6 OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 5, 1909 "I purchased & bottle of Scoffs Emulsion and im mediately commenced to improve. In all, I think I took 14 bottles, and my weight increased from 133 pounds to 184 pounds in less than six months. I know from personal results the efficacy of Scott's Emulsion."-FRED. R. STRONGMAN, 417 Bath urst St., London, Ont. Let us send you a copy of Mr. Strongman's letter. He . had a trying experience, had got run down cott's Emulsion built him up, as it has thous ands of others. The strengthening and flesh producing properties of Scott's Emulsion, are un equalled by any other prepa ration, and it's just as good for the thin, delicate child as for the adult. Be sure to get Scott's. It's been the stand ard of the world for 35 years, and is worth many times the cost of the numerous imita tions and substitutes. AU DRUGGISTS Let Hi wild ynu a full copy of Mr. HtroniuDnn'i Ifttftr Had Home other I (tora ture 011 the tubjeut Just mention tuli paper. , SCOTT & BOWNE 409 Pe.il Street New York Uncle Sam's m m & m Secret Service Work of Government Detective Bureau, Which Is Bone o' Contention Between Congress and the President. Sketch of John E. Wilkie, Chief of Sleuths. T IN ONE OR MANY COLORS LARGEST FACILITIES IN THE WEST FOR THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH GRADE WORK RATES AS LOW AS EASTERN HOUSES ai By JAMES A. EDGERTON. HERE is no government depart ment concerning which less is known than the secret service. At the same time there Li none about which there la greater public curiosity, which Is Just now ed by the row between the and the congress. The secret service la Undo Sum's Sherlock Holmes. It catches counter feiters and now and then bags a con gressman or senator who has not boon content with making laws, but has started to breaking them also, thus working both ends of the line. It was this feat of getting a few legislators into jail that caused nil the trouble between Mr. Roosevelt and the present Besslon. Congressmen do not like to be Imprisoned, for which we can scarcely blame them, considering the other inflictions they have to bear, such as associating with each other and listening to each other's oratory. President Roosevelt charges In ef fect that it was because the secret service had exposed Senator Mitchell and an Oregon representative in the land fraud cases that congress cut down the appropriation for the secret service nnd prohibited Its uso outside of the treasury department, whereat certain members of the house, dignified senators and others not so dignified regard themselves as grossly insulted. Come to think of it, there Is something in the nature of a personal insult in sending a man to Jail or even In inti mating that ho ought to bo there, though most men do not base their objection to imprisonment on this ground. Now, the president did not say that all members of congress should go to Jail, but only that the law they had passed helped nobody but criminals, and the chief argument In its favor was that It keeps members of tho two houses from being Investigated and prosecuted. He went further and Intimated that All of these things nud r.ov.o ether made congress forbjd t'u- further lend tag out of HuwUslinws. There arc Stories and cartoons to the elret t lint a governmental spy system In-; jrrewu up In Washington. This the ud.uhiis tratlon denies, but at any rate there Will be an Investigation. Willrie Started as lijportor. The head of the secret sorvi'-e start ed life as a reporter. He lsj John K. Wilkie of Chicago, son of n famous newspaper man in his day who was Wilbur V. Storey's chief editorial writ er on the Chicago Times. Young Wil kie started as n file and police report er and was so Intensely Iir earnest In tho role that ho bought n fireman's helmet and out lit and went to all the fires to help out, receiving much chair ing therefor both from tho real fire men and the other reporters. Ale show ed the same spirit in his pence report ing nnd in nt least one instalice sue ceeded in unearthing a sensational crime. A store burned In a manner to show that It was fired by Incendiaries The proprietor was out of town nt the time, but came in on a train soon aft er. In rummaging about through the ashes Wilkie came upon a charred photograph, evidently taken of the owner of tho store when a much younger man, but on the back of Which was a Philadelphia address and a name different from that by which the merchant was then known. On being confronted" with this witness from tho past the man supposed the Jig was up, broke down and confessed that he had set fire to his own store, using a time fuse flint would allow him to get out of town. This