. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. indebtedness by counties or municipal corporations, unless thesame had been approved by a vote of the people, the governor deeming this pre-caution necessary to keep down an incipient spirit of wildness, tending to repudia-tion. The records of the territory show that the governor withheld his signatureto nearly or quite one-third of the acts passed by that Legislative Assembly. Immediately following the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly, disas-trous floods caused by immense ice-gorges in the Missouri River, swept over alarg
. North Dakota history and people; outlines of American history. indebtedness by counties or municipal corporations, unless thesame had been approved by a vote of the people, the governor deeming this pre-caution necessary to keep down an incipient spirit of wildness, tending to repudia-tion. The records of the territory show that the governor withheld his signatureto nearly or quite one-third of the acts passed by that Legislative Assembly. Immediately following the adjournment of the Legislative Assembly, disas-trous floods caused by immense ice-gorges in the Missouri River, swept over alarge portion of the lower Missouri and Sioux River valleys, carrying awayhouses and detsroying thousands of horses, cattle and other domestic animals,and driving several thousand people from their homes, leaving them in a destitutecondition. At the request of the mayor and an executive relief committee of theCity of Yankton, Governor Ordway, who was at Washington, secured suppliesfrom the war department for the immediate relief of the settlers, which were wt w^\. NEHEMIAH G. ORDWAYSeventh governor of Dakota Territory, 1880-1884 HISTORY OF NORTH DAKOTA 373 stored for feeding the Indians along the river, and subsequently the governorvisited New York and Boston, endorsing the appeal made by the Yankton aidcommittee for aid, and was thus enabled to forward several thousands of dollarsin money and seven or eight tons of clothing and other necessary supplies whichthe people of the East freely contributed to the sufiferers by these disastrous floods. During the summer of 1882 the governor made a tour of inspection throughthe center of the territory, traveling over the fertile prairies nearly four hundredmiles from Yankton to Fort Totten, and in the fall of 1882 he made a veryexhaustive report to the secretary of the interior of the condition and resourcesof the whole territory. When the Legislative Assembly convened at Yankton in January, 1883,although the insane hospital at Yankton and
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