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THE ALLIANCE - INDEPENDENT. 3 v ' I IT A MLLIONARE General Van Wjck "Contradicts a Lie" H? Makes an Inventory of His Possessions No Bank Nor Railroad Stock. , His House at Washington One - Tenth of a Million Will Purchase All He Has Doesn't Use a Pass. A Ringing Letter That Will Put Slanderers to Shame. General Van Wyck has addressed the "following open letter to C. II. Gere, the editor of the Nebraska State Journal: You have published so often the charge that I was a millionaire that probably you are believing it yourself, and before that calamity overcomes you, I have concluded to do what I seldom do, stop and contradict a lie. This falsehood is made of whole cloth. I am neither a millionaire,' nor the one-tenth of a millionaire. What property I have is open to public view. No one may be mistaken unless for a malicious purpose, for the records will show every dollar. I do not now, nor have I ever owned a dollar in railroad stocks or bonds. I do not now own stock in a bank, although some twenty years ago I owned stock in a national bank which, by the wrecking of the bank .was lost and more, because an assessment of an amount equal to the stock was collected rather an ex pensive experience. Some eight or ten years ago was organized the Farmers' bank of Nebraska City. I was solicited to subscribe and did subscribe $500, which about two years ago T agreed to sell, and did in fact sell. Neither do I own any stock or bonds in any corporation or partnership, syn dicate, trust or any species of consoli dated property, except that a year ago or more, io help secure an enterprise for the benefit of Nebraska City. I did subscribe to the starch factory some trust funds then in my hands. The in vestment has yet paid no interest. Hope it may in the near future. If it does not, as I took it in my own name, I am responsible to the trust for any loss. You have often alluded to the house I built in Washington. That, also, is plain and open. , At the beginning of my term, before the first regular ses sion, and during the extra session in March, after consultation with friends, my wife and self concluded it would be more comfortable and economical to buy a lot and build, and thenat the end of six years have something to show for it, than pay it out at a Washington hotel. We bought a desirable lot in a fine location for $2 per square foot, then built a house for about $15,000, making the whole amount near $20,000. This is the house partisan patriots say cost over $100,000. One object was to secure the most of comfort and enjoy ment at the least of outlay. Did we then know what Providence had in store for us we would never have made the venture. At the beginning was a happy wife and mother and two. bappy children little girls and I was onlv too happy to make a cheerful home for them, as it was evident we could buy and build and cost us no more than hotel life. Unfortunately in less than one short year, and before the earthly house was finished, the two darling girls by almost a single stroke were tiken from us and laid together in one grave, and their spirits went to man sions not made by hands. But the earthly boas had to be finished, and we had necessarily to pnt a mortgage of $10,000 nncn it. Wo fumishl th house,ut that which was to have been its life and joy were gone. Still we occupied it, and our greatest pleasure was to enjoy friends from Nebraska who came to see us. The latch string was always out. I don't believe you ever stooped so low, but some hyena wretch stated that I spent thousands in entertainments at Washington, when Mrs. Van Wyck, in more than four of the six years, was in deep mourning. First her cherub girls, then a father, then a sister, then a brother, and again another sister were taken from her, and year by year she passed through the dark shadows. She had no heart for entertainments, and she gave none. Those years were full of sorrow, not joy; except during two of the six years, on two or three occasions, inexpensive ones, without ceremony, and when some Nebraska friends were with us. in whose honor the entertainments were given. Then you have said much about a carriage we used at Washington. It was one we owned in the state of Now York, used it in Nebraska, took it to Washington, then fifteen years old, with it a span of horses from the farm; of course, must have a driver never liveried We were fortunate in the location of the house. The land increased in val ue. We made some improvements, changing the front door, and adding a dining room. These were necessary to make it more desirable for renting As the real estate had incrersed in value I was able to secure a larger loan $16,000 which is still unpaid, and a lien on the property. I know the peo ple of this state do not require of me this inventory. I may be too sensitive to this the meanest kind of