The Ottawa Herald from Ottawa, Kansas • Page 1

to i ii Ul VOL. XXVII. OTTAWA, KANSAS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1908. NO. i YOUR CORN SEED METHODICAL FARMING technicalities.

strikers are holding open air meetings and social-' istic meetings at New York Twelve companies of infantry are gathering at Muncie, Indiana, at the call of Governor Hanley to maintain 1 peace in the street car strike The jury today discharged George W. Pex-tibone of the Western Federation of miners at Boise, Idaho. rJohn D. AS NEW ASSESSOR. C.

W. Oldroyd was named yesterday afternoon as couty assessor, by the board of county commissioners. Mr. Oldroyd takes office at once, and serves until the second Monday in January, 1910. He, with the approval of the county board, names such depu- ty assessors as will be necessary to carry on the work.

The county assessor draws five dollars a day for the A. M. Ten Eye Answers a Question of Direct hiterest to Franklin County and System in Farming May be Arranged if the Fanner so Desires. Rockefeller has given $2,191,000 to in nhis state has not been fully adap-1 Chicago University, making a total of ted to our climatic and soil conditions. 1 $23,000,000 that he has bestowed on The Hildreth, Kansas Sunflower, and the institution.

McAuley White Dent are native Kan-1 SundayThe of opinion sas varieties, that is, these varieties'. is still that dynamite or some have been grown in this state for high explosive was used to long period; possibly 20 years or wrec the Prgt National bank bund. more. We find, at this station, that Kflnn ritv Thp motive is lour Koone uoumy wane is improving i in yield trie, longer we grow it In our section of thp state the Hil- dreth corn will succeed well, espec ially on fertile bottom land. The Kan sas Sunflower is well adapted for growing on any good corn land in Franklin county and the McAuley White Dent may give a little larger yields than the Boone County White.

The McAuley White Dent is very sim-j ilar to the Boone County White only it. is a little later in maturing. How-: ever, the Boone County White is an! excellent variety of white coin and ii doubt wiietiier you are making any mistake in growing this variety either lor seed production or teed. We could sell you enough seed of any of the varieties named to plant 40 acres provided you order at once, but we would not care to sell you all first grade seed or even second grade seed. Would you wish to take at least part third-grade seed.

You will observe from circular No. 12 that our seed is Teally excellent I 1 The following letter and answer was published in a recent issue of the Kansas Farmer: I have improved Boone county white corn (seed secured from Mr. E. Taylor, Edwardsville, which that vou do not include i't among T. nl your data correctly, Kansas Sunflower or HildTeth is your best variety.

I want the best variety for all purposes, that is, certainity of maturity ahead of frost, hardiness and feeding quality, and productiveness. T)o you think it would pay me to make the change from Boone county white to one of these others? If so, which one? What do you charge per bushel in the ear f. o. Manhattan. I put in 40 acres of corn eaeh year.

Could I get enough of that or do you limit the amount so I would have to start with a small amount and increase my seed from my own raising? B. M. ELLIOTT. Franklin county. It is true that the Boone county white corn has not given such large yields as some of the later maturing varieties.

However, it is a good yield-er, a sure cropper, and a good feeder and is one of the best varieties of white corn for exhibit, winning most of the prizes in the white corn classes at shows in this and other states. Possibly one of the reasons why it does not give so large yields as the Kansas Sunflower, Hildreth, and McAuley is because the Boone county white is an imported corn brought from Iowa, Illinois, or Indiana and most of the corn of this variety grown A MILLION IN RISKS. Nearly 75 representative men, from the various townships of the county, stockholders In the Franklin County Mutual Fire insurance company, gathered in the jury rooms at the court house Tuesday for the company's annual, meeting. In the election of officers J. W.

Reynard was reelected president; A. L. Lingard was elected vice president succeeding H. N. Merchant, who is soon to leave the country; C.

Por- ,,7 en $100 Increase on his annual sal- ary.x P. Shlras was reelected treasurer. Directors were reelected as follows: W. B. Lomas, C.

D. Lawson, J. W. Reynard, Dr. O.

O. Wolf, P. Shiras, R. McCune, B. C.

McQuesten. The directors who hold over are: George Pingree, W. B. Huthinson, A McDon- seed, being well-bred and it will ger- is one of the men who confessed to minate perhaps as well as either of taking bribes from the United Rail-the other grades of seed. We have roads Telephone company and other tested the germination of some of our corporations.

Mrs. Harold F. Mc-third-grade seed and the least germin- Cormick of Chicago, daughter of John ation was 95 per cent; the highest 99 jD. Rockefeller, has refused to recite per cent. Find prices in circular No 12, which has been mailed to you.

