The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1910-03-02

county Jail, charged with grand iar-
ceny. The colonel was arrested yes
terday by Deputy Sheriffs freeman
and Hill, and instead of spending the
night in his luxurious suite in the New
Washington, occupied a cot in the
county jail.
The grand larceny charge involves
the selling OF coal stock in a non-cx-
listing coal mine to Job L. Beardslee. a
Chehalis county farmer, for $1,000
The colonel sold stock In the Apex
Coal company. What the Apex Coal
company amounts to is the question.
The prosecuting witness claims the
Apex company owns nothing the col
onel says it owns lease on Chehalis
county coal lands and has an interest
In the Huntington mine at Castle
Rock. In part of the coloneps story is
true he was probably guilty of nothing
worse than foolish finance; if all of It
is true. he is financier of high rank.
Has Wealthy Friends.
And the colonel speaks casually of
his intimate friendship with President
Mckinley and shows personal letters
from Senator Root of New York ana
t. A. Vanderlip, president of th., Ma
tlonal City bank of New York, one of
the foremost fnanciers of the world
10 his former business associates ne
told OF vast coal land holdings in West
virginia with Senator EllSins and Hem
ry GassaWay Davis; of his dealings
with }. HaZen Hyde, of Equitable in
sarance fame; of coal lands next to the
famous Dunsmuir property in British
Columbia; of Lewis county coal lands
and valuable holdings in the Coos Raw
country.
SO far as can be learned, the colonel
hasn't got a cent in the world His
actual tangible assets consist of a new
'edger and a cash book, probably
worth 80. Yet he has been living at
the new Washington hotel and enter
tanning his guests royalty.
Takes It Calmly.
Col. Garland takes his arrest with
the calmness of man unaccustomed
TO petty annOyances. His snow-whfte
hair is neatly parted, his well-fttine
iothing spick and span, and he adjusts
himself to the routine of the jail like
philosopher above noticing such lit
tie inconvenience. He processes ip-
norance of why he should be arrested
and surmises that 1t is all a part of
the coal trusts scheme to keen him
from shipping coal into the local
market
| HIS personal possessions are varied
ana OF small value, even to several
thousand dollars in confederate money
wnich the deputy sheriffs found in his
room The police declare that this
was his flash ROLL" but tho colonel
processes to be ignorant of the mean
11g Of the term.
Garland's local company was known
as the Apex Coal company. which he
incorporated with A. ]. Dillon OF Port
land and II. P. j. Mcdonald of Seattle
| me company has had rather stormy
career to date, starting in the Ameri-
can Bank building, from which it was
forced to move. Next it went to the
Century building, until sued by a local
newspaper for advertising The suit
rendered the company homeless
1t was at this stage that Chef Beld-
ing and Capt. C. B. Wood met the
colonel officeless. They gave him desl,
room in the Washington building, and
after a short time he began to tell
glowing financial stories, and insisted
that they quit their secret service bust
ness and get rich with him. lie talked
of hundreds of thousands of dollars as
glibly as the ordinary man does of
pennies.
He Moves Again.
So they moved to the Leary build
ing, Bedding and Wood owning all the
office furniture and the colonel still
talking in large amounts. Occasionally
the colonel found it necessary to bor-
row money. but was always prompt
about repayment. Then he had q lit-
tie personal trouble; his wife left him
and secured divorce in Portland, but
ne bore up bravely under this and
continued his great plans.
! Puzzling Financial Deals.
Just What the colonel was driving at
financially is hard to determine. as his
business affairs are highly complicated
So far as can be learned his only coal
Ilnd possession was an unsigned option
on certain coal lands in Lewis county.
which option would become valid ON
the payment of $4,000. 1t is proba Die
that the colonel was careless about his
methods of raising the $4,000. for
Beardslee, the complaining victim. de-
clares that the Lewis coal lands are
| valuable
| Beardslee saw the ad for a yard
| man to handle coal. He answered il
and met the colonel. The colonel as
sured him that his Vancouver coal
mines were on the verge of shipping
three barges a day to Seattle Boards
ZEE was to receive 500 month. He
Invested $1,000 and now holds Il nicely
engraved stock certificate which holds
out promise of Is per cent dividends.
Garland signed the certificate as presi-
dent and Conrad Cline of Portland as
secretary. Garland also told Boards
lee of Coos Bay coal lands and a line
OF steamers to Portland.
A Royalty Contract.
Then to complicate matters Garland
entered into a royalty contract with
the Huntington mines at Castle Rock
to mine coal.
That the colonel was not lacking in
nerve is shown by the fact t1at
through the agency of Arthur G. Retts
he tried to take $500 more from
Beardslee. Beardslee was airei,dy
planning to have him arrested at the
time