At a jail election held on May 13, 1879. the voting for Antelope precinct was done at the Union Pacific railroad station at Antelopeville. This election called for the submission of a five mill tax to build a jail, and in Cheyenne county as a whole carried by a vote of 236 to 12. At a special election on April 5, 1881, the proposition of issuing $20,000 of bonds for funding of warrants of indebtedness oi Cheyenne county was voted upon. Another election about that time was over $20,000 bond issue for building a buggy bridge.
J. J. Mcintosh became county clerk of Cheyenne county in 1877. Mr. Mcintosh had come to Brady Island in February, 1869, engaged as an operator in the employ of the U. P. R. R. Co., and remained there three months, when he came to Potter, as agent and operator, where he remained five years and then went to Sidney. He had served one year as county commissioner, lie later moved to his stock ranch, 28 miles west of Sidney. This makes him a pioneer of the
Dix vicinity of the eastern portion of present Kimball county. He was born in Province of Ontario, Can., at a place named St. Andrews, June 17, 1850. and married in Omaha,. Neb., in 1871, to Miss Mary Heelan, of Chicago, III. His wife died in April, 1875. By their union they had two sons, John Thomas and James L. He was married again at a later date in Sidney, to Miss Mollie Kelly of Grand Island, Nebraska.