A futile effort to submit the question was made in January, 1888, when a petition signed by Charles Anderson and 122 others was filed, asking the board to set aside a territory named therein into a county to be

called "1 'otter" and a vote be taken thereon at the next general election. The board found that this petition did not contain a majority of the legal voters residing in the territory described, but found in favor of submitting a similar petition signed by one O. B. Taneyhill and 137 legal voters residing in a territory therein described and asking for a county named "Kimball" to be voted upon.

The second proposition was one that called for the formation of four counties out of Cheyenne, the three new divisions to be Deuell, Scottsbluff and Kimball. Sidney favored running the line between the two counties out of the western third of the old county through the center of the present Banner county. This was lost. The proposition made for a count}' that would give Potter a county-seat placed Sidney right on a county line and would deprive her of any county seat, and drove Sidney to a point where her adherents had to favor the final division proposition. The division adherents figured if they would make the next trial on a plan that would give Lodgepole and Potter county seat chances and still leave Sidney sitting on a county line, it would add to their strength. That agitation brought a considerable number of Sidneyadherents over to the proposition of 1888 which prevailed.