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This camp has the distinction of being the only Royal Neighbor camp in the State of Nebraska located in a rural neighborhood, its membership composed entirely of farmers, their wives and daughters. Mrs. George Bischel, who served eight years as recorder of the camp, writes that this organization meant much to its members, as it was the means of bringing them together in a social way when otherwise the members would probably never have all been known to each other. Of course there was always the faithful few who kept the camp alive.
In the year 1915 the camp had a membership of thirty. Its officers: Mrs. Mary Altmaier, oracle ; Mrs. Minnie Mast, recorder.
BUCKEYE VALLEY-BUTLER
Buckeye Valley is in Valley Township, and the first settlement in Buckeye Valley was by Col. W. T. Beatty and George Simpkins, in 1873; W. R. Wheeler, in 1874; J. B. Wheeler, George E. Fredericks, T. Q. George, O. Knepper, in 1878, and William Trivelpiece, in 1879.
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Col. Win. T. Beatty was a native of Ohio and gave to the valley its name, "Buckeye Valley."
On March 5, 1879, County Superintendent John Swenson organized a school district, No. 49.
A schoolhouse was erected in which a Sabbath school was held, this about the year 1880. Rev. J. Marsh here organized a "class" of the Methodist Church, and Mr. Marsh also held regular preaching service in the schoolhouse. In the early 'Sos a Grange was organized, which flourished for many years, this being the last of the Grange organizations of that date in the county to surrender its charter.
A postoffice was established named "Butler," and which was continued until the establishment of rural delivery.
It is recalled that a very successful fair was held at Butler, with considerable exhibits of live stock and farm products.
Mr. George C. Lunger kindly furnishes the following history of the organiza- tion of the United Brethren Church at that point :
The first Sabbath school in Buckeye Valley was organized May 30, 1880, at schoolhouse No. 49, with Rev. O. Knepper as superintendent.
Rev. O. Knepper also preached each Sunday after Sunday school and occa- sionally in the evening for a period of two years.
The Butler class of the United Brethren Church in Christ was organized under the pastorate of Rev. John Green in September, 1884, with the following charter members: O. Knepper, Mrs. Emma H. Knepper, Henry C. Fliegel, Mrs. Elizabeth Fliegel, Johnathan Stearns, Mrs. Mary Stearns, Mrs. N. Wood- hull and several others.
At an expense of $915 a church building was erected and dedicated April 24, 1898, by Bishop J. S. Mills, the pastor at that date being Rev. A. L. Zimmer- man, and the trustees George C. Lunger, Wm. Trivelpiece, O. Knepper, H. C. Fliegel and Peter Gillming.
The pastors serving this church from the beginning have been O. Knepper, John Green, H. S. Munger, J. M. Witters, J. Bremser, W. S. Fields, T. B. Cannon, Wm. Thompson, C. J. Bohart, A. L. Zimmerman, Wm. Tooley, A. Boyd, W. C. Miller, L. L. Epley, W. C. Arnold, Reverend Mr. Spahr, J. Mason, Walter Smith and C. E. Harrington.
This church disorganized in 1915, and the church building was sold to the Buckeye Valley Grange, and is now (1916) being used as a Grange hall.
A Methodist Church was organized at Butler and a church building erected, but a history of the church is not available for this history.
FIRST SCHOOL IN GIBBON
GIBBON FLOURING MILL First mill in Nebraska west of Hall County. Erected in 1873
CHAPTER XLII
FIRST FLOURING MILL; ERECTED IN 1873-FIRST MILL IN STATE WEST OF HALL COUNTY-SETTLERS CAME IOO MILES TO MILL.
THE FIRST FLOURING MILL
The first mill for the grinding of wheat and other grain, erected in Nebraska west of Hall County, was at Gibbon in 1873.
This mill was not only useful and beneficial to the early settlers of a large portion of Central and Western Nebraska and Northwest Kansas, but it was a most important factor in the early settlement of Buffalo County and of the country named. Its establishment encouraged the growing of wheat as it enabled the early settlers to have ground into flour and meal grain of their own raising thus saving the expense of shipping such grain to distant markets and paying freight on flour and meal manufactured at distant points. So important did the Union Pacific Railroad deem the erection of the flouring mill in the settlement of the new country that it transported, free of charge, two carloads, one of machinery, one of lumber, for the construction of the mill, this free transportation being for the same reason that free transportation was granted of material for building churches and schoolhouses.
