The boys liked him, but he wasted whatever they liberally bestowed upon him, and in useless dissipation.

chapter xxxii

Mcdonald hung by vigilantes at sidney-- sheriff trognitz's toke -- practical tokes of old timers

By 1881, the gun men of Sidney were again making themselves so generally obnoxious, that a drastic and a lawless exhibition became necessary to show them that it must end. The slow process of courts would not have the immediate effects which conditions urged, and which the vigilantes hoped to accomplish.

In the passing of the frontier communities, heroic measures are frequently necessary. The hanging of Reed in 1879 toned down the wild gang for a time, but in a year or two, the shifting of bad men from place to place, again made Sidney the temporary abode of a tough gang of thieves and gamblers. The getaway of the bullion robbers added to their general recklessness.

McCarthy's saloon was the Capitol, which later was owned by Harry Winters. Mike Tobin ran the corner saloon on Second street from the railroad. Zig Gudfruend had his emporium on Front street, and there were

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Thi soldiers stationed at Fort Sidney were not "t" the lily white variety. An Irishman named John Mathews and his wife ran a joint some distance east of the present site of tin- American Stale Bank, and they got mixed up in an embroglio with a bunch of soldiers. Early in the morning those who had retired, I Sidney was then a town where sale open day and night) wen- awakened b) hots, and the few who