This set of county officers were elected to serve for the remainder of the year 1887, a period of about nine months, and their successors were elected at the election held November 4. 1S87. After a very warm political battle staged between the Republican and Democratic parties, with the Prohibitionists casting aboul thirty votes in the county, a ticket composed of both Democrats and 'Republicans was elected. The Pepublicans elected Fred V Shonquist, Sheriff; A. L. Field, County Judee; Doctor W. II. Smith, Coroner; while the Democrats elected John O'Keefe, County Treasurer; [olm Leith, County Superintendenl : C. V Burlew, County Clerk ; and Thomas L. Irvine. Robert R. Ralls. Charles Nichols, Countv Commissioners.
The upper story of the courthouse was fitted up as a court room, and the first term of District Court for the new county was held in June, 1887, with Honorable M. P. Kinkaid, our present congressman, as Judge, with A. L. Warrick official reporter. There were not many cases of importance tried at this term of court.
Nonpareil continued to be the seat of county government until the first day of January, 1891, a period of three and one-half years. The Burlington railroad having been built diagonally through the county during the spring and summer of 1889, passing through the new town of Alliance which had sprung up in the meantime, and the village of Hem-
How the Court Hocse in Alliance, Nebraska,
WAS MOVED TO HemINGFORII, THE NEW COUNTY
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