The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-04-04
Communication.

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Communication.
Mr.. EDITOR. An editorial appeared
in the March 18th issue Of your paper
stigmatizing the university at Ordway
as 1.-The champion fraud" You put
university in quotation marks. It Is Of
course proposed university. You say
1T adyertses picture of q great build
ing. with rooms for all, and proceed to
say, "there Is no such building" Tho
picture is a facsimile Of the architec.
tural plan Of the building; a wing of
which the regents contracted to be built
the coming season. The advertisement
says, +" to be ready by September next"
Good rooms for all" refers to rooms
in the building rented temporarily for
school purposes, and others which could
be had. "A full faculty of literary de-
degrees" "Where do these titles como
from?' AS to the titles of Professor A.
r. Cornwall, Rev. A. Il. Jones and Mrs.
Belle +. Barnes, they are bona..fde and
received in cu'su. Professors Pond and
Kimball are teachers. one Elperinten-
dent of the public schools, Sere, and
the other, a regular graduatk Of the
Spencerian college,; has had experience
in teaching, and has been teaching for
the university this term short hand
and book keeping. AS to Rev. Wilmot
Whitfield, every member of Sonth Da-
kota Mission Conference knows Mr..
Whitfield is called doctor. There is
really just one teacher" The teachers
who have been actually engaged in the
school this term, are Professors Corn
wall and Kimball; Mrs. Barnes and
Mrs. Moore; and one whose name does
not appear in the advertised list, Mr..
Frank Garland, who has done excellent
work as teacher of penmanship. Pro-
fessor Pond has taught the higher
department Of the public school here
this winter. Rev. Jones, the Methodist
pastor here, as an assistant has aided In
the school, and has been ready To teach
when his services should I've required.
Referring, no doubt, to the principal OF
the preparatory department, Professor
Cornwall, you denominate him "a
smart crank" Professor Cornwall had
charge of one Of the most flourishing
academies in the northwest lat Albion,
Wis. for twenty-six years with an at
tendance Of one hundred and twenty.
You ironically say, "All under the pat
ronage of the NJ. Il. church." At the
conference at Huron, in 1888, the pro-
position for locatinga school at Ordway
to he under the patronage of the confer
ence, was received and accepted, and
its patronizing territory was desig-
mated. The school wae then. and In
still known as Central Dakota Univers-
ity. Its regents are corporate body,
and their articles of incorpation 'are
regularly filed. For further inform
alton we would refer to the university
advertisement which appears each week
in the Ordway Tribune, which I pre-
sumo finds its way to your Office weekly,
as an exchange. Also to one of our
circulars enclosed, Of which a large
number were sent out before the pres
ent term opened.
Now Mr.. Editor. it is no more than
just that the above should have place
in this weeks issue of your paper that
it may have chance to overtake tho
misleading statements to which we re-
fer, before they pass into hands, who,
unable to verify them, or discredit their
accuracy, might use them to work =
great injustice to the friends and pa
irons of an institution, which Is strpg-
Cling i'm these hard times to establish
itself i'm this new territory. where its
presence would be an inspiration and .
hope to hundreds Of the young already
here, and to others whose parents In
the near future will come to find homo
in this part Of the great northwest.
j. II. HAUsER.
President Board Regents.
A. L. JONES,
Pastor NJ. E. Church, Ordway.
| o. A. PHILLIPsf
Agent c. ID. University.
ORDwAY, Dak., March 2sth, 1885.
In regard to the above, we will say
that the person who furnished the arti-
Gle referred to was our authority for
the truth Of the statements made. We
never Intentionally misreprescnt any
thing.
Two mining claims have been filed