Everybody was invited to take part--and it was not until long afterward that I confessed to Magnus that I had never once thought when I signed those petitions that I was not yet a voter; and then he was frightened to realize that he was not either.

He had not yet been naturalized.

The only man in the county known to me who took no interest in the contest was Buck Gowdy.

When Judge Stone asked him why, he said he didn't give a damn.

There was too much government for him there already, he said.
We did get the election called, and after we had elected our officers there was no county-seat for them to dwell in; so that county judge off to the south appointed a commission to locate the county-seat, which after driving over the country a good deal and drinking a lot of whisky, according to Dick McGill, made Monterey Centre the county town, which it still remains.