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Freak Potato Which [CITY MANAGER Kesembles Human * CUTS TAX RATE

Clarinda (la.) Treasury Balance Increases From $6,000 to $44,700 in Four Years. | Clarinda, la.—Clarinda has just j completed a four-year experiment In city government. Four years ago > Clarinda engaged a manager to run the town. That manager has just re- ' signed to go to Janesville, Wis. But Clarinda is so proud of its one-man I government that it wants to tell the

| world all about it.

j When Clarinda began talking “city management” five or six years ago there was very little information to ; be had on the subject. The system j was new. People “thought” it should j work out all right, but didn’t “know” | what to expect from the plan. But

j Clarinda now knows.

Paid Cash for Everything.

! The city manager, Henry Traxler, \ took office on April 1, 1919. On that j day there was a balance in the city : treasury of $6,000. After four years | of one-man management, the city’s

! balance is $44,700.

The tax rate has not been raised. | It actually has been lowered. Many thousands of dollars’ worth of Improvements have been made, and Clarinda has paid cash for everything. Clarinda got in those four years 100 cents’ worth for every dfellar it spent for material and labor. It did

Slowly Away From Sea not bother itself to find out if a ReWashington. — Vast geological publican could clean more square

changes in which the Andes mountains

Los Angeles.—Above is introduced M’Sieu Pomme de Terre of the family of Irishus Spudlits., Pommy, as he is known intimately, is the chum and companion of Miss Kathryn Lovejoy. The potato is a freak of agriculture, and very closely resembles a human being in that there are two arms, two legs and a head, not to forget the body.

CLARKE ADVOCATES THE WHIP AND MILITARY MACHINE.

Being among klansmen, with no yard Kipling; which should sink into alien spies to hear, Brother Clarke the minds of these lawless kleagles

unbuckled a little and expanded to

his full height. We herewith quote j from Clarke’s speech, giving, a few j excerpts from the lengthy document j

in order to give the alien outside

world some idea of the things klans-i

men talk about to their brethren in the secrecy of the “klavern:” Here is one sample, which was loudly applauded: “Do you know that there is a viper running all over this nation today, seeking to undermine the public school system of the

nation?

They charge that I was very unpatriotic and intolerant rather recently in Georgia because I said two

were selected and drawn by' the said}commencement of the January Term, jury commissioners on the 2nd day 11923 of said Court, that is to say, of January, 1923, being the second. during the last v.-e k o c the ‘"ep’emday of the January Term 1923 of the ber Te m of § aid Court in -922 puhDelaware Circuit Court and on Tues-jliely at 10 o’clock in the 'oren^n

day of the week and not during the September Term 1922 of the said

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who talk so big abot whipping people and building, military machines: They flout the laws they make, They make the laws they flout; ‘Till dazed by doubts—they wake The guns that have no doubt.

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Court, the same being the last Term of said Court as provided by law for the Delaware Circuit Court, during the year 1922, nor at any other and different time nor in any other and different manner than and from that

anown by the last mentioned

in

the Clerk’s office to draw from the jury box from the names theretofore pl'ced therein by the jury commissioners for the year 1922 the names of six persons to act as grand jurors for the January Term, 1923 of said Court. That it was also mandatory for the Clerk of said Court then and

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Book entry aforesaid. That the grand I ing of said names for grand jury serjurors and the names of the grand j vice for the said January Term jurors who returned the -pretended 1923 of said Court, to enter a list of imetment in this cause were not the names so drawn upon the order

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Bill Carlisle Modest Hero After

Risking Life at Fire.

Cheyenne, Wyo.—Bill Carlisle, the modern West’s mqst notorious train bandit, risked his life at the Wyoming

Catholic school teachers in the public penitentiary the other day fighting a school in Atlanta, must go, AND fire that destroyed the prison shirt

Mountain Ranges Move

THEiY WENT. (Great applause.)- - ! There is not a Catholic school teachj er in America that, when the Knights j of the Ku Klux Klan become strong j (and it is right), that will stay in j her place. (Applause) (Mr. Clarke | was interrupted here, due to the con1 tinned applause.)” ! Brother Clarke paused long enough

j between drinks to the constitution.”

are being pushed slowly eastward and the California coast ranges forced northward are in progress, in the opinion of Dr. Bailey Willis, professor emeritus of geology at Leland Stan-

ford university.

The eastern part of Japan, he said,

probably is moving westward.

Doctor Willis has returned from South America, where he was sent by j the Carnegie institute of Washington to study the earthquake that ,

rocked Chile a year ago.

The changes in the earth’s surface, i he said, are resulting from irresistible pressure exerted from within the earth

beneath the “Pacific deep.”

