Wells of Water in Western Nebraska Prove Deep Myths Wrong
The article reports on diverse wells across Keith and Cheyenne County showing water at shallow depths, challenging the notion that water veins require deep digging to Platte level. It notes specific wells near Big Springs Lodge Pole Sidney and Pine Bluffs, plus surveys confirming shallow water, and mentions rising drilling activity and a nascent Sidney telephone venture.
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Keith
Cheyenne
Platte
Richardson and
Johnson
Big Springs
Lodge Pole
Township
George Bill
Sidney
Henry Witt
Vannico
Paine
M. B Reese
Nebraska Supreme Court
Pine Bluffs
Ashland
Domer & Teeter
J.T. Clarkson
Antelope
tAurora
Nebraska
Town Eyes Local Harness and Furniture Stores
Spruce street plans a new harness shop and residents urge a furniture store to replace sending purchases elsewhere. Community whispers a cattle drive may bring 165,000 head through town this summer.
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Spruce Street
Selail
Railroad officials tour Sidney for yard and depot improvements
General Superintendent Dorrance Assistant Superintendent Deadland and Road master McGregor arrived from Cheyenne ahead of No 2. They inspected railroad property and outlined plans to extend yards eastward, build dirt embankments, install a crossing, lower the depot platform to track level, and widen the platform west of the depot hotel. A sewer crew from North Platte may be reassigned here and coal chutes could be installed to reduce shovel work.
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Dorrance
Deadl
McGregor
Cheyenne
Sidney
Deucl
North Platte
Military
Sidney Notes and Military Matters from The Sunday Herald
A stream of town visitors and movers details many residents from Kearney Lincoln and nearby towns arriving in Sidney. Military notes discuss Gen Henry A. Morrow as judge advocate general candidate with wartime gallantry cited and future postings noted along with officers and horses arriving from Paris for local stables.
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Henry A. Morrow
Michigan
Twenty-first Infantry
Swaim
Morrow
Sunday Herald
Gettysburg
Washington
D.C
U. S
Fort Sidney
Washington Herald
Wyoming
Montana
Utah
Washington Territory
Nebraska
Coldblooded murder suspect Lang Keyes flees justice
Valentine Republican reports Lang Keyes killed Flo a saloon mistress during lunch at Carter's saloon and fled west. Keyes, from Texas four years in the country, is described as dangerous, with a brother Johnny Keyes who killed two men in Omaha last year. Earlier he shot Ed Wohrly at Ogulalla and was freed after a preliminary examination.
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Valentine Republican
Carter
Flo
Lang Keyes
Keyes
Texas
Johnny Keyes
Omaha
Ed Wohrly
Ogulalla
Wohrly
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Itssis
Agenta
Rock Springs
John Holden
Maier
Sidney, Ned
Cziza
Tar
Chappell
Jomimy O'Neill
Ned
Chung Lee
Ordera
West Endow
Bidney, Nebraska
Mtora
Rose Street
Sidney, Neb
Ichange
Koop
E. Boettcher
Nedraska
Ranch and Cattle
J. A. Carly
Rine
Peresinger & Sutherland, Props
Adam Ickes
Sidney, Nebraska
Fred
Cuntiss
Iss
Les Anderson
County Land Office
Aisa
Suumee
Cres Railroad
Omce
Lockwood House
R.R. Depot
Brebrasika
Potter, Nerrabka
Potter Lumber Yaberd
Minneapolis
Minn
Curtiss & Anderson
Potter, Neb
T. Clarke
General Merchandise
Camp Clarke
Fort Laramie
Fort Robinson
Black Hills
White River
Chas. Wells
Powell & Whitney
Wwizolesale and Retail
Girioicie
Lers
Ivebrasika
G. W. McKinney
Bidney
N.M Fitcch
Kearney
Hyde
Lincoln
Booth
A. B. Persinger
Canada
John F. Kelly
Mitchell Bottom Ranch
John Anderson
Brownson
Radcliffe
Cedar Creek
Meldrum
J ‘I Clarkson
Howard
Vannice, Whitaker & Co
H H. Libby
Metropolis
J H. Coughlin
J B. Robinson
Antelopeville
Mead
Jewett
Arlington
Neb
L. Samples
Upper Pumpkin Creek
Illinois
L E. Brown
Oga- Iulla
Methodist Church
O.D. Lyon
John O'Leary
Potter
Lb Woodruff
York Democrat
Woodruff
Cheyenne County
AE Ricker
Chicago
Morris
New York
Fort Bayard
Mfec
North River
J S Wright
Pumpkin Creek
Ugh Holland
Ed Hartman
Chas Bowen
John R Menscer
L D Jones
Dawn
Gen. Morrow
Burton
Department of the Missouri
Leavenworth
Nazen
Cornish
Fifth Cavalry
Schon
Fourth Infantry
Blunt
Morges
Mescars
Marion
Raymond Auzias-Turenne
Paris
France
Chas Trognitz
Vigoureux
Normandy
Pray
el Mahdi
Algeria
Monsieur de Lalaubie
Duke of
Castries
Kabir
Count de Bellefont
A I. Kimsh
Ed. Wohrly
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