. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . ght and Mrs. G. I. Gilbert, all important factors in the bestlife of Omaha.—a. j. p.] take 320 acres. The first Nebraska claim meeting, as it was called, was held at Omaha, Jul_\-22d, 1854, soon after the completion of the survey of the town site. S. Lewis presided aschairman, and M. C. Gaylord was the secretary. A code of laws was adopted, providing forthe ma
. Omaha illustrated : a history of the pioneer period and the Omaha of today embracing reliable statistics and information, with over two hundred illustrations, including prominent buildings, portraits, and sketches of leading citizens . ght and Mrs. G. I. Gilbert, all important factors in the bestlife of Omaha.—a. j. p.] take 320 acres. The first Nebraska claim meeting, as it was called, was held at Omaha, Jul_\-22d, 1854, soon after the completion of the survey of the town site. S. Lewis presided aschairman, and M. C. Gaylord was the secretary. A code of laws was adopted, providing forthe marking of claims. The claims were limited to 320 acres, which could be in two tractsof 160 acres each. Timber claims were liinited to eighty acres, in two separate tracts if sodesired. The Omaha Claim Club, as the organization was named, elected as its first officers : THE LATE GOV ORIGEN D ,g men, students and lawyers. He w; OMAHA ILLUSTRATED. A. D. Jones, judge ; S. Lewis, clerk; M. C. Gaylord, recorder ; R. B. Whitted, sheriff. Otherclubs throughout the Territory soon followed, all organized upon the plan of the Omaha of the regulations of the Omaha club was that each member should hold against all 1146021. CITY HALL. outside claimants provided he made improvements to the extent of $50 per year. The mem-bers of the club covered all the valuable land in the immediate vicinity with their claims, andthe result was that during the next two or three years numerous bitter contests arose overthe claims between the new-comers and the first settlers. The Claim Club was very arbitraryand cruel in enforcing its regulations and maintaining the claims of its members, and the con- OMAHA ILLUSTRATED. sequence was that numerous outrages were perpetrated. Doc. Smith, who has for so manyyears been the county surveyor, was driven off his claim by a mob, and was compelled to keepin hiding several months in order to save his life. He finally brought his case to theattention
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