The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1896-03-26
THIS MAKES A STIR.
Special Agent Beane Had a Pull
With Logan Car Isle.
BUT he HAS BEEN SUSPENDED.
And Special Agent Johnston Has Bs en-
Reduced to the Ranks in the
Customs service.

For a special agent of the treasury de-
partment 10 accuse member OF the Puget
sound customs service of cattle stealing.
and aver that the accusation was based
upon an Indictment returned by & grand
jury, is "a serious matter, although .it is
said that the special agent happened 10 be
the foreman of the grand jury. That
charge was made to the treasury depart
ment against Deputy Collector of Gus
toms S. B. House, Of Port Townsend.
about year ago by Special Agent r. W.
Beane. Of the Idaho customs district. Mr..
House proved his innocence TO the salts
faction OF Secretary Carlisle, ana he was
not arrested nor threatened with arrest
for cattle stealing, nor any other alleged
crime
House is Republican and Beane is q
Democrat. House continues to draw his
salary of $500 a year and Beane has
been dropped, TO put il mildly, from the
service.
Beane is a bosom friend of Logan Car
Isle, the secretary's son. through whom
he secured his appointment, and besides
ne is the national Democratic committee
man from Idaho. Under Cleveland's for
mer administration he was register of the
land office at Pocatello. Southern Idaho.
and stood high in the councils of the DEM
ocratic party of his state
Southern Idaho used to be a hotbed for
Mormonism. Ostensibly a Gentle. Beane
was a prime favorite with the elders Of
the church. House lived in the neighbor-
hood and was Instrumental in assisting in
suppressing polygamy. Both men were
engaged in raising cattle. Houses broth
ers-in-law were deputy marshal and Unit
ed States commissioner, respectively.
They made is very warm for Mormons
suffering with the afflietion of having
tt-itr hay IN.
of desperate Mormons, House frequently
assisted the officers. and the bitterness be-
came intense. Beane showed his SYM
pathy with the favored children of Zion,"
and hostility TO the House family was in
tensified. Realizing that the contest was
unequal. the House boys sold out their
cattle interests, resigned their positions
and went to Port Townsend.
In 1889 House. by Collector Bradshaw.
was appointed to the position of inspector.
Since then he has advanced to the third
position from the collector himself
Last year Became went to Port Townsend
TO overhaul the customs records and was
surprised to see his old-time enemy en-
joying the full confidence of Collector
Saunders. He reported to the department
that House had been indicted for cattle
stealing. House teiegraphed the authori-
ties that IL wanted he would go to Idaho
cepted.
About this time some of Houses friends.
without the knowledge of House. it is
said, started after Beane's scalp, and
got it, few months ago Special Agent
c. w. Johnston, of Spokane. and formerly
of Portland, together with Beane. applied
10 the department for permission to take
charge of the Eastern Washington GUS
toms district. The contest became some
what bitter and both men continued the
campaign by filing charges against one
another. As result. Beane was dis
missed Johnston. from the position of
special treasury agent was reduced to the
rank of special employee" and sent to
Plattsburg n. Y. and ordered to report TO
Special Agent Z. T. Stokes for duty
Special Agent Cullom, of Tacoma, was in
structed to look after the Eastern Wash
ington district.
The suspension of Beane, taken in CON
nection with his pull with Logan car
Isle. and the reducing of Johnston to the
rank of mental. has created %, sensa-
ton in official circles of the Northwest