Sherman County Republican from Itasca, Kansas • 1

3 i iv I i 'Tv TN TTTTTTVTy CIS 'T7T a j' Oimiliffltlf SHERMAN CENTER, KANSAS FRIDAY; MARCH 25, 1887. VOL. 1. NO. 31.

STAGE lINfcS. Agrleultsrtl Bfprt for 18S3 XL BARLOW, Cashier and Notary Publi. S.T. BAHLOW.Prea. C1IAS.

U. nAHLOT7. VloaPre. Last week we received tbe fifth blen- i ii. J.

W. Shirker! stare Hoe between dnstries tbst ate very sensitive and uncertain. 1 This completes a Very meager synopsis of part first of this report. We hare not Sherman Center tod Wallace, distance plal agricultnral report of tbe state, of the state of Kansas, which Is a very com 33 miles. Leave Shermanl Center at 8-50 A.

M.J Mondays Wednesdays and plete statistical work, containing facts Friday; returns Tuesdays, Thursdays and figures that are cf rast Importance and Saturdays. HEDRICK COMPANY, give some of the most Important facts and VL 8. Hall Stare from Sherman Center to evepy one. A study of the report will give the people ef the state an Idea ot to Wallace, distance 35 miles, leaves rrb.wShrhtS LOANS AND COLLECTIONS Wallace at 0 A. Monday.

Wednes days and Friday; returns Tuesdays, the vastness of their commonwealth, and Its unparalleled development of resources. The examination of! this report by PUCUSHED EVERY FRIDAY. Ones. Boutn. side of Bauare.

Thursdays and baturaay. i as practical to give them. We want to be infonned about ourj own great state. We will conclude this sketdh with a re A SPECIALTY. Your Business Solicited.

Fry and Sinlth't raee line between those living la other states will glye them the true status of things in Kansas. Tbe Sherman Cvnrer and Burlington, datljr. BAYARD TAYLOR, Editer. view of what Is said about bhertoan county. Distance 35 miles.

Carries mall and cx- press. following are a fevr of 'the Interesting facts noted in looking hastily over tho Sherman county stands 66th In rank Dull Yonsee. tta ire line, dally, between latere at th Oandr Psst-OOce, Sher- report; as we think therm Interesting to (there being 03 counties in all) with ref- SHERMAN GRNTPR KANSAS. man Center, lianas, as secn'lcUS 2tertnan Cecter ft Colby via Eiutia-UlU- but readers we give them. cutter.

trsca 40 mCrs ttme 8 bonra. I. The first census taten when this state census reiort at time or organization, the population of this county Is given at JS20. was yet a territory shows a population of TJBSCSimOJit COME TO STAY! 8.601 In the year Five years later Tills Is tho largest population In the wes Editorial. C3Tnn Cashladvanea.

tern tier of comities, standing ahead of Lane, Kiowa, Seward, Stevens, the census show a population of and the following year, ISG1, Kanaas became a state. The census for 18G5 gives jB We understand that the Colorado Town II a mil ton, (Jlieyenne Sheridan and Tre SWIGART, Proprietor of Site Company will start a town la East HATES OF ADVERTISING: liieseare all organtzett counties: ern Elbert county soon. 140,179 people. The DeU five years jihow a marvelous irrowth; 1870 tlnda there are others not organized Sept. 20, Laeai AdTertltementt fire cents per tint; under! Sherman Kansas 'with a population of 351,590, and P.

8. EnstI sold his p9 lots In the town 18S6, but they 1 are al taer adf srtlielsK maaa koowa onappuca the successive censuses taken for the pe site called EnstU, In Sherman county. county in popilation. CITY DRUGSTORE lni shows tnat tuia renuemau nas no Qt asral adverVUlDf paysbls at th end of artrr month. Traatleat adyertlilnf payabls In adrsnee.

'Sherman couuty lies in tbe northw es-l riods of five years as fo lows: for 1875, population for 18S0, C9S.0S6; for ISS5, 1.2CS,530. I tern corner of the State, in tbe second tier faith In the town. The name used to boom Ihe town I all that la left. If Mr. EttstU should take aay they would of counties south from the State ot Ne- 1 Wishes to inform the public that he car Consulting the accompanying map, we the State of Col- braska, and borders on TJinON PACIFIC TTUE CARD have to call It Barley.

i And the center of population as follows: orado on the west. It was organized in ries the best selected stock Of For 1860 the center of population is in Trains run wett of Wallace on MounUln time and eat on Central time. Mountain Tlie total number of arrivals at the 1880, has an area ot 1,080 square miles, and ranks among the counties of the State the north west part of Douglass county. Hint one hour slower than Central time. In 180 we find it 18 miles east and four various hotels In Garden City, Kansas, during the past year were the as eighty-sixth.

