Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1876-03-03

with MIS-. Bowers TO the following
1purport,. as far us | can now remem.
her the witness stated that his mem
| qfy was. very ind,s,icnt on many
points. He said 81 went up stairs in
the nursery with Mrs. Bower to see
the baby.. i said to her "this child
Will have money coming to,,it before
~ great while. She sad "yes; the
mother gave the child
to me and told me that the money
kcoming from you, she must take and
keep for it," / said, .'all right" and
it seems said that "pcrhaps the
father ought TO be consulted; say i,
seems so, and ! yet can give no reason
Tor it. SO far us ! knew, BelknaE
knew nothing ofour money transac
Iiplls. have faint recollection of a
remark of Mrs. Bowers that "ll sent
money to The father that it belonged
TO her and that she would get it any
wuy. ] had some understanding then,
or subsequently, with. her or HIM, for
when, the next payment came due,
and was paid, sent Que half to ne
sccretaryot war and have continued to
do SO ever since. Onc aud half
TO < years after the commencement OF
these payments, ] reduced the amount
to $4,000 perNycar. The reason Of
this reduction WIS partly because of
the combined complaints on the pr.
OF Evans and his partner, and, SO far
as l now remember, in consc-
quence of an article in the
newspapers, about that time, re-
tlec,ing on the injustice done soldiers
at this fort caus d by cxorbitant
charges made necessary on the part of
the trader by reason Of the payment Of
this bonus.
To the best Of my knowledge and
belief, the above is a true statement
-of-the facts in the case, aud -as- eon.-,
pletc as can remember the, occur:
renccs of SO many ycars.ago.
have frequently correspond, d
with the secretary OF war and have
forwarded requests to secretary made
to me by Evans wishing for privile
ges, about the first was as to sell IL
qnor and etc. The contract betwee"
Evans and me never was subject to 81:
conference between Be.knap aud me.
After the funeral Of the then. Mrs.
BelknaL in 1870, the money was sent
-aeeefAa.g- Id instructions ol The
secretary Of war, sometimes in bank
notes by add.ess and express, J think
on one or more occasions 10y ccrtiti
cate Of deposit on the National Bank
Of America, in New York. Some
times have
PAID HIM IN NEW YORK IN PERSON
except the first payment in full Of 10.
The aggregate receipts from
tho post were about
$4,000, Of which half-was disposed of
as mentioned. Usually, when cx
pressed Mr.. BrlI<nap money, would
send him receipts of the company
lie would either return marked so.
Is ;" or this was an acknowledged. re
ceipt of the same. Sometimes paid
TO him in person in New York
when no receipt wasnecrssilry. have
not preserved any receipts or letters
when sent by express. ] always de-
posted money personally and took
receipt for it.
l came to Washington the 21st of this
month. Invent to the house Of the sccre-
tary and stayed Wednesday night, and
returned on Thursday morning. showed
him the telegram subpoena, and asked
him what must be SAID; what knew
about our transactions together, l said l
did not ike to appear because | thought
my testimony would be damnging to, or
would implicate him or give him trouble.
He said lie thought not, and advised me
to stay and meet the committee. During
that evening my conversation was chiefly
with his wife, he neither noticing or par
ticipating, and not understanding the
She suggested that could make a
which would satisfy the
committee and represent that she and
and had business transactions to-
ge,her for many years, and that all
this money had sent to the secretary
was money paid from time to time
deposited with me as 4 kind of a ban
ker, and that she had instructed
me to send it to the secretary
for her. dined there and spent the eve
ming, and stayed all night, retiring about
12 O'Clock. ihe evening was devoted to
discussing this matter. ! told her that
her statement would not shold water be-
fore the committee, and even If j,
would could not make il, at the
same time was wrought up, and
had such an anxiety, she press
ing and. pressing me about it, and
having slept little since the receipt OF
the subpoena. l didn't give them a
positive answer that night. went
TO bed at IL O'Clock, and ! don't sup
| r,oco I S1a,,t xr;nk TEpv said thcy