false hood. However, those who claim they know the extent and value of my property, and who may be desirous for a venture, I stand ready to transfer all my posses sions every dollar I own on earth, real, personal and mixed If they will give me in cash one dollar for every ten they say I am worth, they, of course, to pay my debt?, so I may have the one tenth in cash. This is a sample of the many groundless Charges that from time to time appear in some of the op position papers. They have dished up in poetry and prose, what they should have known was untrue that I was supplied with passes on the different roads, and "good all over the world." For the past six years I had, for a portion of the time only, one on one road, and that confined to Nebraska, and that I have no longer. The roads, principally those with whom your relations are intimate, often furnish you with copies, photograph copies, ef passes issued. Why do the roads fight me so bitter ly, if, as you sometimes profess, my relations are so owarm, and I receive favors at their hands ? They or their friends strike at me whenever they can do so and they will cheerfully fnrnish you proof to confute this statement, if in their power. August 27. C. H. Van Wyck. A Home School for both sexes. Best an I cheapest school in the West. New buildings throughout. Steam heat in all. Two large Dormitories. V COURSES V Preparatory, Normal. Collegiate, Business, Shorthand and Typewriting. Music. Art. V EXPENSES V Boarl, room rent and tuition for term of ten weeks f 29.50 Tuition alone, per terra H.oo Board, per week i.e.", Total exieii8eH for one year , -. . , 12U.0D It will coot you leco than to otoy at home. Oend in your applcationo at once. Fall term openo Sept, 6th. Thi9 school is under the jurisdiction of the lit. Ro v. Anson R. Graves, Bishop of the Diocese of the Platte. mm MIL MICE I MDliCII, Supt, - - kmiU. 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Whereas, on the 12th day of August, 1892 there was submitted to the legal voters of the city cf Lincoln, Nebraska, bythe mayor and council of said city, the following questions and propositions, that is to say: "Shall the city of Lincoln issue its bonds to the amount of $47,000 with interest con pons thereto attached, payable and n deem able at the option of the city at any time after ten years from their date, and draw interest at the rate of 5 per cent per annum from their date, payable semi-annually, said bonds to be dated Oct ber 1st, 192, and the interest and principal to be payable at the fiscal agency of the state of Nebraska, in the city of New York, for the purpose of constructing exten sions of the water works of said city; and shall the city council of said city levy a tax on all taxable property of said city, in addi tion to an otner taxes, sumcient to pay tne interest and the principal upon said bonds as the same may become iue and payable." "Shall tne mayor ana council ot tne city or Lincoln, Nebraska, have the power to vote and borrow money and pledge the property of said city upon its negotiable bonds to an amount not exceeding $'),000. to be used to defray the costs cf paving, repaying, or ma cadam izing the intersections of streets or space opposite a' leys in said city, and to levy a tax upon the taxable property of said city in addition to allother taxes sufficient to pay the Interest and principal of said bonds as the same may become due." "Shall the mayor and council of the city of Lincoln, Nebraska, have the power to borrow money and p!cdge the property of said city upon its negotiable bonds to an amount not exceeding $118,000, to be used for the purpose of funding the outstanding indebtedness of said city, and to levy a tax upon all taxable property in said city, in addition to all other taxes sufficient to pay the interest and prin cipal of said bonds as the same may become due." And whereas, the special election was dulv held on said 12th day of August, 1892, and a canvass of the votes cast at said special election was duly made by the mayor and council of said city on the 16. h day of August, 1892, and said mayor and council declared said proposition carried by more than a ma jority of the votes cast at said election in said city, and the same is therefore declared adopted. By order of the mavor and council this 16th dayef August, 1893. L8BALJ U,V. VAN UUYN, City Clerk. V THE BECKET HOUSE G. W. BRYANT, Prop. Best $1 a Day House la Kearney t Farmers' trade specially solicited. Central Avenue, tfEADVEV XVH South of Kailroad. A&ilRiJciI , MO. National Hotel, FOR THE FARMERS, KEARNEY, : . NEB. Jobs Adams, Proprietor. FOR THE BEST HARNESS OIL . Address, Henry Dodge, KEARNEY, NEB. HOG CHOLERA. We will guarantee not to turn ovpr the earth, but to cure any case of genu ine or so-called cholera in from three to five dajs or refund the money. 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