The Oberlin Farmer from Oberlin, Kansas • 3

Oberlin Farmer. Soma Suooaaaful Farmers. Peter W. Nelson was born in Sweden, came to the United States iu 1872. and to Decatur country, Burlington Patriot Corn Bella here for cents by the wagon load.

Loose hay is worth $8 here baled hay is quoted at $7 to 13.50 for small bales, and $0 to 17 for 1'ubliahad the fuurlh Saturday in ery moulh. large bales, Timothy la quoted there is now a three story brick building iu course of construction size which has been leased for five years at an annual reutal of $1,900, or $9,500 for five years. The cost of the buildiug will not be half that sum. The price of labor is about as follows: Carpen-tera receive $4 per $2 plumbers from $5 to $0. A syndicate of small capitalists will purchase a few aores of land, lay it out in town lots, give it a Spanish name, advertise it for a few weeks, and after receiving reduced rates will be seen that lull? 250 families will be brought Into this country 'during the coming season, and all of the most Industrious snd frugal class of people In the world.

This Is a great scheme, snd it brought to a successful termination, will be one ot the bent things that eould bap-pen to this county-, Colby iMmocraU John Jlnkens and brother threshed 290 bushels ot oats last week. They weighed 38 lb per bushel, making 64 bushels more than machine measure or properly speaking, 844 bushels, nearly 34) bushels per acre, as ten acres was the amount sown. Mr. Jinkens has sold over 100 bushels of potatoes of bis last year's crop. 8ncll Collins threshed 114 bushels ot millet seed.

Oberlin Land District. Ob.rliq Opinion, March II. Marietta, of Vinton, lows, brother of II. K. of tills place, arrived In the city yesterday.

I. C. Uuy returned from California Wednesday, Us returns satisfied to stay in Oberlin. Itsnkln 4 McOee shipped two carloads of stock cuttle to Brownvllle, last Wednesday. J.

K. Kulp and IV. A. Mount have bought a thoroughbred Aberdeen bull and will keep him on thuir farms two tulles north of the city. Mr.

snd Mrs. 11. Beardsley arrived In Oberlin Wednesday evening on the passenger. We understand Mr. B.

has shipped bis household effects back here and Intends remaining with Oberlin In the at 110 to 111- Nemaha Republican! A. I). Force Co. shipped from this point last week upwards of 1,700 dozen eggs, for which they paid either cash or goods, as desired. This represents at least $800 per month to farmers.

Who van beat the record! The Swedea of Kansas have built, at Lindsborg, one of the finest colleges iu the west. This college is not a real estate agency Kansas, in May, 1870, and settled iu the Swede settlement, near Shibboleth, where be has remained ever since. lie commenced here with a capital not exceeding $409. He now has 100 acres deeded land and a timber culture entry, making 320 acres total, 4 bead of horses, 13 head of cattle. Iu this settlement there are about 35 Swedish voters.

John Van Buskirk was born in Tompkins county, New York, and came to Decatur county, Kansas, in November, 1880, settling near Cedar Bluffs, where he has since lived. He has 320 acres deeded Kansas News, Twins came to seven bappy mothers in Troy during 1887. Kansas fans oue hundred and eighty-eight Masonic lodgei. Kansas pays out $4,000,000 every year for her schools. That is a good showing.

A beaver weighing thirty-sev-en pounds was caught near Scan-dia a few days ago. A vein of blue magnesia lime stone is said to have been discovered in liutlcr county. A Stockton real estate firm recently sold $24,000 worth of Eooks county laud to parties in Illinois. llepresentative Cyan has introduced a bill appropriating for a public building at Em from the railroads, they start out with one or two brass bands and amid the blare of trumpets the auction begins. They play lively airs, get the people worked up and sell a large quantity of sand piles future Norcatur Register.

Byron Wray, of Long Branch, is ar- r.A. a. Aiiurews, oroiuer-in-iaw vi nngnf( t0 bU(. a frfme houMt Ed. Cramer, arrived with bis family from tbn lumber bill costs about $500.

