Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1916-03-02

district of Iowa, has issued state
ment in which he says that no change
will be made in the federal regula-
lions governing the shooting of mi
gratory birds pending decision of the
case involving the constitutionality Of
the law now pending in the United
States Supreme court. Spring shoot
Ing of ducks and other water fowl is
prohibited by the federal law as it
now stands. The open season under
the same statute is from Sept. / to
Dec. 16. Mr.. Barmeier says that fed
eral inspectors are under strict orders
to obtain evidence for prosecution
against all violators of the law. 1t
Is not known to what extent the state
wardens will cooperate with the fed
eral authorities in enforcement OF the
law.
Since the prohibition law went into
effect the first of the year, there has
been a marked decrease in the num-
Der of arrests in Burlington, and espe-
cially in the number for intoxication.
In January there were but six ar
rests for intoxication as compared
with sixty-seven the corresponding
month in 1915. All told, there were
twenty arrests In January, 1916, as
compared with eighty-nine a year
ago. In the first two weeks of Febru-
airy this year there have been but
five arrests, and but two of these for
intoxication, while for the same Pc
Rod one year ago there were sixty
one arrests, thirty-seven of which
were for intoxication.
Twenty-Five counties in Iowa, one
fourth of the whole state, have enlist
ed In the Ames seed corn campaign
and are now, with the aid Of the Iowa
agricultural extension departmtnt, To-
eating, testing and distributing the
seed corn that is available within
their borders. The counties are Ger
70 Gordo, Floyd. Worth, Mitchell, Win
nebago. Butler, Grundy, Allamakee,
Chickasaw, Pocahontas, Emmett, Blu
ena Vista. O'Brien and Sioux.
Greene. Wright, Black Hawk, Linn.
Clinton, Scott, Muscatine, Des Moines,
Henry and Montgomery counties have
county agents who are conducting
their campaigns.
Demanding that the manufacture of
asperin at the Iowa State university
laboratories be stopped at once, the
Bayer Manufacturing company of New
Vnrk tu Of hn IN,
the chemical, may bring legal action
IL their order is not complied with.
Compliance on the part of the univer-
sity would mean that the department
OF pharmacy would be seriously han
dicapped in it's experimental work and
in some new discoveries recently
made which are thought to be OF
great benefit.
w. F. Cleveland, one of the best
known public men of Iowa, prominent
banker and for many years a leader
among Iowa democrats, died at his
home in Harlan after an illness of
three months. Mr.. Cleveland came to
Iowa from his native state, New York,
in 1871. He was II years old at the
time OF his death. He was member
Of the senate from the eighteenth
state senatorial district in the TWEEN
ty-third and Twenty-rourth general
assemblies.
Prisoners Ia the Lee county Jail
will be put to work as soon as the
frost is out of the ground on the Lake
Shore drive, which has been damaged
by landslides. The high banks are
breaking down and great quantities
of clay are being carried onto the
main roga. The supervisors plan to
take care Of this trouble as soon as
the frost leaves the ground, and will
use the county jail prisoners. It will
be necessary to dig out cutters and
get the cuts into natural slope.
No clue to the whereabouts of Scott
Laird, publisher Of the Oelwein Daily
Independent, who disappeared in Chi
cago has been found. No word has
been received from him since he left
to attend publishers convention at
Chicago several days ago. His fam
lily has had no word from him. Mr..
Laird Is said to have been in good fin
ancial condition and apparently in
good health. His friends can think
of no explanation for his disappear
ance.
April IL is the date set by the Bap-
fist committees on the new location
for the consolidated Des Moines and
Central colleges for report of their
work. 1t is understood that Carroll
and Iowa Falls each asked for hear
ing Each is bidding for the school
Iowa Falls offers the grounds and
buildings of Ellsworth college, which
would be incorporated into the new
school. 1t is to grant the requests of
these cities that the decision was
postponed.
The power Of momentum was pecu-
liarly illustrated at Ackley when a
freight car on the M. & st. L. road,
which was being switched in the
yards, jumped the track and bumped
into the corner OF a warehouse.
Though the warehouse is 80 by 50
feet in dimensions and contained over
1000 sacks of flour, 1t was showed six
inches off its foundation, contents
and all. The car was unchanged.
For breaking into a school house
near Salem and using same as
sleeping place. two tramps were given
thirty days in jail by the Henry coun-
ty court.
The Iowa convention of the Lay
mems Missionary movement opened
in Des Moines with over 1000 men
present. w. e. Dougherty, education
al secretary Of the movement, who
took charge Of the meeting after it