[423] Nelson, Scandinavians in the United States (1st ed.), I, 541-542.
[424] Revised Codes of North Dakota, 1895, sec. 887 (Laws of 1891, chap. 60).
[425] Letter of Siver Serumgard, City Attorney of Devil’s Lake, N. D., March 24, 1896, and various other letters.
[426] Minneapolis Journal, Jan. 16, 1891. In Dakota “the reform was asked for more earnestly by the Scandinavian element than by any others.” Ralph, Our Great West, 152.
[427] The ticket voted in Minneapolis in 1893, illustrates this tendency. Among the Prohibitionist nominees were two Scandinavian presidential electors, the lieutenant governor, secretary of state, county treasurer, one candidate for the legislature, and one for the city council!
[428] Legislative Manual of North Dakota, 1889-1890, 170, compared with the population tables of the census of 1890; Ralph, Our Great West, 152.
[429] Ibid., 1895, 19-20; Minneapolis Sunday Times, Feb. 10, 1895.
[430] Letter from C. M. Dahl, March 24, 1896.
[431] Editorial in Superior Tidende (Wisconsin), Feb. 2, 1898. See also Vikingen, Aug. 18, 1888.
[432] P. O. Strömme in Amerika og Norden, Feb. 2, 1898.