Bishop were candidates against Richardson for county attorney; and there were six candidates contending against the successful three for commissioners in the names of Ellis Lowry, D. D. Johnson, F. J. Irvine, Charles Bouton, Bennett Chapman and Samuel J. Clarke. The tickets were represented as democratic, republican and peoples. The peoples indorsed C. T. Johnson, the democratic candidate for superintendent, and J. L. Gilmore the republican candidate for surveyor, easily electing both. Of the candidates elected King and Richardson were on the peoples ticket ; Gentry, Richardson and Spear were republicans ; and Beers, Fanning. Burton, Deutsch and Christian were democrats.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

Division and County Seat Scotts Bluff county cast 2,048 for and 654 against county division. At the first county seat election there were three contestants, and the result was as follows : Gering, in section 2-21-55, 268 votes: Mitchell (then in Mitchell valley) in section 11-22-56, 172 votes; Mills site (north of the river) in section 34-22-54, 109 votes. No place having received a majority, another election was called with Mills site eliminated.

In the election that followed there was considerable acrimony. The Gering Courier and the Mitchell Quirt were valiantly defending their respective locations. These papers were then published on "patent insides" that is they received from the Newspaper Union theii* papers with two pages printed, and printed the other two at home. These were brought in by the stage from Kimball, the nearest railroad express office, and sometimes they missed connections. Sometimes the weather kept the stage from running, and sometimes the ready prints were sent C. O. D., and the local printers were occasionally compelled to wait a day or two, or until the money came in to meet these bills.