In the early days settlers came, in some instances, distances of more than one hundred miles in order to get their grain ground into flour. Some of these settlers came with ox teams, bringing full loads, being a week on the way, at times waiting a week for their turn to have the grain ground and then a week on the road home. For many years the mill was run as a custom mill, each one receiving the flour from his own grain and awaiting his turn to have his grain ground.
The original mill was built in the summer and fall of 1873; the building was about twenty-four feet square and two stories ; there were two runs of four-foot buhr stone, one for wheat, one for feed and a reel bolt. The capacity of the mill was about thirty barrels per day.
Power was furnished by Wood River, a stream of living water having a fall of about ten feet per mile ; the dam erected was about ten feet high.
The mill dam has always been a source of great expense to maintain. About twelve feet below the surface is a layer of quicksand and muskrats working down into the quicksand caused great damage. It is estimated that in the thirty- seven years since its first construction from twenty thousand to twenty-five thou- sand dollars have been expended on this dam. While there has never been a complete washout, each year repairs have been necessary. In the year 1877 the Vol. T-20
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mill was remodeled, another run of stone added for grinding midlings, thus increasing the yield of flour per bushel. In the year 1884 the roller process of grinding was introduced, increasing the capacity of the mill to sixty barrels. The Gibbon mill was one of the first in the state to introduce the roller process of grinding. In the year 1889 the mill was again remodeled, a swing sifter system installed, also a twenty-one horse power gasoline engine, thus increasing the capacity of the mill to eighty barrels. The Gibbon mill was one of the first in the state to install machinery necessary in the milling of turkey red winter wheat which practically took the place of spring wheat which before the advent of the turkey red had been altogether grown. The successful milling of turkey red winter wheat was of immense benefit, financially, in the development of the agricultural resources of Central Nebraska. In the year 1905 there was installed a fifty-horse power steam engine with all the latest and best improvements, mak- ing the capacity of the mill about one hundred and twenty barrels.
From the building of the mill in 1873 and the remodeling of the same from time to time, nothing but the latest and best improved machinery has been installed and from 1873 to date (1916) the manufactured product has always been recognized as first class, standard as to quality.
Also the management of the mill has always been in the hands of men with a well earned, well deserved reputation for honesty and integrity in all their business relations. The original builders of the mill were I. N. Davis & Com- pany (I. N. Davis and James H. Davis), who conducted the business until 1885. From 1885 to 1897 I. N. Davis was owner; from 1897 to 1907, James H. Davis and son (Roy A. Davis) ; Roy A. Davis from 1907 to 1914, when J. N. Ashburn purchased a one-half interest. Roy A. Davis died in 1915 and the Gibbon mills for more than forty years in the Davis family passed into other hands.
The managers of the business have been James H. Davis, from 1873 to 1885; James S. Hopkins, 1885-88; C. Putnam, 1888-90; Bert Sprague, 1890-92 ; C. Put- nam, 1892-97 ; Roy A. Davis, 1897-1914. The millers employed appear in the following order, beginning in 1873: Fritz Stark, Hans Voss, J. B. Ring, Fred Carter, James S. Hopkins, Bert Sprague, Bayard Seaver, Charles A. Putnam, J. D. Mickey, R. S. Winchester, Ralph Sprague and Homer J. Mickey in 1916.
About one hundred thousand bushels of wheat are milled into flour each year.
CHAPTER XLIII
ORGANIZATION OF TELEPHONE COMPANIES IN BUFFALO COUNTY-THE FARMERS' TELEPHONE COMPANY-BUFFALO COUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY-UNION VAL- LEY TELEPHONE COMPANY-THE FAIRVIEW TELEPHONE COMPANY- TIIE MILLER INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE COMPANY.
THE TELEPHONE IN BUFFALO COUNTY
The progressive and enterprising spirit of the people of Buffalo County is no better illustrated than in the almost universal use made of the telephone, in the homes on the farm, as well as in the towns. The beginning of telephone systems in the county was through people living on farms, people of small means. The writer well recalls his first use of a telephone-a wire reaching from the house to the barn, the phones a tin can at either efgl of the wire.