The densltyt)f popula south from that of 1SC0. or ueaf the coun TRAIN'S WEST. tion to the aqnare mile Is 2.61. The town Buffalo taking the lead by a majority uf Chemica ty line between Douglass and Johnson of Sherman Center, sitnated in the center Is Xs. 201.

Colorado T.x. arrlret 12.3S. a.m. 8,000. This Is a good showing for ten am MS, Ko.

ro3. Taciflc Kx. arrives 5.. p.m. of the couuty.

Is the county seat. counties. In 1S3 it rests iu the north east corner of Lyon county; it has trav hotels and ill outdo any city of the same Vs. 111. Ex.

Freirht arrive p. The farm product capuot be expected size. Western Advocate. i eled 43 mlies west and IS south. In 18S0 TRAINS EAST, to be very large, most of the people com the center Is iu southern Dickencon, a Ing to the county last spring, but It will Since the death of Tout Thumb the I 2To.

202, Eastern Ex. eprtt 4.00a.m. distauce of GO miles west and rive north. show pome satisfactory figures. There Ho.

224, Atlantic Ex. iw.w a. m. Wo, Freljbt departs 2.05 a. ta.

smnllest man In the world one who is too stingy to take a newspaper and not Iu 1884 It hs dropped back to the north were only 30 acres of i winter wheat last rr-Not. 203 and 204 do not run west of MEDICINES IN SHERMAN CO. I east corner of Morris couuty. In 1885 It year which yielded 450 bushels, an aver Wallace. tf.

A. Evant Agent. too proud to beg or borrow one. He is a great friend of newspaper fraterni moves south and west to the southwest age of 15 bushels per i acre; 20 acres of corner of Morris county. In 1833 It oc rye that averaged 20 bu.

per acre; spring ty when he wants an accommodation, but hp takes care pft to put up for any cupies the northeast corner of Morris wheat, 17 acres that averaged 15 bu. per acre; 5,607 acres of corn, all sod corn, SHERMAN CENTER, KANSAS. couuty, very near the Chase county iiue. U. LaadOQclali, TfaKeenej, Kansas.

W. C. L. Hcurd. W.

Ii. l'ilkentun. thing. Beatrice Express. ne notice the center of population has yielding 28 1-2 bn.

per acre; 1.583 acres U. S. LAND OFFICE, OBERUN. moved ean twice from 1S00 to 1870. The 'Vbe Atlantic Demm'mt says to Its de acre, and other of millet at 3 tous per r.srlster A.

L. Patchin. nr. ii iime cms was owing to two causes. linquents: "If you are a delinquent total number of minor pioducts.

The Sectlvtr Tully Scott. the drouth and the settling of the eastern subscriber to the Democrat and curved THE UNION PACIFIC border counties, but the next decade acres unaer cultivation jwns yieid-j Ing a product valued at- 882,623. The value of increase of live stock 8100,087 i with notice of suit this week, don't get finds this center moved 103 miles west angry. It is your own fault. We are OFFICIAL DIRECrOUT.

Ward. The next reverse is show in 1884. bouud to collect I back subscriptions as wool clip, 81,543. The; number of trees, STATU OFFICERS. fat as we cuu get! to them.

You may one year old aud ovcr is given at 61 acres. when it receded 30 miles eastward. The tHiXt year It moves west 12 miles, and 1SSC John A. Martin. Railroad Lands save costs by coming in and paving be Six ost offices, six papers with the He Lieutenant Governor A.

P. Riddle. rtmls it six miles further west. This cen Secretary of Slate K. R.

A I leu fore suit commenced ng.ilmt you." publican at the bead of the list. P. llrCahe. ter will be watched with interest as It is 1 reaiurer. Samuel T.

Hawe. Mr. Worcester, formerly of the Thomas a sure guide as to the development with Couuty Cat. and Mr. Corporan, of the leperiutendnt PublK II.

Lawhead. Attorney General S. D. Uradfnnl. Adlutaat General.

A. R. Campbell. in the state. How Ingersoll Was Captured, i i rlrm of J.

W. Allen Son of Colby, called In Sherman Cotanty Kaa. Table No 3. giving the nativity of the ftsc'fiuie Soari Mm A veteran of the latelwas, who was in on us last Monday morning. Tbey were population, show foreign, na CoL Bob Ingersoll'a command wheu the on their way to Colorado to found a nw Are now on the market and are for tale on tive (born in the United States) 1.133.855.

great orator was captiirrd down In Ten S3 rial Directory. tovfn somewhere in Elbert county. Thi. makes the third outfit that has gone to Table Xo. 4, where from to Kansa.

nessee, gives an amusing account of that The state of Illinois leads with 194089. Coantr E. F. Murphv Colorado for that express purpose. We affair.

