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'1PIW mn Hs *1 I A The Republican State Ticket. For Member of Congress— M. N. JOHNSON, of Nelson. For Governor— A. H. BUKKE, of Cass. For Lieutenant Governor— ltOGGK ALLIN, of Walsli. For Secretary of State— JOHN FLITTIE, of Traill. For State Auditor— JOHN P. BHAY, of Grand Forks. For State Treasurer— L. E. BOOKER, of Pembina. For Attorney General— C. A. M. SP^NCEB, of Walsh. For Superintendent of Public Instruction— JOHN OGDEN, of Mcintosh. For Commissioner of Agriculture— H. T. HELGESON, of Cavalier. For Commissioner of Insurance— A. L. CABEY, of Cass. For Railroad Commissioners— GEORGE H. WALSH, of Grand Forks. GEORGE W. HARMON, of Morton. ANDREW SLOTTEN, of Richland. Republican Legislative Ticket. tor staj\jj^j°j0HNS0N, of Minot. For SATTKltLUNI), of Washburn. Republican County Ticket. bounty Treasufeer-HAUGEBEK(} Judge of Coun^^ Register of Deeds- County Aud.toi-KBwEiLs aerkofthe^rict^^ County SurveffiLFAiKMAN. County Coroner-AM TOWER. Sheriff- THOMAS FIT ZGERALD. Justices of the Peace— JAMES BARTRON, SR., JOHN H. NICKLIN. HENRY BARTELS. ANDREW PETERSON. Constables— NELS C. PETER80N. JAMES LARMER. WILLIAM REUTER. L. A. CARLSON. County Commissioners— 1st Dlst.—JOHN E. ALLEN, 2 years. 2d. —J. R. MANN. 3 years. 3d. —JOHN BErTENDORF, 1 year. Assessors— 1st Dlst.—JOHN NELSON. 2d. -LEWIS JOHNSON. 3d. —B. F. LONG. Democratic State Ticket, OHN D. BENTON, of Fargo. Notice to Judges and Clerka of Election. Ik will be well for every person who has been designated as judge or clerk of elec tion, to be cautious about officiating in either capacity' if he is a candidate for an office. The law prohibits candidates from acting either as judge or clerk. If yon are a candidate for any office, keep off the board. The mugwumps are in a hard strait when they are compelled to rash before a justice of the place to make affidavits as to what they are doing or not doing. The last Mail publishes an affidavit from Gunder S. Reishus, a brother of T. S. Reishus, deny ing a charge which was never made against him. The Minot Journal of Oct. 8d, pub lished the following paragraph: "Immediately after the convention this afternoon, Reishus approached Allen Tompkins and endeavored to make a com bination wherein Staley would be thrown for Tompkins. This is a pointer for Stal ey and we believe he will profit by it and get on the "band wagon." The reader will please observe that the name of "Gunder 8." Reishus is not men tioned in the above paragraph, yet the ]|flail publishes on affidavit from Gunder S. Reishus, wherein he swears he never made any such proposition to Mr. Tompkins. The Journal does not say he did, but the faet that Gunder S. jumps in and swears he didn't, satisfies us that he DID. "A hit bird always flutters," is a very good max im. If Gunder 8. Reishus had never talk ed with Mr. Tompkins on this matter, where is the necessity of his denying it, and especially when h6 is not charge with it? Every man who votes for 0. T. Lange for county auditor is deliberately voting away his own subsistence, and a man who is fool enough to vote to oontinue in office a set of men who are fattening themselves on the publio treasury deserves to suffer every affliotion that high taxes can put up {V ii-J-V on him 3v«M ... have heard a large number of farm ers repeatedly complain about the extrav agance of the present county administra tion, and express their desire for a change in the county officers. Now is the time to make the change—and make a clean sweep of it. too. Vote for Frank B. Wells for county auditor. A Public Disgrace For the past week on ton days the audi tor's office in the county building has been turned into a sort of free-and-easy drink ing resort, where the mugwumps have as sembled in groups and drew into their midst every Skandinavian they could catch in the town for the purpose of treating him and inducing-him to vote for Staley and Lange. Our "newspaper" friend, Larry Casselman, appears to act as the "runner in" for the afore-said drinking resort, and C. T. Lange officiates as proprietor. The boys call it "Lange & Casselman's Blind pig," but it is the worst "blind pig" we ever saw. The proprietors charge nothing for drinks, but they want every man to swear vengeance on John Satterlund, and declare their allegiance to C. T. Lange, and faithfully promise they will vote for him next Tuesday for re-election as county au ditor. On Monday evening last a half do zen men could be seen on the streets of Washburn reeling drunk