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.

During this fight, there came a storm that prevented the arrival of the Courier prints on time, and having a stock of plain white paper, Colonel Wood printed the two home pages, leaving the others blank. Mitchell partizans referred to this as the best paper ever gotten out in Gering. The blank pages were just what they needed for keeping "pedro scores." Pedro was a game then played by local people at cards, and the storm kept them in doors, so that they had plenty of time to play.

The result of the second county seat election was: Gering 309, Mitchell 223, Gering thereby becoming the permanent county seat of Scotts' Bluff county.

Second Election The second county election occurred in November, of 1889. The result as before was a mixed ticket, there being three tickets in the field. Gentry for clerk, Beers for treasurer, Gilmore for surveyor, and Deutsch for commissioner were re-elected, defeating George B. Luft. A. B. McCoskey and Ellis Lowry respectively. Milton Byal defeated Tom Fanning for sheriff, for Fanning's deputy Kiefer got into the race and split the normal Fanning vote. Jas. Westervelt gave Frank Beers a close run 204 to 211, and McCoskey was close on the heels of Gilmore for surveyor. W. H. Johnson had no opposition for coroner, and Miss Francis