THE NEBRASKA INDEPENDENT.
Aug. 10, 1S99
Why not Call on Supreme Court.
To the Hon. B. N. Front, James
H
YanDusen and Jacob Rocke:
(The no called senate investigating
committee, better known and
oroperly called the republican
more
smut
committee.)
Gentlemen: -You and each of yon
know that there ia not a particle of legal
authority ta sustain your claim as an
Investigating committee, but joo do
not know by this time I Will take th s
opportunity of informing you that it is
the geneial Impression of all regardless
of politics that your pretended investi
gation Is a farce and nothing more.
There is nothing that could induce me
to give you and your mockery the con
sideration of a letter in answer, was it
not for the fact that some may not be
posted as to your methods of deception,
hence this letter: ( .
That the senate did pass a resolution
at the last legislature which was not en
dorsed by the house, and that is toe
1 ' l ...tk-ltw fne tha oTiHtance
OulJ CUlUr ui BuiuviLj .w.
of such a smut committee. i - '
Gentlemeni-Will you tell the people of
this state why the house did not Join In
passing this resolution with the senate?
Was there any attempt to have it pass
the house? If not, why not?
Please unfold the mystery that seem
to enshroud your mysterious actions,
'and explain to the publio why you are
found in this rediculous predicament?
I notice In enumerating the state officers
that are to be investigated the first
named In the resolution were the Judges
of the supreme court. Now permit me to
ask you again why you did not attempt
to comply with the resolution providing
. 1 t nnnAAnnns In vnnr author-
tuu uau nuj
try? Why did you not call on the mem--bers
of the supreme court to come before
you and give testimony In regard to
their official action, and especially in re
gard to the salaries for themselves and
families? Can you feel that you have
performed your sworn duty under that
resolution? In your report you state
that the state officers refused to come
before your committee and give testi
mony. Whydid.yon not compel them
to, if you were clothed with authority
of law? You state further, that all who
have been connected with the alleged
ballot fraud refused to testify. Gentle
men, in answer to this statement, 1 find
that you and your associate and bosom
friend E. L.8imons, have connected and
used my namo In connection with the
alleged fraud, or in other , words, you
have summoned Simons to give testi
mony in regard to this case and Simons
told the same blackmailing story be has
been peddling on the streets of Lincoln
tor the last two years. Did you attempt
to stet other parties you connected with
this alleged affair to testify against your
commitue? No, you did not. Why did
you not call on all parties you implica
ted in this matter by the testimony of a
man whose evidence was impeached in
court by fourteen of the moBt reputable
citizens of the capitol city of Nebraska
only a few years ago? r
Gentlemen of the committee: You are
called upon to answer these questions,
and when you say all whose names were
connected with this alleged ballot fraud
refused to testify before ths committee, I
say, you and each of you in your report
signed as black a falsehood as ever was
signed by any living person. It is sel
dom if ever, men occupying a high, offi
cial positions disgrace d themselves as in
this case, where you sign a document
and say that alt parses have refused to
answer or appear, where no notice of
any kind has been given. I say now
vou have not at any time subpoenoed,
notified or so much as requested me to
appear before your smut committee, to
rive testimonvin this matter, but, gen
tlomen, you caunot seal my mouth in
regard to this contemptable deed, you
cannot take into your confidence a man
with the reputation that it is said,
Simons has for dinreputableneaS, for
dishonesty, for untruthfulness, and is
known to vou. and escape censure. You
soutrht and secured bis unsuported tes
timony and attempt to report to the
governor of this state that men are
guilty of a crime and should be prosecu
tea, wnen you are using a seii cou.u
criminal, guiiry 01 me crime 'T"'
crime ntmseir,
he save, vou seek to punish. Simons
has repeatedly said he changed many
thousand of the ballots, it you are look
ing for the criminals, why don't you
seize the self convicted scoundrel who
says he did the deed, whom you havi
apparently promised to shield, so be
conld secure hush money, aa he calls it.
