The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1898-03-01

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LIEUT.. DEvoRE's EXPERIENCE
With q Sharp Norwegian. Who Tf!cd
to Get Up a Corner In Reindeer
He Came 10 Grief.
New York Sun: Lieutenant Daniel H.
Deyore, United States Army. aide to
the secretary o, war, Is at the Fifth
Avenue Hotel.
The lleutneant left New York with
the Rev. DR.. Sheldon Jackson on Christ,
mas Day. They went to Lopdon. Lieu
tenant Devore stayed there 10 hire q
steamship. and DR.. Jackson, who has
had much experience with Laplanders
and reindeer, went on to Norway to
look out for the collection OF the herd.
One Skjellmnnn, Norwegian, had left
Warrington In advance of Lieutenant
Devore and DR.. Jackson as prellml-
nary sklrmisher. n
a man named Max Hansen was also,
ahead OF them, though without equal
authority from the war department.
Hansen had cabled the war department
that he could furnish all the reindeer
needed. The department referred him.
to Lieutenant Deyore. who met him In
London. He found, SO he says, that
Hansen had considered the. answer to
his offer as something like an appoint
ment to act as advance agent II was
impossible to charter steamship ex-
cept through Hansen. who had an OPP
ton on every boat that was immedi-
atelyT available. On the representation
OF the president OF the Allan line that
the Manitoban could make New York
from Alien in fourteen days, she was
hired. "a.
Hansen then assured Lieutenant De-
wore that Skjellmann and DR.. Jackson
could not possibly get any reindeer In
Norway, for there was none to be had
except those that Hansen himself con-
trolled. Sktellmann reported that he was
having great difficulty in getting a quo
to of animals. Lieutenant Devore then
made a contract with Hansen, agreeing
to take from Hansen at $50 a head as
many reindeer as were needed to in
crease to 1--WE hundred the herd collect
ed by Skjellmann and Jackson. Ham
sen hurried on to Trondhjcm
When the lieutenant reached Trondh-
jem with the Manitohan he found that
Hansen had collected six hundred rein
deer. The lieutenant refused to accept
a single one OF them until he heard
from Skjellmann and Jackson. SIN the
first place" said Hansen, according to
Lieutenant Devore, they could have
bought no reindeer: in the second place,
II they had bought any they could
bring them down to Trondhjem and
slaughter them for meat without any
loss of the money invested. The lieu
tenant replied that II reindeer meat was
SO easily and probably disposed OF. It
would doubtless be an easy matter for
Hansen to get rid of as many as were
left on his hands after those needed for.
the expedition had been bought for him.
Hansen expressed great dlssatisfac-'
ton with this arrangement. He asked
Lieutenant Devore to reimburse him
for money he had advanced for moss
to feed the animals. The lieutenant de-
clined. He would have sent Hansen
packing, he says now, were It not
that he was afraid that the Norwegian
| was correct in saying that no reindeer.
could be obtained except through him
self. 1t seemed possible that he could
influence the Laplanders to refuse to
sell reindeer. Just when their rela-
tons were strained to the point Of
break DR.. Jackson sent word from Al
ten that he and Skjellmann had over
five hundred picked and trained REIN
deer. When 1t became plain that Lieu
tenant Devore was not going to buy
Hansen's animals the Laplander who
had sold them TO the m!ddleman, who
in turn had sold them TO Hansen, came
down, Lieutenant Devore says, on&the
middleman for his money. The middle
man said he could not pay until Han
sen paid. The Laplander caused the
middleman's arrest and the middleman
took the same step regarding Hansen,
who was locked up. He Is now in jail In
Christiania. The charge against him.
Lieutenant Devore says, Is that of OBJ
tanning property under the pretense
that he was an agent OF the United
States. duly authorized by Lieutenant
Devore. The lieutenant was detained as
| q witness, ~
The KlondIke relief expedition requir-
ed that he should not delay X he could
help 1t. and he deposited collateral to
insure his presence later. He went with
the, Manitohan to Alien, and she sailed
from that port on February 4. He came
back as rapidly as possible by way of
England. Hansen's six hundred REIN.
deer are stlll at Trondhjem, so far as
he knows.