Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1893-12-28
KANSAS STATE NEWS.

10 2,UUU.
A travelling man at one of the Topeka
hotels said that about dozen trampa
came in on the trucks Of the train he ar
rived on.
j, b. Gibbs, tho well-known popilist
orator Of Kansas City, has been rendered
position as guard in the pententiary
at Lansing which he has accepted .
The report that tho strike of last sum.
mer materially injured the coal business
in the Pittsburg district is not true. az
more coal 10 now being shipped from
there than ever before.
Holton Recorder: There were 658 pu.
pills enrolled in the public schools at the
end OF the third month"; an increase OF
about fifty over the month preceding.
The average attendance during Novem-
Der was 80 per cont. We doubt il there
is another town in the state that shows
as good a record for its schools.
The sunAower Cement Company, OPP
Grating on Mill creek west of Topeka,
has secured a contract to supply 1900
barrels of cement to be used in con-
structing the court house at Fort Worth,
Tex. The Mill creek company is devel-
oping into one of the prominent indus
tries Of eastern Kansas and its product
already has fine reputation through
out the west.
Mrs. Meyers recently began a suit for
$4,000 damages against one Julius Bu-
choltz, 'joint" keeper in Argentine for
causing her husband to become q drunk
ard. She seeks to recover the amount
by lein on the property in which tho
liquor was sold. The case will come up
for trial later in the court of common
pleas, and being the first one of the ma
ture in the county it will attract much
attention.
The Kansas university board of re-
gents let the contract fer connecting the
new library building with the engine
house by tunnel, for heating purposes,
to Geo W. Savage, for $1,34O.S9. The
work must be commenced at once and
completed by April, 1894. 1t was de-
cided, also, to complete unfinished rooms
in Snow hall for the purpose of giving
better accommodations to the natural
history exhibit under Professor Dyche's
core
r. B, Drury Of Atchison is one Of a
number of Atchison men who are pros
pecting for coal around that city. The
best vein that has been found is on the
edge of the land on which the State
Soldiers Orphans home is situated, and
Mr.. Drury visited Topeka to secure per-
mission from the state officers to mine
it. Governor Lewelling was not in his
Office, but Private Secretary Close looked
up the law on the subject and found that
the legislature alone is empowered to
dispose Of coal on state lands,
Thirty-one years ago, December 7,
the Battle of Prairie Grove was fought
and in it the Eleventh Kansas, of which
the late Senator p. B. Plumb was lieu
tenant colonel, took conspicuous part.
The survivors of the regiment, as has
been their custom for years. gathered
at Emporia in annual reunion to COM
memorate the battle. A prominent feat
ure Of the occasion was grand banquet
at which Mrs P. B. Plumb was the
guest Of honor. Another guest of honor
was Captain L. T.. Heritage, who was
80 seriously wounded at the battle above
referred to that he has never since been
able to walk without the aid of crutch
or a cane. Officers for the ensuing year
were elected as follows: President,
Thomas Barber; vice president, Daniel
Wise; secretary, j. A. Newlin, treasurer,
John W. Logan; committee on recep-
ton, L. T. Heritage, W. w. Phillips and
Freeman Louie.
Leavenworth Standard: Kansas peo.
pie will be interested to know what has
become of the giant walnut log from
Leavenworth county which attracted SO
much attention at the forestry building
during the Worlds fair. j. III. Rudrow,
Of Lawrence, agent for an exporting
firm, found the tree from which it was
cut on the farm of P. w. Gowel, in Ton
ganoxie township. II cost Mr.. Rudrow
5000 or $500 to get the log out of the
woods and load it on the cars at Reno,
from which station it was shipped to the
White City. He sold it then to the Kan
sas commissioners for $780, He says he
has been informed since the close Of the
fair that the Kansas commissioners have
disposed of the log to foreign concern
for $1,000. Mr.. Rudrow does not like
to see the giant Of Walnut logs leave
this country that way. He is patriotic
enough to be in favor Of the state secur-
ing at least section of the log and pre-
serving it for the benefit OF future gen.
erations, The log is beyond question
the largest Of its species extant in the
United States and probably in the
world. Mr.. Rudrow says that there new
sr will be in this country another walnut
tree as large. The one from which the
log was cut was the monarch of Leaven-
worth county. In height it was seven
ty-five feet and the distance from the
ground to the first limb was forty
feet Exclusive Of the log the tree
yielded two car loads of timber. The
giant log was fifteen feet long, sew
enty-two inches in diameter at the top
and eighty-four inches at the butt. It's
weight was 10000 pounds and contained
$500 feet OF inch-board measure. Peo-
MA ,,nk nnnnnintnd NTH Knnnnn ,nhn