Saint Paul weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1858-1859, 1859-09-03

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Cedar City Fraud 1O9--.
Total. -..--..... .768. 10
The of1cial'canvass as made by Brown and
M - edary, gives Sibley majority of $40, over
Ramsey.
Let 1t be recollected that this was made up
6y counting these forged returns from Cass,
Iodd, Pembina and Mcleod Counties. These
amounted to GIG majority for Mr.. Sibley. De-
ouct tnese votes and Alexander Ramsey
would have been elected by 439 majority.
NOW FOR THE PROOFS!
The three judges and one of the clerks of
the election at CEDAR CITY Precinct, Nc
Leod County, have sworn, and the affiday,ts
were laid before the Board, that at the cleo
ton held at that place, there were - votes
cast tor Ramsey and Q for Sibley. But the
vote forged which was counted by the Reg
ister OF that county and afterwards approved
by Brown and Medary, in the face of this tes-
timony, was 100 for Sibley, for Ramsey CT.
majority of Sibley 4S. This return. as the
Deputy Register certified, was in pencil. and
during the night was clandestinly pushed un.
der the door, and on the morning after found
by him on the floor of the Registers Office l.
That it was a base forgery no man ever doubt
ed, yet it was counted for Sbley and the real,
genuine vote excluded. We append here the
affidavit of one of the Clerks of the Election,
which We find published in the st. Paul Times
in November, 1857. --t-.l,rst .
Minnesota Territory, County Of Mcleod,
S.; V. z. Kennedy, of Cedar City, being
first duly sworn deposes and says that he was
one of. the Clerks of the Election held in said
precinct, on the, Sd day Of October, A. D.
1857. .Deponent further says, that there were
but foruteen iotes polled and only four
teen voters at the election aforesaid.
.-..f V.R. KENNEDY.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
28th day of November, A. D. 1857. 20 -.-*s
WIN. r. SN1DER, Nortary Public, MINI.
AFFIpAviTs OF GIBSON AND HOLMES AS To
uoLMs CITY AND RENO CITY.
ri Asfor the HOLMES CITY, Precinct it was
in proof, by witnesses who We're there on the
day of the election, and who were obliged to
60 ten miles to vote. that no election was
held at that place yet Brown and Medary
counted dS votes for Sibley, from that Pre-
cinct; and yet in no event could any such
vote have been olled even if an election had
been held. Read the affidavit of William
II. Gibson and T. A. Holmes:
Minnesota Territory, County of Scott, $751;,
WILLIAM II. GIBSON, of said county, being
duly sworn deposes and say s, that on the Goth
day of June, A. D. 1857, he started from
Shakopee, in the said county, in company
with Thomas. A. Holmes, James G. Farwell,
Charles L. Pierson, Edward Schwartz and
his wife, George Gardner, Frank Tucker, and
a man known by the name of Elijah, and went
! to the County of Pembina in the Territory
aforesaid, and that he and his associates afore-
said, arrived in the vicinity of White Bear
Lake on or about the 9th of July following,
and Immediately commenced to lay out and
survey the plat of the Town of Grove Lake;
veyed the plat Of the town called and known
as =" Holmes City" And the deponent fur
Their says, that at the time of his arrival at the
above mentioned place, they found at Holmes
City the following named persons to wit -
Noah Grant, David Coulthard, William Fam
an, Harvey McKibbon, and at Grove Lake he
found H. ID. Rice, George Slater and Richard
Thompson,all of whom had gone to those pla-
ces from the aforesaid City of Shakopee.
And this deponent further says that at
White Bear Lake there were four persons
only, and at place called Mansfield, about
| five miles from Grove Lake, there was one
man living by the name OF Smith, and that,
excepting the persons above mentioned there
was no white person residing or living with
in twenty Ave miles of Grove Lake, and only
three families within sixty miles of Holmes
City.
And the deponent further says, that he re-
turned to Shakopee as aforesaid about the
first day of august 1867, and that all the
above named persons, Except Edward Schwartz
above mentioned, returned with this deponent
to Shakopee aforesaid, and have been here all
the time since their return aforesaid.
And the deponent further says that he is
informed and believes that at no time since he
went to Holmes City as aforesaid, to the pres
ent time, has the number of persons within
sixty miles in either direc ton from Holmes
City, exceeded five families in the aggregate.
And further this deponent saith not.
| WILLIAM H. GIBSON.
| AFFIDAVIT OF THOMAS A.. HOLMES OF sHAKoPEE.
THOMAS A. HOLMES being duly sworn SAYS
that he was at Holmes City for the last time
on or about the 10th day of July last, and
| that he left at that time fourteen men and one
! woman, ten of whom returned to Shakopee,
previous to the election, October 18th, and he
has no knowledge of how many were there
upon the said-day of election. But deponent
further says, that he would be extremely
happy to believe that his said city and the Vi
clnity contained population sufficient to
cast sixty-five clean, honest Democratic votes!
.-.... L. A. HOLMES.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
9th day of December, A. D. 1857.
THOMAS HINT Nnforu Dnh1;o Nj,
Mr. Holmes is a Democrat and formerly
represented that party as a member of the
Territorial Legislature,
Elijah Faulkner, Lewis Jacobs and David
Colthard testified that at RENO Precinct not
over 10 persons voted, yet Brown and Media
ry gave Sibley All majority in that precinct.
AFFIDAVIT OF ELIJAH FAULKNER RESPECTING
ed. .n... RENO CITY.
+ The following is the affidavit of Elijah
Faulkner: r-.... . .,
Minnesota Territory, County of Scott, So
Elijah Faulkner, of Pembina county. and
Territory aforesaid, being duly sworn saws.
that he is citizen of the United States, and
over twenty-one years Of age-that on the
18th day of October, A. D. 1850, he voted at
a place called Reno, or Reno City, in the said
county of Pembina; and deponent further
says that he arrived at Reno or Reno CITY,
about three O'clock in the afternoon of the day
aforesaid, and remained there until the morn
ing of the l4th October, A: d. 1857; and de-
ponent further says, that there could not have
been over fifteen votes cast at said election
on the 18th October, 1857: and further de-
ponent says not. ELIJAH FAULKNER.
Subscribed and sworn to before me this
18th day Of December, A. D. 1867.
's-"' THOMAS B. HUNT,
Notary Public, NJ. T.
IMPORTANT AFFIDAviT OF J. R. PERKINS RE-
sPECTING THE OTTER TAIL CANVASS.
Read the affidavit of j. r. Perkins in refer