Moon was a consistent progressive and for a clean town at all times. Col. Barron arrived on the scene when the village was emerging into a city and was foremost in the movement that made Scottsbluff the leading city of the North Platte valley country.

Col. Wisner associated with A. B. Wood consolidated the two and have made it a live journal. They inaugurated a daily edition but gave it up at the end of a year as unprofitable.

A Daily Newspaper

The Daily News next came into Scotts Bluff county newspaper world -- Col. Clark coming from Gordon and associating with Col. McConnell. The paper had hard sledding when the federal reserve tightened up on credit, and the consequent slowing down of all business. The present management followed and is doing well. The Minatarc Free Press is one of the later papers that the general growth of the county brought about. It has had a tumultuous and tragic career. Sam D. Cox once ran it and after his death it was managed by Prof. Chambers for awhile and at the present time it is owned by Ben Sallows.

The Sam Cox Murder

Not often is it that an editor and those whom a conscientious editor must oppose reach such a state of hostility that homicide results. But Scotts Bluff county had one such experience. Sam D. Cox a mortal enemy of the saloon and in all a man of great ability and progressive ideas was editor of the paper at Alinatare. He formerly had been connected with and was one of the editors of the Lincoln Daily Call. Minatare was infested with a bunch of boot-leggers and E. S. Kennison of the hotel was friendly because of the weakness he had for something stronger than water. This weakness, as has been related in the history of Deuel county, lost him his job as sheriff and many friends while in that county.