Among them the Lockler & Harrison Red Front saloon with Mickey O'Brien in charge ; Carter & Dixon, wholesale and retail liquors ; Canfield & Garner, groceries and hotel. Ed. Egan moved his Journal plant in from his shack out on Chadron creek ; Glover & Brower put in the Dawes county bank ; Ballou & Cassady, real estate ; H. O. Martin, jewelry ; Anton Weber, groceries ; Lamb & Whitten, general store with George Shinn manager ; Valentine & Younglove, general store with Ed. Valentine manager ; Higgins & Coffey, saloon, and C. H. King, groceries.

During the early summer of 1885, the old town grew at rapid strides. People of all classes drifted in and among them crooks, and gamblers, hold-up men and women of doubtful character. One old town character, who gained considerable notoriety, was a woman, Mary Woodward, better known by the euphonious title of Red Jacket. Mrs. Woodward was very much faded, but was said to have been a brilliant and beautiful woman in her younger days. Once when making a trip on a Mississippi steamboat, she fell violently in love with the captain of the boat, deserted her husband and went to live with the captain without the formality of a marriage ceremony. A few years of the life caused her beauty to wane and the captain tiring of her, discarded her for some woman who appealed more to his taste, and she drifted with the tide for a few years then remarried. She lived with her last husband for some years, then followed the crowd to old Chadron. She had a claim on