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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1896
Page
5
The article lists NATIONAL BODY US SENATE officials in Omaha andstate officers, local governor and court posts, land office officials, and legislative districts. It inventories boards, teachers, churches, and numerous fraternal and women's groups with meeting times and officers for Sidney, North Platte, Gothenburg, and nearby towns.
LAND OFFICE AT SIDNEY NEB NOW P ST. Notice is hereby given that Charles Nelson has filed a notice of intention to make dual proof before the Register or Receiver at his office in Sidney Nebraska on Monday the Star day of December Iva. Application No 27 for the mineral location New town site etc. Witnesses named George Fowerstein Nels kdner Albert Larson and Charles Erickson all of Potter Nebraska. Jound Adams Register.
Notice is hereby given that the following named settler has filed notice of his intention to make final proof in support of his claim. Proof will be made before the Register or Receiver at Sidney Nebraska on January 38 1807. Lars Jacobson HE MN 1445 for the nw sec 34 tp 1n rang 52w names witnesses John Nelson Ole Nelson Albert Bellander and Peter J Backmin all of Potter Nebraska. John M Adams Register.
One settler John Fo Scannell applies for final proof on his entry No 3185 for the east half and southwest quarter section 21 10. He will prove residence and cultivation December 19 before the Sidney Nebraska Register or Receiver. Witnesses: William Elter Charles Swanger John Hanway RP Scott all of Lateer Nebraska.
Public notices announce an abandonment contest for Homestead Entry No. 1092 in Cheyenne County and a highway lease across Union Pacific right of way. Objections and damages claims must file by noon March 1897. Road description covers Lodge Pole to Sidney Potter regions with 66 foot width and parallels to railroad lines.
The document records a lease by The Union Pacific Railway Company and Receivers of a 100 foot strip through Cheyenne County Nebraska with options to terminate by six months notice. It grants entry rights for fire guards and periodic reentry for plowing to protect the right of way, plus formal signatures from company officials and county commissioners dated 1896 to 1898.
Chicago Times-Herald recounts Rev. W. J. White of Augusta Georgia editor of a Baptist weekly choosing to side with African Americans. A mulatto ancestry claim given, he discovers Indian and white parents, remains with the Black community, leads among them, marries a mulatto, and endures social division while pursuing equality.
The St Louis Republic notes that moonlight is merely reflected sunlight and that it would take 618000 full moons to match the sun's output. Heat from moonlight is minuscule, at most one eightiethousandth of the sun's heat on a July meridian, making any supposed strong lunar influence hard to justify.
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