from the whisky obtained at the hands of county officials in the auditor's office, and one of their victims had to be carried to a place of safety out of public sight. One young man who visit ed the said auditor's office that evening came into the Merchants Hotel and said he never saw a more filthy place even among the lowest saloons he ever visited. He said the liquor was kept in the vault where the county records were kept, and was dished out in a pint cup and passed around with more generosity than he ever beheld be fore. A number of honorable citizens from different portions of McLean county were in Washburn at the time, and witnessed the drunkenness created by this wanton violation of all law and decency. They were not at all reserved in expressing their disgust, and said it was the most disgraceful state of affairs they had ever witnessed in the publio of fices of a county building. They consider ed it a shame and a disgrace to the people of McLean county that such a state of things should be tolerated. Mr. C. T. Lange, in whose office this "free-and-easy" saloon is kept, is now be fore the people for re-election to his pres ent position as county auditor. Will the honest people of the couhtyTtolerate such doings by voting for him? And Mr. Lange and his chums are the main workers in this county for Staley and Reishus against Satterlund and Johnson for the legislature. They cry "blind pig" against Satterlund, whom they know is not engaged in the sale of liqnor at all, and yet they will entice men into their official quarters, made filthy by their Bacchanalian orgies, and fill them fall of rot-gut whisky, thereby thinking they will secure votes for Lange and Staley. %This is Mr. Lange's style of electioneer ing, but we will ask the honest tax-payers of McLean county if Mr. Lange is the style of a man they want for their next county auditor? This article is not written for political buncombe, but it is a statement of the facts, which can be verified by at least twenty respectable witnesses, besides the men themselves who were drunk on the afore said last Monday evening. We expeot the LBADEB will be charged with falsehood in this matter, and that Mr. Lange and his friends will assert that the whole thing is "a tissue of d—d lies gotten up by Copeland for political effect," but for the benefit of those who may feel inclined to believe that' such is the case, we will refer the reader to such men as Peter Miller of Turtle Lake, Jack Dwyer and James Bartron of Coal Harbor, Hans Holtan of Sverdrup, John D. Carlson of Weller, John Eeklund of Conkling, and to any nnmber of respect- able citizens of Washburn. This is not the first time that drunken orgies have been held in that offioe, in which, on a former occasion, considerable damage was done to the building, and the tax-payers of the county had to foot the bills for repairing the same. Will they allow such scenes to be repeated? II you are opposed to the use of the county building as a drinking Baloon, then vote against the Lange and Staley crowd. The LBADEB has heretofore asserted that the Bank of Minot was backing Reishus in this campaign, and the Staley-Reishus fac tion on this side of the district has strenu ously denied the charge. We now repeat the assertion. No longer ago than last Monday Herman Hanson told a certain in dividual whom he met in Washburn, and against whose farm the Bank of Minot held a mortgage, that if he (the certain in dividual) would vote for Reishus he would guarantee that the bank would never fore close on his land. This is the way the mug wumps expeots to catch votes'for Reishus, Staley and Lange. Can ministers of the distriot yote for suoh men? If they can, they belie their professions, and Are no better, nor as good, as common mortals. Old Staley oan drink as muoh whisky as any other man in McLean oounty, but when he goes among temperanoe people he pre tends to be a prohibitionist and acborch member. Hell' is full of just such eiiris tians. Volume 1. Washburn, McLean County, North Dakota, Saturday, November 1, 1890. Bewaret Beware! Let every votetf see that the nailie of John Satterlund and James Johnson are on their ticket. Read what the Berthold Indian thinks of old man Staley: Nahunera nesanu kutananikatat ninara saoipikhu nicikahu, taku ahku wita kana nakucisann, na nacetanuhu nakuraitawiha. Taku wita nakutapawawatiku nanipakhu na nanoticika apnini nokawikat. Eockee good. The above is translated into English as follows: "The good Lord deliver us from the re ligious