Both the Chilean earthquake and the ! Japanese catastrophe, Doctor Willis ! believes, were due to the process of geological changes and he said many equally severe seismic disturbances

might be expected.

Although scientists have known, he declared, the California ranges were marching northward, it took the Chilean earthquake to prove the Andes -Were shifting Steadily'eastward. The" movement in each case is away from the ocean. |

HUNT SNAKE WORSHIPER AS ZOO THEFT SUSPECT

East Indian Who Bowed Before Cobras Sought in Gotham. New York.—A tall, bearded East Indian serpent worshiper is sought by the police as the burglar who attempted to steal some of the deadliest reptiles in the world from the Bronx zoo. Detectives received a detailed deseription of a dark-skinned frequenter of the zoo who has been observed repeatedly to bow with reverence before the king cobras, believed by an East Indian sect to be tenanted by the souls of princes. Two policemen were assigned as bodyguard to the cobras. The suspected devotee has been seen slowly and gravely inclining his bead to the king cobra sometimes for folly five minutes. “This man has been seen at worship so often.” said Mr. Ditmars, “that the keepers usually move off when they see him approach and take some position from which they can observe him without being noticed. “This particular man has the dark eyes, hair and beard of a Hindu, but wears ordinary clothes. He is slender and tall. He comes in frequently. He always takes a great interest in the hooded cobras, the yellow ones and others, bnt he reserves his adoration for the king cobra. I have made an investigation and find that the belief of one sect of serpent worshipers is that the king cobra is inhabited by the soul of a prince, while the bumbler cobras contain the souls of common men. All kinds are treated with respect, but the obeisance is made only te the king cobra, regarded as 1 superior. “It appears extremely likely to me that this man is the perpetrator of this attempted burglary, to me the most mysterious and fascinating crime Km record. “The man I mention seems to be the leader of the serpent worshipers, but there are others of his race who come here and are simply absorbed in gazing at the cobras. **A few white men have also shown an abnormal interest in the king cobras, and a recent investigation we have made indicates that there are a great many more reptile worshipers in this part of the world than anyone seems to have suspected.” There are nearly 200,000 serpent worshipers in India, according to the estimate of W. Crooks, author of “The Religion and Folk-Lore of Northern India.” He computed the votaries of the snake-god Gnga at 128,000. Twentyfive thousand others worshiped Naga, another make-god, and more than 30,-

yards of pavement than a Democrat, or whether a Socialist was a Better worker than a Prohibitionist. An employee’s politics was lost sight of completely. All he had to do was to work,

no matter how he voted. Some of the Results.

Here are some of the improvements Clarinda has made in the last four

years:

Installed a new water purification system; bought an armory and made it serve also for a city business building; purchased a municipal cemetery; laid many miles of new paving (costing $165,000 in 1921 alone); rebuilt the fire station and added new apparatus; kept up the ordinary repairs to all city property. While other towns and cities were voting and issuing bonds right and left and fastening a heavy debt on coming generations, Clarinda paid 1^ way as it went and did not issue a single bond. Furthermore, while taxes were mounting skywards in other cities and towns, Clarinda actually cut its tax rate. * In 1016 the tax ievy was 42% mills. This year it was 42 mills, Including a 2-mill levy for the munici-

pal band.

Saved $6,000 in Fees. Among the “jobs” of the city manager was that of handling the municipal waterworks. Clarinda is proud of its water system. It is called the best j in southwestern Iowa, and its rates ! are quite a bit lower than in other cities of the same, class. On April 1, j 1919, the water work’s balance was j $27. Now it is giore than $10,000. In ! the meantime, the plant has been built up to the minute and pays all overhead, costs of operation and re-

placements.

i The armory cost the city $15,000 and $9,000 additional was spent to modernize the building so that it could be used for offices as well. Part of the building not used by the city is rented for $4,000 a year, which more than pays all expenses. The building also is used by the band, and the I auditorium is reserved for public af- | fairs without expense, j The cemetery, bought by the city manager for $10,000, now has $9,200 , in its maintenance fund. [ While the city was spending $165,000 for paving, the city manager, who also is an engineer, took charge of the paving program and in one year saved the town $6,000 in engineering fees.

ask, “But what is His answer was

lurid, if somewhat vague. “The constitution,” said he, “is a piece of paper that has already been amended eighteen times and it only takes a majority of the people to change it, and the niggers, Catholice, Jews and foreigners are solidly organizing and cohesively moulding together in this country step by step.’

factory. When the writer called to talk to him about his heroism, he found Bill embroidering pansies on a silk

kimono.

