Ballots and Bribery by Tessa Sandstrom
November 8, 2021 — When Emmons County commissioner Henry Van Beck showed up at Inspector John Miller’s house, he was hoping to get the best of some political opponents before the county elections held today in 1892. Little did he know, Miller and the Russian-German settlement would get the best of him.
Van Beck, along with republican candidates J.A. Cotton and …