Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-01-05
STATE NEWS.
Kansas Logs.

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| Kansas Logs.
Kansas is sending an unusually large
| quantity of walnut timber to market
! just now. Some say it is on account
of hard times; others, that is the nat
ural consequence of demand. But no
matter what the cause, it is fact that
scarcely an east bound freight train
! goes through over the Santa Fe and
roads east of it, that does not contain
one or more cars loaded with walnut
The walnut is cut from the valleys
of all the larger streams east of the Ne
i osho and south of the Kaw. Within re-
cent years, until the woodman "got his
work in," there was not a river or creek
valley of any importance in the south
eastern quarter of the state that did not
contain a growth of marketable young
walnut timber, and the larger valleys,
like the Neosho and lower Kaw, yielded
great forests of it. The latter were cut
out dozen years ago, but lately the
! growth along the smaller streams has
been large enough to hew into timber,
and from this source the supply is now
coming
Along the south side of the Kaw, be-
tween Kansas City and Topeka, there
are still some large trees and many
smaller ones. In this valley and also
in the valleys of the Neosho, Verdigris
and Walnut. besides growing trees, are
| thousands of old walnut stumps. which.
since the wood has become scarce, are
valuable, and men find it profitable to
dig them out, dress them, and ship
them to market The timber is loaded
upon coal cars, first dimension logs,
carefully squared and hewn of bark,
and on top the pile stumps, including
the larger roots. 1t goes from Kansas
to Chicago by rail: thence by the lakes
and the St. Lawrence to the seaboard,
and across the Atlantic to France, where
it is manufactured into veneer. Little
of the Kansas supply is obtained east
of the Santa Fe's north and south lines,
but the Rock Island hauls great deal
out of Oklahoma
There are 10 creameries scattered
among fifty-one counties in Kansas.
Dickinson county leads with ten.
Leroy reports that the Palmer Oil
and Gas company will expend several
thousand dollars in boring for gas and
oil there
Charles Francis Adams has given a
box of books to the Kansas university
library, some of which once belonged
to John Quincy Adams.
The treasurer of Atchison county col
lected 100000 in taxes the last week of
grace. The mail receipts alone amount
ed to $4,000 in one day.
The G. A. r. posts of Lawrence beld a
three days fair which increased their
cash balances about $4,000. This fund
is devoted to the entertainment of visi-
tors to the department encampment IN
February
DR.. P. S. Mitchell has discovered
that large spring on tract of land
adjoining Atchison which he owns has
valuable medicinal properties, and he
proposes to convert the place into a
summer resort. He will erect hotel
and convert fifty acres into park.
Topeka Capital: A leading attorney
had a load of coal dumped at the foot of
his Office stairs and inside of as many
minutes he had fifteen applicants to
carry it up the stairs to his room. One
man finally offered to carry it up for 5
cents. He got the job and was paid a
quarter for it.
A band of thieves, known as the Dan
Pointer gang was captured by the
Wichita police in Shaney, on the out
skirts of town. For months they have
been stealing whatever they could lay
hands on, and farmers by the score have
suffered the loss of horses, cows, hogs,
grain and harness.
A Kansas university pin has been Sc
lected. At mass meeting of the stu
dents held in the university chapel, the
pin committee presented seventy-three
designs for an emblem, which had been
offered The pin selected was a sun
flower; the petals being of gold and the
the letters K. q. in gold and mounted
upon pin.
A course of Bible lectures will be
commenced at Kansas university after
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Wilcox will lecture on manuscripts,
texts and translations of the Bible: Pro-
fessor Olin Templin. on Bible ethics /;
Professor F. W. Blackmar, on Hebrew
institutions; Professor c. G. Dunlap, on
Job; Professor E. NJ Hopkins, on the
life of the Apostle Paul Others of the
faculty will also deliver lectures. The
course is to be public and will be deliv-
cred so that the people of the city can
attend.
From Independence: Undoubtedly
the strongest flow of gas ever. discov-
cred in Kansas was struck at a depth of
1,200 feet on J. E. Geer's place, about
two and one-half miles west of town
The roar is deafening and the flow of
gas so strong that the drill was blown
entirely out of the well and could not
be lowered into it again. The drill had
penetrated eighty feet into the gas bear
ing sand and would have sunk deeper
but for the tremendous pressure of the
gas which rendered it impossible. J. D.
Nickerson WHO sunk the well, has drilled
wells all his life in the gas regions of
Pennsylvania and Indiana and he says
! that this is the thickest vein of gas