The election ended up with 439 votes to move the county seat to Herman, versus 369 to keep it in Elbow Lake.

Private citizens started building a courthouse in Herman, and when that building was finished, a number of citizens raided the county offices in Elbow Lake and removed all the records to Herman.

The election was challenged in court, with Knute Nelson and H. Jenkins representing Elbow Lake and L.W.

[2] A suspicious incident happened in July 2005, when three men dressed as Grant County Highway Department workers stole the cornerstone from the building in the early morning.

The citizens of Herman were suspected again, even though it had been 123 years since the courthouse was relocated to Elbow Lake.

The money went to the Grant County Historical Society, and the cornerstone was later returned to Elbow Lake.