At first a number of farmers co-operateif in extending a wire into the nearest village, a friendly business man serving as "central." Often the wire was attached to fence posts and quite often a fence wire served also as a telephone wire.
Beginning with about the year 1902, farmers' co-operative telephone compa- nies were organized in various parts of the county, and in a comparatively brief time the county became a network of telephone wires, with a telephone in every home.
No attempt is here made to compile an acurate and complete history of the beginning and development of the telephone in Buffalo County, but enough is here presented to record the date of the beginning, the methods used, the growthi and development to date (1915).
THE FARMERS' TELEPHONE COMPANY
The Farmers' Telephone Company of Buffalo County was organized Marchi 2, 1902. The incorporators were W. J. Smith, Albert Allen, Joseph Buck, Jr., Jacob Stearley and W. H. Maurer of Shelton Township. The first officers were : W. J. Smith, president ; W. H. Maurer, vice president ; George W. Barrett, treas- urer ; Joseph Buck, Jr., secretary. The authorized capital stock was $10,000 and the company had about one hundred shareholders. The territory first covered was confined to Shelton Township, and the company began business with ap- proximately twenty-five phones.
In the year 1915 the company covered territory embraced in Shelton, Sharon. Gardner, Schneider, Platte, Gibbon, Valley, and Center townships, in Buffalo County, two townships in Hall County, and its lines extending into Kearney
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County and having in use 1, 100 phones. The capital stock is $10,000, but instead of paying dividends the company has invested its earnings in the extension and improvement of its plant, which is estimated to be worth thirty thousand dollars.
The company now has about thirty-five shareholders. Its present officers are: George W. Barrett, president and secretary ; C. M. Beck, vice president ; H. J. Dugdale, treasurer.
(Note-The editor is indebted to Mr. C. M. Beck, vice president and manager of the Gibbon office, for data as to the history of the Farmers' Telephone Com- pany.)
BUFFALO COUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY
In the year 1903 several meetings of farmers residing in Thornton and adjoin- ing townships resulted in the organization on April 1, 1903, of the Buffalo County Telephone Company, those signing the articles of incorporation being: George Bischel, Peter Wink, H. G. Rieter, J. D. Lowenstein and W. D. Stadleman. The officers elected being: Peter Wink, president; Joseph A. Waters, vice president ; George Bischel, secretary; John L. Hopper, treasurer; W. J. Stadleman, man- ager. The board of directors was: George Bischel, Joseph A. Waters, John L. Hopper, P. F. H. Schars and Peter Wink. The lines of the company covering territory embraced in Center, Thornton, Valley, Schneider, Cedar, Beaver and Loup townships. At the close of the year 1906 the company had 225 miles of wire and 225 phones installed. By January, 1908, the company was out of debt and in September, 1908, a dividend of 15 per cent was declared. In January, 1909, it was decided to divide the territory, those tributary to Pleasanton to go with the Pleasanton company and be called the Buffalo County Telephone Company and a new company to be formed to cover the territory tributary to Kearney.
In February, 1909, was organized the Union Valley Telephone Company, those signing the articles of incorporation being: Pat Fitzgerald, George Bischel, H. G. Reiter, R. F. Cruit, Dallas Henderson, N. B. Freeman, and C. H. Fleming. George Bischel was elected president and manager; W. D. Thornton, secretary ; who with Dallas Henderson, C. L. Snider and C. H. Fleming constituted the board of directors.
It appears that the Union Valley Telephone Company began business with a capital stock of $5,000 and with ninety-five phones in operation. This company rebuilt its lines and in 1915 has 175 phones installed, rents its phones at $1 per month, declares an annual dividend of 15 per cent and on payment of a 25-cent switching charge at the Kearney central office its patrons can talk to about twenty- one hundred phones.
The present officers are: W. D. Thornton, president; George Bischel, secre- tary and treasurer.
(Note-The data for the foregoing history of the Buffalo County and Union Valley Telephone companies was kindly furnished by George Bischel.)
BUFFALO COUNTY TELEPHONE COMPANY
The Buffalo County Telephone Company was organized by the people of Pleasanton and vicinity in the year 1903 and incorporated in 1910, with S. B.
