Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-11-29
Warren and Clark Of Wyoming
Accused By Special Agent
Of Land Office
WOULD STOP INVESTIGATION
Senators Desired, 1t Is Claimed In AZ
fidavit, to Prevent Government From
Looking Into Coal Deals of Union Pa
cific and Rio Grande-Richards Also
Involved.

charges, dragging the names of United
States Senators Warren and Clark
and United States Land Commissioners
Richards into the Union Pacific and
Rio Grande coal land scandal. were
sworn to before the interstate COM
merce commission here today George
F. Pollock, chief of division B OF the
interior department, is also included.
A. Myendorff, special agent OF the
government.
Myendorff in an affidavit accuses
the Wyoming senators Of trying to in
duce him to give up the investigation.
He charges that Land Commissioner
Richards suppressed evidence against
the Union Pacific.
He accuses George F. Pollock of in
structing him to destroy four aft
davits he had secured against the I'm
ion Pacific coal company.
After reciting his connection with
the land Office as special agent, Ny
endorff, in his affidavit, goes on to
say:
Among the agents in Colorado was
N. j. O'Brien, who likewise was sta
toned at Denver and who nominally
came under my direction and control.
soon learned that Mr.. O'Brien was
a Wyoming man, and that Mr. OBrien
was at one time the commissioners
colleague in the service of the state of
Wyoming and personal friend OF the
commissioner, and that Mr.. O'Brien
was in frequent and confidential cor
respondence with Mr.. Macy, chief
clerk Of the general land office
i also learned that Mr. O'Brien cor
responded with Francis e. Warren.
United States senator for Wyoming. 1
also soon discovered that Mr.. O'Brien's
opinion guided the opinions of the
commissioners office relating to the
work in the state of Colorado.
Mr.. O'Brien made repeated requests
to turn these Investigations over to
him. His efforts Were strenuous The
efforts employed are illustrated by the
fact that Mr.. O'Brien informed me
that upon the result of this coal land
investigation depended the election OF
United States Senator Clark of wy
oming. Mr.. O'Brien further Informed
me that Senator Warren was much in
terested in the election of Senator
Clark
met Senator Warren at the OK
ford hotel in Denver some time i'm
June or May, 1904. At that interview
Senator Warren made no direct request
that should not prosecute the investi-
cation from personal considerations
but he pointed out the danger of maxi
ing an enemy Of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company in the Wyoming
elections and stated that Senator
Clafk's reelection might be leopard
lied If enmity Of the Union Pacific
Railroad Company should be incurred.
About three months after my in
terview with Senator Warren I was
transferred from Denver to Los An
geles, a distance, of about 1900 miles
from the. state of Wyoming, and away
from the seat of my operations. This
transfer was made at time when I
had completed all of my arrangements
and perfected my details to carry on a
rigid investigation in Routt county
Colorado, which would naturally lead
me into discovery of the operations in
the adjoining state of Wyoming. After
my transfer to Los Angeles contem-
plated reorganization of the specia!
agents of the land offices took place.
I'm October of 1904, 1 was sub
poenaed as witness in the United States
district court at Denver. While in Dem
yer on that occasion rumors reached
me that some trouble was brewing for
me, because Of what was denominated
my interference in the Wyoming cases.
On December 5, 1904, I met Senator
Warren at the Hotel Oxford I told
him what I had heard. The senator
said he was not interested in any such
movement. He told me the general land
office would not hurry the Wyoming
cases. He then produced from his
pocket copies of my letters addressed
to Commissioner. Richards relative to
the Wyoming cases, which I had been
ut was on the occasion of my trip to
Washington between December S ia
Is, 1904, that saw G. F. Pollock chief
of division b. and asked him what
to do with the affidavits containing in
formation about those coal land frauds,
and he told me either to send the aft
fidavits to him or to destroy them"
Mr.. Myendorffs' affidavit goes at
ength into the methods of the coal
in securing coal lands by
entries thru dummies who transferred
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