Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1904-10-22

emanating from ana signed oy H. ~
Dart of Tonopah. :
You also made reports of the same
nature, and forwarded reports from
e. C. Dart on the New England An
mex property.
These reports you authorized me
as secretary and treasurer OF the :
company to use in prospectuses. e
Said authorization ! hold in black and l..
white; said reports both on the New
England Tonopah and New England
Annex, | am in possession OF.
Said reports | exhibited to Samuel
C. Durham, proprietor of the Ton
opah Miner; Mr.. Routledge, the min
ing engineer, F. A. Farnum, the
superintendent of the New England
Tonopah, and Chas. ]. Bandmann,
engineer of mines, and general super
intendent of the New England Ton
opah Mining company, on the occa-
sion of my last visit to Tonopah, Ne
vada.
These reports | have in my posses
sion In your own handwriting, and in
the handwriting purporting to be the
handwriting of Messrs. Menardi and
Z. G. Dart.
Therefore, the statements you have
made so positively denying in toto
having written said letters and III
thorizing their publication, | stigma
tie as positive, deliberate %falsehoods
made out of whole cloth, and for what
purpose you alone know.
The board of directors OF the New
England Tonopah Mining company
at the time of your publications n
! sisted of the following gentlemen:
: f. E. Atteaux, Boston, Mass; Hon.
Jno. p. Jones, Washington, d. c.;
! Hon. Geo. ]. Obermann, Baltimore,
= Md; Col. Albert A. Pope, Boston,
: Mass, and New York City; Fred
erick H. Gottlieb, Baltimore, Md;
Hon. Jacob Rupert, Jr., New York
: City and Washington; Capt. Wm. H.
!" Seaich, New York City; c. A. Cole
man, Boston, Mass; Louis Lazard,
Brussels, Belgium.
These gentlemen will verify every
statement | have made regarding
their individual and collective denials
"a of ever having been approached by
De you on the subject of said letter, OF
ever having heard anything from yor
1u except the most fulsome and unqual
t. flied praise of the New England Ton
opah, based on the lines of your orig
40 NAL report.
C. These gentlemen can be appealed
to at any time, and in the event o
any of them admitting that you eve
ne approached him on the subject, eitheI
m personally or through the medium o
ne any method of communication, | vii
~ personally forfeit to any charity il
M Tonopah the sum of 81 900.
to further declare that your lette
er, in question, and Messrs. Menardi ant
&c Darts supposititious reports were
an as | above stated, submitted to tn
We inspection of Samuel G. Durham
ct Chas. ]. Bandmann, MIR. Routledg
OF and Mr.. Farnum, in Tonopah, VIII
no will corroborate the statements
De have made above.
In the event Of their failing t
Vn, verify my statements in toto, | wi
to agree to forfeit still another $40
to any charity in Tonopah that ma
TO be named.
ms | stand ready at any moment
oil produce the letters and report
above enumerated, together wit
nus additional letters, kilograms, etc
osi- further endorsing the New Englar
tie. Tonopah, emanating from you and ]
les C. Dart and SEN and delivered /
ers you to me-.
pan | will give you Just n week fro
date, in other words, until Frida
the August the 26th, to make a full al
ng complete apology for the misstat
IN ments you have made, and recall yol
letter, through the medium of d
5les papers in Tonopah, or else | will pu
'ors fish a copy of this letter in eve
'alo paper throughout Nevada, and "
issue same as a circular from IL
y OF office to prove to the public your a
'ald solute unworthiness Of belief as col
the pletely as you have dared asper
pom my integrity.
| have s%triven in every way
lcer meet you personally since my retu
TOT, east. at the various addresses viii
'uch you have from time to time given II
both in Washington, Philadelpt
you, and New York, but without succel
e OF The people in Washington, New 70
, on and Philadelphia at the address
given by you, stating that you we
rom away from the city.
| want farther to add a statemel
ttel and tina. is, that you told the trl
the in one particular, that you were
ana no wise connected with the New Ell
onai land Tonopah, and that you did