 hales of 500 pounds each That is 409.442 equivalent r-00 pound I ales, or 204.721,000 pounds more titan Produced in the great crop t-t 1911.