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Show THE 1L0WST0NB Again the Subject of Investigation b J the House Committee on Pub-lie Pub-lie Lands. A Deal of Some Kind in Which th Name of Bussell Harrison is r Mi .ed Up. t $5000 WORTH OF STOCK. Was Given Away for the Purpose of Securing Secur-ing Certain Leases From the Interior In-terior Department. THE STORY OF THE DEAL As Told by E. C. Waters, for Four Years Manager of the Yellowstone Park Association What Had K. C. Kerens to Io With It. Washington-, April 30 The question of the Yellowstone park leases is again being investigated by the house public lands committee, com-mittee, E. E. Waters of Montana, for frfirr years manager of the Yellowstone Park as-seciation as-seciation testifyiug. A letter was read by him addressed to T. F. Oakes of St. Louis, in flibstanee as follows: "The party to whom $5000 worth of Yellowstone Yel-lowstone Park association stock is to go when paid for in dividend is R. C. Kerens of St. Louis. Will you please have Gibson or the pfopei person notify him of the situation, namely, the amount held by the order of the aree-tors. aree-tors. My friend will probably explain to him as fully as he desires." A member of the committee asked witness to whom the term "my friend" referred. The witness replied that it was his lawyerj, The witness was again asked to tell why ?r000 worth of stock was promised and for what purpose. Waters said he had come to Washington to secure certain leases from Secretary of the Interior Vilas, but he had accomplished nothing, and upon seeing thai he could not get anything done, he said to Oakes that when another auministration came in he could get the matter through. . He acknowledged acquaintance with Rns-, sell Harrison and said at that time he-tbought he-tbought he might intercede in the matter and help him get things fixed up. Upon close questioning by a member of the committee witness said $5.00 of stock was intended for Russell Harrison, but neither he (Harrison) nor Kerens knew' anything about it. Harrison, however, was to give his aid purely for the public good and did not know the stock was set aside fcl him until last spring, when he was told so. V Waters further said he never promiaJJ EUtMeU Harrison the Uelc for hii intf-je.nJPH and when he was told of it, Harrison appeared very much embarrassed, and said he would not have had the matter done for anything. Harrison told him, said Waters, that he would see Secretary Noble and lay the matter bsfore him; but whether that was ever done, he did not know, as Gibson had come on to Washington to at'.end to the matter and stayed until it was concluded. The committee com-mittee will continue the investigation on Monday. |