Minot
becomes County seat for Ward County – Through some rather
underhanded maneuvers by Minot officials and the railroad, Minot edged out
Burlington as the county seat of Ward County. It appears that when the vote was
to be taken by county residents, Minot officials demanded a polling location at
Lone Tree, which is west of Des Lacs…. The Lone Tree precinct was approved as
the railroad had dropped off an old boarding car and plugged it into the
telegraph line to prove its existence. At election time, 143 votes were cast at
the Lone Tree location where two weeks previously, no inhabitants could have
been found. The vote went in Minot’s favor 499 to 134 for Burlington
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