24 Mar 1888
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Newspaper
Sidney Telegraph
Location
Sidney, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Mar 24, 1888
Page
1
Merchants Bank advertises general banking services including buying and selling foreign and domestic drafts issuing passage tickets to and from Europe and handling insurance collections with prompt attention and remittance.
A midwest ad lists Kalsemining Frescoing and Decorat ing Promptly Attended to offering a drain specialty. The notice mentions xtra fine stallions for sale and good work nories with harness plows and related gear. Address shows Ranchi 13 miles southeast of Sidney.
In Potter Nebraska a store owner Wm Clampitt and a woman registered as husband and wife at the Potter hotel causing a community stir. A confrontation with an older man named Wilson led to a warrant and a disorderly attempt to uphold law before the case was dismissed. Clampitt and the woman reportedly went west on a freight train amid unsettled reports.
Edwin Elmer of the Nebraska Wyoming and Colorado Oil and Mining Co visits Sidney as the firm, dominated by Sidney men, develops 4000 acres of oil land in Fremont county Wyoming. The C and N W railway to lander area unlocks oil fields. company plans drilling near Larame and Albany county with a 1500 foot well, while copper and coal indications appear on the land. The narrative notes directors and local business ties, plus other mining ventures and military notes from Fort Sidney.
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