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

Brown (now Mrs. Dan D. Davis) had a majority over both her opponents for superintendent. Anthony Kennedy defeated L. A. Christian for commissioner in the first district, and Perry Braziel was elected over Ed. Thornton in the second, and as stated Deutsch was elected in the third district over Ellis Lowry.

First Bond Issue

As is usual in counties beginning their independent organization, there was a scarcity of money. The first years of a county mean invariably a debt ; then usually a bond issue to clear it up. Then, in the case of Scotts Bluff county, it fell heir to the costs incurred in the Arnold murder trial. The murder occurred at about the time of the county division and while the trial was at Sidney and in Cheyenne county by some legal method the mother countv succeeded in passing it on to the new countv of Scotts Bluff.

So at the regular election of 1889 the bond issue was considered and carried by a very small margin, namely, 191 to 189.