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These were addressed to Mrs. Stanford, or to members of our board 

 of trustees, perhaps. They were letters designed to disparage Dr. 

 Jordan, and the handwriting was the handwriting on the Madison 

 Grant envelope. 



About that time there began to appear in the press of the East — ■ 

 notably in the New York Times and in the Washington Star — letters 

 signed by "Amos Allen." One of them was written from Ruther- 

 ford, N. J., and it criticised in a mean way Dr. Jordan. He wrote 

 to Rutherford, N. J., to Amos Allen, and the Jetter came back un- 

 opened. The language in these press letters was very similar to the 

 language in the "Junius" letter, and we suspected that there was 

 a connection between the two; but that was all we could get at the 

 time. A letter addressed to Amos Allen, in care of the Washington 

 Star, was also returned. 



But while this was under discussion, there came to me a letter 

 written in this same peculiar handwriting and signed by "Amos 

 Allen." It was written on the stationery of a Congressman from 

 Colorado, and the writer stated that he was from Colorado, a ranch- 

 man near Greeley. He criticized my statements regarding fur 

 seals, as if I was not informed, and he vouched for his own informa- 

 tion on the subject that he had been a next-door neighbor to Col. 

 Joseph Murray, who was chief agent on the islands, and had talked 

 with him. 



I replied to Amos Allen and I sent a copy of my letter to the Con- 

 gressman from Colorado, calling attention to and assigning as my 

 reason for addressing him the fact that the letter had come to me 

 written on his stationery. He said that he knew no one by the 

 name of Amos Allen and no one by that name had authority to use 

 his stationery in that way. In the meantime I got a second letter 

 from Amos Allen 



Mr. Guire (interposing). Was that letter on the Congressman's 

 stationery franked ? 



Mr. Clark. No. 



Mr. McGuire. It was just on his stationery? 



Mr. Clark. Yes; the postage was paid on it. 



Mr. McGutre. I see. 



Mr. Clark. This second letter stated that Amos Allen was re- 

 turning to Colorado. I wrote then to him in Greeley, Colo., and I 

 wrote also to a friend in Greeley, asking him about Amos Allen; 

 I received a reply that he was not known there. But later on it was 

 discovered there had been an Amos Allen there 10 years previously, 

 and that he had moved to Keokuk, Iowa. A letter to Amos Allen 

 at Keokuk, Iowa, was returned unopened. The Amos Allen letters 

 had, however, given a street address in Washington, 210 Delaware 

 Avenue, and I sent a copy of one of the letters to the Bureau of 

 Fisheries. Perhaps I sent the original letter. 



Mr. McGuire. That was the Amos Allen letter? 



Mr. Clark. Yes. And I understand, indirectly, that the Bureau 

 of Fisheries communicated with 210 Delaware Avenue, and did not 

 find that anybody of the name of Amos Allen was there, but that it 

 was the boarding house of Mr. Henry W. Elliott. 



As one of the reasons for his knowledge of fur seals, Mr. Allen said 

 that he was a relative of Dr. Joel A. Allen, of the American Museum 

 of Natural History, who is an authority on the seal. I wrote to Dr. 