was not the only piece of BlierlocUholmeslng done by the young police reporter. Every available moment be was loung ing around detective headquarters picking up Ideas. Some time later the elder Wilkie was placed In charge of the London bu- O. W. Eastham LAWYER Legal work of all kinds carefully at tended to. Charges moderate. Office over Bank of Oregon City, Oregon City, Oregon. George C. Brownell ATT'Y AT LAW OREGON CITY, OREGON Insure in the FARMERS MUTUAL FIRE R. A. Conservative, Strong, Safe, Prompt and Cheap Should there be no local agent write to, J. J. KERN SECRETARY 565 East Yamhill St. PORTLAND, - OREGON - -., y - 1 - X ' - ' I f ' ' ' IIX E. WILKIE, HEAD OF NATIONAL SHERLOCK HOLMES BUREAU, AND WILLIAM J. 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That is talking some, even for Roosevelt. Congress waited n few days, und then tho senate passed some mild mannered resolutions, adopt ed amid oratory not so mild and ac companied by thoughts positively un speakable, directing the committee on appropriations to lnvestlgato the secret service, the message and everything else with n handle on that looked as if it could be used to cause trouble. Tho house merely asked hliu for the facts on which tho president based his state ments, evidently wanting hlin to show his hand before it did any blulllng. Tho head-on collisions tho house has had with Roosevelt on former occa sions have apparently taught it cau tion. Hunted Down land Frauds. The secret servleo proper belongs to the treasury department, mid its chief duty Is to catch counterfeiters. For twenty years, however, it has been the habit of the chief of the servleo to end his men to other departments wherever needed. Among those so borrowing Uncle Sam's sleuths was the secretary of tho interior, who used them In hunting down land frauds. In which they gathered In the Untied States senator and congressman fore mentioned. It Is also whispered 1 lint the secretary of the navy used one of the detectives In hunting down an lib Rent naval official, and tho place where he was found laid the basis for a di vorce suit. That caused another row. reau of the Chicago limes, ana tne son accompanied him, each of them sending several columns of cables and letters every woe!;. One day Storey fired the eii-c' V."i!: I by cable, nnd tho sou went to the head of an Ameri can commercial agency in London, where he remained almost two years. Returning to Chicago, ho re-entered tho newspaper Held and soon became city editor of tho Tribune. Frank E. Vanderllp was llnaiulal editor of the paper at tho same time, and the two became chums. When Lynmn J. Gage was made secretary of tho treasury he took Vanderllp along as private sec retary und in n short time made him assistant secretary of the treasury. Vanderllp remembered his friend Wil kie, tried hi m out on some work for tho government and succeeded In get ting him appointed chief of the secret service. This is the story of John E. Wilkle's rise ns I have it from tho lips of n newspaper man who used to work with him as a police reporter. While n:ion of It lias seen the light, I think it has never been printed before In all its details. "Secret Service" True to Name. In olllce Mr. Wilkie Is one of the most democratic and easily accessible of all government employees. There nro two rooms in the treasury building with the legend "Secret Service" over tho door. Anybody can walk right In nnd will usually find Chief Wilkie in his shirt sleeves going over reports or considering some knotty case. In the same room is bis assistant, V. II. Mo ran, and In the adjoining room nro a number of clerks. Nothing mysterious about all this, but the most prosaic mid matter of fact routine of every day. Yet the visitor will make a mis take If ho jumps at conclusions. Let him try to lind ourwho are the detcc :ivos employed by the bureau and he rt'ill begin to understand that the word "secret" Is not u false label. Nobody outside of Wilkio, Moran and possibly one or two others knows the names of these men, what they do or even how many of them there are. They go about as ordinary citizens, never dis closing their connection with the de partment, except to police ollicials, dis trict attorneys or others who may help them. As they are shifted around the country and passed fihiu department to department, the criminal element is thus left in JJJo dark ns to the identity of the men with whom they have to cope. There are thirty-seven branch secret service offices throughout the nation and probably a couple of hun dred men empWyed. Not only coun terfeiting cases, but violations of the internal revenue laws, of the anti-trust luws, of tho land laws, of the postof fice