HAMILTON COUNTY


Organized January 29, 1886; named for Alexander Hamilton; County seat, Syracuse; area, 972 square miles, 622,080 acres; population (1915), 2253; assessed valuation (1915), $5,164,263; resources and industries—building stone, gypsum, stock raising, alfalfa, and grazing


SYRACUSE
Population (1915), 900; elevation, 3227 feet; established, 1873; name formerly Holidaysburg; name changed to Syracuse prior to 1878; industries—flour mills, machine shops, elevators; municipal electric light plant and water system; is on the Santa Fe railway
Syracuse Discontinued
Syracuse Short-lived--Vol. 1

HAMILTON COUNTY REPUBLICAN-NEWS, Republican; Earl C. Ross, editor and publisher, Syracuse
Weekly. Mar. 16, 1906 + 10 vols.
This paper is a continuation of the following: Syracuse News, founded 1898 by H. A. Lanman & Son; consolidated 1903 with the Syracuse Republican (2d), founded 1902 by Earl C. Ross, and continued as the Syracuse News until 1907, when it was consolidated with the Hamilton County Republican, founded 1906 by Charles E. Baxter, under the name Hamilton. County Republican and Syracuse News, G. R. Hickok, editor, and F. B. Williams, business manager; name changed 1915 to Hamilton County Republican-News, E. C. Ross, editor and publisher

JOURNAL, Democratic; Henry Block, editor and publisher, Syracuse.
Weekly. July 17,1885 + 30 vol.
Founded 1885; Lester & Armour, editors and publishers


DISCONTINUED

CITY PAPERS/DATES VOLS.
Syracuse Arkansas Valley Sentinel; Syracuse Sentinel. Apr. 20, 1900 - 1901 1
Democrat. Jan. 15 - Aug. 26, 1887 1
Democratic Principle. Oct. 12, 1887 - 1894 7
News. Mar. 25, 1898 - 1907 10
Republican (1st). Sept. 29, 1893 - 1900 6
Republican (2d). July 31, 1902 - 1903 1
Sentinel. Dec. 24, 1886 - 1889 3
Coolidge Border Ruffian. Jan. 2, 1886 - 1887 1
Citizen. Sept. 17, 1886 - 1890 4
Enterprise and Unmuzzled Truth. June 1, 1894 - 1899 5
Hamilton County Bulletin. Coolidge and Syracuse. Sept. 12, 1890 - 1893 3
Interstate. Jan. 20 - Oct. 27, 1893 1
Leader. Jan. 16, 1908 - 1910 2
Times. Nov. 3, 1887 - 1890 2
Enfield Tribune. Enfield and Ulysses. 1887.
See Grant County
Hartland Herald. 1886 - 1887.
See Kearny County
Times. 1886 - 1887.
See Kearny County
Johnson City World. 1886 - 1887.
See Stanton County
Kendall Boomer. Mar. 17, 1886 - 1887 4
Free Press. Dec. 7, 1889 - 1890 1
Gazette. Mar. 30 - Aug. 18, 1887 1
Ken; Signal. Feb. 12, 1886 - 1887 1
Shockeyville Eagle. 1886 - 1887.
See Grant County
Surprise Post. 1886.
See Grant County



SHORT-LIVED--VOL. 1

CITY PAPERS/DATES
Syracuse Standard. Sept. 2 - Nov. 12, 1897
West Kansas News. Mar. 23 - June 29, 1887
Coolidge Citizen (d). Oct. 25 - Nov. 24, 1888
Kendall Hamilton County Republican. May 6 - Sept. 9, 1886



 
 
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