Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1884-03-01
Dakota Asses.

land of Highnore, who advertises her
self as the only female attorney-at law
| in Dakota. is h re with the rest of Tho
boomers, and delivered lecture to ;
small audience Monday night She does
| not appear satisfied with the way she
has been treated and complains of tn,
male contingent Of the delegation mos
bitterly. She is particularly severe
upon Gov Ordway, and charges hin
with being the cause Of many OF hel
troubles. Last week she was quiet!,
but firmly invited to vacate rooms which
she had been occupying at boarding
house, and claims that Ordway has beer
circulating bad stories about her, which
came to the ears Of her landlady i'm sucl
form as TO convince the latter that she
was an objectionable person. Ordway
denies the charges and says that he has
never told anything to her disadvantage
but could # he was mind to. The fact
of the matter is, the great crowd OF
Dakota people in town are doing the in
tercsts of the territory more harm than
good and would better be called home.
If they could agree upon anything they
might get bill through congress, but
there are seven o. eight factions oftbem,
al! pulling at odds and abusing one an.
other, and as result are rapidly bring
ing congress and the president to the
opinion that Dakota is nuisance. They
have never had a hearing before one of
the committees without getting into a
wrangle and contradcting one another,
and a prominent member Of the com
mittee on territories told them very
plainly the other day that it was useless
for congress TO waste time in consider
ing Dakota matters until the representa-.
tives from the territory could agree
upon what they wanted.
Pat Donan Of Fargo flung a small
territories the other day in his speech,
when he said the people Of Dakota were
not like those Of Texas and the south
western territories. They were honest,
law-abiding people, he said, as intel
lircnt as the population Of Massachusetts,,
and were neither 'niggcr killers" like
the people Of the south, nor fence-cut.
ting cowboys, like the people of Texas.
There are two southern men on the
who were very much incens-
ed at the remark, and it happens that
Representative Lanham of Texas, who
is also member, used 10 bc cowboy.
and is in warm sympathy wi'h the fence
cutters. Donon's speech did not take
we'll with him. The president is i'm
patient with the Dakota people and does
not receive the delegates that 90 there
very cordially. He feels 4 great interest
in the territory, and is willing to do
can for Its admission and
development, but has been bored to
death by their chickering's and persistent
demands upon his attention. When the
went up last Saturday to
lpSrSHA 60 against NIuWdN Ilc EaNt
them what is called "A Step Fathers
Blessing" and they have tried to pre-
vent the publication Of the fact for fear
Ordway will consider it triumph, He
has time and again told them that Ord
way would be allowed to serve out his
term, which ends in May, and that
demands for his removal would not be
heard. He has also repeadly promised
TO notify them when he was ready to
take up the appointment Of Ordway's
successor, and thinks that he ought to
be let alone for the present; but they
persist in going mp there and occupying
his time until he has finally lost his
patience There are so many candidates
for governor, and the people are so di.
vided into factions, that when the time
for making the appointment comes the
president will be compelled to select
some one outside the territory who is
not mixed up with the territorial affairs
or has taken pert in past differences.