I trust your committee have not en
ganed with Simons in such a deal as
this, but if the old adage be true, that
birds ol a feather flock together, what
will men think? '
1 For the bencflfof all who may Imagine
Simous story has a word of truth in it,
I have this to say, toils man Simons is un
worty of belief, which you yourselves
acknowledge. You used the following
language in your report: ?we are
aware mat, tne wimws n.on aav.u
uuumwu tuai uv man a ugivj iu mior
crime stands in the
ligbt 01 a witness
whose testimony should be received with
caution."
' Now, gentlemen, can you as an alleged
committee two of whom are lawyers
sitting as a Court, taking evidence, pre
paring a report to be filed with the chief
executive of the state, imagine how ridi
culous yon appear. Yon sny la your
report that Simon's evidence should be
taken with caution, but yott prepars
your finding based only on this man's
testimony. Can you imagine a court
making its findings where only one side
of the case is represented, and that by a
self-confessed criminal. In Simon's tes
timony he states it was in Elmisten's
office where this alleged fraud wss com
tnitted and enters into detail as to how
he, 8imons, conducted the whole sffair,
and you bear him to the end and then in
vour report you allege that other par
ties are guilty of he crime. Did your
committee attempt to secure my presence
and testimony in this matter? You
know you did not. My whereabouts
was familiar to all in ths state house.
I have been on my ranch and farm since
the 15th of May in Dawson county, as
has been repeatedly stated in the State
Journal, which you have no doubt used
as ths principal source of your Informa
tion in this investigation. Simons das
an automatic sTORy and this time he
found a lot of suckers in your committee.
Ia ths campaign of 1897 your bosom
friend 8imons gave this story another
euro, and here Is what it was then: "He
tame to the Populist State Committee
rooms In Lincoln alleging that he bad
facts, which, if ktown, would defeat 1ne
republican state ticket." Simons was
regarded then, as now, a hold-up, and
ready at any time to do anything that a
corrupt man or men might desire of him.
t J a kin an1
Oar committee reiusna w umr miu
be was given no encouragement what
ever. He continued hanging around,
and wanted his story heafd, and after
several days' efforts to get his scheme a
hearing, a number 01 pereons were cbhwj
into the office and Simons was permitted
to tell his story. The story was this,
that during the recount of the ballots in
controversy the county clerks of Doug
las and Lancaster counties, were en
joined from forwarding the ballots to
the secretary 01 state, as w i'; uo"
by law governing the same. Your friend
Simons made the following remarkable
disclosure pending the hearing of the in
junction: "About one or two ociock at
night, when everything was quiet, he
discovered a light at the Lancaster
county court house and having some
curiosity to know what was going on,
went to ths court house and on close ex
amination fonnd a number of men pres
ent In the office of the county clerk mak
ing very little nOise but very busy, un
closer examination he saw them obang-
ins the ballots cast amending tne con
stitution increasing the number of su-
nreme iudaros from three to live, ana ne
gave among that number the names of
the following repuDiicans, juage u. m.
Lambertson. Ralph Johnson, the county
clerk, the clerk of the district court, and
a number of others that we will not
name in this article." Simons then said
be would make affidavit to this story if
we would pay him the sum of 1,000.
Ha was nromotlv told "no." He then
offered it for 750, then f 500, and final
ly 300, and at that time aa chairman
of the committee I ordered him out of
our rooms, telling him "we did not be
lieve a word of his story," and we told
him further that we did not want
bim to be found about our headquarters
and if he was we would report him to
the police. There were present four or
five nersons who beard Simons tell his
story, and who will testify to the truth
fulness of this statement.' 11 bibiuhb
has not changed the figures for his au
tomatic story, I should say he drove a
sharp bargain with your alleged commit
tee, and in addition to this I. am in
formed he has very recently been em
ployed at the state university by and
and through republican influence Is
this true?
