Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-06-14
2. r. cRUMPTON OF SUPERIOR,
WIS.,, coRREcTs STATEMENT
ON GRAIN STATISTICS.
FoRMEa FIGURES BASIS OF SEN.
sATIoNAL SPEECH sY SEN
AToR p. J. M'cuMsER.
(By Chas. II. Thornton.)

hOta, IN the course or Il speech made
In the United States senate on March
30, 1904, sad iA:.t . 900 bushels,
In round numbers = e grain was
shipped from ! 5 lperior than
was received dIr,... = Period Of ten
years ending Sept. i. 1902, he quail
ftA the statement by saving that he
was not speaking with personal
knowledge, but was quoting from an
article in the Superior Evening Tele.
gram of May 2, 1903. written by Fl. C.
Stivers, and had never verified the
figures by an examination of the rec
ords, although such records are open
TO inspection at all times.
In personal letter to the writer
Sttvers stated that the basis of his
article In the Superior Evening Tele.
gram was some figures compiled by
+, r. Crumpton of Superior, and which
were used by him (Stivers) without
verifying them in detail 1t appears,
figures is the compilation made by
Frank r. Crumpton of Superior, who
has lately again gone into the matter,
and Is now satisfied that his original
figures were incorrect. and has made
an AFFIDAVIT, retracting all of his for
mer figures, said affidavit In sub
stance being as follows:
That he ia the same Frank R
Crumpton who. at the sessions OF the
Wisconsin legislature in the winter
Of 1929. used In arguments and con-
VIBRATIONS with members of the Wis.
eonsin legislature and In private cor
respondence the statement that dur
Ing the ten years from Sept. /, 1892.
- Sept. /. 1904. 26.0I4.000 bushels
more of wheat had been reported as
shipped or manufactured into -four,
from Duluth and Superior. than had
bsen received, and that this state
mont was made In support of bill
thcu pending before the Wisconsin,
legislature providing for the establish
msnt Of Wisconsin inspection, and
that 50 far as he knows he is the only
person who ever made or used, or
testified TO such a shortage of grain.
That since that time said Crumpton
has examined into the matter more
carefully and has made use of all
available statistics of the grain move
ment through the port Of Duluth-Su-
perior and now knows that the orig
inal computation made by him was
not true or correct statement. That
the error In his original computation
was due partly to a clerical error by
himself, partly TO not having taken
note to the grain In store at the be-
toned, and largely to the fact that
during the first three years OF the
period mentioned he failed to account
for 30.6S6000 bushels of wheat re-
ceived directly by the mills and not
included in the official figures of re-
ceipts, but he did figure the -four
made from this wheat into his total
shipments. He made further error,
against his own theory of an excess of
shipments over receipts, by falling to
take into account the dockage on ga.
100000 bushels OF wheat, amounting
to 4,671 900 bushels, which almost ex-
actly accounts for the difference be-
tween his two principal errors, above
noted. The afiiant Crumpton con-
cludes his afYidavit by saying that after
. careful and painstaking examina-
tion, In the light of this later and
complete information, he is now con.
WINGED that. during the said period OF
ten years ending Sept /. 1902. there
was no excess of shipments of grain
from the elevators at the Head of the
Lakes over receipts of grain by the
said elevators, and that in all state
ments to that effect he was acting
upon transformation, and that he
makes this affidavit for the purpose
Of correcting the miscellaneous and
Of showing the true facts. The af-
hdavit In full is as follows:
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
County Of St. Louis-ss.
Frank X. Crumpton. being rrst duly
sworn. deposes and saws as follows:
That he IL now and has been for sixteen
years last past continuously resident OF
the city Of Superior. In the state OF Wis
cousin. and has been during all Of said
period engaged In the business Of buying
auI selling grain
That sfiiant h the same Frank r.
crumpton who was q witness In the case
% Gregory, Cook < Co. VS.. Wisconsin
Grain Commission, which was tried before
Judge Parish In Superior, Wis. on or
shout March ~, 1905, In which case afhauf
rave testimony, under oath. as to a com
putstion made BY a6lsnt a. 10 the amount
q wheat received and shipped By the ele-
vators located upon Duluth-Superior harbor
during the ten years from Sept. 1. 18o2, 70
oeot. 1. 1902. and from which compute tien
n opneared that 240Ik 600 buehels 81 wheat