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Carpenter, president; A. V. Valentine, vice president ; P. S. Holtzinger, manager ; M. S. Booher, secretary; F. L. Grammer, treasurer. The company having in operation 128 phones.
In the year 1915 the capital stock of the company was $6.500. Surplus, $2,000. Phones in operation, 324. Officers : A. H. Valentine, president ; Adolph English, vice president ; B. S. Wort, manager; M. S. Booher, secretary; F. L. Grammer, treasurer.
(Note-This history of the Buffalo County Telephone Company was kindly furnished by F. L. Grammer, of Pleasanton.)
FAIRVIEW TELEPHONE COMPANY
The Fairview Telephone Company was organized February 20, 1904, the incorporators being: W. C. Pettett, C. E. Gresham, E. E. McCartney, C. E. Holmes, E. A. Edgerton, J. D. McCartney, C. F. Bowie, W. T. Gould, A. E. Pettett, R. H. Clifford, C. H. Gale, H. H. Northrup.
The first officers were: W. C. Pettett, W. T. Gould, and E. E. McCartney.
The capital stock was $5,000. When the line first became established it had fifteen phones in operation and extended about ten miles north of Elm Creek.
In 1915 the company had as capital stock $10,000, with 225 phones in use and covered a territory of about one hundred and seventy-five miles, and also operated a thirty-mile toll line extending to Miller and Amherst.
This company has been in operation ten years. The dues are 40 cents per month.
The officers in 1915 were: Eber Richards, W. Chismore, C. Bowie, A. R. Balyot, G. Sheldon.
(Note-Data furnished by W. C. Pettett.)
THE MILLER INDEPENDENT TELEPHONE COMPANY
This company was organized in 1906 with a capital stock of $2.500. Its officers were: J. P. Norcross, president; L. W. Hall, manager; F. D. Brown, treasurer.
The names of those most active in promoting the company were: J. P. Nor- cross, I .. W. Hall, F. D. Brown, L. P. Wells, N. Maddox, C. M. Huston, R. M. Pierce. The company began business with forty phones in use. In the year 1915 the company had as capital stock $4,500, and 150 phones in use. Its officers were: J. C. Power, president ; P. W. Jacobson, vice president ; L. W. Hall, man- ager; F. D. Brown, treasurer.
(Note-Information furnished by Ross Brown.)
CHAPTER XLIV
EFFORTS TO VOTE COUNTY BONDS AS AID TO RAILROADS-EFFORTS NOT SUCCESSFUL- VOTING COUNTY BONDS FOR COURTHOUSE AND PLATTE RIVER BRIDGES-A PROTEST AGAINST VOTING RAILROAD BONDS SIGNED BY 294 TAXPAYERS-A SUBSCRIPTION LIST IN CIRCULATION IN 1888 TO RAISE FUNDS TO ASSIST IN CARRYING AN ELEC- TION OF BONDS AS AID TO A PROPOSED RAILROAD.
That there are no railroad bonds outstanding against Buffalo County and that the bonded indebtedness against the county is comparatively small at this date (1915) is not because no effort has been made in the past to vote such bonds, but rather to the reason that the early settlers, so to speak, "burned their fingers" in the voting of county bonds and have fought shy on any such proposition since.
The early settlers, being comparatively young in years, and of little experi- ence in public affairs, were easily induced to vote county bonds with which to build a courthouse at Gibbon and to bridge the Platte. Time and again boomers and promoters have since made efforts to have county bonds voted in aid of pro- posed railroads, but without avail.
County commissioners, under the spell of such boomers and promoters, were quite complaisant to their visionary schemes and called elections for such pur- pose, but the people of the county were quick to protest and prevent favorable action.
The county bonds voted to complete the courthouse at Kearney would not have been voted had not the taxpayers of the county been tricked in the matter of building a courthouse. The wish of the taxpayers was to levy a tax for a term of years with which to build the courthouse, and on estimates submitted and agreed to, voted the levy.
Tricksters and schemers so manipulated the matter that the levy so voted was expended in a foundation and side-walls and it was necessary to vote county bonds in the amount of $45,000 in order to complete and furnish the building. The foundation walls of the present courthouse were first laid in the fall and early winter, and when frozen appeared firm and solid. C. Putnam was at the time deputy county clerk, and being of an inquiring turn of mind and a man of strictest integrity, he pried off a section of the foundation wall, carried it in the clerk's office beside the fire, and it soon crumbled to pieces. The result was Capt. Joseph Black, also a man of unquestioned integrity, was appointed to superintend the erection of the present county courthouse.
