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One Thousand A Week
That Is the Increase of Nebraska’s Population,
and Mainly by Settlement
“Have you realized that Nebraska is and has been
gaining an average of 1,000 in population a week since becoming a
state?” asked Assistant General
Passenger Agent Smith of the Burlington
today.
He was looking over reports of
immigration and these showed that his line alone was bringing in something like
200 carloads of immigrant movable every two or three days for Western Nebraska
and Eastern Colorado.
The owners of these movables come
principally from Illinois, but largely also
are immigrating from Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Ohio and Minnesota.
They are buying lands and propose
to improve and grow up with the country.
A majority have been tenant farmers in the east and north. The low prices of good land, the climate, the
railroad facilities and markets attract them to this country, and the 1,000 a
week increase has increased the population of the state to fully 1,250,000.
The Union Pacific’s largest single
haul of settlers this season has been that of 1,500 families of Russians from New Mexico to Crook, Deuel County,
this state.
The ex subjects of the czar
settled in New Mexico
about a year ago, but found the altitude too great and the climate not what their
fancy had painted it. Besides, they want
to grow sugar beets, so they came to Nebraska. A syndicate with dead bodies of money is said
to be backing this colony.
Omaha World Herald – February 25,
1893
Horse Thieves Bound Over 
They Tell a Story Implicating a Nebraska Ranch Owner
Special Dispatch to the World Herald
Julesburg, Colorado, February 13. -- Owning to the wholesale stealing of horses, a
number of preliminary examinations were held here today, which resulted in
binding over to the district court, L. E. Libby of Lewellyn, Nebraska; and
Herbert Morris of this place. Edward Babbit of North Platte is under arrest
for complicity in the crime, and his examination is set for next Monday.
L. E. Libby has a ranch twenty five miles north of this
place in Deuel County, Nebraska and during the month of November he made a
proposition to Morris and Babbit, according to the confession of the two men,
that if they would go over into Sedgwick County, Colorado, and secure some
unbranded horses, he would furnish saddle horses and money for expenses and
they would divide the horses among them.
Accordingly Morris and Babbit arrived in Julesburg on
November 7, went to the south divide and drove from there eleven head of horses
to the stock yards, where they were kept over night and the next day taken to
Libby's ranch on North River. There the
horses were divided, Libby taking five of the best ones, Morris four and young
Babbit of North Platte getting two nice saddle horses.
Another young man by the name of Paul Ryan, it seems,
assisted after the horses were stolen, taking one of the best ones from Morris
for an alleged debt of $15.
A warrant is in the hands of the sheriff and will be served
as soon as requisition can be obtained, as he lives at North Platte, Nebraska.
This is the largest robbery that has occurred in this
vicinity for years, and it is feared strigent measures will be taken.
Old settlers have been heard to remark today that had this
been twenty years ago, there would have been four hangings in Julesburg, with
no court expenses attached.
Omaha World Herald - February 14, 1900
Stock Company Incorporates
The Duck Ranch Stock Company of Deuel County, Nebraska, was
incorporated yesterday, with a capital stock of $30,000.
The Incorporators were:
A. M. Scott
A McCandless
P. S. McCandless
T. H. Morgan
Omaha World Herald - October 12, 1892
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