Gentlemen of the alleged committee:
The story told you by Pinions of the al
leged ballot fraud in which he connects
me with the same is absolutely false, and
there is not a word of truth in it from
beginning to end. His blackmailing,
hold up scheme was begotten in that
low debased mind of his or some other
similar, and I challenge the committee,
Simons, or any other person whom they
may be associating with, to prove a
sinirle charae that is named in the story
told by Simons, and intbe event of your
failure to do so, I shall brand you as an
imated with bad motives only ana lor a
raesB of pottage you seek to tear down
the characters and rnin the reputations
of those filling or having filled high offi
cial positions. I am, Sirs, most respect
fully yours. J. H. Edmisten.
HE RAN AWAY
Editor Independent: The other day
an agent of the State Journal happened
to call at Aurora and dropped in where
a lot of old farmers and pops were read
ing the news from the war and discussing
the ill treatment of the soldiers, when
the Journal man broke in saying, "I
don't like to bear a man read such stuff
as that or find fault with the way the
war is being conducted in the Philippine
Islands, because my sister nas a sox
over there and he is wounded. I just
can't stand it to hear such talk, for I
think it is one of the grandest and
noblest things in the world to civilize
and educate that heathen people."
"Now," interrupted one of the pops,
"this telegram is signed by a republican
as well as a democrat, and wbat a re
publican reporter writes ought to be
true, according to your ideas; but theu I
don't think we have the complete facts
nged oyer ,Q thoge ,8landgf Qtm wont
let the J merican papers have the truth
11 lie can uem it, lor it wouiu oe nara on
the administration and death to the re
publican party That's what hurts you
wome than anything."
"You talk of those reporter as
everything they say is a tact. Now do
you know," said the agent, "what kind
of men these reporters on the big dailies
are? Why, sir, they are the worst set of
liars and scoundrels to be found. So
you needn't trust the newspapers to give
you the trutn. ion pops are going
era it about this war. If you keep on
talking so much about the soldiers being
mistreated, you'll drive all the Iree silver
republicans back into ths good old re
publican party."
"So you think." said the pop; "that
all reporters on daily papers are liars
Mwf anythmg
they say.
Now, it that is correct, that accovnts for
the lies we get in the State Journal, the
paper you represent. Here, hold on
there!' (By this time the Journal man
was halt way to the door) "Don't go off
jast becauxe I repeated the same state
ment you made a moment ago yourself.
It kinder hurts now don't it, but you
said it, and you'vsgot to hear me re
peat it all the same if you do run away
from It."
"Ob, I've got business down street
and haven't time to talk to you fellows
any tonirer," said the agent,
"Yes," said the pop, "1 expect you
have Just thought of somethiug all of a
uddn. But before you get away, Mr.
Win ten ton (that was the Journal man's
name) let me give you a little advice.
When you come to Aurora next time,
you want to be a little more carelnl who
you run up against, and you hadn't bet
ter tackle these old pop farmers too of
ten, for they can tell you some things
you don't know, and it won't do tor you
to learn too much all at once as it might
getaway with you altosrether. And you
needn't worry about the silver republi
cans, they know enough to take care ol
themselves." W. M. Lakin.
Aurora, Neb.
Farm for Bent.
One ball section good farm land for
rent for cash only. Four miles from Ce
dar Rapids. Also several good farms
near Lincoln for cash only.
For information write ths Nebraska
Independent, Lincoln, Neb.
jfasbfonable
.There
demand for plain
black dress silks
and we have just
t
JBlacb Silks-
received about 20
pieces representing
th most stvlish weaves and best values and heavy double faced cloth plaids are popular prices are 45c and 75c each.
obtainable.
; Black taffetas 65c, 75c, 90c, $1.00,
$M0, $1.25 and $1.50 a yark.
Black satin duchess 75c, 90c, $1.00,
$1.10, $1.25, $1.36 and $1.50 a yard.
Black peau de soie 75c, $1.00,
$1.10, $1.25 and $1.75 a yard.