regulations and of the thousand nnd one details of governmental rules, may come In for investigation at their hands. Rather they might havo done so before congress Interfered. Now the service Is handicapped, nnd there is Joy among the crooks In conse quence. The secret service man of fact and tho secret service man of fiction are about as much alike ns a real estate agent's description is like the dirt he sells you. The detective of romance is wonderfully made, with a brain like a machine and a personality that to tho average American boy looms big ger than that of the president. The real detective But why shatter an ideal? I never knew anybody the worse for believing in Santa Glaus, and the popular conception of the aver age sleuth not only delights the ju Tenlle heart nnd some hearts that are not Juvenile but possibly scares some would be criminals into being decent. Sleuths' Strenuous lives. Fairy tules aside, there are spots in the lives of most secret service men that are sufficiently exciting for "inel lerdrammer." It Is a wise one among thein who knows what his next as signment will be, whether to run down a gang of counterfeiters, look for moonshiners in the Carolina moun tains, trace land steals among the cat tlemen or lumbermen of the west or break into world politics by spying on a foreign government or shadowing the spies of a foreign government here. One of Chief Wilkle's uotublo achieve ments was in breaking up the spy sys tem maintained by the Spanish gov ernment In America during the late war. No; the life or Uncle Sam s de tectives is not without adventure nnd movement. For example, one of their many duties is tpguard the president of the United States and accompany him every time ho sets foot outside the White House. With the cross country gallops aud tramps through blizzards nnd rainstorms Indulged in by the present chief executive, this is not the mildest of occupations. The strain on those detailed for the leg racking duty will prollubly ease down after March 4. Now their lives seem like one long dream of looping the loops and bumping the bumps. In their ordinary work of detecting crime the secret service men are divid ed Into two classes, "shadows" and "ropers." A shadow follows a suspect In nil his comings and goings. It is not nn easy task for the reason that the shadowed one must never have the faintest hint that nny one Is on his trail. Roping is still more difficult. Here tho detective becomes a boon companion of the criminals, learns their secrets and collects sufficient evi dence to convict them. In doing this ho must havo no scrap about his per son that would reveal his identity. The old idea of disguises has largely passed out. Indeed, It never had ex istence among real detectives outside the lids of novels. Change of garb and the perfection with which a de tective lives up to the character as sumed furnish all the disguise neces sary. That Is the beauty of a service made up of members unknown to the criminal element. Few of Chief Wil kle's men were originally detective's. Many of them enme from the claims departments of railroads and express companies. They are from all walks of life Indeed, chosen after the most rigid scrutiny Into their characters and fitness for (he work. One of the most famous of their number Is William J. Burns, concerned In the land fraud investigations nnd now in the Snn Francisco graft Inquiry. Burns is not now in the secret service, having re signed to help Ileney fight Schmitz and Ruef. Vast, Complicated System. Mr. Wilkie assigns these men much ns he assigned reporters when on the city desk of a newspaper. The prin ciple Is the same, although the sys tem Is in finitely more vast and com plicated. The men work under tho di rect supervision of the various depart ments to which they are assigned or under tho subordinate secret servleo bureau In whose territory they hap pen to bo placed, although tho Wash ington bureau keeps track of them all. In this way the head of the system has a more thorough Inside view of the workings of the entire nation than nny other one unin outside of the pres ident nnd his cabinet ndvlsers. What will be the upshot of the pres ent Investigation no man can tell. The most probable outcome, certainly the most sensible one. would involve a consolidation of nil tho detective agen cies of the government under tho de partment of Justice. It would do nway with the fiction of shifting men from department to department, would save time and avoid confusion nud would make It Impossible In future to crip ple this most Important governmental agency through congressional interference. ELIOT'S JIG 'TRIP. Wonderfully Strenuous Program For Harvard's Aged