Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1893-01-06
HIOGHipHICiL NkETCHkS.
or Governor Sh"rtridgc aud IL Few OF til
NNw SfntN ONiCiuls.

or Governor Sh"rtridgc nnd IL Few OF the
New state OMcinl>.
Governor ShUrtriuge was born in
West Virginia in 1880. His early life
was spent and his education gained in
Missouri. the latter being completed ut
the academy at Paris, Mo. Governor
Shorlrluge is Il farmer thorough and
practical and he is esteemed by all who
know HIM for his sterling worth as Il
man and nc,ghbor. He is conservative
IN all things and naturally took deep
interest in the farmers alliance organi-
cation from the beginning and served
one Year as president of that orsaniza-
ton and represented the state in the
Grand cornell at Washington last Jan
uary.
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Lieut. Governor Wallace was born in
Michigan in 1914. He moved to Steele
county from Detroit in 1851. and oper-
ates Il farm Of 1000 acres. He was edu-
Gated in the high schools at Detroit and
has been an intelligent and persistent
reader. He served during the war in
the Twenty-fourth Michigan infantry.
He was engaged in business in Detroit
before coming to North Dakota. He
was Il member of the constitutional con.
@ven,ion and won the esteem Of all who
knew him.
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Mrs. Eisenhu,h, superintendent of
pubic instruction. vas born in Canada
but moved with her parents 10 Iowa
when she was but two Years OF age. She
was educated in the public schools of
Iowa where she was Il teacher for eleven
years. She came to North Da-
kota in 1887 as the wife OF
J II. b. Eisenhu,h. She was elected
superintendent of schools in Foster
county in 1883, aud re. elected in 1880.
She received 1866 votes for superin-
tendent of public instruction in 1890,
to 20,3l3 for Mr.. Osdon. and was elect.
ed in 1852.
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w. II. Standish, attorney general, was
born in New York in 1912, aud takes
pride in the fact that he is a descendent
OF Miles Standish, who came to this
country on the Maylower. He was ed
ucated at Canandagua academy. He
served in an Ohio regiment during the
war. Practlced law in Cincinnati, and
afterwards in Chicago, where he was as
soclated with Matt Carpenter in the
famous Lake front cases. He came to
Dakota in 1883, and engaged in farming
and in connection Herewith practiced
law. specially in Ramsey and Nelson
counties.
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Arthur w. Porter, state auditor, was
born in Illinois; is now b years of age,
and came to the state in 1881. He was
educated at the Illinois State university,
and for four years was city editor of the
Rockford Gazette, and afterwards was
associated with Governor Pierce on the
Inter Ocean. He came to Dakota in
1880, iii the interest of his paper, and
settled next year at jamestown, and
soon afterwards made his home on his
farm in LaMoure county, where he be-
came deputy under his brother who was
county treasurer. He has a farm of 800
acres aud is engaged in mixed farming.
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knud j. Nomland was born in Nor
J way in 1852, and came to America and
settled in Iowa in 1861, where he was a
farmer and teacher until 1878, when he
came to Dakota. He has a farm of GAO
acres. and IS thorough and practical. He
was elected county treasurer of Trail
county in 1856, and reelected in 1888.
He was defeated for county treasurer in
1880, but electe! state treasurer in 1892,
The Question of Par,lons.
IL IS not necessary to deny that the list
OF pardons granted by Governor Burke
during Ills term of office is a quite extern
slve one: but it is likely the governor has
not during that time extended c%lrupncy to
any person in whose case there was not
convincing evidence that such pardon
would be IA wise an just exercise of his
official p%rcrogative. The TRIBUNE sees
no reason to suppose that the pardon of
Collins was All exception. in this respect.
The following letter. sent to the Herald.
and made public by the governor, is self
explanatory:
STATE OF NORTH DAKoTA,)
Executive Office.
EDITOR HERALD:- My attention is
called to the editorial in Sundays issue of
the Herald. of the 1st inst. entitled: "Why
Was Collins Pard0ned "'-and wherein
you say: "rhe governor owes it to him.
self to make public the reasons which have
induced him to interrupt the course of ius.
tice and the sentence Of the law" desire
to say, that should be very glad to do so
through the columns Of the Iierald-lf o
would publish therein an abstract, such
being furnished you, of the petitions and
letters in behalf Of the pardon of James
Collins, on file in this Office, without any
omissions of the names subscribed there