The people of Alliance were sorely disappointed and felt very bitter at the opposition, especially the action of the railroad company, and were at first disposed to not abide by the decision of the voters. Their first plan was to seize the county records from the flimsy courthouse at Nonpareil, convey them to Alliance by force of arms, contest the election in the hope that by showing that fraudulent votes had been cast they might eventually reverse the decision rendered at the polls by appeal to the courts. This plan was not put into opration because they learned that the Burling-

County Court House. Alliance.

sidary corporation, the Lincoln Land Company, parties of the first part, and the respective citizens of Alliance, parties of the second part, it was agreed and understood that the new town of Alliance should be made a division point and shops established, which factors would be the foundation for a thriving city, and that Hemingford should be given the county seat, which would make of it a thriving town ; and this arrangement would enable the Lincoln Land Company to make a market for its town lots in both towns, of which it was the owner. This agreement the railroad officials kept to the best of their ability, and as a result there were one hundred and twentysix votes cast in Alliance in favor of Hemingford for the county seat. This enabled Hemingford to win by a majority of sixteen votes.

ton officials had an engine fired up and a coach attached, loaded with Burlington detectives, special agents, and other employees, which they intended using upon evidence that the mob had left Alliance. This special train was to have been run to Hemingford and the posse coin-eyed by team, a distance of five miles, to Nonpareil, and would be there to defend the seizure of the records upon the arrival of the raiding party.