Graham of Alliance on the Graham holdings in the north end of the county has had perhaps in excess of one thousand head. Frank 1 '.lain

has run several hundred at a time. R. M. Hampton at Alliance has had a large ranch out there. He sold to Hall and Graham. Also over in the north part of the county have been Henry Swan in early times, Joe Vaughn of Alliance, and Burk & Tiernan in the northwest quarter.

"Around Broadwater some of those who filed early in the late eighties and early nineties were : First, Tom Wagoner on Broadwater site, Lloyd Remsbery, Carl Wagoner, Smith Bros., Geo. Beerline, Robt. Walsh, Pat Dunn, Chas. Towle, Mike Beerline, Mike Elsass, Frank King, Jno. Hagerty, Ed. Crawford. Alex Sesslar. Mr. Rouse, Jno. Sessler, O. M. Robinson."

The early history of Morrill county is entirely and inseparably intermingled into the governmental history of Cheyenne county.

It was not until 1909 that the county of Morrill was formed and taken from Cheyenne county so this part of the history of Morrill county, while important, is rather brief. Throughout the thirty years preceding the separate establishment of the county the portion of Cheyenne county which is now Morrill county played a more or less important part in the county governmental affairs of the Mother County.

As early as 1878, the county records of Cheyenne county show local officers elected for Court House Rock precinct. In that year among the precinct officers elected for that territory were : L. Mined, justice of peace, and Julius Hill, also justice of peace; constables, Ed. Countryman, Chas. Patten ; Thos. Crosby, assessor; election officers: D. B. Powers, judge; D. B. Lynch, judge; H. Best, judge: Win. Gill, clerk; H. Reynolds, clerk; David Thrall was road superintendent.