The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1906-01-19
Mr.. Ware NOW ON Trial
GOVERNMENT THINKS 1T HAS A
STRONG CASE AGAINST HIM
UNCLE SANS MEN HELP Ros him
The Testimony ia the Ware Case Is
Now Being Taken at Omaha.
Startling Revelations


Startling Revelations
After brief cross examination of
Blue, the most important witness
for the government was called. That
was Frank w. Lambert, restuar-
ant man Of Portland, Oregon, who
was arrested there last summer on
charge OF subornation of perjury
and brought back to Nebraska. He
had been hired, he said on the wit
ness stand, to secure fraudulent
homestead entries for Ware.
When he took the stand Lambert
was extremely nervous. The fingers
OF his right hand kept running along
the edge of the judges desk, and he
biz his finger nails or twisted his
dark mustacbe continually. Like
Blue, the first witness. Lambe, {
was apparently reluctant witness.
AT the outset he made some asser.
tons which left doubts as to his
veracity.
Lambert Unidentified some letters
as having been written by Ware to
Blue, who was an old soldier at the
Grand Island home. Lambert in
Identified the signature, as we'll as
the letter itself as having been
written by Ware. Some pointed
questions were thea put to him by
the defense. Lambert was asked il
ne was sure that the body of the
letter had not been writing by Miss
Grace Ware. Lambert thcn changed
his opinion in regard to the writing.
lie was not sure about the person
who had written the text of the
communication, but he still main
tanned that the signature was that
of Ware, although the initials M. G..
W. were subscribed beneath the sig.
natures.
4 EASE CONsCIENCEs.
| The most important letter was
dated at Deadwood, S. D., March l8,
1905, and was addressed to Blue. It
was to this effect: That the ninety
nine year leases should be returned
to the old soldiers, and should be
destroyed in order that the entry
men might conscientiously say"
that they had not leased their home.
steads.
| Lambert said he had known Ware
since 1902, and had entered into an
agreement with Ware to secure old
soldiers to make homestead filings
for the U. B. I. Cattle company, Of
which Ware is president. Lambert
swore that he received $50 fer each
man whom he secured for Ware:
that Ware paid the transportation,
hotel bills, filing fees and expenses
of building a shack for the old sol
diers who filed on homestead with
in the U. B. I. lnclosure.
/. The understanding, Lambert said,
was that when final proof had been
made upon the homesteads Ware
was to pay $1.5O to the old soldiers
for every quarter section that was
reasonably smooth. The descrip-
tion of the land that the. veterans
filed upon were furnished by Boyer,
a surveyor employed by Ware.
After the passage OF the Kinkaid
bill in 1904 Lambert said Ware
wanted old soldiers to file on $40
acres in addition to the homesteads
/ which they have already filed upon.
This they did, and they executed
leases to Ware for ninety-nine years.
Lambert swore that the old settlers.
who made these fling were Rhodes.
Bum, Lentx Laver, Brown and
Rl1e.
| SOME REFUSED TO LEASE.
Lambert testified that the UNDER
standing with the entrymen was
that when they had made final proof
upon their homesteads they we're to
deed the !and to Ware, and that as
soon as they entered their filings
they were TO execute q lease TO-