hypoerit, the man who not only acts a lie, but tells a-lie. T):o nan who pi'wjyji? es prohibition and takes a drink behind the door." No good. Staley and Reishus were in Washburn again last Monday evening. They had been building rail fences a day or two be fore, and returned,we presume, to see if they were yet standing. From the meandrian condition of a few of their adherents that night, we conclude they were well satisfied with the results of their work. Read your tickets carefully. The mug wumps are printing split tickets of every conceivable kind, and are palming them off on their victims as tickets ordered by the friends of the straight ticket. Every as sertion of this kind is false. The friends of the straight ticket have ordered no split nor mongrel tiokets. James Johnson carried the organization of the Ward county legislative convention and elected one delegate, and out of re pect for William Hope had the convention adjourned in order to attend the funeral of Mr. Hope's child. The Bank of Minot took advantage of this act, and used its boodle to buy four of Mr. Johnson's votes, and thus secured three delegates for Reishus. Can Mr. Reishus countenance such rascali ty? Frank B. Wells, candidate for county au ditor, is recognized as one of the ablest ac countants in North Dakota, and is a man of large exeoutive ability, and socially and tnorally is one of God's noblemen. Those best acquainted with him.know him to be a conscientious, upright gentleman, agajjest whose integrity no man can raise a finger. If the people of MoLean county consult their own interests, Mr. Wells will be elect ed their auditor by a very decided majori ty- In the last Mail Anton Peterson makes an attempt to explain his speech at Minot, and says that the reporter of that speech was too drunk to know what was said. Well, Anton, dear boy, we had rather be drunk once in awhile than be a fool all our lif^ A temperance orator once said that unlike mankind the ape never got drunk. Anton Peterson never gets drunk. Ergo, what is the difference between Anton and the ape? The zealousness with which certain par ties are working for C. T. Lange's re-elec tion, and the desperate methods they are resorting to, are creating a strong suspi cion that there is something crooked in the financial department of the county govern ment. The gang want to re-elect Lange county auditor because he is a good book keeper and understands how to fix the books so they will appear all right. It is not to the interest of tax-payers to have him re elected. Yote for Frank B. Wells—the best man for the place. If Staley and Reishus were not ashamod of their illegitimate candidaoy before the people of MoLean county, they oertainly would not have concealed themselves in private quarters when they visited Wash burn last week. Moral cowards always a void the publio gaze and skulk about the streets after dark, and a few have setose enough to detest themselves in the pretence of respectable people as sinoerely as a petty criminal detests the sentence of the law. Herman Hanson sayq he is againstco^ porations—that is, so long as the corpora^ tions don't hire him but Herman is work ing for the Bank of Minot, and we have been informed that August Wahl and Han son are getting $5 per day for working for Reishus and Staley. The Bank don't Vant any law enacted that will reduce the rate of interest or take away the commissions. The farmers should remember that the president of the Bank of Minot charges $200 attorney's fee, while other lawyers oharge only $50. Please note the differ ence. John Satterlund is a poor man who knows what it is to have his property en cumbered, and he will vote and work for any bill introduced in the legislature that will reduce interest and take away com missions and exorbitant, attorney fees. Vote for Satterlund and Johnson. Poor old Britton is getting out tiokets of all kinds, putting on Frank Slatky's name instead of Satterlund's. Voters, read your tickets Carefully, aad see that John Satterlund's name is on it. •til1'I "inMRliniftiit'ri MB Local Brickbats. For late telegraphic news read inside. Voto for William Lacy for County Judgt. Voto for Frank B. Wells for cohnty audi tor. The choicest lot of candies, nutB and canned goods in the City can bo foutid at T. Fitzgerald's. For Sale—A pair of good work horses and harness. Inquire at the Merchants Hgtel, Washburn, N. D. Ten cents a pound paid for choice un salted butter—froe from buttermilk—at Ramsett Bros., Washburn, N. D. II Ashaiped to be saga in