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city of S.E. See also:Nebraska, U.S.A., See also:county-seat of See also:Lancaster county and See also:capital of the See also:state. Pop. (1900) 40,169 (5297 being See also:foreign-See also:born); (1910 See also:census) 43,973. It is served by the See also:Chicago, See also:Burlington & See also:Quincy, the Chicago, See also:Rock See also:Island & Pacific, the See also:Union Pacific, the See also:Missouri Pacific and the Chicago & See also:North-Western See also:railways. Lincoln is one of the most attractive residential cities of the See also:Middle See also:West. See also:Salt See also:Creek, an affluent of the See also:Platte See also:river, skirts the city. On this See also:side the city has repeatedly suffered from floods. The See also:principal buildings include a state capitol (built 1883-1889); a city-See also:hall, formerly the U.S. See also:government See also:building (1874-1879); a county See also:court-See also:house; a federal building (1904-1906); a See also:Carnegie library (1902); a See also:hospital for crippled See also:children (1905) and a See also:home for the friendless, both supoorted by the state; a state See also:penitentiary and See also:asylum for the insane, both in the suburbs; and the university of Nebraska. In the suburbs there are three denominational See also:schools, the Nebraska Wesleyan University (Methodist Episcopal, 1888) at University See also:Place; Union See also:College (Seventh See also:Day See also:Adventists, 1891) at College View; and Cotner University (Disciples of See also:Christ, 1889, incorporated as the Nebraska See also:Christian University) at See also:Bethany. Just outside the city limits are the state See also:fair grounds, where a state fair is held annually. Lincoln is the see of a See also:Roman See also:Catholic bishopric.

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country is a beautiful farming region, but its immediate W. environs are predominantly See also:bare and desolate salt-basins. Lincoln's " factory " product increased from $2,763,484 in 1900 to $5;222,620 in 1905, or 89%, the product for 19o5 being 3.4% of the See also:total for ,the state. The See also:municipality owns and operates its electric-See also:lighting plant and See also:water-See also:works. The salt-springs attracted the first permanent settlers to the site of Lincoln in 1856, and settlers and freighters came See also:long distances to reduce the brine or to scrape up the dry-See also:weather See also:surface deposits. In 3886-1887 the state sank a test-well 2463 ft. deep, which discredited any See also:hope of a See also:great underground flow or See also:deposit. Scarcely any use is made of the salt See also:waters locally. Lancaster county was organized extra-legally in 1859, and under legislative See also:act in 1864; Lancaster See also:village was platted and became the county-seat in 1864 (never being incorporated); and in 1867, when it contained five or six houses, its site was selected for the state capital after a hard-fought struggle between different sections of the state (see NEBRASKA).' The new city was incorporated as Lincoln (and formally declared the county-seat by the legislature) in 1869, and was chartered for the first See also:time as a city of the second class in 1871; since then its See also:charter has been repeatedly altered. After 1887 it was a city of the first class, and after 1889 the only member of the highest subdivision in that class. After a " reform " See also:political See also:campaign, the ousting in 1887 of a corrupt See also:police See also:judge by the See also:mayor and city See also:council, in See also:defiance of an See also:injunction of a federal court, led to a decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, favourable to the city authorities and important in questions of See also:American municipal government.

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