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• rOTTEH COUNTY DEVELOPMENT!.,J H,d“ •» I* lt;■'••• Acfuuat orIII* L'aesM ol ik. Tteuble-aq Arrslsa-16 meal and a listens* of Shaw.lt;1 A BLDNT OriNION.Blnut, L). 1'., Dao. 29—Shortly alter midnight General Charles A Cilobriit, at Appomattox, Potter oouuiy.uua ol the f newly appointed commissioners lor that oounty, arrived in toiro and awakened ; |. Jnatico Holae, to aeek a wariant lor the i, *rr**t ol Jamea W. Hhaw, ol Foraat City,. ■ commissioner, and Died with ther juxtioa an sffidsvit, obarging 8baw with a haring bribed Governor Ordway at . Pierre on the 6th ol November, to ap point him a oommiaeiooer ol that (then t unorganized) oounty, opacifying that be I ottered Ordway a large eum ol mouey , lor the appointment, wbioh was subse-quemly made. Tboogb it is not in tbe complaint, Gilchrist told hero that Hhaw r hud promised Ordway $0,0U0 lor the ap-i poiutment; that a part was paid on . the spot, and that the remainder was to bo paid when the connty commts aionere should have located the couutv- seat at Forest City, in which Skew baa ; an interest. Gilobrist lives in Appomattox and wanted the seat ol government there, hot the third commissioner, Kretchmer, who publiabew a paper iu Pierre, this cuuuty, uud has a claim in , Potter voted with Shuw to locate tbe I capital at Forest City, and to appointall the county officers. When Gilobrist arrived at tbe meeting ol tbe commission-1 era a lew minutes laterthan the others, he i louud the work all doue and himself j powerless to undo it. He then drove to the place aud Died the information. Though the complaiut seta forth that Nehemiab G. Ordway was the officer { bribed, looal talk says that . tbe man wbo received the money was a sou ol tbe governor. George Ordway. Hhaw is a real estate dealer, reoeotly ol Findlay. O., and wuh known there by some »Lo now reside[ here. They say he is too shrewd to have given himself away as Gilobrist sate be• did, by admitting hisgnilt, aud soliciting■ Gilchrist to become a putty to tbe . soheme to locate tbe connty seat at For-e«t City aud a sharer in tbe protit. An officer Started at one o'clock this morn 1 iug to arrest Hhaw, but had not returned I at dark this evening, tbe distauce being : about forty miles. The case bus caused . great comment here, uud it is believed that it will be hard to Dud a room iu '■ town large enough to hold tbe crowd » ■ hat will attend tbe trial. Already it is i said that some ol the biggest legal abil-. ity in the territory wilt be here to defend.piehkk'h VIEWS.Pierre, Dak., Dec. 30—The organize-i tiou ol Potter conuty was effected Fri-, day, the 28lb, and out of it a veritable , tempest in a teapot has grown. Charges . and couutercbarges ol bribery and corruption have been rile lor the past i twcuty-lour hours, involving some ol the• most respectable oitizens ol Potter, as . well as tbe ohief executive ol the territory. Tour correspondent has sifted tbe■ matter down and submits an accurate 1 statement ol affairs. The commissioners I appointed by tbe governor lor Potter , oounty are J. W. Shaw. F. G. Kretsch r mer, and C. A. Gilchrist. Alter organization the board appoiuted county offioera' and located tbe county Beat at Forest I City, Commissioner Gilotriat withdraw-, ing from the sosaiou in high dudgeon at the selection ol tuo county scat. Ub the following day the coocty officers• qnuliDcd. While the board was in sessionlt; «n officer arrested one ol tbe members,1 J. W. Hbaw, upon an inlormatien sworn out by Gilchrist, charging him with directly bribing Gov. Ordway in order to I obtain biB commission, summoning him i to sppear lor exsmiDatiou on Mondav, s Deo. 31. As ao evidence ol tbe falsity ' of the charge. it muj be said that tbe , information alleges Hie offense to bavo ' been committed iu Pierre on Nov. Kth, r when it was well kuown that Gov.■ w“ 111 Washington at that time. ! The whole transaction ie ridiculously . abenrd, and is regarded asi emanating horn a spirit ol disappoint-3 ment at tailing to obtain the county eeat ; at the complainant's townaite ol Appomattox. It is another of the msoy roorbacks set afloat ugsiust the governor, out '- of which he will emerge uuacatbed. In-. disputable evidence is said to be at band, which proves Gilchrist to have been ' guilty ol attempting to bribe both Hbaw 1 and Kretecbmer with iutertete in bis i townBite to secure tbeir votes, or either . of them, lor Appomattox;end the end is j uot yet. The beet men in Potter oounty , are iu attendance upon the trial, deeply interested in the vindication of the uc-onsed party, Ur. Hhaw.
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Yankton Press and Daily Dakotaian
Yankton, South Dakota, US
Wed, Jan 02, 1884
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