Indllana this week and Intend to make Decatur county their permanent home. Hoxie Democrat, February 3. Word from S. K. Emery, who went to CallfornlaTrcports that he will be back In a few days.

The country is not what It and ICO acres under homestead, Mr. J. II. Evans, of Ohio, was In the city Friday. Mr.

Evans owns considerable real estate In Rawlins county and Is on bis way there to look after his making 480 acres total, 14 horses, 05 head of cattle, 13 head of bogs. Is represented, and there are twenty men I there for every job of work. He will i 1 1 1 at fabulous prices. Eight miles back from the city land is held at from $000 to $1000 per acre. You can't raise vegetables for a business, for the Chinamen are engaged iu it, and that means starvation to white men.

Oranges and grapes are raised in large quantities, but their abundance compels you to sell them at a price at which there is but little profit. Cattle but is a thing of reality, with seven departments, sixteea Instructors and 350 students The buildings are large and the equipment new. Kansas is trying to encourage silk production, and has, by act of legislature, established a Btation where eggs will be distributed and reelers educated. Ten acres have been set out with mulberry trees, and fifteen reels are now running, producing, it is said, excellent silk. The Washington city couueil has passed an ordinance for the voting of bonds to the amount of He lias a frame house, with cellar 16x20 feet, costing $700.

S. II. McClaurey was born in Delaware county, New York. Came to Decatur county iu April, 1870. He now owns 480 acres of 1 uiaae oueriuan county nis future oome Oberlin H.rid, M.rch and not leave any more.

Very encouraging reports relative to Later He arrived on the stage yester-the extension the Central Branch to day, and will slay here forever. Oberlin In the near future, were received Tralne schooners are passing through here last week. our town dally. W. D.

Street Is making active prepara-1 i a Watson woa in the ty mat 8un- tions to plant a large quantity ot the va-: 1 1 day and reports the farmers all at work rlous garden seed adapted to this soil and Ma nf poria. Prof. Sweuson says that sorghum sugar can be produced as cheap in Kansas as cane sugar in Louisiana. Emigration to Kansas cannot be arrested. In this respect emigration resembles Mr.

Tascott, says the Emporia Republican. Kansas population has increas- land, 7 head of horses, 30 head of itan 1)6 with profit. Pasbdeua is a little place of cattle and 6 hogs. He has 200 acres Every one but dudes are In their shirt ed 100,000 each year for the past $10,000 for the building of a city seven years, and will double that hall, and $3,000, to the Washington of his land fenced to pa3ture. Mr.

al)0ut 8flM inhabitants and the ex. McClaurey is a member of of the boom here may be A. K. and his postofflca address is jjffed from the following incident: Oberlin. i Ture yni ago a lot ou one of the principal streets sold for $020 now Win.

J. OToole was born in La 1'(K)0 1er front fot is demanded. Fayette county, came to l)e-The land between LosAngelesand catur county, Kansas, in San Francwco is very good, but 1878, and settled near Hooker, of tbit tfc principally sand i .1 IC.ll number in the next seven. Miuing company to aid iu prospect- Jamestown Kansau: There isjing for coal. Active work will an excellent opening in James- commence on the city hall about town for a good baker who thor-1 the 25th of March.

climate, and expects to keep the Oberlin market well supplied with tho earliest varieties of vegetables grown. Much tg. Work will commence In a short time on N. lilepold new brick business block. Several carloads of household effects have been unloaded at this station within the past ten days.

The Rock Island ofllclnls say they baye not abandoned their Intention of going to Denver by way of the "Northern Tier." D. Street recently refused $50 per acre for a ten acre block of land in the northwest corner of his quarter. Land Is sleeves for the last two weeks. How Is that for bleeding Kansas In February. I Land buyers are coming into our country every day and before the weather Is settled we will have plenty and then our land men will be happy again.

