Lewiston evening teller. [volume] (Lewiston, Idaho) 1903-1911, 1906-12-01
IT IS not TRUE /
SAYS SEN WARREN
Who Makes Denial to the
Sensational Charges
Special Agent.

washington, Ncv. Ex-senator
Warren OF Wyoming who arrived IN
the city today made the following
statement In contradiction to the
AFFIDAVIT Of Special Agent Myendorff OF
general land Office made "wednesday
At salt Lake city IN which Mr.. War
rem and his colleague Senator CLARK.
were charged with conspiring with
others to put q stop to the investiga-
lions into the charges made In COM
nectfon with the entries OF coal lands
owned by the Union Pacific Railway
company:
If Myendorf made such an ami
davit he must have keen INDUCING In
pipe dreams. / am informed that
senator Clark never saw the man and
never had any connection with him
oral or written.
s'Ths idea of senator Clark needing
MyendorfKs assistance In his re-elec-
ton Is absurd ~ Wyoming was prac-
tically solid for him and no candidates
Opposing. M
Az Tor myself never knew that
such = man - Special Agent Myen-
dorm existed until some time IN 1909
or IN 1904 when received . letter
from him saying that he wished to see
"
had been writing me tu his discredit,
and asking Il would not let him
know when i Was !DsCheyenne o.
Denver 30 that he might call, that we
were both old soldiers VI the civil
war, etc. s
I'm accordance with the request I
some months afterward Informed him
that expected to be In Denver few
days later, sending him the date.
He called at my hotel asking my help
to get him promotion to the position
of special agent in, charge Of q
place in the consular service because
neither his work nor the climate OF
Colorado entirely agreed with him.
that the altitude there made him
nervous. etc. He based mis- request
to me ON the grounds Of his civil war
record and his friendship for my
friends, Mark Hanna, Elmer Dover,
and others. He appealed strongly
mention his case ! to his
superiors. He then volunteers
ed the Information that ne had a
lot of irregular and illegal coal claim
cases made by parties In Colorado for
land III Wyoming said to be In the
interest OF the Union Pacific coal COM
pany and he asked my advice how to
proceed. suggested that he fol-
low the law and his Instructions.
II never read to Myendorn any
private letters OF his to Commission
err Richards and have no knowledge
that such ever existed.
.'On a later occasion when I hap
pened to be In Denver on business
Myen1orff again called on me and
again solicited my assistance. !
think he called on m. once afterward
at my committee room in WASHINGTON,
but I had no conversation with him
.es.0d the custorary SaiuEson !
would extend 70. any visitor OF my
acquaintance. Some time afterward
read In the Denver newspapers OF
Myendorfr's attempt to commit sui,
eide and later on that he had left
Denver and SO do not know whether
he ever recovered or he ever received
a promotion.
"As to the subject matter of the
testimony referred to have no con-
nection with coal or other land en-
iries of the Union Pacific or any other
'i,road or any other company and
10 Interests whatever in coal further
than the ambition to have the people
OF my country get plenty of coal, of
good quality and. at reasonable prices
and that the world might know of the
vast deposits of coal underlying the
soil -
And further than this l desire to
say that any one who accuses me
otherwise speaks falely. no matter
Who, when or where