If you are the least interested in
black silks, we invite you to see
Coloreb
T atflv we
Gaff eta
SUfts
feta silks and now
have in stock more
than one hundred
. . . 1
market. Prices are 75c, 85c and $1.10 a Mc o
a yard. If you want to be exactly suited and w want tQ
in snaoe ano quamy we invue
call at our silk counter
Black
Mister
dreporis
This promises to be
the greatest season
for black crepons
since these beautiful
roods were first
placed upon
ket. We are showing a large
ment of the best values and choicest
new patterns at $1.25, 1.35, 1.50, 1.65,
1.75: 2.00, and 2.25 a yard. -
Cbevlots
For Fall suits chev
iots and storm
serges are among
the most popular
anb Serges
materials. The best selling colors are
black and navy blue. They are 45 to
50 inches wide and prices are 55c, 69c,
75c, 85c, $1.00, 1.15, 1.20, 1.25 and
1.50 a yard.
We invite you to see these goods cI? wh! arcf of suPerior aIity for thc Statl6arb
and comnare , with anv vou
bought before. We ask particular at
tention to the beautiful shades of navy
blue. They are neither too dark nor
too light, but just right.
TELEGRAPHIC f LASHES!
A shortage ot tie Spanish wheat
crop la reported. .'.';
Seventy-three persons were injured
In a collision of trains near Paris,
France.
The labor shortage in Minnesota is
reported greater than ever, and wages
are $2 a day.
Andrew Carnegie has contributed
$50,000 for a public library in Keigh-
ley, England.
Lawrence Laws was probably fatal
ly sandbagged by an unknown person
at Pawnee, Okla.
Georgia populists in conference at
Atlanta decided to nominate full state
and local tickets.
The 8-year-old daughter of Dr. Still-
well, sear Direct, Texas, bled to death
from having a tooth pulled.
The works of the Glens Falls Port
land Cement company burned at Glens
Falls, N. Y., causing a loss of $250,000.
Tommy Ryan and Jack Moffatt havs
been matched to box for the welter
weight championship at Dubuque dur
ing race week.
Fred Phelps, aged 14, was cut in two
by a train at Paola, Kansas. He
claimed before he died that a brake
man pushed him off the train.
Mrs. L. H. Pickens, widow of the
South Carolina war governor, who was
once minister to Russia, is critically
ill at her home In Edgefield, Ga. . . .
The peasantry ot Beesabarabla, a
South Russian province, are reported
In revolt, driven desperate by famine.
Several encounters witb troops are re
ported, and twenty peasants killed.
The War department has Issued a
formal order establishing the Fort
Gibbon military reservation in Alaska
and defining its boundaries.
W. H. Coleman and Charles H.
Smith, cattlemen from Oklahoma, are
in jail at Kansas City charged with
"ballooning" mortgages, by obtaining
more money tnan the cattle were
were worth.
Gen. R. A. Alger, Mrs. Alger, and
their two sons, left for Grand Mer,
Quesbec From there they will go to
New York, and to Cooperstown, N. Y.,
to visit relatives, and to complete a
three weeks' vacation.
' FARM FOR SALE
80 acres, well improved, 4 miles from
railroad near school, 8 acres bearing
orchard in Seward county Nebraska.
Rerms 130.00 an acre. 1000 cah
balance on terms to suit purchaser. Ad
dress 538, Nebraska Independent, Lin
coln, Nebraska.
. iaod( on t sxn an.!
omn eqx XJOO'Oll J pwntu ns
H vtuiit t,JO)ejdojd eqi o af
paooov '000'Stt o ionon eqi o Ap
4v9i jg Aq p2mtp tv ooXn
a) tsHji em jo ao 'esnoq tpooll iy
snoanj sqx nV '"K "ooixik
h ih MU o'fltw T
is a great
for Shirts
camel's hair plaids
selling for the very fashionable short
skirts. Prices are $1.25 to 2.00 a yard.
Habfes'
Cloths
ladies' tailor made suits. Venetian
broadcloths, homespuns, coverts and
this lot.
f. I
have re- ogon1 weaves are
iJ w,aT Uro, Prices are 9Uc to
lots of colored taf-
Dress (Boobs
A :
you to we ciaimfor our
ment is true, tome whether or not
you are at this time
goods. ,
Gable Xlnen
the mar- 1Ifm a
assort
damasks and napkins, and are offering 4Tth(i
some excellent volues. In heavy half VklUll RS
bleached damasks we
ties at 50c, 75c and $1.00 a yard and
in bleached damasks very desirable
goods at 70c and $1.00 a yard.
