Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1891-06-19
PROVE THAT FRAUD,
Pullman, through its Board of Trade,
Offers $1,000 for Proof
of Fraud.
Colfax Given the Opportunity to Prove
Her Assertions True if
She can.
Representative o. E. Young corrects one
ofthe Many Measurements
made in Colfax.

Fraud and corrursion have been
howIed long enough in connection with
the college location at Pullman; and
those persons who were foremost and
loudest in crying the terms have been
most backward in attempting to prove
them.
Pullman has courted an investigation,
knowing that there was nothing to fear,
and that no man could show proof of
fraud when there was no fraud.
But our friends at Colfax, and else
where, have not even made the attempt
to show that dishonest means were used
to locate the college; they have fought
the location upon technical points alone,
and the cries of fraud, and of ''clear
away the stain" were merely blinds.
Pullman intends to give you a chance
to prove your assertion.
At a meeting of the Board of Trade,
held on June 18th, 1891, the following
resolutions were unanimously adopted
WHEREAS, 1t has been charged that
Pullman secured the location of the
Agricultural College and School of
Science by fraud, and
WHEREAS, the citizens of Pullman
have been called upon to clear them
selves of this charge, and
WHEREAS, the manner in which the
charges of fraud have been made gives
us no opportunity of disproving the
same, and being deslrous of proving
to the world that the location was made
on merit alone, and that no fraud was
practiced by Pullman or by any one in
behalf of our town:
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the
Board of Trade deposit, in the Bank of
Pullman, $1,000, to be paid to any char
liable institution in the 2 of Wash
ington upon proof : eade that
fraud was PRACTICES. ti.s,vds on his. said in
stltuJ1on oil the 1ses-F1linaIv- aain, and be
it further b
RESOLVED, that we pay the travelling
expenses Of a committee of unprejudiced
and reputable citizens of this state, one
each to be selected by the Spokane Re
view, the Post-Intelligencer, the Tacoma
Ledger, the Olympia Tribune, the Fair
haven Herald, Walla Walla Jour
nal, and the Seattle Telegraph, who
will examine the various sites of
fered to and examined by the Commits
sioners who located said College and
School of Science, on condition that said
papers publish full report of the find
ings of said Committee; this offer be-
ing made with the knowledge and belief
that none are equal to the one selected
at Pullman.
That is the position taken by Pull
man, and it is creditable one The
town will be glad to see some one go into
the matter, and attempt to win the
$1,000, for by so doing the facts will be
shown up, and that Pullman has the
best, most available and accessible site,
will be known to all.
The citizens of Colfax waxed very
wroth when they knew that their trlckery
was discovered, and several of them, in
Guiding the five of renown, we're ''inter-
viewed by the local papers. Hon. 0.
E. Young came in for share of abuse,
which called for the following from the
pen of that gentleman:
Pullman, June 18th, 1891.
Editor HERALD see in the Commoner and
Gazette, of last weeks issue, an interview pub
hshed with C. II. Warner, in W hich Mr.. Warner
states that on my way home from Olympia
informed him that was POSITIVE that Whitman
county would get the agricultural college.
This statement l deny as absolutely untrue
Mr.. Warner, while in conversation with me, ex-
pressed himself as fearful, on account of the way
affairs were developing in Olympia, that Whit
man county, i. e. Colfax, would stand poor
show in the contest to secure this great institu-
ton.
I replied that owing to Whitman being the
foremost agricultural county in the state, be-
Geved her chances were good.
Both of the Colfax papers, and the leading
citizens of that place, were loud in their protes-
tations, after the commission had been appoint
ed, that Colfax did not believe, and discarded
such insinuations unworthy, that any Interior
or improper motive controlled any member of
that commission. Bat, great heavens, what a
change as soon as it was known that Colfax had
not secured the prize!
Now, why said that Colfax was mot in it:''
As member of the legislature last winter /
learned that the two great companies that con-
troll the railroad traffic of this state also take
quite an active interest in the politics of our
commonwealth. North Yakima is on one road,
Colfax on the other; but Pullman is on both.
The freight and passenger traffic for this inst /
tuition cannot be monopolized by one company.
Colfax has very limited water supply and in
regard to the sanitary condition of that place, l
quote from Mayor Chadwick's message to the
city council: THAT part of the South Palouse
river, adjacent to the business portion of the
city, known as the lake, has been for years dis
grace to the city and menace to health, and |
would advise you to take some action to correct
this, and to compel property owners along its
banks to maintain their places, that it viii no
longer be in the degree it is at present, shock
TO the senses of all men,"
Had the commission located the college at
Colfax the citizens of Pullman and surrounding
county would have acquiesced, and no legal
proceedings would have been instituted to wrest
from her the well won prize.
had expected to take no part in this contro-
yersy, but as my name has been brought in | am
compelled to take up the cudgel o. E. YOUNG.