The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-08-26
TTORNEi- -GENERAL on COUNT
SEAT REMOVAL.


Attorney General Hahn has recently
delivered an opinion upon questions
growing out Of an attempt to remove
the county-seat Of Yellow Medicine
county from Granite Falls.
lie decides, first, that where several
different sheets, each purporting to be
u petition of like contents with every
other one. like petitions for the remov
al of county seat, are circulated and
signed repeatedly and presented to the
board of county commissioners, at the
same time unattached, they can not be
regarded rs one petition but are to be
regarded as several petitions. In as
certaining the number of freeholders
to determine whether a petition con-
tains majority Of them, they must be
each freeholders at the time the petit
tion is presented and filed. In regard
to the question as to whether the OBJ.
ject and purpose for which persons be
come freeholders affects the fact that
they are such, and warrants the board
in disregarding them in their entimate
Of the number of freeholders in the
county, the decision holds that it is not
for the board to investigate the object
or purpose for which persons become
or are freeholders. If the petitioner is
a freeholder that is sufficient.
The next question is: When two Pc
titiOns asking for the removal of the
county.seat to different places are pre-
sented to the board at substantially
the same time, can y person who has
signed both petitions be counted as a
petitioner for either? The decision
was that such a petitioner could not
signs two separate petitions which are
presented at the same time, one asking
for change to one place and one
asking for change to another, he fails
to indicate to the board his lndividu ual
preference. The theory of the law
seems to be that the county-seat should
not be disturbed until 4 majority of
the freeholders in that county who are
legal voters can unite upon some place,
and then. and not until then. shall the
matter be submitted to the arbitrament
of the ballot. When u man has signed
the petition and it has been pre-
| sented and filed, he can, afterward
| and before final action thereon, with
draw from the petition, 50 that his
name will not he counted thereon.
Jones and Small received 500 for
their services here and $l5O for ex
penses. 1t pays to be first class evan
gelist.-Lancaster CO., Gazette.
The same paper gives the entire re-
ceipts of the meeting at 800. Jones
and Small make $425 each for a week (
work. the managers of the meeting
pocket a few thousand clear money
and the whole thing was bigger sue
cess than the biggest circus or hippo
drome that ever exhibited. Many peo
pie went away and called it ''gettin(
religion" or serving the Lord, yet th'
whole thing from bottom to top was :
money M king scheme. Religion deal
out at 80 much a quart, souls convert
ed at $40 to $40 a head, and the Lore
worshipped and held up to the peopl
at $50 to $75 day. Bali! The trai
Of the serpent is over it all. Chris
was not there, and il he had put in a,
appearance he would have over rturne,
the tables of the money changers an,
sc0urged them out OF the woods, as b
once drove them out Of the temple.