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| | Abilene's Tom Smith |
 | | Ironically, when horses from Pawnee county were stolen only six years earlier, out-of-state thieves were quickly pursued into Iowa by county authorities, and hanged from a tree in Pawnee county by local vigilantes. |
 | | - From the Dickinson County Historical Society, Abilene, KS, a paper by H. Humphrey dated Saturday, December, 26, 1931, a few months after the death of Walter D. Nichols. |
 | | - From the Dickinson County Historical Society, Abilene, KS, a paper by Craig Allison dated Wednesday, April 19, 1989, and presented to Dr. Homer Socolofsky, Kansas State University. |
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