Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-07
HUNTINCTONS DENY REPORT
Gordon Banker and Wesleyan President
Protest Connection with Land Case.
NOT CONNECTED WITH IT IN ANY WAY
Declare False and Unjust Statement
that They Were Interested In
Case of Hull Securing
Land Filings.

d. W. c. Huntington of University Place,
president Of the Nebraska Wesleyan uni
versity, the Methodist college of the state,
and his son. Thomas NJ. Huntington of
Gordon, most emphaticslly deny the report
published in Omaha and Lincoln papers
that they are connected with land frauds
with which Irving d. Hull of Mirage,
Cherry county, has been charged by federal
authorities.
The report which the papers published
was given out by United States official
1t said Hull, who was bound over to the
federal grand jury on 5000 bonds by Com
missioner +. NJ. Slattery at Chadron, was
charged with "subornaton of perjury in
securing fraudulent land filings for D. w.
c. and Thomas NJ. Huntington, bankers
at Gordon" The papers also were supplied
with the information that both the Hunt
ingtons were Interested in the Bank of
Mullen. which cut an important figure in
the trial of Rev. George G. Ware"
The authorities also gave out that the
charge implicated J. W. Ostrander and the
Modisett brothers OF Rushville as persons
for whom Hull procured filings contrary
to law.
Denial of Huntington.
Thomas NJ. Huntington, son of d. w.
C. Huntington, came to The Bee office
last night and made this statement:
THE report is positively false insofar
as 1t includes my father and me in that
charge. Neither of us Is connected with
the case in the remotest degree, and the
information on which Hull was arrested
does not so state. Somebody, in working
up this case, has gone little too far and
we think we know where the responsibility
rests l was talking with Hull the other
day, since his arrest and he told me the
charge against him was for subornation
of perjury in procuring fraudulant land
filings for Ostrander. He said he saw the
information and that II did not contain the
names of my father or me or the Modisett
brothers either, for that matter.
MY father is president of the Wesleyan
university; a man past 20 years of age.
He does not own a foot of land anywhere
and is not in the slightest degree, directly
| Or indirectly, interested in land and could
not possibly have any connection or re-
lation to this or any other land case. 1t
| is a gross injustice to him for the authori-
ties to drag him into this affair. and 1t is
/ just as unjust to me- for that matter but
| / don't care so much for myself as l dc
for my father. His position makes II
worse for him than me, though | am no
more connected with the affair than he.
Neither In Mullen Bank.
Your informant said my father and ]
were interested in the Bank OF Mullen
There isn't one syllable of truth in that
statement. Neither of us has a penny 6
worth of stock or interest in the Bank OF
Mullen. How in the world they could
have concocted that l cannot. for the life
of me, guess.
your informant said my father and ]
were bankers at Gordon. | am a banker
at Gordon; my father is not. He has not
pennys worth of stock in the bank al
Gordon. nor is he, in any way, connected
with it. The only bank in which my
father is interested is the one at University
Place. OF this he is vice president. / am
president of the Maverick Loan and Trust
company at Gordon. My father owns
81. 900 of stock in that concern"