Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1895-10-19

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Miss Cliff is well known here having
served Trego county in the capacity
of register of deeds for two years,
from 1887 to 1889, and in a very ac-
ceptable manner.
Report of school in district Il for
the month ending October H. 1895:
Number of pupils enrolled s. Aver
age daily attendance 80. Number
Of DAYS taught 20. Number of cases
of hardness 8. Number of visitors l.
Annie Sturgeon was neither absent
nor tardy during the month. Mrs
Clara d. Smith, teacher.
The News County News poles fun
at our populists in these words: The
populiSts of Trego county apparently
could not find sufficient material in
their Darty-0f which to construct d
ticket, SO they went into the high
ways and bYWays and gathered in a
d few democrats who could read and
write to fill the horrid vOid.''
The Democratic convention, last
! Saturday, nominated the same ticket
which had been nominated by the
POpulists and in addition nominated
S. d. Thompson for coroner. In view
of this action by the Democrats we
ask once more, what is the difference
! between pop. and a dem. in TregO
/ county? Echo anSWerS-what.
The Kansas board OF agriculture,
which requires the law to supervise
the taking and compilation Of the
states census each tenth year follow
| ing 1875. has completed the tabulatiOn
of Inhabitants as returned by the as
SCISSORS for 1895. Compared with the
/ on OF nf ri
! counties show an increase Of from II
to I, IA, aggregating sc, 246. and six
] ty-One counties q decrease Of to 3,
/ 998. aggregating 80, 900. The net de-
crease is shown to have been but B.
663. After deduCting all losses from
all causes during that period the net
! increase in population since the state
census of 1885 is found to be 65, 1913.
The counties showing an increase of
over Loco in population during the
last year are: Cherokee 4.l44, DOni-
phan 1858, Labette 1,067, Leayen-
worth 1,405, Linn l,063, Usage 1,030,
Saline 1881, Shawnee 2,853, Washing
ton 1,194. The counties showing a
decrease Of over 1000 are: Cheyenne
l 315, Cowley / $50, Harper ,214. Nc
Pherson 1,042, Norton 1,040, Phillips
1856, Sherman 1892, Sumner 1888.
The present population Of Kansas ac-
cOrding to this census is ], 1874, 66S.
Colonel Charles L. Wood, of the Ma
tional, is something of a farmer,
though he wears a silk hat and carries
a cane when he is in Topeka. He has
d farm Of over 300 acres in Ellis coun-
ty, and every once in while he dis
appears and then he is at his farm
figuring his profits. He has just re-
tnpn06 from one Of those trims and is
prepared to show that farming pays
even in western Kansas and under adj
verse circumstances Colonel Wood
figures that the cost OF seeding the
1 land, 40 acres, harvesting and threSh-
ing and marketing the grain, and
everything in connection with the
crop this year S243, making the cost
per acre but 29& cents per buShel The
yield was q trifle over six bushels per
acre. He sold the wheat at 80 cents,
and therefore made net gain of
$165.25 on the wheat crop. He says
that this is y per cent on the invest
ment. This is certainly a remarka-
bic showing" said he, ''When the fact
is taken into consideration that the
Weld was in this case but SiXand three
tenths bushels per acre, and the price
being figured at SO cents when wheat
will always at some time in the year
sell for more than that. | consider
the business of wheat raising even in
western Kansas, at very small yield
a good investment. Topeka Journal
A Chicago dispatch said Tuesday
Ever since the famous traffic contract
was made between the Union Pacific
and the Chicago & Northwestern rail
roads whereby the former secured the
right to dictate the through rates
from the west to Chicago and the lat.
ter the through rates from Chicago tC
points on the Union Pacific west OF
Omaha, rumOrS have been current
that the NanderbiltS would sooner OF
later secure full control Of the Union
Pacific property.
A plan Of the reorganization of the
Union Pacific is now in course of prep
aration and the preliminary steps al
ready taken indicate beyond doubt
that when the Union Pacific gets out
J of the hands of the receivers it viii
be controlled by the Chicago & North
western which is one of the Wander
bilt roads.
The reorganization committee
which has just been announced, has
among its members Chauncy NJ. De
pew. president of the New York Cen
trail and Marvin Hughitt, president
of the Chicago & Northwestern
These two able lieutenants of the
7 Vanderbilt lines will no doubt be ablt
, to control the other members of the
committee who are mostly president:
of trust companies holding Union Pa
cific securities.
1t is believed that the Vanderbilt.
, now hold majority of the securities
At one time Jay Gould held con
trolling interest in the Union Pacific
: and this, it is said, has been absorbed
by the Nanderbilts. A deal is said tx
have been made between Georg,
l Gould and the VaRderbiltS whereby
the former is to be given control O
5 the Kansas Pacific, which is to bt
| operated by the Missouri Pacific
| while the latter will take the mail
line of the Union Pacific from Oman;
west and make it a part of the Chica
90 & Northwestern.
The OanderhiltS have no Use for + III