We have particularly goon values
in bleached napkins at 90c, $1.20 and
$1.50 a dozen.
We have just opened a large lot of ;' scription.
western made unbleached Turkish tow-
have ever p-w-
For good values
kins or towels-
We invite you
department. .
MILLER
HE IS FOR TAYLOR
Reasons for favoring Hon. W. J.'Tay-
lor for congress.
Because he is honest, honorable, and
competent. -
Because he is pure, patriotic, and pro
gressive.
Because he is lull ot energy and will
work for the good of the country, as bis
work in the last legislature proves.
Because his moral principles are so
strong that he will fight tor the right
and can neither ba bought nor sold.
Because if nominated he will be elected
by the people, and will labor for the
good of all the people. C. R. Street.
Hoosier, Neb,
Bcglmnte Rapidly FlUlnr Up.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 9. The num
ber of enlistments yesterday was 442,
making a total of 10,769. The Twenty
sixth regiment, commanded by Colonel
Rice, has 1,312, which is more than
the full quota, and the Tnirtieth, com
manded by Colonel Gardner, has 1.306,
only four short of the required num
ber. Soldier H TIIow Ttvur.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 9. First case
of yellow fever reported among th
troops at Havana Is announced in the
fallowing cablegram:
HAVANA, Aug. 8. Surgeon General
Sternberg, Washington: William
Hp&ttv. ComDanr A. Eight lufantry.
La Punta barracks. Havana, ill, yel
low fever; Las Animas hospital.
O'REILLY.
Want Tbam to H AbU ta Shoot
Wakhtwotos. Au. 8. General
Miles is anxious that ths new regl
ments being raised for service in the
Philippines shall be especially efficient
with small arms, and sn order wss
sent to the commander of each regi
ment directing that target practice be
tha chief feature of tho instruction
given the soldiers.
46,000 Men for rblllpplnot.
WASHtSGTOH, Ang. 9.--A statement
prepared at the wai department
shows that by ; October 23 there will
be at Manila or on the way to the
Philippines 46,000 men. They will all
reach the islands before the beginning
of ths dry season.
A Mountain Tourist
In search of grand and beautiful seen
ery finds such a profusion of riches In
Colorado that before planning a trip it
will be well for yon to gain all the Infor
mation Doesibl. The Denver Jb Rio
Grande Railroad publishes a series of
nsefnl illustrated pamphlet, all ot wbioh
mav be obtained by writing to 8. K.
Hooper, General Passenger and Ticket
Agent, Denver, Col.
Never before have Iftf hhon
we sold so many
heavy goods early
in tne season-
of medium- weight
taffeta ind
See them
Velvet
IRibbons
We have on our
counters a very se
lect assortment of
heavy cloths for
! A i. J 1
ui greater ueuiauu.
i.UU a yard.
Yi7 rA-r.v ttvc
anxious that aU
strangers in the dty , Gapes
goocJs stock v
sec fof eI Aat $6 5Q tQ
dress goods depart- v cloak and
interested in dress
Sttffsb
belts
RecfntIy behave
receiveu several
large importations
of table linens, both
have special val
prices.
We
telescopes
in damasks, nap- patterns
to come to our linen the Standard and no other good patterns
so low in price. Try them
& PAINE
v Notice! v
i thaTia:rit, Cnnrt. of lfuiftfiatflr I
county, Nebrrska. , -: -
ary M. Frost, plaintiff. -vs.
Samuel L. Frost, defendant.
