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.

The final proposition submitted the formation of four new counties, and divided Cheyenne county, as follows: Deuel from present Deuel and Garden counties; Chey-. enne remained that territory now Cheyenne and Morrill counties : Scottsbluff, Banner and Kimball formed out of the west end, and according to present lines.

The petition of October 2, 1888, defined the boundaries of Kimball county, as follows: "All of that portion of Cheyenne county commencing at the northeast corner of Section 3. in Township 16, north, range 53, west of the 6th 1'. M., thence west on township line between Townships 16 and 17, North, to a point where the line intersects with the east boundary line of the Territory of Wyoming, and thence south along the west boundary line of the State of Nebraska to a point where said line intersects with the north boundary line of the Slate <<\ Ci >li >- rado, and thence east ah ng the south boundary line of the Stale of Nebraska to a point where said line intersects with a line extending due north on the section line between Sections If) and 17 in Township 1-' north, range 53 west of 6th P. M. and thence north