The Globe-republican., 1904-07-21
Franchise cranted.-Ottawa has,

q ITancnlSe through Main street 10
the proposed electric line from Kan
sas City. The franchise Is understood
to be satisfactory to the promoters
The line must be completed from Kan
sas City through Ottawa in eighteen
months or the franchise will be for.
feited, Hugh A. Holmes, who is pro,
noting the enterprise, is now at work
securing right Of way between Otta'
wa and Wellsville.
kaw Valley Potatoes RuIned-The
Kaw valley potato crop will be al.
most a complete loss, Most of the
potatoes not destroyed by the flood
are rotting in the ground as a re.
suit of the heavy rains and the ex-
tremely hot weather of the past few
days, Many farmers, in hopes of
realizing something, have been dig
ging during the past few days. The
markets have been flooded, and po-
tatoes are now selling for 50 cents
a bushel.
Best In Stack-Millers in the wheat
belt are issuing cards urging the farm
ers to stack their wheat and to re-
frain from threshing 1t while 1t Is
wet. They claim that wheat blight
ed somewhat from the rains will re-
gain Its color and strength in the
stack. This will avoid demoraliza-
ton of prices by throwing damaged
wheat on the market, and in the long
run will net the farmers much
profit.
Erect G. A. R. Monument.-All the
Grand Army posts in Atchison have
united in movement to find all lin
marked graves of old soldiers in the
cemeteries, take up the bodies and
inter them In common burying
ground. A plot in Oak Hill cemetery,
which has not been used much of late
years, will be selected, and a m0nl-
ment will be erected on the plot by
the Grand Army posts Of Atchison.
Drowned Out Game.-This year will
not be good one for hunters, as
there will be few rabbits and few
quail. The incessant rains and foods
have drowned out all the rabbits and
have killed the young quail which
had not the power to fly. For some
reason the prairie chickens seem to
have escaped; western Kansas re-
ports an unusually large number of
these birds.
In Sumner county.-A few days
dry weather has enabled the farmers
TO get into their fields and the stand
ing grain is being rapidly harvested.
Most of 1t is being headed, because
of its ripeness. Several threshing
outfits are also at work and great
deal of grain will be threshed d.
rect from the header barges, The
quality is much better than was an
ticipated.
10 Years County comnssioner.-B.
f. Hoskinson, for thirteen years a
member of the board of county COM
missioners, of Douglas county, re-
signed on account of Ill health, and
the board at once appointed Gus H.
Bruno to fill the vacancy.
County System For Harvey.-Har.
vey county Is soon to have a county
system Of rural free delivery. This
information comes to Congressman
Victor Murdoch in the shape Of
letter from Fourth Assistant Post
master General Bristow.
Shoot First Gas WeIl.-The local
prospecting company at Ottawa
touched off Its first gas well with al
most the entire town present to
view the sight. The well shot a
blaze more than forty feet into the
air.
Aged Kansan Dies.-W. P. Dock
ray, who during the Civil war was
captain Of the gunboat De Soto of the
Atlantic blockading squadron, is dead
at his Douglas county home, aged 81
years.
Oldest Woman In county-Mrs
Elizabeth Lupton, the oldest person
in Sumner county, is dead at the
home of her son, R. W. Lupton, near
Riverdale, Kan, aged 81 years.
Quality Good.-In Mcpherson coun-
ty the first wheat Of the season was
threshed this week on the Frank
Lundstedt farm. The yield and quail
ity are said to be very good,
Poison In Feed Boxes.-Several
horses have died recently at Downs
from poisoning, and 1t has been dis
covered that some one has been
placing poison in the feed boxes.
Downs people are wrought up over
the incident and it will 60 hard with
the perpetrator Of the deed If he is
discovered.
Official Route chosen-Commander
Charles Harris of the Kansas G. A.
R., announces that the Santa Fe has
been chosen as the official route for
Kansas to the G. A. R. national en-
campment at Boston next month
Plans to Protect Track.-Santa Fe
engineers are planning to make i'm
provements on the Southern Kansas
division of the Santa Fe, which will
help do away with the annoyance
and inconvenience caused by high
water every spring and summer in