The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1910-09-22
OF MANY
CONFLICTS LIKELY
.... IA MEET Tnnn9..HInnI! T
Was a News Fakir During thu
Cuban War and Has Lived
a Highly Seasoned
Existence.

Washington, Sept. 1s.--If Captain
Jorge Nelken Y. Waldberg, erstwhile
OF Argentina, pretended American.
typical soldier of fortune and one of
the few men who ever succeeded in
selling the late Senator Mark A. Hanna
a gold brick, does not return to WASH
ington within the next 60 days. he Is
likely to lose his alleged American
citizenship and be denied the protec-
will be issued in the district court
giving him thai time in which to APP
pear and show why his naturali-
cation papers should not be cancelled.
Captain Waldberg fiourished in
Washington IL years ago, during the
years later, at the Pan-American expo
sition at Buffalo, encountered the late
Senator Hanna, whose experience with
him is said to have cost the senator
several thousand dollars and to have
given him an insight into Latin-Ameri-
| can cleyerness which he had not before
known.
South American Humbug.
The captain came to Washington
with a long military record. Having
been born In Argentina, he has lived
in half a dozen South American III
tries and has been engaged In many
se.seIutiens in cause of liberty.
Exiled, when unsuccessful, he dropped
Into New York one day and organized
a company OF Greek fruit vendors.
whom he took to Athens, Joined the
Greek army and fought in the Graeco-
Turkish war.
All that he go out of that contest
was a little military glory and a wife.
He married a very beautiful daughter
of a professor in the University OF
Athens and returned to America In
time to take UP newspaper work at the
outbreak Of the Spanish-American
war.
Being able to speak several lam
guaees fuently, and especially Span
lsh, he courted the friendship of Senior
Palma, late president of Cuba, and
Senior Quesada, formerly Cuban minis
ter to the United States, who were
hen in charge of the Cuban jaunta in
Washington. He espoused their aus
most ardently.
y There was great demand for news
from Cuba, and the genius of Nelker
led him to make translations from
ISpan1sn ana OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES, IO1
which he found ready market with the
Washington CORRESPONDENTS. His sue
less prompted hin to fake when his
news sources became exhausted. Ont
pf these flakes" vas a dispatch which
ne put forth all over the country, tell
ing in most dramatic of thu
attempted assassination of Genera
Blanco, who was then governor-genera
,f Cuba, and which caused a grea
Zeal Of excitement at the time.
After the war was over, Captain
Waldberg took up with the Pan-Ameri
an exposition. In this connection h
succeeded in interesting Senator Han
IA in the publication of a sort of per
,onal history of the three Americans
with elaborate writeups of distinguish
I'd statesmen. Senator Hanna fell 70
ais GANG and paid him a large sum o
money for w%rfteups of President Nc
Einley and himself and lent his nam
% the undertaking. The publication
JAILED and Senator Hanna was out
arge sum of money and much expert
ence.
Not long ago the captain turned u,
n Constantinople and became involvea
IN some trouble there which prompte,
aim to demand the protection of tn
American flag. He presented his cas-
at the embassy, and in endeavoring t
!, establish the fact that he was a natur
allied American citizen, some disclos
| ures came to light regarding his paper
which led the American charge to re
i fer the matter to the state department
, The department in urn made inquir;
{ ut the district court, with the resul
! that an order was issued requiring hir
10 show cause within GO days why hi
papers should not be cancelled.