Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-03-26

bowling and discharging firearms, fright.
ening settlers to such an extent that one
Of them ran thirty miles to Redfield,
nearly running his health for life, and
giving such details of what he supposed
to be an Indian massa cre-that the
Northwestern railroad officers telegraph.
ed the executive and asked Gen. Terry
for imme ediate military assistance, alarm.
ing the whole territory
In concluding the reply relating to the
Faulk county charges he says:
"Ihe charges have proven to be false
IN all essential particulars; the parties
who have made the affidavits were really |
all interested in the rival town of Faulk- |
ton; and McMullens had a grievance
against me personally growing out of his
Indian massacre; finally, these evasive
statements bear incontrovertiblee evidence
that they were inspired and gotten up by
disappointed applicants for official posi-.
tionF, the promoters of the Sioux Falls
convention, and the opponents of the
capital removal bill, and were part and
parcel OF conspiracy to destroy my
usefulness as governor of Dakota.
He then takes up the affidavlts relat-
ing to Hyde county. and relates the his
tory of Its organization and the trouble
there was to defeat the Vaccinations of
county-seat lobbers and land. sharks.
The charge that he organized two boards
OF commissioners to carry ont lis selfish
schemes he meets with fiat contradic-
ton. There never was more than one
legal board. nor any legally appointed
commissioners except the three members
thereof. He had contemplated appoint
ing John Fulde, Jr, as commissioner,
but Immediately before issuing the com.
mission he received evidence that Ger.
tain people at Highmore had made ian
improper. If not corrupt, arrangement"
with Fulde, through Perkins, to unfairly
parcel out the county Offices and locate
the county seat upon land owned by Van
Camp, another person whom he had
contemplated appointing COM
missioner. Van Camp, however, being q
qualified commissioner before this evil
dence was received, induced Fulde to as.
sume the position of Commissioners and
set up an illegal county organization.
Perkins affidavit is then taken up and
dealt with IN the fullest detail. Gov.
Ordway denies Perkins alleged intimacy
with himself, and says that he never saw
him more than two or three times in his
life. BE recounts the attempts of Per.
klns, through others, to get the county
seat settled on his claim, and also his
er because of his reputed habits and as
sociations. After criticising and deny.
ing many parts of Perkins affidavit he
takes up the part relating to the alleged
interview IN the First National bank of
Pierre, in which Perkins swears he ar.
ranged with Gov. Ordway for the Ioca.
| tion of the county seat on the land of J.
s. Harris. Gov. Ordway says on this
point:
perkins says in his affidavit that he
talked Nth me about Harris place, who
had exposed willingness to sell q Dor.
tion of his place for the purpose Of q
town-site. He further says that it was
agreed in this interview with Governor
Ordway that he (Gov. Ordway) was to
appoint commissioners who would locate
the county seat on the land of the said
Harris, and he lthe governor) was to
have a three.fourths interest decided by
Harris, and to fully control the same:
and out of such three.f .fourths interest he
lthe governor) was to satisfy the railroad
company for any demands they might
make for putting in station at that
point. brand this statement of d. A,
w. Perkins as false in its inception and
in all its details. Perkins never made
any such statement to me;
neither did I assent directly or indirect.
~ to any proposition by which was to
receive three.fourths interest in land
owned by Harris, or any other interest in
connection with the appointment of com.
missioners or the location of the county
seat there or elsewhere, nor will any fail
minded man, unless he believes me de.
j. mented, give credence to this statement,
or that engaged in any such senseless
gabble with this man Perkins, whom ]
had refused to intrust with q commission
to aid in the organization of Hyde
, county,
he then points ont the absurdity o.
several other allegations of Perkins, anG
goes on to defend his selections of com
missioners and all his other actions il
connection with the organization of Hyd,
, county. He points out that statements
! have been manufactured for the countr,
press, and also for Chicago newspaper
+; by correspondent of that paper VII,
was interested in booming certai,
t towns, and who wanted to b,
an ofticeholder, but was refused
The charge OF appointing relative
, and friends to lucrative Offices is posi-
+ lively denied, the only relative appoint
e ed to an Office being his son, Col. Ord
8 way. and that appointment being at
, financial loss to the appointee, and be
t cause no one could be found with tn
+ same ability to fill the post. He con
o cludes with condemnation of the actiol
z o: the district attorney Of Yankton. VII,
9 sanctioned court proceeding for the pul
8 pose OF sustaining the action Of fraudu
+ lent county board and other pretende,
o officers in the new county of Sanborn.
o Give DR.. Price's Special Flavorin
8 Extracts fair trial. and il they pleas
}. you, recommend them to your noSghboI
o il not, return them and have your none
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. positions. We have 90 fears Of you
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