There Is a chance for us to get a -sugar lactory If our people take the right kind of Interest In the move. A brick yard will be started Id Hoxie as soon as the Irost Is out ot the ground. Look out tor the creamer'. There Is a move on foot to build one. Three stoty hotel in the city as soon as the brick can be burnt.

nr I- which is his postoftice aildt'ona 1 ienujiiii iuu Bin it) tlUUICBB, f. 1 nnmnnrha lilra liot nf Arkansas and Texas. For persons in search of a fine climate, south where he has resided ever since, His business has been farming and 1 Btock growing. He commenced! with a capital not to exceed $750. ern California mar be recommend-1 ed but the poor man who has to I InltAH 4s 4lA a a a nn A a AP 1 A land In the vicinity of Oberlin.

Udell G7ette. Oberlln's new $10,000 school house is The people are leellng quite jubilant. beginning to assume shape. i There are two surveys run iron) Oberlin Dirt is flying fast and furious on the through to Chardon by the B. M.

If Kock Island south of here. we get a road through to Chardon we will have one of the finest towns In tSe oughly understands the business. Salina Herald While Kansas farmers are getting ready for the spring plowing the people of Dakota are shoveling away the drifts of the last blizzard. Osborne Journal: The annual meeting of the Northwestern Kansas Association of Congregational ministers aud churches meets at Smith Centre on April 5th. Phillipsburg Dispatch: The Kock Island graders commenced work west of Norton Tuesday and the work will be pushed forward it wriiou! tv'rsjtpiiiK iiiiiil tiio Vint Jewell Monitor; In November, 188G, S.

A. Maiz put thirty-six German carp into his pond. The fish at that time were about an inch and a half long, and about eighth of an inch iu thickness. Some of them are now 15 iuhces long and weigh 31 ounces, five of them died during the past winter. The city of McPherson is erecting a central and high school building, which will soon be completed.

It will cost $20,000 and is a model of school architecture. AiAitr fii jip.w features is an as-s tiiliiy room tfcutpd with opera lie now owns 4, head of cattle, 8. 8honIdcoMider well the cogt of head of horses, 15 head of hogs. I those articles and keep away from all the usual farm implements and there. In San Diogo coal oil sells 500 acres of land, all deeded and fr 30 cents per gallon, flour $6.00 well improved.

hundred pounds, coal $20 per 1 ton, wood $10 per cord, lumber $22 01 per 1,000 feet good board from M. J. Chapman, who resides at 10 to' $22 per week. Jackson, was born in Holmes 1 Eastern Tenderfoot. county, as the location cannot be beaten.

A number of our farmers are making Atwood Citizen, March 93. The rain on last Sunday night has put the ground In splendid condition for) county, Ohio, and came to this county in May. 1883. He has a wa- Where Kansana Came From. arrangements to sow alfalfa this spring.

The Gazette has ever held that the cultivation of this clover will yield larger profits to our farmers than any oilier crop. Hence we hope they will give it a thorough and fair trial. It should be remembered that one of tlje essentials of success In ftgjdlsja careful and ter mill costing $700.00 and 320j ynereJtCnS three-qnar-acres of land, a frame dwclhnj tera of people who now dwell In Kansas spring work. Uncle Pete Elmore, father of J. C.

Elmore, our harness maker, came in irom Stella, Nebraska, on Saturday of last week. Mr. Elmore has decided to locate here and will live in the north part of town for a few months and then friovq chair, ud especially arranged for costing over $1,000, and has one come from, asks the Garden City Hwntlnel Kiowa Vonnty farmers are I .1 7.. 4..., I. Hunt crnnA tuannla In tlin nlv tlitla nlil rv in v.

iiiij.iii nt uranue t-nnm turn. .1 11c .1 arasaau Thorough preparation gruuiiu. paring lor the largest acreage of t. iM7 maD I states east of the Hudson river have an no raiseu in iwi was ihiu croo crops ever tilled in the history of idea they have sent most of the immigrants that have settled up Kansas with out to his place. i The ground baa never been in as good condition as at the present time.