A. M. TENEYGK. gftg Week wUh th World Summary of the Important Events That Have Featured the Telegraph Dispatches. Thursday.

After a conference with the president, Secretary Metcalf an nounced that Captain R. Pillsbury has been selected as chief of the Washington bureau of the navy department Col. M. M. Murdock, edi tor of the Wichita Eagle, died at I o'clock this morning.

Mr. Murdock Iwns nnstmjistpr of Wichita at the was robbed by dynamiters and $3000 secured. There is no clue to the robbers Colonel James Gardner Stowe, consul general to South Africa from 1SQ7 to 1901 died at Kansas Citv ho- i In a conference with a shrewd and observing business man whose holdings of farm real estate are extensive, we were once told that the greatest hindrance to the success of many farmers, indeed as many as 90 per cent, he said, was poor management. To any one who has given the matter thought, the criticism is certainly not extravagantly made. We have driven into some farm premises where it would have been impossible to find the way out except in the brightest daylight.

Again, the next farm up the road perhaps was so well kept and looked after that had you asked the owner for some certain tool he could have walked to it in the fewest number of steps. Conditions such as just described are pretty sure indications of how a farm or business is managed. We would be willing to wager that on the last named farm the owner kept a comprehensive set of books and on a few moment's notice could calculate his assets and liabilities. In the former case, such a task as that of keeping books would be, indeed, the last thing to be thought of. Such are extremes, though not of infrequent occurrence.

The farmer might well study the methods of the individual known as a "professional merthodizer." The profession is a new one and the work of a person qualified for it is to plan out a fundamental scheme of organization for whatever business he is hired to organize. The first thing which the "methodizer" does is to chart out every part or function of a business. These functions may be such as buying, selling, managing, advertising, etc. Each one is clearly outlined with its inter-connections. An incident is told where a professional Local News the Week Buried By Falling Slate A Dove of Peace A Bon Fire of Old Ballots It Pays a Fine Crop Return Police Court Goes to Jail Fence Is Up Buys a Main Street Building.

BURIED BY FALLING SLATE. Samuel Hilderman and Ejwl Ritchie were completely buried in a cave-in of a ditch along the Missouri Pacific tracks Thursday afternoon. A ditching gang in charge of John Elzea was working a short distance east of Rantoul in some slate when the slate caved in. Hilderman and Ritchie were standing erect, when the slate struck them. They were knocked down and buried a foot deep with slate.

Anderson Willingham, another ditcher, was buried up to his waist. Hilderman received a broken leg, some fractured ribs and was hurt inwardly, while Ritchie suffered a broken collar bone. Hilderman was taken on the east-bound passenger to Kan sas City for hospital treatment. The accident happened shortly before the train is due at Rantoul. Richie was taken home to Rantoul.

Willingham was unhurt. Immediately after the cave-in, Will- inham, who was not buried above his waist, as he was not knocked down, began to call, "John, hurry up and get me out so I can help the other fel iows." Foreman Eleza and the remainder of the gapg immediately set to work and soon had the men uncovered. The ditch, where the cave-in occur-ed, was 16 feet deep and the injured men were drilling a hole in the slate in preparation for a blast. THE DOVE OF PEACE. District court is suffering from stagnation.

Monday was the opening day of the January term, but there was noth-in gto try, and the jury was dismissed until Tuesday at 9 o'clock. It was expected that the Stannard damage case against the Santa Fe Tailway would be tried Monday, the court having granted the application ofr a second trial. When the case was called, however, report that a settlement had been reached out court was made. The action was brought for damages because of a delayed shipment of a carload of trees. The jury in the September term or court returned judgment for $1,749.

A compromise was Teached, Mr. Stannard receiving a sum somewhat less than the award. Another case scheduled for trial Monday was that against Charles Alexander, charged with assault with intent to kill, In shooting young Curry. Both the parties are colored. Alexander entered a plea of guilty, bow systemizer met with an employe in a certain factory who had the reputation of being the laziest man in the plant.

On investigation it was found that this man had simply organized himself, mapped out his work anil did it without any visible hard work. We make this digression simply to show the importance in which effective business organization is held by shrewd men of finance. Rightly read, and digested, herein is a lesson for every man who tills his own land or has it tilled. While the functions of a farm cannot be mapped out to as I definite a course as the functions in many other vocations, they can bo subordinated so that many a day can be saved against failure to accomplish something. Many a day that goes wrong could just as well go right as not, if a little more hard work were expended, not after retiring as many do, but at the close of the day, say at the fireplace or desk.

