Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-01-31
LIKE THE REST OF THE BREED.

One of Nehemiah's Apostles Slauders u
Lady to Revenge Himself on her Father.
Special Correspondence of Chicago Inter Ocean.
Blunt, DIT, Jan. 2l-The Ordway gang
must be desperate, and as ignorant and
stupid as desperate, TO resort to such
tricks as spokesmen of the Potter county
detachment have in regard to the issue
of the case against Shaw. When the
case was dismissed by the prosecution
there were but few persons present, and
very little was said about it. The peo.
pie gathered into Two groups-Shaw and
his friends around one stove, and the
rest of the score or more around another,
There was no rejoicing by the Ord.
wayians, nor complaint by the others.
The weather was unpleasantly cold, and,
contrary to expectation, tho attendance
was very small. In the face of these
facts Kretchmer, the ostenslble editor of
Ordways Pierre organ, teleeraphs to the
st. Paul organ Of the governor that Shaw
and bis friends were congratulated, and
Gilchrist skunk from the ball; that Shaw
and bis witnesses were rendered q supper
at hotel, and that "never before have a
crowd of gentlemen won the sympathy
OF the community, as have Shaw and his
friends" He closes with these words:
1T is now rumored that Miss Minnie
Gllchrist will bring suit for breach of
promise against Frank G. Kretchmer,
who, it is claimed, has been paying some
attention to the young lady,
Trusting no doubt to the fact that the
Pioneer-Press, of St. Paul, is rarely seen
here, kretchmer imagines he could per.
petrate any sort of a lie in its columns
and not be exposed. If there was any
congratulations they came from the
defendants counsel or from three or
four residents of Pierre who we're here
that morning. The supper rendered
Shaw and his friends was not generally
known in Blunt, and given by about a
score of those who on their first visit
were initiated into the ancient and
humorous Order of Humility, and was in
the nature of Setting en-. up" by those
who were the victims OF the Joke.
The assertion that there was apy
rumor that Miss Gilchrist was to sue
kretchmer is wicked aud also very
disgraceful fBlsehood, destitute of foup.
dation, for before the dispatch left Blunt
your correspondent, Mr.. Dunlap, had
hled one to you, reporting her marriage
to Mr.. Fairbanks, of the Appomatox
Herald, and it was known to mapy that
she was to have been married the day
previous, but Mr.. Fairbanks was detain.
ed by snow east OF Huron and Miss Gil.
christ by business in Huron.
During the day after the dismissal of
the case, one of Kretchmer's friends
Einted something about "Gilchrist trad.
ing on his daughters affections" and
came near being knocked down BY Mr..
Donovan, but no one dreamed that even
members of the Ordway gang could sink
so low us to attack young lady to be
revenged on her father.
don't assume that Gilchrist is saint
nor even that he is far superior to the
average man, but it is PLAIN that even if
he were the bad man the gang represent
him to be, that they-if they all we're
aware of this dastardly slur on a worthy
young lady, or SO many of them as were
cognizant of it, must be far worse, and
have sunk to depth of depravity that
warrants any one III believing any charge
that may. be brought against them.
As TO Shaw | feel constrained to say
that he maintained quiet, and even
dignited reserve while here, spoke but
little, aud that pleasantly and pgreeably
His partner, Mr.. Strickler, behaved
equally well, but Kretchmer sputtered
and chartered considerably, and every
time he said much he exhibited his ienor-
ance aud stupidity. If Shaw is guilty |
must say | think he was tempted by
those who had let it be known that they
would accept bribe, and yielded to
the force of an imperious CUSTOM" or
what is made to appear as an imperious
custom of the Ordway regency.
Neither he nor Gilcbrist are at all well
known here. and We people of Blunt,
thong b largely, if not generally, opposed
to Ordway, took but little stock" in the
case, none OF the hearings being halt az
we'll attended as was a scandalous case
from Harold.
People generally believe Gilchrist's
story. but the sale and barter of execu.
tive influence and power has been 60
much talked about that the people have
become familiarized with the idea, and,
like the oft.repeated tales of IreIand's
wrongs, they have lost their horrors,
especially as the authorities in Washing.