President. S3 TRAVEL AND MANY SPEECHES Tour of Two- Months Through tho Southwest and South of the United States Guest at Several Harvard Club Dinners To Bo Accompanied by His Wife. On Feb. 7 President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard university, nho is seventy-four, leaves Cambridge, Mass., for two mouths on a trip through the southwest and south. Mrs. Eliot will accompany hlin. On Feb. 8 he attends a dinner of the Harvard club of Buffalo at Buffalo, ne proceeds the next day to Chicago, where he speaks on the evening of the 10th before the Religious Educa tional association on "The Ethics of Industrialism." The next evening he attends the dinner, of the Harvard club of Chicago. On the 12th of Feb ruary he journeys by day to Minne apolis and spends tho 13th and the 11th in the Twin Cities, Upon the evening of the 13th he will be pres ent at the annual dinner of the Har vard club of Minnesota. He intends also to visit the University of Minne sota nud Ilamllne university. He reaches Chicago again on the morn ing of the 15th and leaves that even ing for Nashville, where he will he the guest of Chancellor Kirkland of Vanderbllt university until the even ing of the 17th. He then takes a night Journey to Memphis, where he breaks tho long trip from Nashville to Dallas by spending the night of the 18th at Memphis, -and reaches Dallas on the evening of the 20th. At Dallas he spends two days and on the 23d proceeds to College Station to spend twenty-four hours at the Agricultural aud Mechanical College of Texas. On the 24th he journeys via Hearne from College Station to Aus tin, where he spends the whole of the 25th. While there he will spend some time at the University of Texas as a guest of Tresident Mezes, '00, Til. D., '03. He ruus down from Austin to Snn Antonio early in the morning of the 2Gth to be present at the dinner of the Association of Northern and East ern College Men In the Southwest on that evening. He leaves San Antonio about noon on the next day and reach es Houston late in the afternoon. That city will be his headquarters for the next three days, one of which he will undoubtedly spend in Galveston. On the 3d of March he journeys by day to New Orleans. In New Orleans he attends th(; diu ner of the Harvard Club of Louisiana on the 4th of March, visits the State university at Baton Rouge on the 5th, delivers the founders' day address at the Tulaue University of Louisiana at 2 p. m. on the flth and attends the an nual Tulane dinner on the same even ing. The next day he spends in travel lug to Montgomery, where he remains for the next twenty-four hours. The week of the 0th to the 10th, both in clusive, ho will pass nt Birmingham, Tuscaloosa (where the University of Alabama Is situated), Atlanta, Athens (at the University of Georgia) and on the road to Charleston. The 17th and 18th he remains In Charleston and pro ceeds on the 101 h to Columbia (Univer sity of South Carolina) for the night. Leaving Columbia early on the morn ing of the 20th, he stops a few hours at Spartanburg (Wofford college) and finally arrives nt Asheville, N. C, late that evening. s During the 21st and 22d he remains ut Asheville nud leaves there early the morning of the 23d to spend that uight at Greensboro. Early on tho morning of the 24th he makes a short trip to Guilford college nnd then goes on to Durham that afternoon. He stays at Durham until the 27th, visiting Trinity college at that place and the Univer sity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, near by. On tho 27th ho proceeds to Richmond, where lie stays over Sun day aud Monday, March 28 and 29. 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Open from 9 a. m. to 3 p. m Success In Raising a Zebra. Dr. Alonzo Mclvln, chief of the bu reau of nnliniil Industry nt Washing ton, has succeeded In breeding and raising n zebra. As the department of agriculture has been unsuccessful for years In attempting to raise tho zebra, Dr. Mclvln Is proud of his accomplish ment. Dr. Mclvln explains that his young zebra Is a cross between a Tex as burro nnd a male zebra. Tim legs nre well marked, but the stripes onthe body are faint. lie hopes. howevW, that ns the zebra sheds off his coat the strides will become more distinct. F. W. Howard. A. S. Hunt The H. H. Store Fancy Groceries &. Provisions Home Phone 245 Pacific States 1-1!) 7th and Center Sts. We solicit a share of your patronage Farm Wanted. The undersigned wants to rent, a fiinn of nut less than 40 acres in culti vation, nnd not jnore limn 8 or 10 miles from market. Will rent on shares. Address M. JR. 1UGDEX. Milwnukio, Clackamas Co., Ore. K. 1). 1, Box u3 A. 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