Lockwood ; attorney, Edward D. Satterlee ; superintendent, Benjamin F. Thomas; sheriff, J. F. Pfost; surveyor, William M. Pennington; coroner, Charles H. Andrews, and commissioners. J. G. Morris, A. M. McGinley and Daniel Klein. The county seat was located at Harrison.
On November twenty-fourth the county official paper was named for the first time -- the Sioux County Herald. At the commissioners' meeting of that date, the necessary furniture for the new county was ordered of C. L. Tubbs.
At the meeting of December first a safe was bought which cost the county five hundred and twenty-three dollars. A full set of county records were also purchased of the Omaha Republican at a cost of nine hundred and fifty dollars. The following day the polling place of War Bonnet precinct was changed from S. E. ranch to the ranch of Charles F. Coffee on Hat creek.
The first justice of peace in the new county was S. H. Jones, of Bowen precinct, who assumed the office in January, eighteen eighty-seven. Chas. Rigdon, or White river precinct, was the second justice of the peace to qualify in the county. Stephen A. Decker, of White river precinct, was the first constable in the county to qualify.
Herd Law Repealed
On January twenty-fifth a vote was taken upon the question of herd law or no herd law. Previously to that date, cattle were permitted under the law to roam at will, and the homesteader had to protect his crops as best It* could. This election changed the method however for the herd-law carried by a vote of four hundred forty-nine for, to one hundred and thirty-five against.