The farmers of Rawlins county should do Geuda Simncs Herald: The Gazette will publish from time to time the opinions ot farmers who have experience in this branch of agriculture and their methods. the county. ground, owing such wonderlul rapidity, and It will prob- bushels of onions, from 1 1-4 acres, 250 bushels of potatoes, from 1 1-2 acres, 5,000 cabbage from 1 1-2 acres. About ten acres of corn, averaging 30 bushels, and 80 tons of wild hay, from 16 acres. He ably be hard to convince them to the contrary.

In fact they are very wide of the mark. While we are favored by the presence ot thousands ot valuable citizens ineir utmost mis eeiuiuu, ymut evei.y uvio they can In grain that is most adapted to the climate, which Is most every kind, Real Estate Transfers. and 8llOW the people or Other States What The following real estate transfers are furnished Rnwllna countv can do If she lias halt a vtM p- L- Ashcraft, Register of Deeds and from the far eastern states, some ot whom Abstractor. Transfers for the week ending Satur- has also made small experiments i took a very prominent part in the trying with timothy and clover, and has troubled scenes of the settlement, W.I ervouA woo Mr. m.antllP.n rt lh ,8 Und Wn8 show.

March 13. The mill bought 1 bushels of wheat op Wednesday, day, March 94, 1888: A Lloyd and wife to Lelia Burrus, lot 6 block 4, Sappa addition to Oberlin 600 00 Lewis A Kaufman and wife to Hilbert are authorized to announce that a new brick hotel is to be built at Gucda Springs. Ground has been broken, and the excavation will be pushed the coming week. A Wichita syndicate will build the imposing structure. It will be three stories high, including the mansard story and roof.

It will be 117x100 feet. The Wa-Keeney World believes in trees tieinand darning the head of every draw. Trees grow rapidly, a reservoir of water would to the recent heavy rains, is in splendid condition. Meade County Times The alfalfa sown last year by 15. McDowell withstood the drouth of last summer and the severe frosts of last winter, and is commencing to show up well.

The first apple orchard in Kansas consisted of 150 trees brought all the way from Illinois in a wagon, and planted in Douglass county in 1855. To-day the state has 30,000,000 fruit trees. is a member of the Masonic order. the great mass of our population was of the west, western. The last volume of re- nnrii nnlillitliarl hv tha stutn linn (I nf nir.

On Tuesday the Keystone Mills at this Kaufman, setf 300 00 nlace sold the merchants of Sherman and i Mo 'ry Eabeth Krad- I -j -1- A Warning Cry rlculturo contains a full abstract of the bury, eji swjf swj sw section 35, and ma Cheyenne counties 0,000 pounds of flour, which was hauled off In wagons the next Cnandl and wif. t0 Lillie Mark, day; they also sold to merchants ot Thorn-! block 10. Marks-Cole ad to oberlin iooc oo as COHnty, poiinUS Ot UOUr. ine'O uampneu ana wile to saranA wn- son, lots 4 and 5, block 3, Kodehaver's ad to 800 00 1 1B formfld which wonld rive mois- Jetmore Scimitar There is a 4, ami state census taken March 1, 1885, and among much other exceedingly interesting and valuable matter, it contains a table showing exactly how our population is made up, where born and where they came from to Kansas. -It is good reading, bnt we only have room for a few leading facts.

We have been surprised to see how few people from these eastern states have come here to find homes, and we venture the opinion that our readers tit TT James Wiltsey and wife to Mary Riggs, lot 10, block ia, Norcatur 80000 Lincoln I Co. to James Wiltsey, lot 10, block 13, Norcatur. 133 00 Lincoln Land Co. to Thomas Comer, farmer in the western part of the mills nt this place have got the reputation of making the bent flour sold in Northwest Kansas anil Southwest Nebraska, and are working up a splendid trade for a new mill. Blakeman Democrat, March 14.

Three carloads of immigrants goods Kansas City Times. San Diego, March 1. Please publish the following facts in regard to Southern Cali. fornia for the benefit of working-men who contemplate coming to this section. Southern California is practically a desert.

