Year: 1878

BILE obligations, which gratitude i'm.
poses. has been mainly instrumen.
tai by the use Of the most disreputa-


BILE means in setting in motion the
machinery Of the Press to promul.
gate these charges. Under an edi-
torial alias he has been permitted by
the Vancouver publisher to print in
the lndependesas his indictment,
which is as unfsir as it is untrue in
all of its salient particulars. I have
very good authority for stating, that
the article in question was written
by Bloomfield himself, and the man
uscript was until recently in exis-
tence to prove it. The editor him.
self is comparative stranger to the
Territory and myself and has no
personal knowledge of the matter
therein stated and could have no
justifiable motive to assail me in a
community whele I lived so long
and was SO we'll known and had been
the recipient of so many generous
favors and so much kindly recogni-
ton. I am informed also, that the
same article in substance was repro>
duced in the -Astoraan during the
absence of the editor at the instance
of Bloomfield, who with the conni-
vance of one of the employees pro-
cured its publication in only such q
portion of its regular edition. as cir
culated exclusively in Pacific and
Wahklakum counties. In every
nook and corner of every county in
this judicial district his pathway is
plainly seen, strown with the shafts
of his malice, his venom and his
falsehoods. He. through few we'll
chosen ana we'll known confederates
of equal turpitude, but Of superior
mental cal1bre. has invoked the aid
of the Democratic papers in remote
and opposite portions OF the Terrific
ry in this nefarious business, thus,
creating strife and discord in the
ranks Of the Republican party. OF
all others, N. Fl. Bloomfield should
be one OF the last to attempt an in
jury to my character. When was
appealed to by him in 1872 to help
his father, who was being pursued
by the authorities of Missouri as an
alleged fugitive from justice and
when at subsequent period he re-
quested me to assist professionally
in securing the remnant of his faith
er's fortune about to be unlawfully
converted by others, whereby l in
curried the maledictions and hatred
of INSCRIPTIONS enemies; when I to
great extent guided his studies in
the law and encouraged him when
Respondent; when on all occasions I
had none but kindly words for him
so he might secure foothold in the
profession and when Of all times he
was received as welcome guest
under my roof. and when for my
services, professional or otherwise,
no fee or reward was ever paid,
offered OF demanded, would seem
that the most ordinary impulses of
gratitude would at least have dlcta
ted q generous silence concerning
the supposed faults of a friend l
have done nothing to provoke this
attack except consenting to the use
of my name at the earnest request
of many friends for the Office Of
Prosecuting Attorney, which office
through the laborious efforts of Mr..
Bloomfield in the lobby Of the last
Legislature. had its emoluments in
creased from 81 GOO per annum to
50, 500 or thereabonts, thus making
it an object OF laudable ambition to
an attorney of any degree of ability
or standing at the bar.


Iassure y0u, sir. that the reopen
ing Of these wounds and the indul
gence of reflections ON the conduct
Of others. are an unpleasant task,
that I would gladly shrink from,
but duty to my good name and those
who are dependent on me, demands
its execution.


Thanking you again foryour kind
ness, I subscribe myself. your obe-
dent servant. Fl. G.. STRUVE.





Rev. w. L. Ellis is pastor Of
the Congregational Church in