The district was organized March 7. 1886, with George Williams as director. Cheyenne county has since been divided and retains only a small part oi it- original territory but the schools have maintained a high standard of efficiency in tional work. 'I'l'<- firsl school in unorganized territory later Sioux county, and now Sheridan county Wished by fas. i Iberfelder in 1882 It was located near Fori Robinson and Red Cloud Agency, and all the pupils NVL>re ha]f i,reed

Indians. There were forty-two of them, principally the children of Sioux women and white "squaw" men. We are told that the famous chief Red Cloud had descendants in this school. The children of Nick Janis and his Crow Indian wife were among them. Mary Delahunty was the courageous teacher to go into this wilderness to teach.

New High School, Sidney

Cheyenne county as it now exists has seventy districts, which include several that are partly in Cheyenne, and partly in adjoining counties. According to the school census of 1920, there are two thousand seven hundred and forty-eight pupils in the county, ranging in age from five to twenty-one years. There are four accredited city and town high schools as follows. Sidney, with twenty-three teachers ; Lodgepole, with nine ; Potter, with seven ; and 'Dalton with seven. There are consolidated schools at Sunol and Gurley, the first having five teachers and twelve grades, while Gurley has seven teachers and eleven grades.

The rural schools, sixty-five in number do, not seem to be following the extreme consolidation plans of some other counties, it being the general opinion in Cheyenne county that schools of two or three rooms and a teacher's cottage are best. That teaching well all subjects up to the eighth and tenth grades meets