He’s like that, is Bill—a weird study in contrasts. His lurid career notwithstanding, he is a gentle soul and simple. His career as a bandit has been spectacular, but devoid of any bloodshed save his own. Nothing could drive him to hurt a fellow man. When Bill made his sortie into the burning factory, he was ooeying the same call that led him to become a train bandit. He dotes on the spectacular. He fairly aches for publicity —the spotlight. That, he says, Is why he is in the penitentiary. He didn’t rob trains for loot, but for notoriety. Incidentally, he got little of the former, but plenty of the latter. And now that he is In the penitentiary he still Is happy

selected* and drawn at 10 o’clock in the forenoon on Monday proceeding the January Term 1923, of said court, publicly or otherwise. That the date fixed by law for the drawing of jurors for the January Term 1923 of the Delaware Circuit Court was Monday the 25th day of December, 1922, at the hour of 10 o’clock in the fore-

noon.

i That the jury commissioners as aforesaid were not sworn during the : September Term, 1922 of the said j Delaware Circuit Court and that no j Order Book entry was made and en- | tered of record setting forth the oath of the said jury commissioners was at any time at the said September Term, 1922 of said Court and no

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ce ti cate of said fact to said entry. That there was at and during said September Term, 1922 of said Court, and on the Monday preceeding the January Term, 1923 pf the said Delaware Circuit Court, competent and qualified, and duly sworn jury commissioners for the year 1922 available to make said selection and drawing of said grand jury for the January Term 1923 of said Court, and there were sufficient n$mes in the said jury box of said County of competent persons to have drawn, organized and constituted a grand jury accordimg to law, for the said January Term, 1923 of said Court. That no names were on the said Monday aforesaid, the same

the

Order Book entry or record of the'being the Monday preceeding oath or of any oath of said jury com-1 opening of the January Term 1923 missioners was at any time made of the said Court by the jury commisand entered in the record of said sioners for the year 1922, nor by the i Court at any other time. jury commissioners for the y'ear 1923 i That both of said pretended jury j drawn to act a s and compose the commissioners resided in the city of; grand jury for the January Term, Muncie, Indiana, the city where the 1923, of said Court. That no list of said Delaware Circuit Court is held any names drawn for the

and not one only thereof.

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We find n Clarke’s speech another whenever he can contrive to break Into

very suggestive paragraph, one no „ ‘

, ^ , . , , ’ Every episode of Bill’s outlawry was ao1 upon which is budded the characterized by his itch fo» spectacugreatness of klancraft in Oklahoma, larity, and equally characterized by where men and women who oppose his shrinking from hurting others, the klan are flogged with wet ropes He press agented his robberies b^, and leather straps. Listen to what sen< ilng notification, _ in advance, that Clarke ha s to say as to methods ot “ a ^rtaln ‘Ime. at a certain plaee ,. , he would rob a certain train. He did propagating his great ordef: • it t h re e times before he was e.aght, “ We want to begin building the meanw’hile reveling in an avalanche of strain of a Caucasian to a higher publicity. Repeatedly he risked capplane, making it a stronger, richer tnre to obtain newspapers carrying and of more royal blood and stopping sensational stories of his crimes. the mixture and weakening of‘ the f inally ’ ™ n d ^ n ’ sentenced to 1m- ,, , prlsonment for life, he boasted that race through the mixture of our blood „„ WODl( , esrapei an( , Immea!atelj , rob With that of inferior races; going; out another train. A/* ’ he kept that

in the highways and hedges and find- promise.

ing those recreant members of the Assigned to the prison shipping dewhite race who are selling their partment, he substituted himself for

birthright and yours and my birth- | right to leadership and power as an ! office for money, political honor,

the contents of a packing case that had been filled with shirts, and was carried to freedom by his captors. Within 36 hours he had robbed another

social prestige, or for sexual pleasure train.

Porto Rican Kills Man Who Refused Him Shave New York.—Refusal to shave an impatient customer cost James Formita, an uptown barber, his life, and resulted in the arrest of Julius Roderiquez, who said he was a Porto Rican cowboy, on a charge of homicide. Roderiquez entered Formita’s shop and put himself in a chair. When recommended to a neighboring shop, he commenced to shoot up the place, the police said. One bullet killed Formita, another grazed the cheek of an assistant. Then Roderiquez fled. When the police seized him after an exciting chase, he still had the pistol! in his hand.

