Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1883-11-01
RTiseeIlaneoas Items.

Inc report OF the superintendent OF
Schools in Topeka shows an average at
tendance for the first school month this
year Of 3,067, or about fifty per cent. of the
school population.
James Snyder, a young son Of Fore
man Snyder of the Santa Fe paint shops in
Topeka, fell through trestle bridge thirty
feet to the ground below few days since,
sustaining serious and painful injuries.
An organization of the veterans OF
the Tenth Kansas Infantry was effected at
the recent reunion at Leavenworth and the
following officers elected: Lieutenant
Colonel j. T. Harris, Presidents; Major H.
H. Williams, of Ossawatomie, Vice-Presi-
dent; L. Rochat, of Atchison, Secretary;
j. K. Hudson, of Topeka, Corresponding
Secretary, and B. F. Whitaker, of Pardee,
Treasurer. The following address was pre-
pared and adopted:
Comrades of the Tenth Kansas Infantry: At
the State Soldiers reunion at LeavenwOrth.
held October TO, IL and II, several members of
the above regiment held q meeting, and
through their proper officers ask of every one
OF the members Of that regiment to send their
names and pOSt-Offce address to j. K. Hudson,
at Topeka, Corresponding Secretary. Our
numbers are leSSeniug every year and il is
orr duty to meet talk over fh9 mast look t0
the future Of our grand and. noble country,
and do what we can to make 1t more prosper
GUS and enjoy its blessings in perfect harmony
until the last rOll-call.
Four sacks of wheat and two cases
of specimens CT building stone, from Otta-
wa County, were received recently by the
Secretary of the State Board of Agricul-
ture at Topeka.
Charles Ross, Treasurer of Wabaun-
see County, j. A. Virgins, of Ellsworth
County, j. c. Nye, of Greenwood County,
and Bradford Miller, of Shawnee County,
have made their respective settlements
with the State Treasurer.
Company a, Kansas State Militia, Of
Topeka, was mustered into service at that
city few evenings since by Adjutant-
General Moonlight.
Governor Click recently addressed a
letter to State Agent Crawford at Wash
ington directing his attention to the fact of
the grant of $4,000 acres of public land
made by Congress in 1853 to the Kansas
Agricultural College. The State has Sc
lected and has had secured for this institu-
ton only 81, 313.53-100 acres, leaving yet due
the State 7,686.47-10O acres. The Governor
requests Mr.. Crawford to ascertain the con.
dition of these lands, and to see whether the
remainder can not be secured for the State,
or the Agricultural College, that is entitled
to this grant
I. T. Soule, of Rochester, N. Y, has
arranged with Gilbert Bros, of SpearviIle,
Ford County, for digging and operating
seventy-fve miles of irrigating canal, be-
ginning at available points on the Arkansas
River-one above Dodge City, near Gamer
on, and the other near SpearvilIe, and ter
minating near Vanity. The work is TO be-
gin at once, and the canal completed as
soon as possible.
The jury in the case of the United
States VS.. E. L. Eckerson, who was charged
with selling government property while
Quartermaster at Fort Hays failed to agree
and were discharged. He was indicted by
the Grand Jury on four counts, one of
which the Court dismissed. On the second
he was found not guilty, and on the third
disposition as above stated was made of
the case. Eckerson, as Lieutenant, dis
tinguished himself at the battle on Bear
Paw Mountain, where Chief Joseph and
his horde of Nez Perces were captured.
It is said that whisky-sellers are to be
prosecuted at Coolidge, Hamilton County,
the scene of the late attempted train-rob-
berry.
The prospect for wheat in Pawnee
County is said to be IS good, if not better,
than it has ever been before since the set
Element of the county. The acreage is
about the average. The farmers are pre-
pairing to put in larger acreage of crops
than ever before, but they are learning not
to depend entirely on wheat. The sorghum
crop is well harvested, and take it alto
gether the outlook for next year is very
encouraging. The recent rains have put
the ground in fine condition.
Halstead has an 'sEli'' baseball club.
A few days ago as Ira Arnold,
young man eighteen years of age, was Dig
cling sand in Marion Township, Marion
County, he met his death in horrible man.
ner. He was at work below a high ledge,
and in his work he undermined the sand
and stone above him, which came down,
burying him completely. When his body
was recovered it was lifeless.
The Supreme Court has decided that
the Vigilant Stock Insurance Company, of
iNimrod, has failed to comply with the laws
of the State, and has ordered that it cease
to do business.
They are marrying at Enporia at the
rate OF five weddings day.