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Show BUSKIRK DENIES. D. VAN BUSKIRK DENIES THAT HE LOST WIDOW DANIEL'S MONEY While He Concedes that Tie Acted as the Confidential A"t of Lilyan Mailixii He Hays He Was the One Who Lost by It. 7 The Times today v publishes on the first page the remarkable story of the notorious Lilyan Madixxa aud the sensation sen-sation suit which she has brought in the Denver courts to establish herselt as the legitimate wife of the late Mr. Daniels, Dan-iels, with a view of establishing her right to an estate of $3,000,000, left by his death. The story implicates a man by the name of Huskirk with having acted as her ageut at Denver and with having lost all her property by speculation during her absence abroad, reducing her to penury. A Times reporter meeting D. Van Ruskirk on the street asked him if it was true that he had squandered the Spanish beauty's property In reckless speculation. Mr. D. Van Buskirk looked sharplv through his glasses and sharply replied: "Not a dollar of it." "But yeu were on good terms with the widow of castilian charms were you not?" persisted the reporter. Yes; I acted as her confidential agent, but all my relations were houorable," and here little Van intimated that things might have been different had he been a man with susceptible inclinations. inclina-tions. "Then you deny that you lost her money?" "1 "do, and if any one was loser by the acquainiance it was I. as she cuch-ered cuch-ered me out of about $7000. |