The Bottineau pioneer. (Bottineau, N.D.) 1885-1895, 1890-06-28

list or paper. but flling Il IN from his
On June ) said Stevens. after inquire Of men
az to my previous residence and occupation,
said: These lists You are now copying,
and which have been inrnasnea a rom -.
sre able to draw your own
and you understand 1t IL c~onfidentiaI.,
,, ! replied sna = n nade m;,,s'a BE IL + said T. 'ysg pSs
people furnishing these lists have not Their az.
dresses, the names are on their books, but
where they are now we ,,a aon an dn Tow, NY NY sucSS
particulars as are necessary into these blanks
lbeing Elk. 3)and then distribute them pro rata
among the various enumeration DISTRICTS 50
nnas t thsy is ese eonsdential.a / replied: soi
| course" Stevens then said:
.Well, I Will see You later and e1p,ain
which Elk. 4. hereto attached, is one: To.
ggether with these he brought 2 la r. sa agm aie5t 9.
fve names to a sheet. Said stevens directed
| me to fill in answers to the various questions as
names, they being already. inserted in said
blanks; that I was to use only the names OF the
states for the birthplace, as these blanks were
some Instances the state Of his own, bis fathers
and mothers birth, in other instances
he (the person whose name was IN
posed to know the state of the birth Of bis
father but not OF his mother, in some Instances
of the mother but not Of the father, in others 1
himself was born, in other instances / should
use simply "U. s." for the man and nothing for
the parents, and in other instances ~. :" 1or
the parents with the state named for the man.
And to use variations az to the states. remem.
bering that there WAS Q preponderance OF
Maine people in ~Minneapolis. but not to
f %ahe tS %,n %sny from =. Main" they and alr saas
had enough Of those, and to use
the older states in preference to those lately ad.
mltted; and, for example, he penciled on six o.
to show how it should be done. Said
papers, containing the penciled instruction,
IN said Stevens handwriting, are now y n IN my
as soon as / had gone through said entire eighty
eight sheets, Of which Ex. A is q sample, that /
should 20 back and begin over again. repeating
the process, as it was not at all unusual for two
persons of different names to. give the same All
swers as to age. occupation, time OF working,
ETC., and that no one would ever detect the non
existence of such persons from those fictitious
lists. / continued on this work until l had filled
ETC., and that no one would ever detect the
no~n-existence of such persons from those
fictitious lists. / continued on this work until
I had filled in about twelve hundred of the
blanks Of the form of Elk. 3. This I did as di-
rected. and when completed returned the lists,
gether with the blanks filed out in the form OF
Elk. 3. to said Stevens. = ~
On the evening of June z, said Stevens told me
that he had some special work for me to do;
that there was a certain district which was
mostly scandinavian in which there was one
block that last May canvassed SS7 persons, and
the %janitor had taken the census and returned
only 446 names. leaving over 400 persons to be
accounted for, and said that he wanted me to
make up the shortage. and in making the
closely as possible the writing on the lists. In
order to make up this deficiency, on the mvrh.
ing following said Stevens handed me a large
a aetaehed o. marked nsrs ID f Esh 1n5@ g. 81 in en Wh Rapt the ne enes'
tions were answered and a uame or names
given, the same purporting to be returns made
by the janitor OF said block: and directed
creasing the number of children or
adding a wife and children, in cases
Of oda single iT'{s ! men, ;n,, and . where el1sady married
formed this work., adding 800 names to said
lists by the above process, finishing the work on
June 8. When finished ! returned them to Mr..
Stevens, who expressed satisfaction with the
work and said, II will see that the numer-
atOr gets tllem."
On June 8 I saw two census enumerators
room 4s, working at separate tables and copy
ing the names and Information from the
fictitious lists similar to Elk. 4 on the regular
government Gye tns n,t schedules They were working at
said enumerators left at night they took
with them a large number of govern
ment schedule blanks and and fictitious
lists of he form Of Elk. 4 wrapped up
in packages. Said Stevens told them to be
careful and not to let any one see them or the
color OF them: On June 10 Baudet brought
back the fictitious lists taken by him and said
he had got through with them and wanted to
see Stevens and return the said lists.
On June 8 said Stevens gave me q number of
wished me to fill up those lists, furnishing him
thirty families of from three to five members
each and OF various Municipalities. With these
orc I've now MN Il on%n e ao-Irr
as many n~ationalities. These cards were about
eighteen by twenty-four inches In size and con-
tanned the surnames and Christian names appli-
cable to each nationality as named upon each
separate card, and told me to use the names
and from these cards in
making up the thirty or moro families
information called for by said Elk. 8, excepting
the address, as l saw fit. In this way I man
featured thirty-two families; ten Swedish
families comprising twenty-three PERSONS. Ave
Austrian families comprising twenty-one per-
sons. three Russian families comprising twelve
persons, five Polish families comprising twenty
persons, and three Danish families comprising
twelve persons, making u total of 122 per-
sons.
On the morning of the 18th Of June said stev-
ems dictated to me addresses for the thirty-two
families last above described, which / added to
the lists, and after doing so handed said list to
S sald Stsve oi tS sean adtsr eS Sascslhsa the 9sT maa,
said Dickey came to'the room where / was work
ing and said he wanted some Swede
names badly, every Swede name they
to switch me on to that work. In accord.
ance with this request I furnished Dickey with
about u thousand names, copied from lists
with which / had been previously furnished.
On the afternoon of June 10 Stevens furnished
me with a large number Of lists in the form Of
Exhibit 4. containing two, three, i've and six
Swedish names above referred to, and furnishing
me with a rubber eraser, instructed me to
replace the names ON said lists with
names taken from the GARD, and by that
means alter the whole character OF the
lists; This did and kept at that
1:20 q, m. OF THAT day ]. left the postoffice build
ing for dinner. / was gone about fifty minutes,
aud upon my return found that all the furniture
had been taken from said Room 48 and all its
making inquiry. Twas informed by one OF the
enumerators who had been working in one 81
the secret rooms that the removal was In:
consequence OF . telegram which had
Inspector would arrive in the city
THAT afternoon. We removed from the
secret rooms seven large gynny-saeks OF
schedules and documents, and took them.
together with the furniture, to Dom II to az
inclusive on the third floor Of the Vanderburgh
block, corner OF Fourth street and Hennepin
avenue, some three blocks distant from the
government building.
tained in the rooms OF the Yanderburgh block
as was maintained in the government building,
and entrance was gained in the same way.
4, After s,;s,, remoyins to-. 70 the !. J v z nd q qFs block,
ing persons most Of the time. working under the
direction of said Stevens: Pnlford,
enumeration districts 324 and 408; Hagerman,
No; 346; Lewis: No. s41; Reyes, n: 422;
Aarons, No. 800; S. =. Crapdal, No. Ali; r. s.
Pearse, No.. 1858; Mitchell, No. 1877; Ed Jones,