Durango semi-weekly herald., 1904-11-03

There are some other things that
Major Ellison is made to relate
concerning the deportations Of unde-
sirable citizens after the militia had
been recalled and Cripple Creek left
officers
But for the prominence the News
gives the affidavits of this man and
the way in which 1t heralds 1t as i'm
portant the whole matter compliance
of would be dismissed as campaign
qjoke. But for the title given him and
the way in which he in his foolish and
knavish affidavit tries to make it ap-
pear that he was a man in some au
thority in the national guard the
statements he makes would not be
worthy of notice. Even il true. they
would not be important. as they are on
their face silly and inane.
One needs but to consider that the
affidavits were first peddied here and
there for sale to whom might buy,
then to come to know who Is this man
that Is heralded as a major Of the
state guards, to see through the whole
nefarious plot Of the News, the Demo
cratic Committee and their allies, the
Western Federation Of Miners.
Who is Ellison?
Only he knows what his name really
He is an adventurer, soldier OF
fortune with a record so odoriferous.
a list of aliases so long. career so
checkered, the name under which he
has been uongest known In Colorado
is so blackened with petty deceits and
false pretenses that only an organiza-
ton driven to the last verge would
think of having recourse to him to boil
ster up lost cause.
- To learn all this and what he has
been you must have patience, for the
story is a long one.
In the first place. he is not Major"
Ellison at all. but his rank in the Colo
RADIO national guards is that of pri-
vate in troop C. He was allowed TO
enlist at Goldfeld out of charity and
even after his character was well
known, because he was out of means
of livelihood, hungry and in need OF
the food his enlistment brought.
He was in 1884 enlisted in the Uni
ted States signal corps under the
name of Timothy w. Sherwood.
Later, George e. Hannah, the bicy-
Gle man. knew him in Chicago under
the name of Merrill.
Punished for Helping to
Loot in the Philippines
yxrh,, ha lnft tho ,ay,,iar army ha
not been ascertained exactly, but dur
ing the Spanish war this soldier OF
fortune joined the Thirtieth volunteer
infantry as a lieutenant The New
York Herald OF March 8. published a
story taken from the records OF the
war department in Washington to
follow up the evidences of barbarities
practiced on Filipinos by American
soldiers In that appears these words
Lieut.. F. j. Ellison, Thirtieth volup
teer infantry. was sentenced to be re
primanded for 'looting' and encourag
ing same"
In 1902 Ellison was captain of com
pany T., C. N. G. Plausible and of goot
address he had enlisted the friendship
of Gen. ]. C. Chase and appealed tc
Chase as military man who woult
add to the state service. IN July o
that year Col. Edward Verdeckberl
preferred eight charges OF conducl
unbecoming an officer and gentle
man against Ellison and asked for his
courtmartial Gen George Gardner ano
Gen ]. C. Chase found the charges
true after personal investigation
and recommended that the courtmar
tlal be held.
Gov. Orman. for political reasons, re
fused to grant the courtmartial, bu
when there was no other way to rio
the service of Ellison. on Sept. l9
1902, the company of which he wa
captain was disbanded. because. a
the order of disbandment reads; "Th,
company has become demoralized an,
inefficient through insubordination
contention and other causes" The mel
were in revolt against such an ONCE
as Ellison and there was no other wa
to get him out Of the guard. since o.
man would not permit courtmArtial.