As a matter of history, to illustrate how complaisant the county commission- ers were to assist in forwarding schemes to bond the county in aid of proposed
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railroads, and how wide awake the voters were to prevent such action, record is here made in one instance of the action of the commissioners and of the . protest of the voters.
The editor has in his possession the original petitions, bearing signatures of the petitioners, which make plain the history of the case. Five of these peti- tions were circulated and signed by a total of 294 taxpayers. The forty-eight names first given are of persons residing in Kearney at the time.
The petition and signatures are as follows :
"To the Honorable Board of Commissioners of Buffalo County, State of Nebraska :
"Gentlemen-We, the undersigned, respectfully petition your honorable body to recall the proclamation made by you which provides a special election to be held on the 27th of November, 1875, for the purpose of voting on the proposi- tion to issue the bonds of Buffalo county in the sum of $75,000 to aid in the construction of a proposed railroad from Kearney to Sioux City, and your peti- tioners further pray that you give notice in the county papers that the said procla- mation is recalled and countermanded, and as reasons therefor we offer the following: That the petition upon which the said proclamation was granted was signed by less than one-fourth of the voters of Buffalo county. That the said petition was circulated only in Kearney and that it was not generally known that such a petition was in circulation. That a majority of the voters of Buffalo county are opposed to the said proposition and by recalling it the expense of an election will be saved, and to this end your petitioners do earnestly pray."
SIGNATURES
T. C. Roberts
M. R. Wickwire
Geo. Stearley
F. L. Schmidt
E. J. Bunk
Edward Oliver
David Anderson
James McCrary
A. Zimmerman
C. L. Shiffes
Wilhelm Weber
Eph Oliver
D. H. Pagneer
John P. Smith
James Wilkie
W. S. Freeman
D. B. Allen
O. C. Hancock
J. S. Harrington
A. S. Craig
J. C. Stanley
A. I. Aitken
C. W. Dake
E. Miller
John N. Brown
Nathan Campbell
Lyman Everett
A. B. Richardson
G. N. Cornell
A. D. Barnhart
E. B. Carter
A. M. Gay
J. T. Mullins
H. L. Faddis
E. B. Pickering
S. A. Thomas
B. F. Sammons
J. W. Chambers
Wm. Craven
H. J. Allen
F. Cuddebeck
I. A. Loosee
A. Meyer
S. M. Swely
C. Putnam
J. R. George
H. M. Hanson
H. Randalls Eugene Hall
Adelbert Smith
E. R. Griffin
Joseph Owen
A. L. Webb
Gec. W. Eastman
A. Binst
J. A. Harron
J. G. Carson
G. L. Thomas
H. W. Giddings
W. F. Pickering
D. W. Johnson
A. M. Way
J. N. Mettler
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Ed J. Cook
James H. Fee
J. N. Keller
S. C. Ayer
S. R. Traut John W. Berry Chase Stenbach
James O'Kane
J. H. Darby
H. E. Swan
J. P. Putnam
James T. Hays
V. T. Broderick
R. M. Grimes H. A. Lee C. O. Childs
M. S. Cook John Lucas
I. P. George W. R. Jackson
John Haug
J. J. W. Place
F. Stark
Arthur Wollaston
Isaiah White
Henry Hilficker J. D. Drury
P. Letterman
S. C. Bassett
S. A. Marshall
P. Walsh
Wmn. S. Hall
Aaron Ward
George Smith
B. Truman
R. George A. J. Oviatt
John Henry
C. A. Borders
John E. Miller
C. Oakley
Saml. T. Walker
T. F. Craig
Robt. Waters
Abraham Barrett