We know of a successful fanner who has a fixed rule that every day's work shall be completed in to allow half an hour or more of the 'evening for reflection over the work done for the day and for making plans for the morrow. It is his belief by such preparation an hour could be saved in every 12, and his evidence in such a belief is well founded. There are hundreds of ways in which the work of the farm could be arranged so as to adjust itself better to the conditions in hand. A neitrh. bor relieved himself of the daily all- winter drudgery of wood sawing by paying a few dollars to have it sawed in a couple of hours.

This is merely an example of how some of the harassing detail work of the farm may be relieved. Not all details can be so vanquished, though many can. A BON FIRE OF OLD BALLOTS. County Clerk Turner and Janitor Remaley of the court house were occupied all afternoon Thursday in burning old ballots. The ballots are those left over from last year's elections.

Part of them have been used and part have not. When the ballots aro ordered printed by the county clerk, is required by tho state law to print I as many as there were persons regls- Itered the year before and a certain per cent oyer. This always leaves many ballots that were not used. This is to insure there being a plenty in case they should have to be destroysd. Th county clerk had burned yesterday just 39, two-bushel grain baskets of the ballots.

This finishes up the old. ballot list, although 'it is not all that has been burned. Rome were burned several weeks ago. IT PAYS A FINE CROP RETURN. The Fisher farm, near LeLoup, furnishes the best reiort of returns from investment reported so far this season.

The farm is rented to F. (J. Johnson, who planted 320 acres in corn. The crop averaged 41 bushels. Mr.

Fisher is receiving one half, by the rent arrangements. The Fisher share of th crop has been sold to Will Staley at 42 cents. In addition to this return, the farm is paying Mr. Fisher about $700 from the pasture land. Mr.

Staley is buying the corn on a contract to furnish feed for the sheep-feeding station at Morris, Kansas. POLICE COURT GOES TO JAIL. Plasterers and decorators are In charge of the police judge's room fitting it" up for occupancy by the city clerk. Police Judge Kerr this morning removed his office to the corridor of the jail, where he will hold court after this. The change was made necessary by the fact that a room was needed for the new office of county assessor, which will occupy the present room used hy the city clerk: Mr.

Marcell will probably not move his office and fixtures Into the new location for two weeks. It will be that time before the new county assessor is appointed. FENCE IS UP. The water and light board finished putting up the contemplated fenc around the big reservior at the water and light plant. The new fence Is the Warner, "absolutely hog tight" variety and Is guaranteed to keep out people as well as hogs and other stock.

The board has some grading to do out there yet bt is not going to start It until the weather becomes settled in the spring. BUYS A MAIN 8TRfeET BUILDING. A purchase of the rronerty at 111 Main street was made today by F. R. Miller from E.

T. Bird. The consideration was $3,500. The ground floor is occupied by Geo. W.

Lathrop the buildlnar adjoins the Lathrop store on the south and the upstairs apart time he is engaged in the work. The deputy assessors draw three dollars a day, each, for the time they are en gaged. The appointment of a county assessor is made under the new tax law, which takes the assessment out of the hands of the townships, and cities, which have heretofore chosen their respective assessors, and places the work all under one county asses-sor, who oversees the action of his deputies. Under the present law, the board of county commisisoners shall (choose a new assessor at the January session, on every even-numbered year. Limited to an Old Soldier.

The board made the appointment i from a list of seven applicants. The choice was early confined, though the provisions of the soldiers' preference law, to an old soldier. The list applicants included: Mr. Oldroyd, iO. M.

Wilber, W. M. Staley, U. M. jBeechey, J.

W. Brinkerhoff, E. T. Thomas, J. Oliver Blackstone.

Mr. Oldroyd has had extended experience as city assessor, is more than ordinarily competent in book-keeping, accounting and in judging of values, and the board's selection is generally regarded as a good one. The Deputy Assessors. The law provides that the county assessor and the board of ctunty commisisoners shall choose as many deputy assessors as may be necessary. It has been conceded that there would be 1 at least one deputy to a township, and the probabilities are that in some of the larger townships more than one i will be necessary to complete the work in the time designated, this being the year for the assessment of both real estate and personal property.

The understanding is that the county authority will name the assessor for the city of Ottawa. This official has formerly been appointed by the mayor. The interpretation of the law by the attorney general is that, parties are to be chosen as deputy assessors, wherever possible, who have had a year's experience, and this would largely place the present township trustees on the eligible list. The deputies will be chosen at the meeting next week. The law requires a bond from the county assessor of two and one-half per cent of the total sum collected In taxes in the county.

