Barber & Butterfield, brick yard.
I. B. Tyrell, carpenter shop.
Bullard & Co., groceries.
R. A. Smith, proprietor of the Fullerton Exchange Hotel.
Win. Roberts, livery and feed stable.
Together with one-half dozen of the legal profession and three doctors, with a prospect of another, and a goodly list of carpenters, painters and tradesmen, in general.
NANCE COUNTY'S WEALTH IN 1888.
The assessors' returns are all in and in the possession of the county clerk, Eyman, who has had them compiled in convenient form for reference. In order that our readers may know what progress the county is making we have examined the records, and this week give the figures as we found them. We found that in live stock, Nance county has 3,218 horses of all ages, valued at $39,351; cattle, all ages, 13,533, valued at $63,874; mules and asses, all ages, 353, valued at $4,166; sheep of all ages, 698, valued at $165; hogs of all ages, 11,779, valued at $7,566. The railroad property in the county is valued at $169,700.
In the county there are 79,334 acres of improved land, valued at $211,046, and 202,953 acres of unimproved land, valued at $361,666. The total acreage of the county is 281,287, which is valued at $572,382. The total number of town lots, improved and unimproved, is 2,151, valued at $67,693. The total value of all property in 1888 is $1,008,845, against a total valuation of $978,028 for 1887, an increase of $30,817 in one year.
While the total value of all property in the county has been increased $30,817 over that of 1887, the taxable valuation on farm lands was decreased $219.
The bases on which assessments are made is one-third of the cash valuation of property, which would place the total valuation of all the property in the county at $3,026,584.
There are 46,404 acres of land that is now under plow, of which 7,054 was in wheat, 28,244 acres of corn, 6,948 acres of oats; of barley, 1,640; of meadow, 1,716; of flax, 552; of rye, 250. Of trees, there are 15,420 fruit and 290,530 forest trees in the county.
QUADRUPLE HORROR.
A Father, Mother and Yearling Babe Slaughtered In and Near Their Home--A Neighbor Alone a Half Mile Away Also Found Dead In His Gory Couch-Two Men Yet Missing From the Vincinity of the Horse Creek Horror, Twelve Miles West of Here.
Early this (Friday) morning, October 3, 1884, Mr. T. F. Miller came in the village with the horrible intelligence that Henry Percival, his wife and little child, and a neighbor, Hugh Meyer, had been found murdered in their homes, about twelve miles west of here, on Horse Creek.
Coroner Dr. Smith and Sheriff Zibble were notified and, with a large number of citizens from the village and vicinity, repaired to the horrible scene, and the following observations were made:
Mr. Percival was found near the haystack at his barn, shot through the body from about four inches under his right arm. His right arm and his face were torn away by hogs. Mrs. Percival and little girl were in bed, the mother shot through the neck and the child through the head. A little farther up the creek, Hugh Meyer, with whom only lodges George Fernival, was found in his bed upstairs, shot through the head. The bodies were badly decomposed. Mr. Percival was at Fullerton on Monday, leaving for home late in the afternoon with a load of lumber.
L. H. Faucett was on both premises on Tuesday, and finding the houses closed, supposed the people were away from home. Again on Thursday afternoon he was there, both times on business, in company with an insurance agent, and seeing no stir, looked into Mr. Percival's window and saw the dead mother and child in bed. He went to Mr. Meyer's place and found no one astir, but noticed a sickening odor coming from the house. He then notified neighbors, and Mr. Miller and others repaired to the premises and forced an entrance into Mr. Percival's house. The door of Mr. Meyer's house being open, and late at night, made the shocking discoveries above related.
The coroner, assisted by Drs. Brady and Binney and a jury, were proceeding on Friday at noon with an inquest. Up to that time nothing had been heard of either Baird or Fernival, but on Tuesday morning one of Percival's horses with Baird's saddle was left at Robert's livery stable in this place by a man, the description of whom might apply to either Baird or Fernival, and who bought a ticket on the morning train for Council Bluffs. From the circumstances, one or more incarnate fiends had on Monday evening broken into Mr. Percival's house, just after his wife and baby had taken their supper and retired, leaving a dish of food for the husband, shot her through the neck, the child through the head, left them in their blood, waited at the barn for Mr. Percival, and shot him dead while pulling hay from a stack; then proceeded to Meyer's house and shot him through the head as he lay in bed.
This issue has been delayed from morning till late in the afternoon for the above imperfect details, the grim horrors of which cause the whole community to stand aghast.
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