vember 18, 1874, and ten years later his parents removed to Keya Paha County, Nebraska, and took a homestead and have lived there ever since. At the time of their arrival the county was still unorganized, being a part of Brown County. He graduated from the University of Nebraska Law School in 1903 and has been Deputy Treasurer of Keya Paha County. He served in this capacity two terms and was then elected Treasurer on the Republican ticket.

      THEO. L. ROGERS is a native of Wisconsin, having been born in Eldorado January 25, 1851. He went to Minnesota in 1886 and after a ten years' residence there came to Nebraska and homesteaded in Keya Paha County in 1897. After his graduation from the Milton Normal School of Wisconsin, he began teaching, which profession he followed until he was elected County Judge. He is a member of the Republican party.

      JOHN SCHEIE, County Superintendent of Keya Paha County, was born in Union County, South Dakota, December 22, 1868. His parents removed to Iowa the next year and in 1880 came to Nebraska, where they took a home stead on the Keya Paha River. There were no schools in that part of Nebraska in those days, and when Mr. Scheie was twenty-seven he started out with the determination to secure an education. In 1900 he finished at the Grand Island Business and Normal College and graduated from the Fremont Normal College in 1901. While in Boyd County he served as Deputy County Clerk, was elected Superintendent of Keya Paha County on the Republican ticket and re-elected without an opposing candidate.

      C. A. RIPLEY is a native of Iowa, having been born in Jefferson County February 20, 1858. He received his education in the public schools and the Wilton Seminary. In 1882 he married Miss Hester Cutshall and they have eight children. Two years after his marriage he came to Nebraska, taking a homestead in Keya Paha County and living on it seven years, when he removed to Springview, his present home. He is a member of the Republican party and has served as Postmaster for three terms, having been appointed under Harrison. He is the present County Clerk also.

      H. COTTRILL was born in Athens County, Ohio, May 11, 1868, and spent his boyhood there, removing to Iowa with his parents in 1882, where he received a public school education. He came to Keya Paha County in 1900 and took a homestead. In 1896 he married Miss Florence Ellis, and they have three children. He is a member of the Republican party and has been elected County Sheriff.

      THOMAS R. EVANS was born February 26, 1843, in Nautglyn, Deubighshire, North Wales. He came to New York in 1857 and from there went to Waukesha County, Wisconsin, where he was appointed Postmaster under Abraham Lincoln in 1864 and 1865. He came to Norden, Nebraska, in 1883 and has engaged in farming in Keya Paha County. He is a Republican and has been surveyor of Keya Paha County since 1900 and also held that position in 1864 and 1865 in Wisconsin.

      JESSIE RIPLEY was born in Sibley, Iowa, August 16, 1884. Her parents came to Nebraska during the same year, settling in Keya Paha County, where they have since lived. Miss Ripley attended the high school at Sibley, Iowa. After her graduation she taught two years and has served nearly two terms as Deputy County Clerk. Her father homesteaded in what is now Keya Paha County before its organization.

      W. C. BROWN was born in Syracuse, New York, November 28, 1853, and removed to Rochester in 1865. He attended the Collegiate Institute at Rochester and then entered a law office in Pennsylvania and in 1884 came to Keya Paha County. He married Miss Ida Webster in 1875 and they have two daughters. He is a Republican and in Pennsylvania was Mayor of Clarendon, has been County Attorney of Keya Paha County for four terms and State Senator during the twenty-eighth session of the Nebraska Legislature.

      L. A. WILSON, editor of the Springview Herald, is a native of Wisconsin, having been horn in Georgetown, October 10, 1867, where he spent his boyhood days, graduating from the Platteville State Normal School in 1890. He taught two years as Principal of the Altoona Schools and then entered Northwestern University, graduating in 1897, having graduated from the School of Oratory connected with the University in 1892. In 1898 he married Miss Minnie Bell and that same year became Principal of the high school at Seward, Nebraska. He returned to Wisconsin in 1900 to assist his father in business, but soon returned to Nebraska. After ranching in Keya Paha County for two years he bought the

Springview Herald, which he has since edited.

