Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-07-17 | Page 8 | Woman Who Says She Saw Letter from "Dick to Dick"

WOMAN WHO SAYS j SHE SAW LETTER FROM "DICK TO DICK" V' MISS tvj.F.V.'''. VJABBOTT ,X . -1 WASHINGTON. July 16. Myrtle F, Abbott has aroused a nation-wide discussion dis-cussion through her testimony before the house committee on expenditures In the Interior department She states that she found the alleged "Dick fo Dick" letter In the files of the interior department According to this letter, said to have been from Richard S Ryan to tho then Secretao Richard A. Balllnger, Ryan sought tho aid of Charles P Taft In securing President Taft's approval of the opening of the water front on Controller bay, Alaska, Up to this tlmo Mrs. Abbott appears to have been the only person to have soen the mysterious letter. Secretary Fisher has sa!d that a thorough search of the department files failed to reveal re-veal such a letter President Taft has stated that ho had never talked with his brother about Ryan or Controller bay.