He says Col. Bb as completely surrounded by the reWls and only sur Treatarer E. Rule Mlesouri has Iowa In hope they will all tind locations so far apart that they wjll not be contending diana 94.000: Ohio 74.G33: natives of rendered when it was folly for the brav Ref. ot I. H.Hwayaee County Supt Etta J.

Rider Count Attorney E. A. Lee ON TEN; YEARS TIME, At Seven Per Cent Interest. A discount of 20 per cent of price on all lank eultlrated within two year from data of est man to do otherw be. He then threw Kansas 330.057.

Every state and terrl- about a couuty seat ithin the next three Clark of DltU Court A. E. Heeler tor in the Union has contributed the up Ins hands nnd screnmed out: Stop U. Bwlher years. Mpulation of Kansas.

firing; I'll acknowledge! your old con Cicero Gard Caramiaaloaera I Jaruea Prewitt tle will made in case purchaser resides on the land. But era are not eotopelltd to lira Tlie Dark Horse says, speaking of the The colonel was taken over i YY. M. Martiu There In addition to table, a dia on land. For further information call on or address.

attempt to discontinue the post office at to a store for safe keeping and he proved gram given I.iustratmg the variation in Torrnsblp OHcers. People Hocked thta place: the relative risk of counties organized to be a great curiosity, aronud, listened to his 'Iiad our people urged the discontinu stories, laughed prior to Sept. 20, eaveuworth E. MURPHY, AGENT. the ance of the office at Sherman Center Clerk C.

Huffman Townabip Trustee Harailton Townthip W. B. Swljfart Jnttlee of tbe Peace L. II. Vet eminty has always held first rank, while nnd declared that they ei having more fun than they ever had iu their lives.

Inspector would have so recominendel every other county, ot the state has Constable Rame to the department But the very contra- Soon he was asked to make a speech. changed. The causes of the variation Sherman Center, Sherman County, Kansas. Boad tieeraeer ExraTeajrJen Tlus as what he was workinsr for, and rv was irue onr aeauinz men unreu in ate various and would make ni study continuance, and if Sherman Center con a minute liter he was on a box aud ad tuiaiiiwjwiuaaaaaaaaaaBaaaaaiaa within themselves. Sedgwick county, Iu 1S70.

was 48th in rank, now it Is third. J. A. NYE, TRAVELING AGENT. tinues to have a po-t office they may dressing the crowd, and It was a right thank the people1 at Eustis for It.

A'ol- rough crow too. No lecture that great Sumner county, iu 1875 was 47th, now it SHERMAN CENTER MARKET, COKKECTCD WKCJKLV TtlK HXTVMUCAS. talre office was not mentioned," orator nas ever ueiivereu contatuea sa Is fourth iu rank. So each couutv is Ratter, per pound Yes, we imagine the Inspector would much that was good He pictured how changed in its relative position. Tables do just as they say.

They hung to thai regretfully the north I took up arms and diagrams are given showing the tils- To the People of i agalust the south. Then he went off on Kjrjn, per dozen 2 Potatoes pee buwbel 1.20 Tnrn'pa, per huhe. 73 Caatoajfe, per pouad 0- Oal pr bvubel, 2.0U tributUn of population, also the foreign inspector coattaU and tried to work him at both this: place and Voltaire. alavery, placing the poor white before abd colored. And again they say In the above tQAt the him in the place of the unfortunate very contrary was true, that is they la blacks.

It was a touchlusr npieal. and SHERMAN COJ bored with this man to save our office. brought tears and storms el applause i The number of miles of railroad( on the lit of last May was 4,521. The Santa Fe ahd the Union Pacific taking the lead with over 400 miles each within the state. A sketch ef each county is given with Yes, and they wonld not allow him to from jthe very men who had but a few Beana, per buhel Flour, best, prewt S-HU Flour, aeconu beat 8.W Uoru ileal, per hundred.

l.W Rran, per hundred i llama, per pound 1ft Salt Meat, per 11 to IS Ilraakfatt Bacon, per pound 13 Uay, per torn. 9.00 I have now opened my Photograph Gallery where photographs of all styles can ba tad come to the Center unless they accom en snort notice, alio mate panled him for fear something might hours before shot at and captured him. At the moment when the most pathetic passages In his speech were being deliv statistics. hnppeu to our office! Qur leading The number of acres under cultivation men urged Its continuance. Now just ered Gen.