      SAMUEL AMSPOKER was born April 22, 1837, in Ohio, where he grew to manhood and received his education in the common schools. In 1868 he came to Iowa and in the early eighties came to Nebraska, settling near Albion, and in 1884 he homesteaded in Keya Paha County, where he engaged in farming and ranching. He was married in 1861 to Miss Mary J. CaIdwell of Kentucky and they have nine children. Mr. Amspoker has a ranch of three thousand acres seven miles east of Springview, where he makes his home at present. He is a member of the Republican party and served as Treasurer of Keya Paha County from 1898 to 1902.

      RALPH LEWIS was born at Farmersville, New York, February 3, 1842. He enlisted in Company D, Sixty-fourth New York Volunteers, August 22, 1861, and was discharged March 22, 1866. In April of 1883 he moved to Keya Paha County from Warren, Pennsylvania, being one of the early settlers of Keya Paha County, and was active in organizing the county, which was a part of Brown County at the time he came to the State. He was the first County Treasurer of Keya Paha County. Mr. Lewis has a fine ranch of 1,600 acres situated on the Keya Paha River, is a prominent breeder of Hereford cattle and is one of the wealthiest men in the county. His family, consisting of six sons and two daughters, all reside on their ranches on the Keya Paha River, where they own a great deal of land. Mr. Lewis is active in Populist politics.

 

      Kimball County was organized sixteen years ago, in 1888. It has an area of 960 square miles and a population of 758, about one-third of which are residents of Kimball, the county seat. There is one graded school and fifteen common schools, in which nineteen teachers are employed. The 275 children are apportioned into eighteen districts. There are four districts which have a term of six months or more. There are no sandhills in Kimball County, and 70 per cent of the land is capable of cultivation. The untillable portion is used as grazing land. The soil is generally dark and sandy, with a clay subsoil. Lodge Pole Creek is the principal waterway, and its valley averages one and one-half miles in breadth. This valley is irrigated by means of twenty-five miles of ditching, at a cost of $7.65 per acre. There are now 4,225 acres of land under irrigation, and hay and forage are the principal crops. On the upland wells are from 125 to 300 feet. Stock raising is the principal industry, and in 1900 the live stock was valued at $703,225. Five thousand two, hundred and twenty-five sheep and 1,625 cattle were included in this estimate.

      B. H. BUSHEE was born May 3, 1871, at Dartford, Wisconsin, from which State he came to Nebraska in 1888. He homesteaded here in 1892 and again in 1904 under the Kinkaid law, having sold his first homestead. He was graduated from the Ripan, Wisconsin, High School in 1888. He taught six years in this county before accepting the office of County Superintendent, which he now holds. He was first elected in 1895 and has twice been re-elected. In 1894 he married Ruth Cunningham. He became a partner of Henry Vogler in a general merchandise store in 1898, which business he still retains. He is a member of the Republican party.

      J. J. KINNEY is a native of Ireland, born July 15, 1845. At the age of twenty he came to the United States and located in Cedar County, Iowa. He moved to Lincoln County,. Nebraska, in 1870 and two years later to his present home in Kimball County. Before this county was organized he served as County Commissioner of Cheyenne. He is now County Attorney, having served four years in this capacity previous to his present term. His politics are Democratic. His first wife was Miss Margaret Fitzpatrick, who died in 1882. In 1885 he was married to Annie Shea of Iowa.

      E. W. BARTHOLOMEW is Sheriff of Kimball County. His birthplace is Wappalo County, Iowa, where he was born January 1, 1858. In 1877 he moved to Polk County, Nebraska, and ten years later homesteaded in this county. He spent the years of 1889 and 1890 in Denver, Colorado. He is engaged in the confectionery business at Kimball, but formerly he was a contractor and bricklayer. Politically he is a Republican. His wife was Miss

Cora E. DeShay, whom he mraried (sic) on October 18, 1884, and they have two sons and one daughter.

      F. M. WOOLDRIDGE is County Clerk and Clerk of District Court of Kimball County. He was born May 7, 1872, in York County, Nebraska, from which place he moved to Exeter, Fillmore County, finally coming to Kimball County in 1886. He. was graduated from the Lincoln Business College in 1892. The next year he was married and now is engaged in the mercantile business at Kimball. In 1904 he homesteaded in this county under the Kinkaid law and now has 640 acres. He is affiliated with the Republicans.

     HENRY H. PROUTY, with the exception