Kansas Newspapers History By County

KEARNY COUNTY

Organized March 27, 1888; named for Gen. Phillip Kearny; County seat, Lakin; area, 864 square miles, 552,960 acres; population (1915), 2316; assessed valuation (1915), $5,672,404; resources and industries—building stone, gypsum, irrigation projects, agriculture, and stock raising

LAKIN
Population (1915), 480; elevation, 2998 feet; established, 1874; named for David L. Lakin, of Topeka; telephones, electric light; is on the Santa Fe railway.
Lakin Discontinued
Lakin Short-lived--Vol. 1

KEARNY COUNTY ADVOCATE, Republican; W. E. Slavens, editor and publisher, Lakin.
Weekly. May 23, 1885 + 30 vol.
Founded 1885 by F. R. French and C. O. Chapman; consolidated 1895 with the Lakin Union, founded 1895 by H. S. Gregory, and which issued but two numbers; consolidated 1911 with the Lakin Investigator, founded 1911 by F. R. French

DISCONTINUED

CITY	PAPERS/DATES	VOLS.
Lakin	Herald. May 13 - Dec. 30, 1882	1
	Index. May 3, 1890 - 1898	8
	Investigator. Apr. 13, 1898 - 1911	13
	Pioneer Democrat. Jan. 12, 1886 - 1890	5
Deerfield	Farmer. Dec. 22, 1904 - 1905	1
	News. Apr. 22 - Oct. 14, 1909	1
Hartland	Herald. Feb. 27, 1886 - 1891	5
	Kearny County Coyote. Chantilly, Omaha and Hartland. Jan. 1, 1887 - 1890	3
	Times. Apr. 2, 1886 - 1887	2

SHORT-LIVED--VOL. 1

CITY	PAPERS/DATES
Lakin	Eagle. May 20 - Oct. 10, 1879
	Union. Mar. 28, 1895
Hartland	Standard. Dec. 24, 1888 - Mar. 2, 1889
	Lakin Independent. June 29, 1915 + (June 29, 1915 - July 30, 1932, on microfilm)

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