The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-12-03
Special Agent MyendOrff Sharp
Iy Answers Criticisms of the
Wyoming Lawmaker.
POSITIVELY DENIES SOME
OF THE ASSERTIONS MADE
Quotes Letter From Warren to
Show His Position Concern
ing Investigation.

PORTLAND, Or, Dec. Especial
Agent Michael A. Myendorf, who re-
turned to Portland yesterday from Salt
Lake City, has made n statement in re-
ply to United States Senator Francis f,
Warren of Wyoming. Mr.. Mycndorf
begins with the statement that of those
portions of the affidavit made by him
before the Interstate Commerce commits
sion at Salt Lake City, referring to
Mr.. Warren and to which Warren takes
exceptions, and continues:
"ff he (Warren) is correctly quoted,
he asserted that in writing to him | de-
scribed myself ms being an old soldier
of the Civil war; This statement was
never made by me and 1T would have
absurd for anybody to have made any
declaration Of that character. The rec
ords of the State department show that
it was IN 1865 that Abraham Lincoln
obtained my release from exile in Sibe-
ria, and that l did not arrive in this
country until 1866. n year after the
close Of the Civil war.
Never Solicited Warren.
Furthermore, / never solicited SEN
ator Warren or any one else for the
position of a special agent in charge, or
place in the consular service.
''Mr. Warren Is also quoted as say
ing that he never read to me any pri-
yate letters of mine addressed TO Com
missioner Richards. / never said he
did. What ! did say, however, as is
proved by the foregoing quotations
from my affidavit, was that the Senator
read me extracts from letters which |
had addressed TO the Commissioner of
the General Land Office. These letters
were official and not private communi
cations, and they have never been des
ignated as private letters by anybody,
to my knowledge, except by Senator
Warren himself.
''Senator Warren speaks of having
read in the Denver newspapers of Ny
endorlf S attempt to commit suicide
! am surprised that the Senator should
attempt to circulate such a ridiculous
story. II Is a fact easily susceptible of
definite and substantial proof that l
made no attempt to commit suicide at
Denver, or at any other place, for that
matter If the Senator believes, how
ever, that trumped-up suicide story
has any bearing on the coal land frauds
in his State, ] will gladly furnish him
any evidence that he may need TO salts
fy himself on that point.
Only One Material Point.
In my opinion there is only one
statement attributed to Senator War
rem that has any direct bearing on the
coal land Investigations in Wyoming,
That statement is his assertion that l
asked him how to proceed in the mat
ter and that he suggested that | should
follow the law and the instructions. In
that connection the following extract
from letter written to me by Mr..
Warren under date of April 4, 1904, in
reply TO q letter which | addressed to
him five days prior TO that date, may
indicate whether or not the Senator was
anxious for the investigation to proceed
without delay in his State, Wyoming.
Washington, d. c., April 4, 1904,
Dear Mr.. Myendorff: J. know of moth
ing that is pressing in the State north
of you, and should say that it would
be Just AS well To do the work nearest
TO YOU that is pressing hardest. After
we adjourn here and I return to
Wyoming, ! hope to see you at some
early and convenient date.
"F, f. WARREN
" As the letter was addressed TO me
at Denver, Colo, it will be readily seen
to what portion of the map the tSena.
tor was alluding to when he wrote the
State north Of you. -