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Central Nebraska Land and Immigration Co. Capital Stock 100,000.00 Officers: President: Willis L. Hand, Attorney at
Law(etc.) Kearney, Neb., Wednesday, April 20, 1892. Dear Louie: I am with Mary, Dave and I. We stopped a day with Mr.
Waterman at Crete and came here last evening. Mary and her three children and Mr. Hand are all very well and we are enjoying
our visit. The weather here is breezy and blustering as an Alaskan mountain top and I should not like to live in so industrious
a home of the winds. Our hilltop is ever calm compared with this. I mean to return to Lincoln tomorrow, stay a day there
and then set out on the journey home. David does not yet know whether he will come out to California or stay in Lincoln. Perhaps
Ette will help him in coming to a decision when she joins him. He is much better now, and sleeps well. I saw Mr. Fuller in
Crete and he and Mr. Waterman seem to have about made up their minds to take the vineyard. Dan is hard up, but by close economy
makes out to hold all the land he bought during the boom. I have not yet made any arrangement as to our claim. I hope you
were not much alarmed by the earthquake. I passed the celebrated Hastings - a poor place - Met two of Mrs. Graydon's friends.
Hope to reach home in time for the May meeting of the Grangers' business. Love to all, J. M. Tell Wanda and Helen I'll
soon be home and not be lonesome.