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or«at«rNow, Peter, I Mid last week that I would «»y something about escaping taxes. I find In 1897 In Cub Creek precinct, Jansen Jc Co. were assessed' byJ. J. Fast the present candidate foi* assessor, $720 on IHOU aheep. Now If jjou want to be fair, you will have to adnilMhat that year vou fed all your yards would hold and th® capacity is 10,000. To prove that you had all your sheep here on the first of April when property Is assessed, 1 will ask those who lived near you If they do not remember that you sheared your aheep that year and kept the ^ wool for the rise In price under the Dlngtof hill, and you could not have sheared them In February apd shipped them In March, could you? Any sheep mftn knows better. Also we tind you nre assessed In Jefferson at your l lt;»me ranch on no sheep whatever, and at both these places you signed the statement and swore to it.If you can show by the assessor’s books and prove by your helghbors that what I have shown Is not.so 1 will vote for vou myself, fori can sho.w by the books and your neighbors that, it 4sso and tbat you dodgedyottr taxes.Now about tue estate of my undo Jacob J. Fast. You and Henry Rat* lafT were administrators and myselfand A. IV Frlesen were appraisers and after we had don® our work yousaid,’‘Lot's do our work free for the sake of the widows and orphans as undo Fast had always been a warm friend of all.” And we agreed. There was $900 l.i money which you handled and you gave ItatzlalT $100 and you took §800 and used it without, paying Interest until the estate was settled. There were no claims against the estate and therefore nothing to de, hut. at the settlement you asked Judge Moulton how much you were entitled to. The Judge said §90 would be your half fees for being administrator.. You said, “I will take all the . law allows me”, which you did. I was present, and remember how you looked. ItatdatT took nothing as per our agreement. The county Judge’s*books will prove w bat 1 have said. My uncle's widow a ftcrwards paid Ratslaff §10 which he says was good pay for everything you ana he aid. Now you charged §00. For what? For using heirs’ money w ithout interest. Hoes that bear up t,hrs statement ot the Steele City S taudjHtC copied iu the (Janette two weeks ago: ’*Notuancan (mint to a dishonest act or unfair business transaction of Peter Jansen”?Now, In 1802, when you bulldozed the Russians out of their land for the right of way of the Omaha line of the Jloek Island road, you did many dishonorable things but I shall only mention the case of Frank Ems. the only man whose land required appraisement,. When you took the petition to Judge Moulton, if you are such a friend of the people, what prompted you to produce a list of names from which you wanted Judge Moulton to select appraisers and asked him fo do so? bo you remember that the Judge Would uot look at your paper, and do yon remember his remarks? I do, and you may ask Judge Moulton or S, M. Hailey or Dave Kestersoh If you have forgotten?When the Rock Island Horton Ifne was built, you bonded your own precinct of Jefferson for—I think -§tt,-000.(X) and you and your brother John tried your best to bond our own pre-einet of Cub Creek but you failed to get the petition to call an election signed, the only pries besides .yourself who signed being'your brother John and three of his hired men. If you are such a friend of the Russians, why did they not sign it when you asked them to, and if you are not a friend of the railroads, why did you work so hard tor $ic bonds for them with your pockets full of passes?I was told you were going to deny tftaat I said In,the Journal last week.1 hope you will. 1 wantjou to If you cafi, for I have the proof. I was ask ed by a republican why I wrote this so late in t he campaign. 1 did not intend to say anything about these things at all but when Peter gets himself written up so nice by Rev. Cullougb in the Enterprise in wtiieh he tried to make it appear we Russians owed him for our existence and the other nice talk in *the Ga/.ette, I thought it was time to say something.I would have kept, still if Peter hadn't hired bo many people to tell what a tine man he is. Rut there is time yet to answer, plenty of it, ami I would be glad to have him answer. If he does this week 1 will answer what he says next Week and also tell some more of his history.Jansen, 'Nebr. Jaoob Bahtei,.P. S. 1 forgot to tell that Peter is TW‘ ! trying to get votes by telling the Germans if he is elected that he w»ll have inK ! a law passed giving public money for f1^ i the support of German’ schools. u ’1 How’s that for a promise? Any man f who knows can lelt-thcsc Germany J a that he will only tie one man out of 133 to make such h law and that it d I,,• vtr will or can be done. It'sjust a . dodge to catch riuckdr*.# j. B.atice
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Jefferson County Journal
Fairbury, Nebraska, US
Sat, Oct 29, 1898
Page 5
Full Page
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