The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1884-01-11
TERRITORIAL NEWS.
DAKOTA'S GoSEkN0R.
HE CASTIGiTrs uTs ENEMIES

WV OAuNog y aVJenGlOn was called To-Day &c
an article in the PIONEER Press of Dec. 26,
purporting to give the text OF blank petitions
Tor his removal also referring to an atida i.
said TO have been made by Perkins Of Hyde
county. The governor said he could prove
~coholusively that the blank petitions were
gotten up by the Yankton ring, and were
being secretly circulated throughout the
southern portion of the Territory by paid
emissaries. The charges. if they could be
called such, he should sum up in
about eight lines of the petition, viz.
iankton ideas, deficient education i'm poker,
opposition to reputation, to the robbing OF
Indians, TO stealing the public lands, to load
Ing new counties with fraudulent indebted
ness, TO secession conventions and similar
pure and free Legislation which many of the
promoters of these petitions have been en-
gagged IN Tor years. ii the reading OF the
petition between the lines was correct, the
governor said he should plead guilty TO most
OF the implied allegations. Four years ago
10 per cent Territorial securities were
hawked about at a large. discount,
and county securities were correspond
ingly depressed by the Nankton repu-
diation and the numerous rings Of county
bond iobbers. After three years and a half
of the present territorial administration 10
per cent territories securities have been sell
ing at a premium in the open market; al
repudiated county indebtedness has been re-
funded and the securities of nearly every
county in the territory bring their face value.
Three years ago the territory had not a brick
or a block OF stone laid ina permanent build,
ing, while to-day there are 10 fine buildings
completed, or nearly so. ana in use, The
governor said with this record and his early
efforts in aiding the Northern Pacific TO pre-
sent at the New England and other Eastern
fairs the finest show OF agricultural and min.
eral productions ever put on exhibition, and
his labors in securing more than six tons of
provisions and clothing and large contTibu-
ions in ..r ...
MONEY FOR H FLOOD SUFFERERS
n 1881, he should leave the president and
the public to Judge whether or not he had
been "dilatory" in discharging the duties OF
his Office. He regretted to bring before the
public the fact that for q dozen years Dakota
has been handicapped aud torn by factions;
that nearly every governor during that pc
Rod had been in~decently and ruthlessIy as
sailed, both in and out of the Territory, and
nearly every delegate who had secured a seat
In congress has been bledby these factions to
bankruptcy. With this record, which can
not be effaced in certain sections Of South.
ern Dakota, but which does not apply tc
the central, northern ond more recently
| settled portions of the Territory, the present
executive can hardly expect to escape the
shafts ofenvy aadprejudice. Referring 20 the
Perkins affidavit, the governor said that it
went without saying around the land
office that afiidavits could be procured mt SO
&c: g 20 .ghaa the white ,a,aar costs 81 vet
be had never known of a conviction for per,
Jury based upon an affidavit in the Territory
Thc reasons for withholding the appointment
OF Perkins and Fade fortunately are known
by three or four gentlemen who were present
when Perkins made his last call upon the
governor at Bismarck, and who viii testify
that the governor distinctly stated to Perkins
and Falde that he did not wish to trammel
the commissioners in regard TO the Hyde
county seat question, bat, on the contrary,
ii fiighmure proved to be tho proper place,
the commissioners ought to locate the county
seat there, although he (the governor) had
been ~pre(udiced against certain Highmore
parties weO had written him insulting letters,
which are now in his possession, containing
improper and corrupt propositions. In con,
%cluslon, Gov. Ordway said that the affidavit
said to have been made by Perkins III regard
TO the. organization of Hyde county, and the
one said to have been made by Gilchrist III
regard TO the organization OF Potter county
We're UNANIMOUSLY false and were incorrect sc
far as they asserted any improper or corrupt
act on his part, and he would so prove them
Afre started in the residence of G.. III.
Barber, on Third street, Fargo, but was
extinguished before great damage was
done. The furniture was considerably
damaged by being hastily removed from
the burning building.
Bishop Marty, vicar apostolic of Da-
kota. whose residence was formerly at
Yankton, has removed tG Jamestown in
order that he NAV have advantage of a
more central location from which to adj
minister the affairs of his diocese.
La Moure county has just completed
fine court house at Grand Rapids.
Andover's building improvements the
past year amounted to $4,000.
John Maier, who was stabbed by Me-
Oliver at Casselton some time since, is
dead. and the stabber is in jail at Fargo.
Fargo papers claim that the improve
ments in that city the past year amount
ed to 81, 10000.
The case against stone, charged with
completely in the attempt to burn the
railway bridge at Maxwell, was dismissed.
He proposes to sue the company for
false and malicious arrest.
A public meeting was held in the
Black Hills, and a committee appointed
to proceed to Washington to urge the
opening of the Sioux reservation.
Judge Hudson informs the attorneys