It was supported by some politicians who were dissatisfied because the Telegraph sold space to the Democrats. They declared that the Telegraph, which was then managed by Charles Callahan, "had sold its birthright for a mess of pottage." The new paper won official patronage during 1890-1891, but its owner sold out. The paper was not successful and its publication ceased. The farmers rise in political prominence in 1890, brought new interest and a paper was started by L. C.

Stockwell, but it too faded away in the hard years of 1894 and 1895.

The Sidney Enterprise began its fourth year as a newspaper January 6, 1921. Its publishers, Perry and Caroline Coler, came from Kansas. They have a well equipped plant and publish an up-to-date paper. Mrs. Coler is a writer of prose and poetry. She has been known for many fine poems ; the Sidney Woman's Club has accepted some of her work and the Choral Society has set some of her poems to music. Sidney with its population of over three thousand is thus well served with newspapers.

Honorable Charles H. Randall, now a member of Congress from southern California, started the Western Nebraska Observer, at Antelopeville, now Kimball, in 1885. The paper is now known as the Kimball Observer, and was the second newspaper to appear in the Panhandle and Cheyenne county outside of Sidney, for a number of years. Randall later published the "Centropolis World" which became "The World," then "The Early Day." It was consolidated by C. L. Burgess, with "The Advocate," and is now the Banner County News, issued at Harrisburg, Nebraska. In 1884 the Lodgepole Express was established. It was a small affair, started with donations and insufficient capital, and more than a quarter of a century ago passed into the efficient hands of James C.