The Fargo forum and daily republican., 1906-03-05
Sensational Lie in the Limelight

true, and / said to him: Mr. Knight
II cannot sign this; there are several
things in it that are not true, and i
cannot sign it, or words to that ef-
feet; without signing it i put the paper
In my pocket and afterward tore up.
and destroyed lit j; al couple Of days aft
9erWard Mr. knight gave me five hum
dred dollars $500 TO pay for my SER
vices and expenses in coming to San.
Francisco and testifyiiig in the interest.
Of the Pioneer Mining Co and the.
Wild Goose Mining Co. in the pro-
.ceedings arising ont OF the receiver
ship; he also told me that if Mr.. Chipp
sold his interest and claim in those
properties for FIVE thousand dollars
($5 ooo) to the Pioneer Mining Co and
the Wild Goose Mining CO., or either
|of them, and would side with them in
the controversy pending, there would
be one thousand dollars {$$I ,ooo) in it
for lile. / told him that was going
to start in a few days for Seattle, and
that if the deal with Chips was closed
at Nome or on the voyage from Nome
TO Seattle he (dr. Knight could pay
me the one thousand dollars ($I ,ooo)
at Seattle; the deal was closed and
Mr.. Chipps sold and conveyed his
claim and interest in those properties
for Ave Thousand dollars l$5 ,ooo) 4 met
Mr.. Cllipps in Seattle loon after our.
Ieafrival from Nome, and he told me
that the deal had been closed and that
he had gotten FIVE thousand dollars
at the Hotel Northern, Seattle, in
counting the 6ye thousand dollars
| ($s,ooo); the same day that Mr. Chipps
and / counted the morley and an hour
orttWo afterward, ! met Mr. Knight in
Seattle and asked him for my one
thousand dollars t$I,ooo)3 he told me
| that he had not YET talked with Mr..
| IMetsen, the principal attorney of these
mining companies, about it, but that
he would try to talk tt over with him
i in Seattle, before he and Mr.. Metson
started for San Francisco and that If lie
had not the time or opportunity to do
$50, he would talk it over with Mr. Met
son at San francisco; ON or about
Nov. IL, 1000, i went TO San Francis
co and between that time and Nov. ~,
| I9co, / was given altogether one hum
dred dollars ($Ioo) of said thousand
| dollars ($i ,ooo) promised me-
Enos M. Walkers.
Subscribed and sworn TO before me
lffiis 27tfl day of December, 1000. w
(Seal. 3s m. s.. Peterson.
Notary public in and for the state
lof Washington, residing at Seattle, il
ISsaid state. IN
Had the syndicate kept It's agree
r1ent with Walters the foregoing affi-
lldayit would never in all possibility,
lhave been made. The draft upon the
syndicate $ "slush fund must have
lbeen pretty heavy, else they would
have paid Walters Athe balance Of the
/ $i 600 promised him.
Here IS another affidavit which
throws limeiight upon the character
Iof the Testimony he wa expected to
give and which lle did give 1T will be
lrecalled that it. was upon Walters
Testimony that d charge Of 'con-
4 spiracy to rob the poor miners oil
Z Alaska was based and it IS this charge
that is now being exploited la the mag
azine referred to and iii certain North
Dakota papers in the interest of the
Iso-called reform movement. From
1.-THE very nature Of things Walters
must have been hard up Whenife was
| first tempted with twenty dollars and
Elater baited by being given $500
Senator Hansbrough connection with
this matter IS here set forth BY man
| who evidently wanted to right wrong
done the senior senator in his former
jtestitnony connecting him with Alaska
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