Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-04-03
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Thursday Evening. April 3, 1879
oMeav,so pvsl,c ATTENTION..
rhs object 81 q R~esnt inves,ix aaIns
Committee.

rhs object 81 q Recent Invesssx aa,o~
~Commttaee.
Dcadwood Times.
And what did the Black H,lls delegation.
~ embodied in the single personality oi
Kuykendsll. DO afTer It's arrival? il refused
to ally itself with the Yanktnn men. hui
formed \ "close COMMUNION" with the Pet.
uRfew faction, which though small WAS able
aud aggressive" which finally succeeded IN
getting y committee of the legislature ap-
pointed To look INTO the financial c0Ddi
ton Of the territory and 10 examine the nc.
counts Of THE auditor. the territorial printing
expenditures for the past two years, and
he accounts Of superintendent of public
instruction." After this cou d'etat. we
should expect sn expose that would staItle
and surprise the whole territory, and the
rest OF mankind" At the magnitude and
the enorm'ty Of the ext,avapance and cor
ruption as found to exist 10 the auditors OF.
nee, OF the public printing, and by the su-
perintendeDt of public instruction. We're
not the committee liable and progressively
we're they not in 'clOse cummuniOn," and
did II not include the BLACK Hills delepa-
rony" What more In the name of Saul son
OF Rlsh, was required to expose the para
sites and blood-suckers of "the Yankton
ring" and dlssipste any more of their Shiny,
.cOnvulsive, and hellishly malignant lies
whereby they have msintained themselves
as an incubus fastening upon the territory!'
And what did this committee, thus ron
s,ituted and appointed after such astuie
manipulation and finesse discovery Let
Its chronicler tell. AFTER 81 thorough
overhauling Of the aforesaid accounts they
handed a report to the council that is prima
tacie evidence that there is something rot
ten in Denmark, and many little soft snaps
which they were nursing has been rudely
exposed TO the criticism of the people, who
are not we'll pleased with the state of affairs
exhibited" That there had been paiu to
the Press and Dakotaian for printing and
,ndexing the codes of 1877, the sum of
1901, whereby the territory was "swin-
died out OF more than three thousand dol.
lars on this one transaction alone" The
superintendent Of public instruction man,
aged to ge, away with s2,l02 96, bills for
which are audited and paid without au.
thori,y Of law" and $1,9l9O 90 of which
sum was "overdrawn for transportation Of
Prisoners"
These are the most important items that
this cable and progr. ssive' committee after
4 Thorough overhauling" found to rep ,rt
to the legislature. Their authority clearly
was broad and large enough to have applied
to any and all accounts in the auditors
Office, and why did they not examine into
some Of those transportation accounts from
this county especially for those inebriates
under the clam that they were insane, tina,
were taken 10 St. Peters? The whole pur.
port and spirit Of the article is a boost 70,
the democratic party of this county and i'll
representative, Judge Kuykendall for Tho
purpose Of diverting public attention fol
the present from our own "many little sof
snaps" for an Interior object and combina
zion that is forming n organizing to COB
BILE up and appropriate all the ''soft snaps
in these Black Hills.