The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1890-06-26
Iist or paper, bnt MINING Il in FROM his

list or paper, but filling At In from his
own imagination.
On June said Stevens. after inquire OF men
as to my previous residence and occupation,
said: tsThess lists you are now copying,
and which have been furnished from i'm
teIligence offices, Iumbermen, etc.--you
GRE able to draw your own conclusions,
and you understand it is confidential -
replied: 81 understand, sir; it is your
people furnishing these lists have not their adj
dresses, the names are on their books, but
where they are now we don't know. We copy
these names from these lists and then add such
particulars as are necessary int 10 these blanks
(being Elk. 3)and then distribute them pro rata
among the various enumeration districts SO
mind, this is confidential" | replied piled "of
course" Stevens then said:
s1s6 oven, VIII see you later and explain
this" stevens thee left me and shortly
returned with eighty-eight sheets, of
which Eek. A. hereto attached, is one. To-
gether with these he brought q large number of
blanks OF the form OF Elk. g.. All OF said eighty
eight sheets contained only male names. and
five names to a sheet. Said Stevens directed
me to fill in answers to the various questions as
called Tor on said Ex b, excepting as TO the
names, they being already inserted III said
blanks; that was to use only the names of the
states for the birthplace, as these blanks were
some instances the state Of his own, his fathers
and mothers birth, in other instances
he the person whose name was in
posed to know the state of the birth Of his
father but not OF his mother in some instances
OF the mother but not OF the father i'll Others
should specify simply the state in which the man
himself was born, in other instances / should
use simply tU. 81 for the man and nothing for
the parents, and in other instances "U. s." for
the parents with the state named for the man.
And to use variations as to the states, remem-
bering that there was preponderance of
Maine people in minneapolis, but not to
from Minnesota, as they already
had enough of those, and to use
the older states in preference to those lately ad
united; and, for example, he penciled on six of
the blanks of the form of Ex 8
to show how it should be done Said
papers, containing the penciled instruction,
in said Stevens handwriting are now i'll my
possession. Said Stevens then informed me that
as soon as had gone through said entire eighty
eight sheets, of which Elk. is a sample, that /
should go 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 an
swers as. to age, occupation, time of working,
etc, and that no one would ever detect the nom
existence of such persons from those fictitious
lists. continued on this work until had filled
ETC., and that no one would ever detect the
non-existence of such persons from those
fictitious lists. continued on this work until
had filed in about twelve hundred of the
blanks of the form of Elk. 8. This I did as di-
rected, and when completed returned the lists,
with the exception of one retained by me, to-
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 there was certain district which was
mostly Scandinavian in which there was one
block that last May canvassed 8S7 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
changes as hereinafter stated, to initiate as
closely as possible the writing on the lists. In
order to make up this deficiency, on the morn
ing following said Stevens handed me a large
number Of lists of the form of the paper hereto
attached, marked Exhibit 5, in which the ques-
tions were answered and a pame or names
given, the same purporting to be returns made
by the lanitor of said block, and directed
me by alterations, raising ages, in
creasing the number of children or
adding wife and children, in cases
of single men, and where already married
and with a family. adding boarders. l per-
formed this work, adding 500 names to said
Ets by the above process, finishing the work on
when finished returned them to Mr.,
-Hrassed satisfaction with the
lat the enumer-