San Deigo is a mushroom city of 30,000 people, about 200 of whom are engaged, in the real estate business, whose sole occupation is to boom property, and they are doing it too at the expense of the Inexper 75 00 lot 4, block 10, Norcatur Sarah A Wilson and husband to Campbell, lots 3 and btock 36, Johnston's addition to Oberlin will in-. mnrnxn hniinri fur joo 00 From Maine l.o83 c. imnnlu Till tjuciiiinii tUUUlTl AtlO imui, 701 From New HaiiiDshire George Wyatt and wife to Kulp Boyles, swj 37-3-38 600 00 Cole Tilden and Keys to William Dale lot 3, block 3, Marks-Cole addition to From Massachusetts 1,357 From lihode 640 From Connecticut From Vermont 1,800 1 Oberlin is time induce springs lower iu the draw. This seems to be practical and would cost but little. The trees would certainly be a great benefit.

Centralia Journal We learn by patrons of the Centralia cheese factory that a dividend was declared for the last two months' run last 'season which netted the patrons the handsome sum of nine ty five cents hundred pounds; This enterprise is a great help to our city, and we learn that it is to be enlarged, more machinery put in, and run on a larger scale than ever next year. county who has one hundred aud sixty acres iu wheat, and is going to put one hundred acre's in corn and sixty acres in oats. Girard Press: L. Brown had two of the largest and two of the smallest steers in a carload weighed. The first two weighed 1712 and 1840 pounds aud the last two 1660 and 1570 pounds respectively.

Lawrence Journal: Wm. Brown has received a Jersey bull calf, a grandson of Stake Pagis 3rd, who sired Mary Anne of St. Lambert, from which a remarkable amount of butter was made, namely 30 8,782 posed of many loads of lmute)ild goods, farming utensils and large assortment of young and old folks systematically 1 graded to suit conditions. Farmers in this community have received between $6,000 and $7,000 for the hogs thev delivered at this station since business opened here in December. It would seem as though this sum ought! 3400 00 ienced eastern men.

The town has i been laid out until San Deigo with its additions is thirty miles iu I length, and the only visible im- provements on the most of the A little more than 8,000 all told. Now look at the Ill's Illinois, Iowa and From Illinois ....104,080 Moses Bradbury to Elizabeth Bradbury 'A v'4 WK section 35, and se setf 36-5-36 John Hitchcock and wife to Miller lot 4, block 3, Sappa ad to Oberlin Miller and wife to Robert Miller, lot 4, block 3, Sappa ad to Oberlin. Judson Foltz and wife to Robert Miller, lots 13, 13 and 14, block 9, Summit ad to Oberlin. Nelson Brawner to Wm. A Loreland, 30 00 From Iowa 1.

11 vii iriiiiti wiivM LuwiiiuN necunitt hid: 550 00 additions are painted white inuiana fmm (be ()jor wl be ni on Which are painted the Streets .307.342 large number of hogs raised here nextj and numbers. An eastern man is i Even imperial New York has sent us geason. Neorly every farmer has from 1300 00 neJi 35-5-9- sou 00 o.Btninlioil at tlift nriPUB nskpil i 24,085, while Ohio Sent and; one to thirty brood SOWS, and as this Nelson Brawner and wire to Wm. A astoniSlieu at Hie prices asKea 42m 0urnext neighbor COunty raises a great deal more coin than; Loveiund, kt so.biock r.ck-. to here; Still it sells, and chiefly tooii tmj'nortlli Nebla8ka, gent as almost 'cm be used at present, there will eastern people.

The country back as many a8 New Vork, namely, 20,038. plenty to fatten hogs on. avH ction ,1 of San DeigO for a distance of while Colorado on the west sends 5,515, 4-3o r. tntiAd ia nraata laud i and old Missouri Oil the east COineS down Bird City News. Clark A Green and wife to Wm.

