The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-05-20
tGED SENATOR HAS
FAMILY TROUBLES
Stewart Of Nevada Auctions Off
Personal Effects Of His
First Wife.
HIS DAUGHTER is ANGRY
Protests Publicly Against What She
Considers the Heartless Actions of
Her Father-Another Sen
atorial Squabble.
HIS DAUGHTER is ANGRY

Washington, May 17.-Another of the
nncien, bonanza senator has n family
alitlculty on his hands growing out of
ais second marriage. The tendency of
me elder Statesmen to get into hot wa
Ter over Their second marriages or other
Affairs of the heart has beer notable in
The last few years. Senator Stewart
OF Nevada caused a sensation when
last October, at the age of 10, he we'd
led Mrs. Cone. an Atlanta widow. lie
IS n multimillionaire. The entertaining
senatorial atfaire du occur generally in
wolves a senator of about four score
with a few millions appended.
Ihere was Cauncey Depew, who we'd
ded n young wife when most men are
making their wills and trotting their
grandchildren; and Platt, who tottered
TO the altar with n woman while am
other was pursuing him with a breach
of promise suit thar was afterward
compromised; and there is Clarke of
Montana, concerning whom a new ma
story alternates with the allie
cation that he is fast failing in health.
And mention should not be over
of Thurston OF Nebraska, Who if
he wasn't an octogenarian at least was
Old enough to have known better than
TO have said to the rose, o, rose, sweet
rose" etc.
And now the second chapter
n the Stewart romance.
Objects to Auction.
The coming sale by auction of the
Stewart heirlooms and bric-a-brac, be-
longing To the senator's dead wife, and
the efforts of the daughter to get pos
session of her mothers effects, have
brought on a family controversy that
s widening a breach between parent
and children.
Senator Stewart now asserts that his
daughter, Mrs. Bessie Stewart Hooker,
IS selfish and ungrateful and that she
has no just cause for complaint. The
a sent the following statement
by his secretary to the newspapers to-
day:
The article in the papers reforming
foundation in fact. The inspiration of
such an article by my daughter, Mrs.
Bessie Stewart Hooker, all fair minded
After the death OF my wife 1 turned
over the KEYS of my house to my
daughters. Mrs. Hooker and Mrs. Pay
SON, n told them to take and divide
whatever they chose, simply asking
them to leave enough furniture so that
be surprised if what they left is worth
as much as they took. If anybody
doubts that Mrs. Hooker took good care
IF herself, let them compare what she
has in her house that is still visible
with the furniture taken from the
house and now at NJ. STEMS auction
rooms. 1t is = hat Mrs. Hooker
presented to me a list of the furniture
she demanded after she had taken her
share at the same time as her sister
did. but if ! had complied with her
request it would have been hardly
worth while to have taken the rem
nants to the auction rooms.
Because He Sold the House.
1.-THE house containing the furniture
In question was sold to the government
under an agreement of all parties con-
cerned and the money divided. I was
compelled to take the furniture out of
the house or pay rent until such time
as the government might deem it proper
to tear it down"
"The publication by my daughter
for she was practically the author of
was especially unkind after all ! have
done for her and her two boys. Since
she separated from her husband, some
fifteen years ago, until the present
time, she has been supplied by money
furnished by me, M her two sons
have been educated at my expense.
ut is painful for me to state these
admit by my silence that there is one
word of truth in her charges against
me-"
Mrs. Bessie Stewart Hooker is much
distressed over h action Of her father
In sending her mothers personal be-
longings to al auction house. and she is
exceedingly unhappy over the state
ment published by the aged senator.
Replying to his assertions. Mrs. Hooker
says:
It's True, the Daughter Says.
II aln at a loss TO understand the ac-
tions of my father. ] am very angry
and unhappy ut the indignity of putting
my mothers picture up at auction to
be bid for by n one. Whatever my
father says. the fact stands clear that
my mothers dearest things We're bun
died away like junk to a public auction
house. Her most personal letters even
are included in the pile.
II know that under the law am
helpless, the only thing for me TO
do is to go to the auction office and bid
In the keepsakes that my sister and 1
wish to have"