The Ekalaka eagle. [volume] (Ekalaka, Mont.) 1909-1920, 1909-10-29

! undertaking ToOms. where 1t will be
prepared for shipment tc. Petersburg
tomorrow morning. Funeral services
VIII be held in the Methodist church
or Petersburg, where Senator John
son attended services for mai
years, and will be conducted by Pre-
siding Elder Moore of that distric
a warm friend CT the family. Int.
ment will probably be in the Peter.
burg cemetery, attn. ugh that vii
not be definitely arranged until tt,
&thcr relatives arrive. TIE anil.
burial ground is in Iowa, where Sell
ator johnson lived as a boy.
Senator JOhnson's life was ell
twined with the foundation stone.
Of North Dakota's hist ry. AMI hi
service as a public servant vent ia
to give the structure OF the con
~mcnWealth it's soli1ity and dignit,
1t is difficult to say just who Senate
JOl nsOns successor will be. Accord
ing to the law of the state, tie g v
e"l-or must name a successor VIII
will hold the senatorial seat unit
the legislature which ven il.
January, 1911, can elect a senator.
The appointee will represent the
state in tie coming session Of con
51ess which mee.s the .4st ..onday
N December. AS there are many
able Democrats in the state, the gov
ern> r will undoubtedly name a Dem.
,crat as senator.
All flags in Fargo will be at halt
mast today and rem ain so until a!tci
re funeral, ty the edict OF Mayor
.Illictt last evening.
Hon. Martin N. Johnson was born
on a farm in Racine county, Wiscon.
sin, in March, 1850. His father, the
Rev. Nelson Johnson was BORN IL
Norway and came to this country in
1889, and "a married mere to Anna
Selheim, a native of Norway. He was
a Methodist Episcopal clergyman Tor
twenty-five years. He was also a far
mer and kept close to the soil. The
family moved to Iowa in 1889, and
there the subject of this art Gle was
reared to MANAGED and educated for
his life work. He was prepared for
college, and entered the Upper Iowa
University at Fayette. From that ex.
cellent school he went to the state
University and took the full -four
years classical course there and was
graduated with the class of 1873. He
became a teacher after his graduation
and taught for two years in the Cal.
.fornia Military Academy at Oakland
In 1875 he returned to Iowa and was
elected to the Legislature from Win
neshiek county. This was his first en-.
try into politics, he being twenty-five
years old at that time. The next year
he was a presidential electOr on the
Republican ticket and helped to elect
President Hayes. In 1877 ne was cleo.
ed a senator in the state Legislature
and served four years in that capac.
tty. In 1882 he came to North Dakota.
He settled on un%Surveyed public land
and opened a farm, where his family
still resides, near what is no w4he vii.
age of Petersburg, and twenty-five
miles from Larimore. which was thcp
he nearest railroad station.
The oun.Ty was Wild prairie for
miles around, and the inhabitatiCn
hat sheltered him from the
weather the first winter was a sod
shanty such as the first settlers us
tally built and used in that country
at that time. Much of the farming
and other work in those days was
lone with oxen, and Mr.. Johnson used
ONE oxen but depended mainly Oh
lorses
Fol the first four years after his ar
'ival in the territory of Dakota, Mr..
Johnson devoted all his attention to
'arming. In 1856 he was elected dis.
riot attorney, and again in 1888, SER
Ting four years in that capacity. In
he was sent as a delegate to the
institutional convention at Bismarck
was a hari-work ng and faithful
member of that important body. He
vas chairman of the committee on
corporations and had a hand in the
education. That year he was a
'andidate for the United States SEN
tie before the first legislature, and in
Republican caucus had fOrty-twO
out Of the eighty cast, and was
to the Urn ted vote OF the
>arty in the joint convention. The
thirty-eight Republican votes
we're divided among seven competl1-
who finally combined with ten