Decorate U. S. Gunner for Vera Cruz Feat Washington.—President Coolidge, in the presence of Secretary Denby, Assistant Secretary Roosevelt and ranking officers erf the navy, presented a Congressional Medal of Honor recently to George Bradley, chief gnnner, United States navy, for meritorious service under fire on the landing of American naval forces at Vera Cruz In 1914. Bradley, attached to the battleship Utah as chief gunner’s mate, was In charge of the ammunition and special details at Vera Cruz.

and gently and kindly, if we can, bring back to the fold a realization of their duty to themselves, posterity and mankind in general; and if we can’t do it by kindness, then do it like the S aviour did—DRIVE THEM

WITH A WHBEj.”

Following this rather incoherent, yet nevertheless very clear injunction for klansmen to “go out in the highways and hedges” and “drive them with a whip,” we note that the wizard pro tem was again interrup-

ted by “continued applause.”

Hfl r Thsefl. cm ta eat cshmrdvgbk The modest Clarke then referred briefly to bimself, intimating that his autocratic rule of the klan had led some to believe he was a “man of iron,” but, said he, “there has not been a one hundredth part of my nature to come to the front, and if a real issue ever comes and I have to turn my hand on the enemies of the causes of America they will learn somethinigi. (Applause.) You need an iron hand and we are developing iron hands in this machinery. In the system of government in this country YOU WANT A MILITARY KLAN TO GUARANTEE THAT FOREVER THIS COUNTRY SHALL BE! DEMOCRATIC. WE HAVE GOT TO HAVE

A MILITARY MACHINE,”

There was much more along this line but these few high lights in Clarke’s speech to two thousand robed and masked idiots in Chicago ought to put the people wise to what is goin;gi on. If Clarke told the truth his order to the school board of Atlanta caused the removal of two Catholic teachers. With his own voice he urged members to coax aliens into the klan. if possible, but to whip them into submission if necessary. He was applauded to the echo by two regiments of potential assas- !

sins when he urged that the should be a military order.

January also served on a petit jury in the-

Term. 1923 of said Court grand jury, Delaware Circuit Court in the month

lhat as the time of the alleged ap-1 was by the clerk of said court nor by °f February, 1922, and during the pointment of the said jury commis-; any one else at any time entered on January term, 1922 of said Delaware sioners, to wit: on the 26th day of s the Order Book of said Court, nor Circuit Court he served seventeen Npvember, 1922, the said Jacob D. was there any such list at all;, and days as a juror in the said Circuit Cavanaugh was not a freeholder of that the said Clerk of said Court did Court and was paid for such service Delaware County nor of Indiana. And not at any time make and certify to the sum of $42.50. That said Harry that the said Jacob D. Cavanaugh any list of names whatever on the Mott was incompetent to serve as a. v.as not then and is not now well Order Book of said Court, as the grand juror at the time the indiet-

known to be a Democrat or a

member of the Democratc

cal party and is not and was grand jury for the January Term, grand juror by reason of the fact that

not well known to be a Demo-11923, of said Court. That there is ci at at aih That the said John now and never was at any C. Hampton was and is well known any place in the records of the said to be a Republican in politics and a Delaware Circuit Court at the time of member of the Republican political the filing of this plea in abatement pai ty and that the said men are not any record or Order Book entry of

§34 ^S't_3yen_ j kno» n to be op- s aid Court or the ClortrAherecrf, show- of the foregoing disqualifications of posire politics and political faith. |in- the composition or the names of said jury commissioners who drew That by the provision of Section the grand jurors who returned the in- and selected the said grand jury 1665, Burns Revised Statutes of In- dictment in thm cause, except such which returned the indictment in this diana, Revision of 1914, it became reedrd as was made after the return cause, and by reason of the

and was the duty absolute Of the jury of the pretended indictment in this commissioners during the September cause and that such record shows Teim, 1922, of said Court, immediate-^ only the filing of the final report of ly after their said appointment for i the said pretended grand jury, the calender year 1923 to select from j That by the provisions of Section the names of the legal voters and 1667 ( Burns Revised Statutes of Incitizens of the United States on the! diana, Revision of 1914, and by the tax duplicate, of the said County for i aw 0 f the State of Indiana it was the current year the names of twice unlawful for the jury commissioners as many persons as would be requir- t 0 select the names of any person to ed for jury service in all of the courts s erve as grand or petit jurors who of the said county for the year 1923. bad served as a juror in the Circuit

That the said jury commissioners did 0r superior Courts of the said Dela- ware, SS.

not select any names at all during -^are county during the year im- George R. Dale, being first dulx

ets proved their diversity in the X the said September Term, 1922 of the mediately preceeding such selection. s worn on his oath, say s that the mat.Tananese earthnuake zone v ^ gaia Court for any juror or juries to And also that such jurors so selected ters and facts stated and pleaded jut

|| be drawn for the January Term, 1923, w bo bad served as jurors in said his the foregoing plea in abatement ❖ nor did they then and there select or Courts during the year immediately are true in substance, and in fact. X deposit any names in the jury box of proceeding the selection were sub- GEORGE R. DALE. ^ persons from which to draw the j e , ct to challenge and were wholly in- Subscribed and sworn to before «te

