Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1908-02-26


tee about a month ago a mass meet
ing OF citizens of Mclean county was
held at McClusky on Wednesday of
this week to discuss county division
and decide upon the line which the
fight for county division is to be made.
The meeting was called for 1 o'clock
p. m. and promptly at 12:45 the Pion-
eer band at McClusky formed in line
in the public square and footed our
hearty welcome to the visitors The
march to the Auditorium commenced
Immediately and at 1 o'clock stand
ing room in the hall was at premi-
um. It is estimated that there was
at one time over four hundred people
in the room. The meeting was called
20 order by Col. Thos. R. Morrow, the
we'll known Denhoff attorney, chair.
man OF the committee, who read the
call and explained the object of the
meeting. The meeting got down to
Work at once and organized by select
ing Mr.. Freitag of Max, as chairman
and Cashier Landman Of the Wash
burn State Bank, as secretary.
The chair called for remarks touch
ing upon the subject in hand and
Denhoff led Of with Mr.. Morrow as
her spokesman. He stated that Den.
hof and Goodrich had come to the
meeting to voice the sentiments of
their people in favor of dividing the
county between ranges Is and 49, but
II it seemed to be the majority opin-
ion of the meeting that some other
line was preferable they would glad
ay support such line. The speaker
asserted repeatedly that they favor
ed division. That was what they.
were after, but they felt that the line
of Is and 70 would provoke the least
resistance from Washburn and some
of the towns on the northern bound
airy of the county and hence could
command the most support.
The next speaker was Mr.. Hoeniscl1
a Dogden representative, and, by the
way, he was good one. He stated
IN a FRANK ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 1nanner
that Dogden did not favor division of
the county into two parts. He thought
the county could nicely spare a few
tiers of Townships off the north bound
airy line which would give Dogden a
chance to grab few townships from
Ward and McHenry counties and thus
form nice little dominion of their
own. The speaker added, however
that if the county must be divided
into two, Dogden would insist on be.
ing left in the old county and they
would fight to the bitter end any 9th
'-er proposition. To accommodate
them the Is and 70 advocates Topped
off the township in which Dogdep
is located
Mr.. Morton of Max, next took the
floor to state the position of his town
Like the previous speaker he Gid not
faFnr anything but thee county di
vision and he also had designs on
Ward county. He proposed a new
county of fifty townships to be form;
ed out of Mclean and Ward. He was
ably assisted in his argument by Mr.
Boetcher, who also halls from Max
and the chairman of the meeting, who
temporarily re1inquished the chat tic
take up the fight. The last named
gentleman intimated that Max and
Garrison do not strictly adhere to
the scriptural Injunction of brotherly
love. There are others.
Mr. Rishworth stated McClusky's
preference to be for the line upon
50 and 81. The speaker asserted that
aIcClusky had decided to support that
line after careful investigation of pub.
lie sentiment in all parts of the coun,
~.
AR Seibel of McClusky, followed
pretty much in the same vein. He
spoke in English and German aud
held the attention of the audience for
some time.
H G.. Perske of the First National
bank at Goodrich, represented the
Goodrich Commercial club on the
1ioor, and when he took the platform
ne stated for his people that while
they favored division upon the line
OF 70 and ~. yet they would gladly
support any other line which the as
semblage might decide upon.
MIR. r. w Anderson of Wilton. bore
the message Of his town-and it was
simply this: Wilton does not care
much where the line of division is
placed, but they want to be set off in.
10 Bnrleigh county. That is where
the four townships in which Wilton
Is located were taken from and they
now ask to be put back where in all
Justice they belong. Mr.. Anderson
stated that major part of Wilton's
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