Omaha daily bee., 1909-04-18
FAMOUS GOLDEN STATE MEN
W. ]. Burns, Benz. Ide Wheeler and
Michael De Young in Omaha.
HONEST JURY FRIsCo's NEED
william J. Burns Says He Will
Win in Graft Case If This
is secured-AlI on Way
East.

IF we rave an honest jury, We shall
convict Calhoun and all his crew." DECLARED
william J. Burns, the most famods real
life detective in the world, at the Union
station Friday. THE evidence is clear and
beyond question"
Mr.. Burns was one of four well-known
men OF the Overland Limited. The others
were Harvey w. Scott, the Portland tOre.)
editor, &nd mentioned as the next am
bassador to Mexico; Benjamin lde Wheeler,
president Of the University OF California,
and Michael DeYoung, owner of the San
Francisco Chronicle, and a mighty power
in the western land.
DeYoung and Burns were by no mean.
chummy during their twenty minutes IN
Omaha. DeYoung Is fighting the lleney-
Burns prosecution with all lis might and
main and is a personal friend OF Patrick
Calhoun, the president of the United Rail
roads company, whom Heney, I.ansdon ant
Burns are even now trying to send TO the
California penitentialy for bribery.
Interested In Jury.
80 they've got the last juror. sail
Burns, deeply Interested, ana PIE -ident
Wheeler felt similarly. iii the Jury Is
honest, Calhoun's conviction Is certain. for
the evidence is clear and complete
They have stopped at nothing --orised
my secretary, copied my papers and stolen
some documents, and when We got a search
warrant and found the stolen goods In their
safe. how they screamed
Burns declared further that both he and
Heney had been logged by suspicious
characters all along and particularly of
late and that the rich crooks OF San
Francisco would stop at no crime to get
go. -s ~ 49,. D,s - - .AAzl .pINI
determination. we shall put them where
they belong II honest juries can be had.
DeYoung would not talk Of the prosecu.
ton. Asked what he thought the outcome
OF the Calhoun trial would be, he sud
denly betrayed an intense interest In the
way Omaha is growing.
Mr.. DeYoung is on his way to attend a
meeting of the Associated Press in New
York. he being a director for thirty years
or more. His wife and daughter, Che latter
a handsome girl of IS. we're with him.
Socially the DeYoungs are the center of
San Franciseo's most exclusive circle.
The Japanese question has simmered
down sou. ewhat,'' said President Wheeler.
But opposition to Increased immigration
is just as vigorous as ever and 1t will so
continue. 1t Is not easy for people In this
part OF the country to understand how
California feels. Live out there a while
and you would adopt the prevalent view.
1t is Just like the northern view OF the
negro question in the SOUTH
President Wheeler was on equally good
terms with both Burns and DeYoung.
though he and Burns were together most
OF the time while here. 1T is simply uni
versity business which takes me to New
York. he said. Mr.. Wheeler was formerly
professor Of Greek in Cornell university
and known on that campus by the affec-
tionate nickname of Benny Ide." His
success at the University OF California has
been great. Though not a particularly tall
man, he stood head and shoulders above
Burns. who is hardly over five feet five
inches. Burns is going to Washington to
testify in a land fraud case.