Western Nebraska Growth Surges Across County and Towns
The county shows rapid progress with new settlements from Lodge Pole to Kimball and growth along the railroad towns including Sidney and Chappell. Population nears 3,000 with vote totals rising from 432 to 778, and builders expend thousands on residences and stone blocks. Prospects for the new year are bright as settlers plan crops and influxes double.
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Nebraska
Lodge Pole
Sidney
Kimball
Lodge Pola
North Platt
Poitier
Chappell
Denver Junction
Colorado
Big Sprints Lave
Cheyenne County
Senator Van Wyck bill creates Cheyenne land district in Nebraska
The proposal by Senator Van Wyck would establish the Cheyenne land district in Nebraska with a land office to be placed where the president directs. It authorizes a register and a receiver, paid like other state land office officers, to manage duties in the new district. The measure outlines the district boundaries and official appointment process. A separate note mentions the Union Pacific railway’s fourth excursion from Omaha on January 13 with a round trip fare of $100, and contact details for J H Green in Omaha for information.
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van Wyck
Cheyenne Land District
Senate
House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
Nebraska
Baterrenterynships
Uy Curtend
Colorado
State
Union ‘Pacific
Omaha
Ogden
Union Pacific
Sacramento
Los Angeles
Southern Pacific
J. IL. Green
Neb
Murder verdict in first degree for Jim Rapriakis
The district court jury found Jim Rapriakis guilty of murder in the first degree after evidence showed he killed two men in a quarrel. The defense argued insanity, but five doctors and witnesses testified to his guilt and awareness, while the prosecutor urged full punishment for the crime against Reynolds’s victims’ widow and orphans.
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Jim Rapriakis
Reverend Wright Addresses Methodist Church Audience
Rev Edmund Wright, late superintendent of the American Bible Society of Missouri, visiting his daughter Mrs Whitney, spoke at the Methodist church last Sunday. He noted 1809 Bible scarcity, 4 million copies, England's society formation, America's 1860 start, 6 thousand Bibles printed, 1.6 million last year, NT translated into nearly 300 languages, and broad foreign work, with US reports showing one in twelve households without a Bible.
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Edmund Wright
American Bible Society
Missouri
W ‘T Whitney
Methodist Church
Bible Society
England
Sfteen
Society
Masquerade Fills Seats As Masks Come Off
About forty maskers attended the masquerade last Monday night with common and comical masks. The crowd overflowed the seats and then the floor filled with skaters after 9 o'clock. An eight piece Twenty first infantry brass band supplied music. A visiting polo team played at the rink with Mana ger Paine, Harry High, Jack Brennan, R. S. Oberfelder and Geo. Wartman on the home side. visitors won. Miss Tonie Bernau, noted fancy and prick skater, will appear next Thursday evening. New ads for John O Neill lead agent Chappell and Caldwell Vedder lumber dealers Lodge Pole appear.
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Fok Smusementa
Twenty-first Infantry
Cuusday
Paine
Harry High
Jack Brennan
R. S. Oberfelder
Geo. Wartman
Misa Tonie Bernau
County Commissioners Approve Bonds and Call Big Springs Special Election
Cheyenne county Nebr Board of County Commissioners meets with A J Walrath J B Stetson and J J McIntosh. They approve bonds for county officers and issue liquor permits, deny one in Lodge Pole precinct, and consider a Big Springs precinct vote to issue 10000 in bonds for a South Platte wagon bridge with a July 1 1886 date and annual interest 7 percent.
Cheyenne County approves Big Springs bridge bond plan
The Cheyenne County Board of Commissioners orders a special election in Big Springs precinct to vote on ten thousand dollars in bridge bonds for a wagon bridge over the South Platte River. The measure includes a seven percent interest rate, annual interest payments from New York’s state fiscal agency, and a tax levy to pay interest and principal. The election is set at the Union Pacific Depot on a January date, with voters choosing for or against the bond issue and annual tax.
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Big Springs
Board of County Commissioners
Sidney
Cheyenne County
Neb
A. J. Walrath
J B Stetson
J J McIntosh
A Pease
Bond
Willotnston
Antelope
Julia Shelton
Rogers & Robertson
Lodge Pole
DV Moore
Omaha
Moore
Big Springs Precinct
South Platte River
City of
New York
J M Hamilton
John E Erslow
Siver Johnson
F M Miller
Geo Bennett
P E Buzzell
E A Phelps
A W Mickell
M Morrissey
W A. Hunter
Geo Mitchell
W G Plummer
Jas L Appley
G Metzen
A Ho Tyler
John H Abbot
Walter Kimball
George Warren
R. H W Ferguson
Fred. Greger
R Y D Root
George Bert
G. H. King
W A Waterman
John Root
Wm Greese
AC. Gehrke
John G. Skhemratt
G E Thompson
B Clark
W J Angelo
G S. Kinsman
W. ‘Win
L C Loyd
Con W Lloyd
I. C. Gurnel
Chas B Smith
W. D Roberts
Wm Laschke
Paul Feulty
Charles Root
B A Root
Phillip Christ
K* McCor
Culyenne Couinty
FE. Thompson
G S Kineman
Clark
Abbot & Kimball
Cheyenne
Nebraska
United States
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