town by daylight, Staley and Reishus sneaked into Washburn after dark, and drove out again before her people were astir. Vote for Frank B. Wells for auditor. Joe Olson returned homo last evening. Peter O. Anderson, from Painted Woods, was In town Thursday. Joseph Heilinger, of Hancock, returned home Thursday from the Red river valley. Judge Lacy, Prof. Wells and John G. Benson made the Leader a pleasant call yesterday. Joseph Burgum, of Conkling, returned home from Arthur, Cass county, N. D., last week. Dr. Chattle, the new physician for the Berthold agency, went up by stage tills week to assume Ills duties. Ills wife accompanied him. Hans Kultberg returned home this week from Asslnabolne, Montana, Where he 1ms spent the summer at work on the Great Northern road. Louis Heath of Conkling, who has been work ing on the Northern Pacific west of the Missouri for the past three or four months, returned home Thursday. Otto Wallln and Aug. Oberg, who have spent the threshing season In McLean county with their thresher, will wind up their business here to-day or on Monday, when Mr. Wallln will return to Ills home at Mandan. John Satterlund returned yesterday from his trip through Ward county. lie reports the polit ical outlook In that portion of the district as de cidedly favorable to Mr. Johnson and himself. As both of these gentlemen will carry McLean county by a handsome majority, their election is a foregone conclusion. F. J. Burt, miller, and Chas. Van Duser, engineer, came up from Bismarck on Mon day's stage to operate the Washburn mill in tWr respective capacities. They com menced operations Tuesday. John J. Robinson came down from Coal Harbor Wednesday. We do not know whether Jack was buying "cattle" or not, but we presume he was looking over the field to see if the mugwump fences were in good ropair. It is rumored in this vicinity that Larry Casselman has been offering to givo from $6 to $20 credit on chattel mortgages if the debtors would vote for old Stealy and Lange. Come, Mike, that is not a fair way of electioneering. S. A. Blomquist of St. Paul, and David Johnson of Bismarck were in Washburn this week. Mr. Blomquist came up to look after some land interests he has in MoLean county and to pay a flying visit to a few of his old friends residing in this vicinity. And now comes the Democratic Stand ard, a neatly printed six-column paper published at Steele, N. D., by our old Wis consin friend Arthur A. Brundage. Arthur is an experienced scribe and an old typo, and we wish the Standard all the sucoess possible. The Washburn flour mill started up last Tuesday as advertised, and is now running in full b.last. Under the able management of F. J. Burt, one of the best millers in the northwest, with Charley Van Duser as en gineer, they are turning out a grade of flour equal to any mill in the state. Now farmers, bring in your wheat. We neglected In the last LEADED to ac knowledge a oall from our old friend Frank Slatky, of Ward county, who is an inde pendent candidate for representative. Frank will probably poll one or two votes in this oounty, whijh will somewhat reduce Staley's majority on this side of the dis triot. Slatky says he will poll more votes in Ward oounty than Staley will, and is willing to divide McLean oounty with'John Satterlund. Look out for a rehash of wholesale false hoods in the McLean County MaiL Reis hus and Staley have ordered an extra edi tion of the Mail to be printed for circula tion in Ward county and throughout the country precincts in McLean. The con tents of this extra edition will embrace the most villainous libels that the diseased brains of base and dishonest men can con ceive. It is nice work for a minister of the Gospel like Reishus to engage in, and ex poses the man's true charactor and his re ligious hypocrisy. So far as Staley is con cerned in the matter, we can expect noth ing better from him. too ignorant and illiterate to write anything himself he has employed a competent tool to do his part of the work. Old Staley hasn't an honest hair in his head, yet he can talk as Wisely as fools usually do, and look a great deal wiser. No hqnorable-nlindcd mau who knows the facts concerning these two ille gitimate candidates can «on8cientiou»ly Kick 'era out, voto for thorn. SlSifasy & A Murderer Cuught. William Carmichaol, tlio young despera do who shot and killod John Bockhouse a farmer living near Omio, Emmons coun ty, on Oct. 17th, was captilrfed last Monday morning about miles northeast of Conl Harbor, by Jolm C. Dwyor. Mr. Dwyer