Mineral Point tribune. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1854-1858, 1856-04-01
VOL. TX, NO. Is.

know that town North of amherst had any
name-an election was b. Id in Amherst h. mn
derstood
! Charles E,rcbard called and Sarorn. Had been
to town 25, range I0-was there in June last
went to hunt up land to Iocate-was pretty gem
orally through the towu-found the lines of it
passed through the town and back again by an
other couIse-not positive that he located anv
lands IN that town-;hough he did Locate a 40,
and an oO-it was not settled at that time TO
his knowledge-by diagram obtained at Ne
nasha land ofiiee-thought there had been but
two entries except some located bv the Fox and
Wisconsin River I'm Co-saw nor heard of
any settlers or lmproyement-not the stroke of
an axe except on the section lines-no roads
and no appearance of civiliza ion in the town
entered 1t from the east--w;is ten davs in that
vicinity and did not half a dozen houses
| during the time-camped out-not been there
since-haye been IN the town joining since
town 2i-was there latter part of August or first
of September-saw inhabitants but heard
there few in that town
Thomas Reynolds called and sarora.-Never wa.
IN town %, range l0-had been no nearer than,
Waupaca village.
paca vlllage-was cleIk of the Circuit Court Of
that county in l655-kept public house in
Naupaca-the election last fall IN that town
was held i'll my house-1 voted about sun-down
my vote the 520th-fhat was the number
my name was set against - heard tie polls
closed in two or three minutes after I voted
should thInk-was present most of Tie time
during the canvass of votes of the town-it
was first IN my dining room-sGbsecuentIv it
becoming cold there, they came into the room
where my wife and l slept and finished the
canvass there at about o'clock in the morning
the votes were kept in tallies-I looked at
the tallies number of times during TIE night.
at about five o'clock in the morning, and again
n short time before the result was declared
the tallies as l looked at them from time to
time showed Barstow ahead l3 tallies Mt one
time, think i at another-I counted Tie tai
Leslie talies at the latter part opposite both
the names of Barstow and BasElord reached
across the paper, aud commenced On the second
Ine-Chand4cr and Judson. tie clerks. kent
the aceount-saw John y. Chandler pu; down
the Names and the number Of votes tie several
candidates reccived-loobed at tie figures. and
heard the result GecIared-tLought the figures
and result declared off corrcsponded though do
not remember precisely--Ho m9 erial variation
except in the county seat matter-was paying
especial attention to that-the paper on which
Chandler kept the result was left on my table
Here Mr.. Ryan presented paper and asked
the witness if that was the paper
FitHe5s-It is-there had been no chanpe
made in tie writing on the paper-It was the
Il
dler left 1t.
Ryan then read the paper. Barstow's vote
was 2S6 BasLlords vote 2I9. BY the county
canvass, Barstow's vote was raised from 29S TO
513 and Bashford's reduced from 2I9 to 50.
Question Jy Justice Snsith-whose hand-wri-
ting is that Showing the witness the paper)
HjneSS-I don't know that could swear to
it positively, but should think it was Chandlers.
EranainatioH resumed Gy Nr. Ryan-Thought
he should have noticed so material a change as
the county canvass made in the vote for Govern
or if it had been declared off-did notice
it when published in the Waupaca Spirit, and
asked the editor why he put such statement
in his paper-frst saw it in the paper 5 or 6
days after the canvass-didn't precisely recol-
lect the time-have lived between 3 or i years
IN Waupaca - thought the population of the
town in November last from 500 TO 1000
Question by Justice .Smiah--what iuas been your
occupation in Waupaca?
H7aness-lad been clerk of the court and kept
public house
Q-Is not Waupaca a lumber country
A.-Considerable lumber is made there that
comes down the river.
Q.-Is there not good many men there EN-.
ployed in numbering?
d.-There is lot only so.::c engaged in the
saw-pilI.
Q.--How far is Town 25. r. 10, from Wau-
paca?
About I8 miles
Q.-Do you know of any road leading there
A.-Do not
Q.-N hat is the nearest numbering town
A-Micklejohn's mills about - miles from
Waupaca-was an organic ed town polled some
votes there last fall was one public house in
Waupaca besides mine several men were
boarding at the hotels and around the village
Is or 20 should think--saw the paper on the
table and put it in my portfolio with others
Mr. Chandler had been my deputy--tLe writing
and figures on the paper look like bis-fhe cleo
tion was held in my dining room--do not know
that the polls were opened again-the canvass
ommenced soon after supper-should have noti-
ced any public voting if there had been any after
the polls We're closed.
Questioned By DR. Hovc.-Mr. Rostedo was a
candidate for the Assembly--was unpopular
there
Mr.. Ryan then called the attention of the
Court to the peculiar and emphatic cipher oppo-
site Bos.edos name, on the paper. Adjourned.
FRIDAY, March 81
The Court came in az quarter before eleven
O'Clock.
f. J. Jones rccaz7od-First time his attention
was called to the change in the votes of Wau-
paca was in the Waupaca Spirit, the OILY paper
published theFe-that was the paper-( Mr.. Ry-
an exhibiting the paPer Of tie 9th Of Noy'r.)
(The affidavit of Dir. Jones. attached TO the
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