No time would be lost in breaking and there was no doubt of his going. He had to go. Sometimes he would rear and plunge, throw himself and get dragged a few hundred yards, but it was only a matter of an hour or two until he would be thoroughly subdued. The railroad company put a large force to work upon buildings and only a few weeks elapsed before a depot, hotel and roundhouse were completed. A village government was perfected with DeForest Richards, Thomas A. Glover, M. M. Harrah, and William H. Crater, trustees ; E. S. Ricker, clerk; L. A. Brower, treasurer, and M. P. Cook, attorney. But on the second day of August, 1886, the village cast off its swaddling clothes, and donned the habiliments of a city of the second class. D. Y. Mears (Uncle Dave) was first to be honored with the office of mayor ; Robert G. Dorr, now county judge of Sheridan county, clerk ; and Benjamin Lowenthal, treasurer. The first school was organized with Mrs. Laura Clay, now residing at 448 Bordeaux street, teacher, and the upper room of the Harry Hooker residence at the corner of First avenue and Egan street, for school. This limited space was soon crowded to overflowing. An effort was made to provide a suitable place resulted in the erection of the frame building on West Second street, now occupied by Schwabe Brothers as a feed store. This too soon became crowded and a carriage house on the Bartlett Richards residence property was made into a school room and used for that purpose until the high school building was ready for occupancy. This little building was later merged into what is C. F. Coffee's garage. In 1887, the school population increasing rapidly, the school district floated $18,000 of 10-20 bonds and the present high school building erected, with C.