A Love- pounds and 12 3-4 ounces iu seven dayB. Newton Republican By this time next year Kansas will have a population of 2,000,000 people, 800 00 A Magnificent Offer. We will give cash premiums as follows for six months subscribers to The Fabmbr Cash must in all cases accompany the names. The names may be sent in at dif nr. Ai.t.af..,ra' land.wU swtf swtfnwW section 33 and It currently reported, on our streets 1600 00 pmitainhiD-liprft nnil thpr ft littlfl 1 wun iwIM containing here and mere a little 8 0ld 8ends 6il54 sejf nejf 31-4-030 vaiiey 01 lenue lanu occupieu uy an(, Wegt Vlrglnltt 4,303, or together Just some one engaged ui bee raising aU0ut to nil New England.

was last Friday, that a syndicate of English capitalists were on a deal with the presl-', dent ot the Northwest Cattle Company, lor the purchase ot large quantities of land belonging to the said company. A News reporter Immediately bunted up! those who would know If the report was 1 true, and found that it was. By the sale 1 The increase thereafter, even if not another emigrant should cross the state line, will be sufficiently rapid for the wholesome development of the state. Garden City Sentinel A Sen- Orrica or SccciAt Rainfall Oiisrrvek, Oiiekun, Kansas, March 31, 1888. The records of my office for the last six months show the following number of inches rainfall September 4-A5 October 30 November.

.33 December ferent times with the amount necessary to pay subscriptions, and they will be credited to your account on the premium offer. Always say when sending names or as a vegetable garden. It can-', Old Kentucky has 25,025 of her former not be truthfully asserted that San jolthtens among us, and then Tennessee adds 13,528 more of the same sort In Deigo will ever make a manufac-, territory l8 repre. turing town, for they have neither pted here ftg weI! n8 ai10Bt eVery coun- January. February.

99 1 42 coal nor iron in sufficient quality try In the civilized world, though the to-1 the syndicate becomes possessors of about March (to date) or nuautitv to ilist fv such a State-1 tal from all foreign countries is only w.uuo acres or lanu in jNormwesi uan-: 8oj timjl representative was talking i To my account on cash premium with a Garfield county farmer re- offer Cently WllO liaS fifty-eight head Ofi To th person sending us the largest eurcber of tt Ufcra, six i rs I 1 i ment. Their cOal supply is ship-! OiO 01 WIIOIH Are iroui ueniinilVa Msnnil ouuiiiwvst iieuinain, iui miiuii as the above ngures uiciuae aiso ine it mo tun ui 0.C23 from England and Wales, 3.082 from they pay the snug little sum of $408,000. TZrJSSStt the north or is; Mrge.Tnr:.e""r:..":::. 1 either from months subscribers before May isU Ireland and 10,030 from Sweden, Norway In the purchase and sale ot these lands, i uary to 37th. Prior to and since that time, with and Denmark.

brought in vessels from England, tbejarger part of which is obtain some belonging to private parties were ,0 degrees above sero. Included, and neirly $100,000 remains in the hands of parties In this But after all the native born Kansans ses and mules. He says that he Third largest list -o has been called upon to feed these Address The Fabmeb, Lock animals only seven days during Box A Oberlin, Kansas. outnumber any other class, amounting to ed from the latter source. Al of which lMce McDonald gets $37,000, t.lifi wliolfl wint.pr.

t.h a hnffiiln orrnan Iast Friday was our first visit to the Wichita ot the west, in three lllrd $23,000 and Kerndt Bros. $7,000, Hoxie Democrat, March a. J'he railroad surveyors have arrived In 0- in li; 1. furnishing feed the constructed, rents are extortion-! wt.re.imigtbedMemed a remarkably good! The scheme of the syndicate Is to send "M1" J.6 'aXttu ate. Small Ottages of two or gIOwlng.

fully proving that "babies are over a colony of English fanners, to till gtory Wh-V business "locks in the lie says renitwicr -i three rooms rent from $20 to $30 a sure cro; In Kansas," as hope they the soli, as they propose to put a colonist tluit time, and is still growing. Atwond some of his cattle are fat enough dl rnorlg aronB'Mni. Bown on every quartor section of tho land, It Citizen. month. To my knowledge wl" h'- for beef.

I In his part of the country. per.