The Dickinson press., 1908-03-14
NEW ENGLAND.

NEW ENGLAND.
Will Rev visited in the Tepee buttes
neighbsrhood Sunday.
liver Mortenson went to Dickinson
Monday with a load Of fax.
C. c. Mead has returned to Dickinson.
after a few days stay at the ranch.
B. H. Reineman was a business visitor
at the county seat the first of the week.
w. F. Kramer and Fred Thorsen
made a business trip to Dickinson the
first of the week.
Dave Herter, the herder for Gardner,
has finished his labor for the firm and is
now holding down his homestead two
miles north Of town.
Gordon Gardner shot a large coyote
Tuesday. with a six.shooter on horse
back, after chasing him with some of the
boys for about four miles.
County Auditor Robert ID. Berry and
States Attorney Geo. H. Stone were
callers in New England over Tuesday
night on official business. Attorney
Stone was interested in a law suit, which
may come up before Justice Van Bergen.
Oscar Strehlow succeeded in getting
the required number of signers for the
petition for the organizing of township
1874, range 81, and took it to Mott, where
the petition was acted upon, and the
people in that. neighborhood will enjoy
the privileges Of a civil township through
Mr.. Strehlowis efforts.
+. NJ. Cass and son brought the second
load for the New England bridge Tues
day. The Car containing the iron and
steel material is now at Dickinson so
there is something coming Cur way soon.
There will be a man appointed by the
commissioners to look after the construe-
ton in each town for the interest of the
county.
S. German passed through here Wed
nesday on his return to his home in
Towner, N. D. He told of a shooting
affair he witnessed in Marmarth the
night before. One Pendergast, a pigger,
resisted arrest and in a gun play that
followed he was wounded. AS is usually
the case, a disinterested person was the
n who was injured the most. One
man was shot through the thigh and may
not recover. He was taken to the hos.
| pital at Aberdeen.
THE COUNTY SEAT QUESTION
AT the last meeting of the Republican
club held at New England a committee
was instructed to write to the attorney
general to find out the law governing
the removal of a county seat. N. H.
Nelson, chairman of thc1 committee,
states that his letter has not been
answered. However, his brother, John
N. Nelson, a Wisconsin lawyer, and a
representative to the national house
from that state, in ranswcr to MIR. Mel
sons request, looked up the law concern
ing this matter and it may be. of intcres
to many to note the following extracts:
Revised Codes of North Dakota
Under the law of 1907 for organization
of counties, the governor was cmpow
cred to organize the counties on proper
petition and to locate a temporar,
county seat at the place designated by
the largest number of legal voters or
their petition. 1t shall remain the count,
seat until the first general election there.
after, when the voters of such county are
empowered to to vote for and select the
place of county seat as provided by law.
If the petition is signed by qualified
electors of the county equal i'll number
to at least threc-ffths of all the votes
cast at the last preceding general cleo
ton, the board must, at the next general
election, submit the 'question of the re-
moval to the electors of a locality under
the general election law.
When an election has been held and
at least two-thirds of the votes are not
cast for some other place than that fixed
by law as the former county seat, nc
second election for the removal thereof
must be held within ten years thereafter