George Meisner
S. A. Barrett
S. Rosseter
F. E. Colby
N. W. Short
O. E. Thompson
L. D. Craven
G. W. Simkins
J. B. Wheeler
A. Henry
A. Row
O. B. Washburn
V. T. Mercer
Joseph Glaze
Jolın Greer
C. T. Dildine
Alva G. H. White
David Hostetter
A. F. Taylor
J. E. Kelsey
James Mills
John Mahon D. M. Puiser
J. F. Broderick
G. R. Tracy
R. W. Russell
S. M. Palmer
C. A. Smith
John Hoge
Wm. F. McClure
J. B. Thomas
H. Curran
J. A. Danner
H. M. Fisher Wm. Roach
E. T. Hulianiski
E. Harris
T. J. Hubbard
Roe Brothers
E. Northrup
Geo. H. Silvernail
F. J. Switz
James Wallace
Wm. H. Bray
S. B. Lowell John Jones
Wm. Wheeler
J. H. Davis
J. N. Allen
M. D. Marsh
C. E. Brayton
J. M. Bayley
S. F. Berry
J. E. Mowers
Abram Smith
W. H. Killgore
O. A. Buzzell
H. Dugdale M. Slattery
Geo. H. Bicknell
L. D. George J. E. Miller
Thorn Thomas
J. Marsh
H. S. Colby
James Thomas
Wm. T. Beatty
C. S. Bailey
J. A. Waters
Henry Cook F. F. Blanchard
Robert Goar B. A. Fox
A. Henderson
John Stern
Gottlieb Daudte
B. C. Bassett
T. S. Mitchell
Casper Meisner
R. G. Graham
J. S. Chamberlain
John Reddy H. Fairchild
E. Livingston
J. R. Rice
Will P. Trew
I. W. Brown
Wm. H. Kelly
A. F. Gibson
J. Trumbull
E. B. Dunkin
Alfred Thorne
James Oliver
P. K. Drury
James Mularkey
Benedict Streigel
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D. P. Ashburn
George Grabach
A. Watenpaugh
G. N. Smith
Lorenzo Plumb W. N. Brown
Robt. Kilgore
W. H. Sprague
E. W. Carpenter
Geo. E. Norris
I. D. LaBarre
E. D. Hubbard
W. A. Huntley
L. J. Babcock
C. W. Hatch
L. S. Hough A. Eddy
Michael Connor
H. H. Haven
J. McCool Robert H. Hick
Nilson Zellers
Martin Oard
C. H. Bishop
H. Huges
Joseph White
Samuel Higgins
W. E. Oakley
James Ogilvie
C. T. Silvernail
F. D. Boardman
D. H. Hite
T. J. Mahoney
P. T. Davis
Amos D. George
O. D. White
T. F. Broderick
Wm. Stern
Ebon Bray
R. E. L. Willard
The following subscription list, bearing the signatures of seventy persons and pledging a total of $250, was found among the papers of S. S. St. John, a long time resident of Kearney, and turned over to the editor of this history by his son, L. N. St. John.
The heading of the subscription list reads as follows :
"We, the undersigned, agree to pay the amounts placed opposite our respect- ive names to assist in carrying the election of bonds to aid the Nebraska South- ern Railway company in constructing a line of railway from Red Cloud to Kearney, Nebraska; and, also, to pay expenses asked by Gov. Thayer for the encampment of the state militia here two weeks in September, 1888, 2,500 strong."
CHAPTER XLV
COWBOY TROUBLES IN BUFFALO COUNTY-GREAT HERDS OF TEXAN CATTLE-ATTOR- NEY F. G. HAMER OFFERS TO WHIP THE WHOLE CROWD-THE KEARNEY GUARDS -- THE KILLING OF MILTON COLLINS-CAPTURE OF JORDON P. SMITH-THE PRE- LIMINARY TRIAL-FIRST TRIAL OF JORDON P. SMITH-APPLICATION FOR CHANGE OF VENUE-EDITORIAL FROM KEARNEY JUNCTION TIMES-OFFICERS OF THE COURT-LIST OF JURORS-VERDICT OF THE JURY-SENTENCE OF THE COURT- SECOND TRIAL OF SMITH-SUMMARY OF TESTIMONY-ACCOUNT OF THE TRIAL BY JUDGE E. F. GRAY-EXPENSE TO THE COUNTY OF THE TRIAL-EDITOR M'NEW, OF THE SHELTON CLIPPER, WRITES OF COWBOY TROUBLES AT KEARNEY-MURDER OF AN UNARMED BOY BY THE CITY MARSHAL OF KEARNEY-MARSHAL "SCARED TO DEATH"-CITIZENS OF KEARNEY UPHOLD THE MARSHAL.
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