To Samuel L. Frost, non-resident uefed-
ant:
You are hereby notified that on the 9th
day of August, 1899, Mary M. Frost
nlsd a petition agatnst you ia-the dis
trict court of Lancaster county, Ne
braska, the object and prayer of which
is to obtain a decree of absolute divorce
from you on the grounds that since
Mn.MH 1 1 Willi ti, KdTrn vantnn 0
grossly and cruelly failed and neglected-)
to provide any support whatever lor
plaintiff although you are fully able to
provide for her; also that you have
been guilty of extreme cruelty toward
plaintiff since your marriage to her in
that you publically, without any cause,
charged her with being a public prosti
tute. flaiotiD also prays to De restored
to her former name of Mary M. Hall.
You are required to answer said peti
tion on or before Monday, the 4th day
of September 1899.
Mary m. t roht, piaintin.
By J. C. McNernev, her atty. .
Nez Perces Lands,
Onlv 100 miles southeast of th fertile
irreen fields of Eastern Waehington, be
tween the c earwater and Salmon rivers,
lies what was long known as the Nez
Perncs Indian country, only recently
throws open to settlement and mining,
Since the early sixtiees when $38,000,-
000 was washed out of the rich placers
of the Clearwater and Salmon rivers it
has been a tradition among miners that
some day great, gold discoveries would
be made In the P s t'erces country, x ne
enormons cost of transportation, re
moteness from civilization aud conse
quent impossibility of carrying on large
mining operations lelt tne ricn qtiam
ledgis the mother-lodes of the placer
untouched. Almost simultaneoniy
with the completion of the Northern
Pacific's Lewiston extension from Spo
kane, came the announcement of the
discovery in the Buffalo Hump range of
immense ledges of gold bearing quarts
which, crooping out above the serlnce,
and twenty feet or more in width, ex
tend in different directions tor many
miles. The rapid extenmon of the Clear-waU-r
Line of the Northern Pacific, now
building along the river from Lewiston,
will soon throw this heretofore almost
inaccesibht country open to capital, and
modern machinery with American grit
will do the rest. For fuller Information
and a new map of this region send a
two cent stamp to Chas. R. Fee, St. Paul,
Minn., or address any General or Die
trict Passenger Agent of the Northern
Pacific Railway.
VolmaUan MatUrod Oat,
Saw Fbak Cisco. Aug. 9. The
See
sod Oregon regiment was mualered
out of service yesterday. Each man
received bis disobargs papers from ths
mustering offioer and passed on to ths
paymaster, who gave bim wbat money
was due bim.
We are selling a
great many ladies'
stock collars and
ties of both plain,
ribbons. The most
fancy
at our ribbon counter.
' Satin back velvet
ribbons of good
quality are in much J
demand for ladies' ,
ties. The correct widths are Nos. 12, y
16 and 22. We have them and the
saleswomen at our ribbon counter will
show you how to make the ties,
We don't wish to
bore yon with ad
vice, but if you .are
thinking of buying
saks on the at
$I500 . Sec thcm fa Qur
suit department.
Beaded elastic belts
and dog collar belts
are at present lead-
ers in that line.
Choice patterns in both these styles are
now on sale in our notion department.
We very seldom .
miss a sale when
we have a custo-
s tf
' mer in our trunk
department. We are in a position to
buy at right prices . and our customers
seem to be pleased with our selling
invite you to call for trunks.
or traveling bags of any de
We repeat what
we have , said be-fore-there
are no
patterns better than
Colon Men Olichareeet
Chattanooga, Tenn., Aug. 9. The
Chattanooga Electric Street Railway
company has discharged 15 conductors
and motormen who refused to with
draw from the union. A general
meeting of labor unions has been
called and an effort will be made to
have a boycott on the road declared.
The Fertile
Lands of Colorado?-
is" the title of an
illustrated book
issued by the
Denver and Rio Grande
Railroad.
Descriptive of the vast
, area of agricultural, Hor
ticultural, and Grazing
lands in Colorado & New
Mexico, and which also
contains full information
as to live stock interests,
the sugar beet industry,
farming by irrigation, and
the opening of the Ute
Indian reservation, which
will be mailed free by .ad
dressing S. K, HOOPER,
CP.&T.A.. Denver, Colo.y
$5 A MONTi.
DR.
McCREW,
SPECIALIST,
TmttaO Format
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