Will Rolfing, were sitting in the store, when a man came in, bought some tobacco and matches, then went out. In a short time two masked men with revolvers came back marching Kirk McCall ahead of them. One made the men hold up their hands while the other helped himself to all there was in the safe. They got $300 in checks, etc., belonging to the store, and $60.00 from the postoffice besides two watches. They overlooked a nickle and three pennies. That much was left with which to start business the next day. They made a clean get-a-way.

Among the first buildings in Oshkosh was Jim Monahan's blacksmith shop just south of the store. It was a most busy and important establishment in those days. He later sold out to Noah Brewer. In 1909 Mr. Noah Brewer who was anxious to get into the automobile game sold his blacksmith shop to King Rhiley and moved to Sidney. Strange to say Mr. Rhiley soon got into the auto business himself in the old Brewer shop. At that time there was only one motor vehicle in Oshkosh ; it was a high wheeled International owned by Archie Wynes and John Delatour. Although owned by two men it required about four men and a boy to coax it along.

Mr. Rhiley went to work to build an automobile that one man could run. and he succeeded ( almost ) . He got one finished up and in running condition and succeeded in trading it off to Jim Duffin. He then got an agency for the Oakland and did a good business. He is now the Western Nebraska distributor for Buick automobiles, G. M. C. trucks and the Hudson Super-Six and is the seventh oldest dealer in the state.