Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1894-10-12
MAGNIFICENT RECORD.
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Captain Moorhouse Has One Anv
Man Might Well Be Proud
Of-Next Auditor
Eulogistic Letter From a Lady Voter,
Containing Nuggets Of
knowledge.
Senator Worst Strictly I'm It"-He
Made a Telling Speech Last
Night at Fargo.
The Next County Auditor.

The Next County Auditor.
Capt. W. S. Moorhouse, candidate for
county auditor on the republican ticket
was born in Brownsville, Pa, Jan. 26,
1910, lived on a farm from the time
he was 10 years old until he was II,
going to the public school in. winter
time. In 1857 he emigrated to the terri
tory of Kansas and was a member of the
Free State army during the struggle to
make Kansas a free state. On the break
ing out of the war he enlisted in Com
pany K, First Kansas, for three months
service. The company was never mus
tered in. On Sept. 10, 1861, he enlisted
as a private in Company B, First Kansas
cavalry (afterward remembered the Sew
enth) at Fort Leavenworth, Kan. On
Oct. 10, 1861, he was elected second
lieutenant, and the following April,
Capt. Swoyer being killed, he was pro-
noted to the ca%ptaincy, being then %
years old. This position he held until
N1dIO 1 .! LOU, WHO'LL Ao was uOuOIdDly
discharged. The Seventh Kansas be-.
longed to the famous Sixteenth corps,
Army of the Tennessee, and served
under Grant, Sherman, Mcpherson,
Rosencrans, Logan and A. J. Smith. In
1869 he wa appointed adjutant general
of Kansas by Gov. Harvey, serving two
years, after which he engaged in the
hardware business in Atchison, Kan,
until he came to Bismarck, in March,
1883. In politics Capt. Moorhouse, al
though Independent in some of his
views, has always been a republican.
He is an American all the time, and just
as willing to take up arms to defend this
country now as he was in 1861 under
President Lincoln's first call.
His long and honorable business career
in Bismarck has made him personally
acquainted with the greater part of the
voters of this county. When called upon
to- perform official duties he has always
been found competent and willing to at
all times protect every interest of the
county. No business man ever stood
better for fair and honorable dealing
than does Capt. Moorhouse. He Is a
member of the Grand Army of the Re-
public organization and takes a deep in
terest in the welfare of that society, ever
ready to lend d helping hand to a needy
and deserving comrade. Every fiber of
his body and every drop of his blood
stands a ready sacrifice when necessary
in the protection of his country's honor.
The leniency with which he has in
dulged many of the farmers of the
county, while disadvantageous to his
financial welfare, stands to his everlast-
ing credit as one ever ready to share in
the misfortunes of others. His intimate
connection with, and knowledge of the
affairs Of the county IN the past espe-
cially fits him for the duties of county
auditor. While a resident of the city of
Bismarck, he is distinctively a candidate
of the farmers, they having practically
cast all the votes necessary to his nomi-
nation, The fund Of practical informa-
ton he has accumulated through a life
of active industry and study will be of
great service to the board of county
commissioners, whose clerk the auditor
is. We predict for him as large a ma
jority as any candidate in the field for
any county Office. Vs..
A Woman's E;easons-Good as Gold.
Ed. TRIBUNE: Emma F. Bates, the
nominee of the republican party,
for the office of superintendent of
public instruction for North Da-
kota, is a woman whose work as an
educator is felt in the remotest school
districts of the state. She has been en-.
gagged in the work of education for years.
For the past five or six years Miss
Bates has been intimately connected
with the training of the teachers Of
North Dakota, having taught in the
normal school located at Minor, and
later at the state normal at Valley City.
In the latter school she occupied the
responsible position of ~preceptress.
To Miss Bates almost entirely should
be given the credit of building up the
Valley City Normal, as it was due
to her untiring efforts that the school in
its infancy was kept open. She was the
first lady teacher in the institution, and
her pupils found that the longer they
knew b er, the more they loved and es
teemed her as an estimable companion
and wise instructor. She is thoroughly
qualified for the work of state superin-
tendent of schools, and is imbued with
the spirit of q true educator. In her
associations with the pupils of the nor
NAL schools, in which she has been an in
structor, she has learned the minutest
needs of the district schools. She has
found just where help is needed by teach
ers in their work, where improvement
is required for the benefit Of both teach
er and school. Az an institute con-
ductor, Miss Bates has no superior, and
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