By order of the county board Mr. Oldroyd will furnish a surety bond in the sum of $7,000. The deputy assessors will furnish bonds in sums not less than $300 each. TO GET NEW FRONTS. The remnant of the Boston store stock was sold yesterday by M.

B'. Cohif to S. H. Gaines, representing the Mitchell Dry Goods company, of Kansas City. Mr.

Gaines buys everything that has remained from the fire sale. which has been in progress at the store for some days. He has a force of men with him and begins today to pack the stock for immediate ship ment to Kansas City, where it will be disposed of through the wreckage and fire sale department of the Mitchell store. Mr. Gaines left this afternoon for Chicago.

His men will be engaged here for a few days in cleaning out the goods. Contract has been let by Mr. Cohn, through agreement with parties at interest in the Rohrbaugh estate, for the complete remodeling of the double front of the building. These improvements will go forward while the fire damage is being repaired on the interior. The contract is taken by Wil-lam Bushong, who will begin work as soon as the rooms are vacated by Mr.

Gaines. It is expected that six weeks will be consumed in the work, and the plans to call for the completion of a strictly modern front, as well as a modernized interior equipment in that time. A team driven by John Ball, living east of town, scared at a passing automobile on the Logan street road late Saturday evening and ran, upsetting the occupants, Mr. Ball and O. Quinn, who was riding with Mr.

Ball. The buggy was broken but the occupants were uninjured. The automobile belonged to a couple of men who were bringing the machine down from Kansas City to Hoisington. W. E.

Thompson of Pomona was In the city Monday on business. Mr. Thompson has recently purchased the Charles Coffman farm on the Appanoose. The farm consists of 80 acres of good land. "I don't intend to move there till next fall." said Mr.

Thompson I don't think a man is going to lose anything by having his money in Kansas farms." Mr. Thompson recently sold his farm near Pomona. Both deals were made by 0. I. Rice of nttn c-rhpneidpr still a mjsiery.

uuo u. tocneneiuei, nvpsiflpnt nf thp srhnnl hnnrri it is nnnminred tndnv. will introduce a resolution at the next meeting of the board, prohibiting the existence of fraternaties in the high schools of Chicago Frederick F. Wheeler, a capitalist of Los Angeles, California, is being boomed for prohibition candi- date for president of the United States It has been decided to keep a troop of cavalry in readiness near Thunder Butte, South Dakota, in case of another Ute rebellion, Monday. Another mysterious "Jack rthe Ripper" has broken loose at Ber- jlin Germany, and is terrorizing the 'inhabitants.

His doings are similar to those committed by a man there last July. court began the selection of jurors this morning at New-York for the secoSd Thaw trial. Interest is at low ebb at New York, compared with the other Former Supervisor Thomas F. Loner-gan of San Francisco, California, dropped dead at his home today. He before the Williard hospital benefit concert, because the hospital does not believe in administering alcoholics under a doctor's prescription.

Tuesday Governor Hoch today issued a call for the state legislature to meet in special session January 16. The guarantee deposit law for banks, the primary election law and a law regulating freight rates are the most important business calling for an emergency session of the legislature, In the opinion of the governor -Frederick F. Wheeler of Los Angeles, California, has announced that he will be a candidate for president of the United States on the prohibition ticket Four men attempted to make a bold daylight robbery on a Missouri, Kansas and Texas train at the union depot at Kansas City about noon today. They were foiled in their attempt, but got The officers are still working on clues to the ex plosion of the Frst National bank building at Kansas City last Saturday Senator Aldrich. today introduced a bill in the senate of the United States legislature providing for an additional bank circulation which shall at no time exceed $250,000,000.

Wednesday. The Nebraska railway commission, which recently received passes, compliments of B. P. Waggen Chicago F. Augustus Heinze, of Chicago was arrested yesterday, charged with over-certification of checks, while president of the Mercantile bank.

His bond was fixed at v111 LJ. Hill Ul Ul fTn AAA I Thnn Cleveland, Ohio, must pay a coal bill of the Philadelphia and Traction company, because he guaranteed to pay that company's bills to the above amount, before the company lwent bankrupt. is predicted that the Thaw wil1 not De drawn be the middle of next week. The ueieuse, it is saiu, win put sume cu the prosecutions witnesses on those who testified when Attorney Jerome applied for a lunacy commission at tithe close of the last The To- Ipeka city council has agreed to revise Sunday closing ordinance so that hereafter drug stores, confectionary rf and flower shops in the city may be uufu uu nit; oa.uua.iii. BUYS THE BIJOU.

