The Ward County independent. [volume] (Minot, Ward County, N.D.) 1902-1965, 1908-06-11

IL SeeulS DuL JUST 10 Iu0 C1llZeIS VI
the Eighth Judicial District thai
some answer be made to certain
false statements that are being pub
lished relative to the amount of I'M
finished business in the District
Court. What l may say here is not
offered with any notion of thereby
serving my own interests in this cam
paign beyond what may come from
the plain refutation of either wilful
falsehood or worse on the part Of
those who are supporting Mr.. Palda's
candidacy. But the voters should
know these facts, and ! will give
them.
1t is charged by some newspapers
and is being told by individuals, in
Mr.. Palda's interest, that the court
work has gone undone during my
term of service, and that the calen-
dar of the court in Ward County a.
lone shows over 900 cases undisposed
of, that work has been neglected, and
litigants cannot get a hearing; that
these delays are costing great sums
of money to the public, and loss to
individuals, l shail answer these
statements by calling attention to
the following facts:
To reach clear understanding of
the situation one must keep in mind
the wonderful growth in wealth and
population Of these counties during
the past four years. Attention is
therefore called to the following
facts:
To reach a clear understanding of
the situation one must keep in mind
the wonderful growth in wealth and
population of these counties during
the past four years. Attention is
therefore called to the following
facts: When I commenced my work
as judge of the court on January l,
1905, the eighth district was made
up of Bottineau, McHenry, Ward and
Mckenzie) county was attached to
the district for judicial purposes, and
l am still required to act as judge
of the district court of all these
counties except Mckenzie. When pro-
vision was made by the legislative
| assembly of 1907 for a new district,
| which takes out Bottineau and Nc
Henry counties, that body gave as
its reason for making the new ninth
| district, as shown by the final section
of the Act, the following:
| IAN emergency exists in this that
the population and judicial business
in the Second and Eighth Judicial
| Districts Of this state have grown
SO large that the judges of said dis
tricts cannot give proper attention
| thereto
In this we have legislative recog-
| milton Of the increasing population
and business of this district.
Now note the following with re.
spect to Ward and Williams counties
only: When my term of office be
gan in 1905, the population OF Ward
County was but a little over $4,000:
it is now corceded to have betweeG
| $4,000 and $4,000 inhabitants. At the
same time Williams county had only
about 5000 inhabitants; it now has
| 10000. The assessed valuation OF
Ward county in 1904 was $6,100,000
in 1907 it was over $14,O0O,0O0, and
in 1908 it will probably reach ST.,
100000 The business in the offices
of county treasurer, auditor and reg
lister of deeds of Ward county in.
dictates the same proportionate in
crease. For instance the fees of the
Register of deeds office for the last
month in 1904 amounted to $1,794
! and for the same moth in 1902 they
| were $3.50. Let it be borne in mind