owns a largo horso rr.nch at tho placo mentioned above, and has in his cm ploy Fernandez Perfecto, a vory shrewd and active "cow boy," who has spent his life-timo with the herds. Last Saturday after Mr. Dwyer had rccoived liis mail he read in tho WaRhburn LEADKU an account of tho murdor and a description of the murderer, and lato Sunday afternoon a young man camo riding up to tho ri'.ncho on a bare-backed pony, and asked if he could stay over night. Mr. Dwyor nnswerod in tho affirmative, and as soon as the young man dismounted it flashed into Mr. Dwy er's mind that the stranger answered tho description given nf John Bockhonse's murderer. For the timo being Dwyor kept his suspicions to himself, but took tho young man into the h0UH0 and told him ho could mako himself at homo as they had somo chores to do before supper. Mr. Dwyer then imparted to Perfecto his sus picions that the stranger was tho murderer referred to in the LEASES, and arranged to entertain him as they would any othor stranger. Accordingly, after supper, they engaged in a social game of cards, tho ono keeping tally of the game taking down the name of each player, tho stranger giving his name as William Carmichael. This made tho cluo to his identity assured, but everything passed off pleasantly, and after a few games the cards were thrown aside and the balance of tho evening was spent in telling "cow-boy" stories and singing songs. When thoy retired for tho night, all threo slept in one bed, Carmichaol in tho middle, according to arrangement pre viously made between Dwyer and Perfecto, Who exercised every precaution against a possible flight of their bird. In tho morn ing after breakfast, and tho stock was tak en care of, young Carmichael put on his coat and gloves and thanked the boys for the entertainment, and was about to take his departure, when Ferfocto drew his re volver and told tho lad to throw up his hands. The demand was complied with, and Mr. Dwyer tied him with a cord ha had ready for the purpose. The boy at once confessed that ho shot tho man Bookhouse, and told his story substantially as was re lated in last week's LEADEB. On Monday afternoon Mossrs. Dwyer and Perfecto brought thoir man to Wash burn and turned him ovor to Sheriff Fitz gerald, who lockod him up in the Washburn jail ponding the arrival of tho sheriff from Emmons county, whom Dwyer notified by letter. The capture of this young desperado in a "big feather" in Jack Dwyer'a cap, and marks him as a man of keen porception, cool, nervy and determined. Young Carmichael is about 18 years of ago, is quite tall and slim, and takes his arrost with a coolness that would be ad mirable in a veteran criminal. His father's name is Jacob Carmichael and lives in Livingston, 111. His mother and a young er brothor and sister live at Omio, Em mons county, near where the deed was committed. C. T. Lange and his jumping jacks in Washburn are ringing a "chestnut" on a few Skandinavians in this vicinity. They have started a story now to the effect that Mr. Wells has said that if he was elected auditor he wouldn't move to Washburn for the reason that he couldn't livo among Skandiravians. This is one of Barney's "chestnuts," but the shell is too thin, and has been cracked too often to fool anybody around Washburn. If Mr. Wells is elect ed, and he surely will be, he will move to Washburn and become one of her most honored citizens. The people will remember that two years ago the McLean County Mail publish ed a card from Larry Casselman assorting that Herman Hanson was well qualified for the office of register of deeds and clork of the board, and Hanson said he would at tend to the business himself. Everybody knows the result. Hanson couldn't per form a singlo duty in the office, but hand some Larry is again before the people with similar guarantees. Lange says that if he is.not re-elected as auditor, he wili loave the county, It would appear, then, that his residence here de pends upon whether the people will give him an office. He owns no property here, pays no taxes, and there is nothing to hinder him from loaving tho county at any time. We shall be sorry to lose him, but he may as well make up his mind that so far as being re-elected county auditor, his name is "Dennis." A vote for Lange is a vote for Larry Casselman for states attorney. R, H. COPELAND, NOTARY PUBLIC. WA8H»UKV.Mr!/K.VN COUNTY \,l, .... WL .'