Forrest, confederate cavalry PHERR0TYPES. i In 178G was 15475,495, 29 per cent of the man, whose command had made the who the leading men are Is a conundrum. We were going to hlut Bagter, but wl 1 capture rushed Into the crowd all aglow state's area. The average yield of wheat Is oyer 21 bushels per acre for 1S62: 21 aad 40-lD0ths for 60; 22 and 23-100th Errington Rich, take that back. Possibly our brother's wim excitemenr, out not anger, anu ex claimed: VHere, Xngersoll, stop that banty rooster Is meant; we imagine jut In fact I finish and take orders for all kinds of pictures.

IKDIA E5K, CILAYOir. WATFB COLORS, AN D.OIL. I prepared to Jo First-Glass "Work, DEALERS IN for 21 and 47-100tbs for 84. The lowest average yield was 0 and 33-10Oths how much be would work for the great. speech and 111 exchange you for a gov ernment mule.

A short time afterward tri '81, and 9 and 45-100 for '84 the Inter plan to hold a post office at Shertuau Center. 4. W. I41 John's Willing Ltar Col. Ingersoll was paroled.

He was de a line line of picture frames, with Casals aad As wy outfit Is new and oropltte. I have Cabinet frames Innumerable. Also the venlng years are between these averages. Corn takes the lead, giving the highest would love to be called a leader; but It moralizing the hole of that commaud will not be so in Sherman county, oeverJ and would have it revolting against its FINEST LINE OF ALBUMS Well, who are the influenclal men? We commander bad be been allowed to go average yield per acre in T875, it being 43 and SO -lOOtus bushels per acre. Tbe valne of farm products are ranked as fol wonld Ilka to know.

Please rise and ex on for two er three days as be had on the Ever shown In Sherman County, solicit your patronSga. plain. jj first day. Missouri Republican, GROCERIES AND PROVISIONS 218-41. lows for the years '85 and 8C mentioned id their order.

Corn yalne in round It is nothing for those fellows to eat their own words. In fact It forms tbe S. J. numbers, 878,000,000: beeves, There Is this about It--if tbe land was principal part of the D. ll.s diet, and CC0; prairie hay, lire stock I not worth anything oat In western Kan- CLARK, i Sherman Center, Kas.

that Is what their little article means, to Increase, oats, I sas; If the bexntlfull locations and tbe gt right a former one. I 'I sinimng valleys were not what men wbeat, tame bay and millet, 811,000,000 each; butter, 87,000,000. There are several other products that, run struggled for tbe world over, then there would be no county' seat wars out there. He i UnicrstaosL MBnt, father, shej protested, as the old 1 lato tho millions. A diagram showing Weekly Mall romSher- tie Increase and decrease of live stock tntn ceased speaking; "you do cot seem Kansas was born Into existence amidst jnst such throes, and from that time to this tbe value of the Inheritance the gentle Jay hawker has obtained bas been at to understand tbe case.

man Center. TO ALSO KESP A SUPFLY OF Ob, bat I do. I You shall never marry William, even Uhets ny confidential BLUE-: i SHERMAN GENTERi jKAS, "7 i 1 i I I i i i Carry a full lino of Staple andFonoy Grocerico, dtrfc." Father, yoa lour, NloQto, Canned for sevea years from S0 to S3 Inclusive. '3, No. of cattle 83, 3,000,000.

Ebeep for the period, E0, 84 siowa the maximum number to be 5 fiads them reduced to 875123; C1 to 51444. Swlae, '83, cUximnsi C5, Horses and male are on a steady tierttit. t0 sbswa 4252, and 3, TfeU Cgon are well wcrtb eiaact2y. They show two crest In-ttrtsfs fa a steady Increase, and two la- Ooodo Tobaoco. tested la many a hard fought contest among individual settle! a as well as organized communities fo tbe 'possession of farms and tbe location of town sites.

Tbe woild at large, jrbo We been taoght to believe that the greater part of vest-em Kansas is a sterile will open tbelr eyes when tbey jbear Low hotly people fight for home and tow ns oat there. Commonwealth! "ThaJt Is all, Helen say no more." i Four days later she wrote him from Tcrocto, asyiisjrs and I arrlml brs and vera narrld at once. bav cf taatjv It aH fStvea, or shall trt settle dawn bererf TEAGARDEN. BROTHERS. oiiz' jarp crs otjti gtocs.

lie tele grpbe4 his fcTrgivtaers. Si--1.