^ grand jury for the January Term, competent to serve as jurors during this day of May,

❖ 1923, but on the second day of Jan- the year as afore said. That the fore- SEAL Albert R. Rees, ^ uary, 1923, they selected in some man 0 f the pretended grand jury Notary Public. a manner only fifty names and placed which returned the indictment in the My commission expires Sept. 23,1924^

^ the same in the jury box and from case at bar one Durward Sharp was ^ the said fifty names the grand jury incompetent to serve as such grand ❖ which returned this indictment was juror by reason of the fact that the drawn, constituted and organized and Durward Sharp had served as a a not in any other wise or manner juror in the Delaware Circuit Court ^ wnatever. That there are two courts during the year immediately pre- ❖ held in the city of Muncie for Dela- ■ ceeding his selection as a grand juror ware County, the Delaware Superior |f 0r county to wit, in the month Court which is required by law to 0 j December 1922, and that he served ^ hold four terms of Court during thej ag a petit juror for five days during year of 1923, and there is required | September term, 1922, of said ❖ four juries or twelve members for court and was paid for such service ? service in said Delaware Superior t h e sum of $12.50. That one Harry

Mott, one of the grand jurors who returned the indictment in this cause,

Since his recapture he has been tamer, but bis hankering for notoriety is undiminished. He savs he’ll be heard from again, startlingly. He probably will—the spotlight awaits

him.

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names of the grand jurors chosen,- ment was returned in this cause and politi- selected and drawn for service on the at the time he was so selected as a*

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not he had served as a juror in the Delatime, at ware Circuit Court within the Year immediately preceeding his selection,

as a grand juror as aforesaid. That by reason of the foregoing facts and irregularities and by reason

of the illegal

manner and unauthorized method of selecting said grand jury, the aforesaid indictment in this cause and upon which this prosecution is based i« wholly illegal, void and invalid, and confers upon the Court no jurisdiction to try, hear and determine the

cause herein.

Wherefore the defendant prays

that this action abate. GEORGE R. DALE.

State of Indiana, County of Dela-

Japanese earthquake zone by performing as firefighters, carpenters and safe crackers, and doing relief work, in addition to their regular duties. Details of the activities of the American navy, first to arrive in the stricken area, are contained in a report received by Secretary Denby from representatives of army relief in Japan. Here is what

the bluejackets did:

Cleaned up American consulate in addition to rescue work among survivors, and es-

tablished it anew.

Searched for and buried Amer-

ican dead.

Cracked safes, securing valuables and securities for Ameri-

can and foreign firms.

Furnished water for all American ships touching in Yokohama and for Americans and

army hospital ashore.

Fought fire on one American

ship.

Succored two other ships broken down and repaired machinery so they were able to pro-

ceed.

Furnished supplies and food to embassy and relief organizations until arrival of army transports.

Court for the year of 1923, and that the Delaware Circuit Court is required by law to hold three terms of Court, beginning on the first Monday of January, April and September of each year, and that there will be required three petit juries of twelve members each and three grand juries

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of six members each for the year

, 1923. That by the provisions^of the

law of the State of Indiana the jury commissioners for Delaware County were and are required to place in the jury box the names of on$ hundred

klan sons for grand jury services of Dela- and ninety two persons who are

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ware County for the January Term, legal voters and citizens of the Uni-

Fomenters of revolution and blood-' 1923, and also draw from the jury ted States and Delaware County shed of the Clarke breed are running box the names of twelve persons for Indiana, whose names appear on the wild all over the country today, petit jury services for the Delaware tax duplicate of the said County, for j Every town and city has its male and Circuit Court for the January Term, the year of 1923. ! female klan “organizers” who the 1923.” That all of said record was That by the provisions of 1668, kind of stuff that Clarke put out. duly signed by the Honorable Clar- Burns Revised Statutes, Revision of Practically all of the city and county ence Dearth sole Judge of the Dela- 1914, and by the law of the State of officials of Muncie belong to Clarke’s | ware Circuit Court. . Indiana, it was necessary and manda“military organization.” These an-' That the names of the persons tory for the jury commissioners actarchists are seeking to control the purporting to constitute the said pre- Ing for the year 1922, in conjunction I next general election. Let us con- tended grand jury which returned the with the Clerk of said Court, on the elude with this little thought by Rud-j pretended indiemtent In this cause Monday immediately proceeding the

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