The Advocate and news., 1898-05-25
A Job Which
Fell Through.
Topeka Firm Wanted State House
Work for $4,000, but Took
1t for $2I,645.
SOME EVIDENCED BOODLING.

In August, 1895, Fellows e Van SAINT
endeayOred to arrange a pool whereby
the State would pay $34, 400 for a job
of work which the same firm afterward
took and completed for 1,645. This
large excess was admitted to be for the
purpose of dividing up with certain State
officers and a prominent Republican
politician.
Representatives of the Western Con-
, tracting Company and f. L. Stephen
son & Co. two firms of contractors, en-
tered into an arrangement with c. A.
Fellows, representing Fellows & Van
SAINT, the terms of which were that all
State contracts should be gathered IN,
the work to be done by Fellows & Van
SAINT. The profits on the contracts were
to be 10 per cent, One-half of which
was to go to Fellows q Van SAINT and
One-fOurth to each of the others, and
other bidders were to be kept out il
possible. This agreement was carried
out on the first contract with the excep-
tiOn of the fact that Fellows did not
pay Geo. Fl. Evans, representing Ste
phensOn & Co., his agreed per cent
When the second contract was about to
be let Fellows proposed a pool Mr..
Evans, suppOsing that the old arrange
ment was to continue, wrote a letter to
G. A. Fellows, asking him what his bid
should be, Fellows replied that it should
be $4,000 and noted on the back of the
letter a statement Of what was to be
done with the money received in excess
OF the cost Of the work. The original
letter in fac simile, together with Eel
lows notation on the back is given else
where. The correspondence was as fol-
lows:
AT HOME, Aug. 8, vs.
c. A. Fellows-Dear Sir: What amount must mt
in my bd2 VIII get check, and Cox and will DO
there at II as agreed | will see Chicago fellow
as you suggested, and see him as soon as you say
what amount to 20 In my bld-eXplaln IL.
GEORGE II. EVANS.
Your bid should be SS5 OOO the mill work amounts
TO $l2,jOOOO, as Frampton has IL figured. Cox will
come over G. A. FELLOWS.
r. S.-My bid: cost S2IOOOOO Sternes a OOOOO; Ed
wards, S2,OOOOO Evans, Sl2O0O0 DAVIS, S2,OOOOO; }.
Cox, N,2O0OO-8i, ,OOO.OO Fellows Vansants bid
would dol
In order that there may be no con-
trOversy as to the statements above
given and the authenticity Of the letter
and Endorsements, the following affi-
davits are given, the originals, together
with the original letter being in the
vault in the business Office OF the Ad-
Vocate and News:
state OF Kansas Reno County, IS.
Henry Evans being first duly sworn, depOses and
says That he is the son of George H. Evans; that
the attached letter written by his father; that
~ was delivered to him TO be delivered TO c. A. Eel
lows; that IL was so delivered, and that while afant
was waiting for reply that said G. A. Fellows wrote
on said letter all of such part thereof follows the
signature OF said George II. Evans; that the letter
hereto attached was written Jointly by said George
H. Evans and G. A. Fellows, and that the same is as
u was upon Its return TO said George II. Evans and
IhAt no alterations or change have been made in IT,
HENRY o. EVANS.
subscribed and sworn to before me- notary pub
1875 w N U9pETNs Man. 'pnbIjc ~
lsEALl My commission expires May 20, 1901.
state OF Kansas, Shawnee County, ss.
l, George IL. Evans, first being duly sworn, depose
ana say That the letter attached hereto was written
by me TO &, A. Fellows, August g. 1895 that 1t was
delivered by me TO my son, Henry Evans 70 be by
him delivered 70 said G. A. Fellows that before the