Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-12-31

WILL HEAR
DELEGATIONS
MATTER OF ORGANIZATION
OF NEWLY FORMED SLOPE
COUNTY BOARD IS UP.
SITUATION TN BILLINGS co.
Understood That Bismarck Men
Will Support the Chalk Butte
Claims.

VIII 0uPPOAV IAC OA"AN OuVCe
Claims.
Several delegations interested in
the choosing of the commissioners oi
the new county Of Slope and the selec
tion of the county seat of that county
will appear before Governor Hanna
this morning at10:3O and will be Civ
en- hearing.
Slope county was formed out of a
part of what was Billings and Golden
Valley counties. The governor will
name the county commissioners and
the board will select the county seat.
Several towns are represented by del
egations who will appear before the
governor today and each would like
to be designated the county seat. They
are: Chenoweth, Bessie, Chalk Butte
Marmarth and Amidon.
J. G.. Quinlivan, Senator Simpson
j. H. Blanchard and ]. F. Brodie of
Dickinson, all of them interested in
this proposition, are in the city.
Bismarck Delegation.
There will be a delegation of Bis.
marck business men, present also, it
is understood, to boost for Chalk
Butte as the county seat.
Chalk Butte is located on Section
IA, township 1873, range 10l. 1T is
said to be the nearest town to the es.
timated center of population of the
new county of any interested in the
county seat fight and is on the pro-
posed extension of the Northern Paci.
fic railroad.
Chalk Butte men claim majority
of the voters of the county have sign.
ed their petition and they hope to win
out on the ground that placing the
county seat in this town will make
Slope North Dakota county and not
a South Dakota county, which they
claim it would be If the county seat
is placed on the Milwaukee line. The
Northern Pacific line runs through
North Dakota, they argue, to Bis
marck, Mandan, jamestown Valley
City and Fargo while the Milwaukee
goes to Aberdeen; and other South
Dakota points.
H. J. Blanchard of Dickinson and
residents of the new county will push
the Chalk Butte claim at the hearing
today.
Amidon and Marmarth.
AmidOn, another town which would
like to be designated as the county
seat is located on the proposed ex-
tension of the Milwaukee from New
England west. .
Marmarth, another contender, is on
the main line Of the Milwaukee,
where the road crosses the Little Mis-
souri, in the Bad Lands. ..
The Chalk Butte delegation claims
that all along the Milwaukee the
North Dakota people read South Dr.
kota papers, bank in South Dakota
banks and trade with South Dakota
houses. They claim that locating the
county seat in their own town would
make of Slope county real North
Dakota county.
Members of the delegations from
Amidon and Marmarth last evening
declined to make any statement re-
garding the situation.
Situation in Billings.
The situation in Billings county is
now peculiar. At the last election the
southern part of the county was seq
gregated and became what will be
known as Slope county. The commits
sioners of the new county have not
been appointed, so that part of the
old county still remains part of Bill
lings county. AS the old county now
stands it is divided into three COM
missioner districts. One OF TIE hold
over commissioners. and tOna elected
at the last election are residents Of
the new county
Should the new county not be or
ganized before the meeting OF the
board in January the commissioners
who are residents Of the new county
can organize the board of O. Billings
county, approve the official bonds,
designate the depositaries for county
funds and fill certain vacancies which
will then exist, and after the new
county is orr sanized the commissioners
who reside there will be no longer
of the old county. The
residents and tax payers of the old
COuuLy Jlllo SIOLC VI olloA0 Wa
be a great injustice to them; espe-
cially in SO far as placing the county
deposits, If they should be placed in
banks which will be in other counties
after the final segregation of the
new county.
"A petition has been sent to Cover
nor Hanna, asking that the new coun.
" be organized before the January
meeting OF the board.
HIS OWN PLANT.
Taylor, N. D., Dec. 30 What is
believed to be the only individual
electric plant on farm in Stark
county, has recently been installed
IN the MAIDS. Jesperson farm south of
own. The system is of the automat-
c type and generates sufficient cleo
.ricity to light both house and barn.
rhe plant is working nicely and Mr.
Jesperson states that he would not
10 without it now that he understands
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