Walker, George E. Whalev, Noble F. Zerbie.

There were thirteen rejections and discharges from physical disability, and a service flag in Box Butte county should have five known gold stars, and perhaps there are others. Box Butte county contingent contained five colored men, one of whom died of injuries. The organization of a company at Alliance early in the war gave to Box Butte county volunteers, a number from outside the county limits, principally in close-by counties.

Siege of Nonpareil

The local Box Butte county historian tells of the affair of November, 1890, when there was a meeting in Alliance of the indignant citizens over the Burlington attitude on the county seat question. He also tells of the defense of the records as proposed by the county officials. A story has come to the editor-in-chief, which he will relate for what it is worth, and for the amusement of the old-timers who were in the conflict. I am sure that no one will accuse the writer of any unkind motives when the joke is upon his two especially good friends, Ira Tash and Eugene Hall. These men are referred to as guarding the county records in the anticipated siege of Nonpareil.

When the meeting was held in Alliance, Superintendent Phelan of the Burlington had present, as he usually had at any gathering, a man who would report to him what "was doing." The man in this case "fanned it" to headquarters that the crowd was organized to go out and take the records, and as stated Phelan had the engine ready. Also the wires conveyed the information to Hemingford. The people of that town, quite a number of them, took shot guns and bulldog revolvers, and any other weapon handy and the "flimsy structure" known as the court house at Nonpareil was filled with the defenders, had the enemy appeared.