The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1889-09-18
DOGGED BY DETECTIVES
TWO Mysterious Men Who Followed the
President to Deer Park.
Threatening Letters sent by Friends of
Corporal Tanner Cause Some Tn
ea~ine,s at the White House
Tryiag to Keep 1t Quiet.

special tn the standard.
wAsHiNoToN. Sept. E.-wheu Prcsi- |
dent Harrison left the city on Saturday
for Deer Park his immediate companions
wcrs. his son Russell and Congressman NJ.
Rosvcnore, of Ohio. They were driven
hurricdly to the Baltimore * Ohio station.
and were noticed by only u few of the
waiting passengers. They hurried out a
side gate to IL special ear which was i'm
waiting. All the way from the white house
To the depot the presidents carriage was
followed by coupe, the driver of which
kept his horses nose almost touching the
first mentioned vehicle. The presidents
party had not time to alight when two
men jumped quickly from the coupe and
lurris.slly glanced up and down tho street.
and then in the direction of the station.
One of the passengers nodded tn the occt-
pants of the carriage, and President Har-
rison and his companions got out and fol-
lowed him through the station. The other
stranger followed closely i'm the rear and
initiated the example Of his conrai,ie 10y
scanning closely the face OF every person
two mysterious men boarded the prcsi-
dents car, and that was the last seen a
them.
Ii was learned to-day from trustworthy
authority that the two mysterious mch,-'
beers of the presidents party were detes-
tivcs who had been detailed from N pri-
| vate agency tn the president safely to
| Deer Park, and that their espionage did
| not cease until MIR. Harrison had crossed
| the Threshold of his cottage. For several
| days intimate friends of MIR. Harrison!
have been much agitatcd on account OF
| bad feeling manifested in certain riIiiIor~
| over the Tanner ease. Several very ugly
| anonymous letters were found in the
| presidents mail. and thr.atening remarks
| by desperate and injtisiicious friend of cx-
| commissioners Tanner have reached their
| ears. This matter assumed so serious an
aspect that il was thought best to take
| some action to- prevent such a calamity as
had been limited AIT. Accoriingly, after "A
| conference among close friends OF the
| IL WAS decided q summon Rus
| sell Harrison and make him acsiua intcd
| with the grave apprelensions. On the. ar
rival of the prssdents son !, ro,si,,in,l .,;'
| c,isseSl, and young Harrison made known
to his father the approximations of his
| friends.
At first the president refused tn enter
tain a proposition To engage the services
of "a detective, holding THAT y would i,s
doing the soldier element OF the country
an imparsble injustice to put such {.
reproach ON them. but after the gravity Of
the -isaiiSn ss;S,x was snn G. Sf :" enn, d n
insiivi itlual excited over the Tanner ease
creating "a scene, ne agreed that his friends
hest, but cautioned them to avoid all pub
| licity i'm their movements. The decision
was reached Friday morning and those in
| ment by an accident which happened nj
the white house at noon. A half drunken
| man who wore faded blue blouse with
brass buttons made his way to- th,
entrance of the executive mansion ant
began To Address the president i'm a. lond
tone saying among other things that IN.
Grand Army would get even with Harri
son for his treatment of Tanner. The
visitors about the building Who were OF
an inquisitive turn OF mind We're given ts
understand that il was only "A drunken
saturday morning and while they wer,
not engaged directly by the president o
any member of his official family hc wa'
aware of the steps that had been takcI
| to protect him.