J. A. Miller Monday purchased the Bijou moving picture show, and will continue to run it. E. E.

Wagner, the former proprietor of the show, will remove in a few days, probably to Cherokee, Oklahoma. Mr. Miller recently returned from Rocky Ford, Colorado, where he operated a moving picture show during the past summer. Mr. and Mrs.

Wagner have been the proprietors of the Bijou for the past six months and have always given a creditable performance. Mr. Miller took possession yesterday. R. M.

Steele, of Williamsburg, was up Wednesday on business. He went on out to Burlingame. aid, H. J. Dancaster, H.

N. Merchant, Ume Qf nis xleath. this morn-Harry Collins Spratt, O- InR the bank at McCurUin. Oklahoma, day aged 65 Eighty-four marriage er. attorney for the Missouri Pacific licenses were taken out yesterday at and a member of the Kansas legisla-New York to start the new year.

ture' wil1 turn them over to attor-After being shut down since Decern-' ne' general with power to prosecute her 22, the Joliet plant of the Illinois Mr. Waggener for violation of the Steel company has resumed opera- kanii-pass The republican state tion in practically all departments. committee of Oklahoma endorses Taft Friday. One hundred night-riders'101 iiueuc diiu vwu euu a nccivni delegation to the convention at jluuoss, si. xjyru, i.

i. uiuguiu, sr I. McEchron, Hal Greene. The executive committee is composed of B. C.

McQuesten, J. W. Reynard and Tr. O. O.

Wolf. The following interesting items are taken from the financial showing of the company, for the year ending, December 31: Number policy holder a year ago 345 Present number policy holders. .768 Amount at risk a year ago. Amount of risks now carried $1,706,085 Cash in bank a year ago $2,389 Cash now in bank $3,879 Amount of notes subject to assessment a year ago $4,324 Amount of such notes now held $9,526 Losses paid, 1907 $1,681 The meeting today expressed a vote of thanks to the newspapers for their assistance, in publishing information concerning the company. P.

Shiras read before the meeting his paper on "The Banker and the Farmer," which he will read before the state agricultural society at its session at Topeka this week. The paper was heartily endorsed. MANY OLD FRIENDS THERE. The funeral of F. Melluish took place at 2:30 yesterday from the residence apartments at 316 Main street.

The services at both the house and the grave were in charge of Rev. Father Degan of Sacred Heart Catho-Hce church. Burial was at Hope cemetery. Mr. Melluish having purchased a lot in Hope before there was a Catholic church at Ottawa.

Many intimate friends were present. There were many beautiful floral The honorary pall bearers were: Dr. C. L. Cowdery, John John-eon, James Lingard, Michael Oeasy, James Walsh, and W.

W. Fraser. The active pall bearers were. C. L.

Becker, John O'Neil, H. A. Dunn, W. J. Costlgan, Gardner P.

Walker and Fred Kaiser. A quartet composed of Prof. W. D. Detwiler, Miss Grace Rose, Elmer Martin and Miss Helen Branson sang, In Heavenly Lore Abiding" and -Abide With tucky, early this morning and dynamited and burned three independent tobacco concerns.

All communication for alarm and the police were over- ivu-oroH while th wnrlr was lipin accomplished Countess Yar- mouth, sister of Mrs. Harry K. Thaw, has begun proceeding for divorce from the Earl of Yarmouth at London The urgent demand for currency has, according to Washington sources re nf almost sulted in an increase AftAnnn in th rnlnmo nf natinnal hank notes MaximileanHar- din, the German editor who was arrested for publishing a scandal in connection witb the German Count, Von Moltke and other noblemen, was sen 7 Lu 7 14-v, today, charged with libelling A Parisian a er rints an alarmin ansian paper nn efftftr hocaH rvr rOnnrrs that thA ese fleet has been discovered cruising in Hawaiian waters, in the path of the oncoming American fleet. Saturday. A bomb exploded in the basement of the Frst National bank building at Kansas City this morning.

There is no clue as to who or why the bomb was placed there. Several persons were injured, but none fatally, it is believed Lawyers and others interested in the claim of George Hollanby Druce to the estate and title of the Duke of Portland of England decided today to continue the prosecution of Herbert Druce, present incumbent of the lordship, for perjury The fourth jury in the case of Caleb Powers, charged with the Goble murder In Kentucky, was discharged today, being unable to reach a yerdict. Three times before Powers has been convicted bat obtained new trials on 1 Bati art erspl by C. W. PUUrs..