•v1 Number HOUSES FOR BALE. I will bo at Coal Harbor with a bunch of horses, consisting of mares, gitldings and colls, on Nov. 3d und remain a week, and will sell at auction on Tuosday tho 1th, at G. L., Robinson's store, to the highest bid dor. Ei. B. THOMAS. NOTICE TO VOTERS. It having boon circulated through tho county that if Frank B. Wells is elected auditor I will bo his deputy, I brand the originator:) of this falsehood as liars. Call' and soe me. T.mmitnMi WaIm*. '. IPA, ANOTHER LIE. In answer to an article in tho Mail con-' cor'tUng my record as county treasurer, will say that instead of my Bismarck Commonwealth: are two candidates for Register of decdsTDOtlC" republicans. One is a man who residos in, j.« New York most.of tho timo and has spent 'A': most of his salary the past year there. Tho other is a man who has built himself a i,' home in our minst, is honost and capable, und will do tho work himself if elected/ Yfm P* believe that every man shoflld cast s! bqPi£ that reads: For register of deeds, Wm?^ Falconer. 'f-y# being obliged to' pay tho county $'"75, tho county paid mo over $40. In regard to tho tax- certificated of 1880,1 cannot say just now how much the county owes me, and in reference to chocking up the books, I think the present roforin board has been in power long1 onough to have that work completed. I denounce tho whole article ns a pack of lies, and the writer a liar. GKO. L. ROBIHRON. Lato last evening wo learned that Fred Hondershott had resigned as editor of tho McLean County Mail, and that Casselman had hired J. Ei Britton in his place. Mr. Hendershott objected to tho publication of the low personal slanders and boeii fal.sohoods which Britton had prepared tot the Mail this week, and rather than con-' tinuo his name as editor in a paper so uni versally detested, and so notorious for slan derous falsehood and its total nnreliable ncss, ho resigned his editorial seat to a man capable and willing to do any sort ot dirty work hin master bids him. Mr Hendershott is too much of a gentleman to dirty his hands in such a mess. Fred loaves thi=i morning for Washburn. Guilder S. Reishus in this campaigners working to securo his appointment to tho new land oflico at Minot) and old Staley ia figuring with tho "powers that be" for th«f placo now so creditably filled by Maj. J. Murphy, nr superintendent of the Bcrtl agency. If successful both men Afe willing1 to trade their influence in tho legislature with any senatorial aspirant tfho will give them thestf plums. -*w ir- Rev, Peterson, of Minot, is doing aabd work for Johnson and Satterlund.JgHer calls the mugwump campaign a mere JflpSW show," and does not hesitate to cfonounco tho unprincipled methods adopted by theL.| champions of Rev. Reishus. "f' Casselman has promised old Britton tlul county printing if Lange is clectcd cot auditor. How is that for high? Die A S Paid for County Warrants. Ninety-one cents (91c) on the dollar. RAMSETT BKOS., Washburn, N. D. ••'I Summons. State of North Dakota, Town of Washburn— In Justice Court, McLean County. JJefore H. A, Falconer, justice of the peace in and for said town and_c6unty. county. K. S. Ramsett, aftent for the HkandlaPlow1 plaintiff, vs. Olc l'jarjl, Jr., defendant. L'he State of North Dakota sends greeting ttf Ole I'Jaill, jr., defendant: You are hereby summoned to appear before mo at my olHce In the Town of Wasfibnrn, In wild county, on tlx sth day of Dwembcr, 139(1, at 10 o'clock In the forenoon of tliat day, to ansjrer.tcr the complaint of the above tamed plaintiff, Ki S. Ramsett, agent for Hkandia Plow Co., who ctoiirttf to recover of you the sum of twenty dollars and ID cents. You are hereby notified that if you fail to appear and answer as above required, said plaintiff will take judgment against you for the sum of twenty dollar* and ll) cents, And costs. Given under my liand this £!d day. of Septem ber, 1830. S. A. FAIiCOXEIi, Justice of the Peace, 1G In and for the County of McLeau, N. Washburn & Berthold STAGE LINE. VIA -.1 its 'mm WELLER, COAL HARBOR AND FORT1 STEVENSON. JAMES BARTKON, Proprietors Stage leaves Washburn for It. Berthold otkf] Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, and return* to Washburn on Wednesdays Fridays and Mon* days, making sure connection at Washburn with the Stages for Bismarck. Headquarters in Washburn at the- Merchants: Hotel. Comfortable rigs and good teams. "'k Washburn & Coal STAGE LINE. VIA CONKLING and HANCOCK, JAMK8 BARTBOX, Proprietor, Stage leaves Washburn Tuesdays and Mati days, and return: Mondays aad Fridays, cc ina with the Bismarcksta^eis. Meadfjuartttr:) at MerchiM'.W Motel) & %•£$"'j §1 0$ 4' 4