The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1904-05-27
AGED SENATOR HAS
FAMILY TROUBLES
Stewart ofNevada Auctions on
Personal Effects Of His
First Vile
HIS DAUGHTER is ANGRY
Protests Publicly Against What She
Considers the Heart;ess Actions of
Her Father-Another Sem
atorial Squabbe.

Washington, May l7.-Another of the
ancient bonanza senators has a family
difficulty on his hands growing out Of
ms second marriage. The tendency of
the elder statesmen to get into hot wa
Ter over their second marriages or other
affairs of the heart has been notable in
the last few years. Senator Stewart
or Nevada caused a sensation when,
last october, at the age Of IS, he we'd
ded Mrs. Cone. an Atlanta widow. He
IS multimtllionaire. The entertaining
senatorial affaire du occur generally in
wolves senator of about four score
with few millions appended
There was Cauncey Depew, who we'd
ded young wife when most men are
making their Wills and trotting their
grandchildren; and Platt, who tottered
TO the altar with one woman while an
other was pursuing him with breach
of promise suit that was afterward
compromised: and there is Clarke of
Montana, concerning whom new ma
trlmonial story alternates With the allie
cation that he is fast failing in health.
And mention should not be over
looked 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 comes the second chapter
in the Stewart romance
Objects to Auction.
The coming sale by auction Of the
Stewart heirlooms and brio -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 family controversy that
is 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
senator sent the following statement
by his secretary to the newspapers to-
day:
The article in the papers referring
to the sale of my furniture has no
foundation In fact. The Inspiration of
Bessie Stewart Hooker, all fair minded
people knowing the facts must deplore.
After the death Of my wife I turned
over the keys of my house to my
daughters, Mrs. Hooker and Mrs. Pay
son. and told them to take and divide
whatever they chose, simply asking
them to leave enough furniture so that
the house could be rented. I should
be surprised If what they left Is worth
as much as they took. If anybody
doubts that Mrs Hooker took good care
of herself, let them compare what she
with the furniture taken from the
house and now at M. STEMS auction
rooms. 1t Is true that 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
request it would have been hardly
worth while to have taken the REM
nants to the auction rooms.
Because He Sold the House.
"The house containing the furniture
In question was sold to the government
under an agreement Of all parties con-
cerned and the money divided. T was
compelled to take the furniture out of
the house or pay rent until such time
as the government might deem 1t proper
to tear 1t down"
The publication by my daughter
for she was practically the author Of
the communications these charges
was especially unltind after all have
done for her andsher two boys. Since
she separated frCAl her husband. some
1lfteeen years ago until the pr asent
time, she has been supplied by money
furnished by me. and her two sons
have been educated at my expense.
1T is painful for me to state these
facts to the public, but I can't tacitly
admit by my silence that there is one
word of truth in her charges against
me-"
Mrs Bessie Stewart Hooker is much
distressed over the action of her father
IN sending her mothers personal be-
longinBs to an 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 am at a loss to understand the ac-
tons of my father. I am very angry
and unhappy at the indignity of putting
my mothers picture up at auction to
be bid for by any one. Whatever my
father says, the fact stands clear that
my mothers dearest things were bum
died away like junk to public auction
house. Her most personal letters even
are included in the pile.
Il know that under the law I am
helpless, and the only thing for me to
do is to go to the auction Office and bid
In the keeDSakeS that NV sister and T