Wilson felled the Chicago boy with a huge beef bone and the dog having got out a little to one side Mr. Kirribel shot and killed it, but Mrs. Wilson's anger still raged, thinking that the poor dog had been shot by the boy. After the sheriff and constable had gone with their prisoners, the hunter deputies stayed and visited until the exasperated Mrs. Wilson got in a good humor and treated them to a bountiful and delicious dinner.

Organization of the County

In early times, the territory now included in Garden county was a part of old Cheyenne county. In the year 1888, the eastern part of Cheyenne county was cut off and Deuel county organized with Chappell the county seat.

On the completion of the railroad up the North Platte river in 1908, the people in the central and northern part of the county began strenuously to advocate county division. Even with the county seat at Chappell the people in the northeast part of the county were seventyfive miles from the seat of county government. Petitions for county division election were circulated in 1909, the question voted upon in the fall election and carried by an overwhelming majority. Eugene Delatour, county clerk, at once executed the certificate that the county was divided and that the part north of township fifteen to be henceforth known as Garden county.

The first county officers were : Robt. A. Day, Clerk ; Charles Davis, Treasurer; Walter Clark, Sheriff; T. C. McKee, Superintendent of Schools ; Lee Minner, Attorney ; John Robinson, Surveyor; J. C. Hartman. Assessor, H. H. Hough, Coroner ; A. W. Gttmaer, Tudge ; and M. P. Clary, D. F. Fickes, and Wni Barnwell, Commissioners.