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PORTLAND, OREGON, THURSDAY, . MAY 4, 1911. PRICE FIVE CENTS. VOL. LI NO 15,73T. V V FIVE LAWMAKERS NDGTED Soliciting of Bribes Charge Made. Is SIXTH MAN HELD GO-BETWEEN Sergeant at Arms Accused of Negotiating Deals. NYE FOUR TIMES ACCUSED Detectives Who Trapped I-eglslators Will Be Vsed Witness. Bribes Range From 9100 to 15000 on Several Bill. COLUMBUS. O.. May 1. Three State Senators and two Reoresentatlves wcra Included In bribery Indictments rHurnnl to lay by the Franklin County grand Jury, which haa been Investigating cor ruption In the Assembly. The Senators are: Isaac E. Huffman. Butler County: I R. Andrews. Law rence County; George K. Catone. Mont gomery County. The Representatives are: Dr. George B. Nye. Pike County. and A. C. Lowrey. Lawrence County. One Indictment waa returned against earn, charging the soliciting of bribes, save In the case of Nye. Four Indict ments were returned against Ky. In addition. Rodney J. Dlegle of Erie Coun ts, sergeant-at-arms In the Senate. Indicted on a charge of aiding and abet ting the bribe solicitation. Dlegle waa indicted three times, aa be la Included In each of the.bllls against Senators. Detectives to Be Witnesses. AH six appeared at the Courthouse anon after the bills were returned. They were accompanied by Attorney Jihn'A. Connor and furnished bonda at one. The amount was 115.600 for the three Senatnra and Representative Low rey. The bond of Nya and Dlegle waa IiD.oon. Three detective. F. 8. Harrison, A. C. Falley and David M. Berry, who allege trey trapped the legislators In the brib ery deala and who were arrested last week at the instance of Nye, were bound over, but the grand Jury returned "no bills" In their cases. They will be tne principal witnesses at the trial of the Assemblymen and Dlegle. It la an nounced that, although the April term of court doea not run many weeks long er, adjournment will not ba taken until the bribery trials are dlapoaed of. STean- , anile the grand Jury will continue Its investigation. Barns Gets Evidence. Detective Burns today spent part of Ms time In the office of Prosecutor Turner questioning grand Jury wit- irwes. i-iegie waa preaent and hla presence there led to reports that Im munity had been offered him for hla testimony. However. Dlegle said ha waa innocent of wrongdoing. The In- licted officials also asserted they were -nnocent Dr. Nye today resigned from the Horn a;rnaar. or steering, committee. The tner members had resigned yesterday. "'" ppuiaica new com mittee. The on!y old members be re tained were the two floor leaders. I- v Landon. of Warren County. Republican. sna J-rice Kusseil. of Wayne County. iemorrac The Housa became much excited over a published report that progress' ve As semblymen were seeking to force th r:gnauon or the Speaker because of his selections. The Speaker waa given a vote of confidence by the House. Those indlc'.ed today will be arraigned Friday. Tha two Lawrence County leg islators. Andrews and Lowrey. axe Re publicans, and tha other four are Deroo- :rats. Bribes Range From SI 00 to $5000. The legislation. In connection with which the "ndlctmente were returned. In cluded tha women's nine-hour bill, tha Wblttemore Insurance bill to admit mu tual Insurance companies now barred. ana tne gerrymander bill, dealgned to put off tha bench Judge A. Z. Blair, of Portsmouth, who conducted the Adams County election Inquiry. Tha bribes, which tha Indictments al lege were solicited, range from 1:00 to. PaA The latter. It is alleged. Nye de manded from a detective who waa posing as a lobbyist to secure passage of tlx Whlttemore measure. Nye. It la charged. solicited bribes In connection with all the bills mentioned. Among the day a wltnessea with the grand Jury waa Detective Harr'son. who explained the workings of. tha dicta graph which, tha detectives assert, con veyed to a stenographer In an adjoin ing room ail conversations la which bribery deals wars made. Both the Houae and Senate paaaed bill making penitentiary sentence man datory In bribery cases Involving public officials. OREGON SYSTEM REJECTED -HHnols Republican Senators Turn Down Bills In Cancns. , SPRINGFIELD. HI- May I. Ths tills , providing for the Oregon system of i electing United States 6enators was re jected at a caucus of tha Republican I Ptata satorg today FARM LURES EDITOR FROM CHICAGO J01B S ELD EX PATTERSON' DROPS PES FOR LOWLY SPADE. Cliier or Record-Herald Staff Finds California Acres to His Liking. Others Quit Windy City. SACRAMENTO, Cal.. May J. (Spe cial.) Selden P. Patterson, for tha past 10 yeara chief of tha editorial staff of tha Chicago Record-Herald, can ba found most any day now with spade or pruning; hook In hand enjoying life 'under hla own vine and f!g tree" on hla 10-acra farm at Fair Oaks, near here. Patterson waa one of tha original Chicago colonists who bought ths Fair Oaks farming land In ISM. when a number of railroad men. newspaper writers and doctora In tho Windy City conceived tho Idea of "long range" farming In California. Ha haa become so enamored of Western climate and the charms of the Sacramento Valley from hla yearly visit to bis little farm that now he haa decided to forsake the newspaper game altogether and apend the rest of hla life cultivating the soil. Mrs. Patterson Is with him. Patterson la the third Chicago oewa- paper man to leave a lucrative position In tha East for different lines of work In California during the past year. First came S. Glen Andrus, formerly railroad editor of tha Chicago Record Herald, who la now aecretary of tha Sacramento Chamber of Commerce, and a few months later F. IL Grlswold. editor of the land department of tha Chicago Tribune, came West and pur cnasea loo-acre farm near Willows, Glenn County, which ha is now cultl vatlng. BROTHER RESCUES SISTER Horse Backs Vehicle Into River: Girl Has Close Call to Drowning. CORVALLIS, Or, May 1. (Special.) Miss Violet Johnson, of Klgers Island. near here, had a close call to losing her Ufa In tha Willamette, when tha horse which sha was driving backed off tha ferry Into tha river. It was by rare chance that Miaa Johnson was able to free herself as tha vehicle wag rapidly sinking. Extricating herself, she caught hold of tha ferry and was rescued from the water by her brother, Louis Johnson, who waa tying the ferry rope when the accident occurred. The horse, freeing itself from the harness, waa saved from drowning by tna aid or several men In the vlolnlty. who came to tha rescu at the ! for help. CLAREMQNT GOES ASHORE Steamer Wrecked la Willapa Har bor, Passengers' Fate la Doubt. HOQUIAM, Wash, May 1 (Special.) Word was received in this city late tonight that the steamer Claremont, from San Francisco to Hoqulam. had been driven ashore during a squall late tonight. Just Inside the Willapa Harbor tar. Details are lacking and the res sal's plight Is unknown. The steamer Saginaw haa gone to her aid. An ef fort Is to be made at high tide at 4 A. M. to pull the Claremont off. It Is not believed that tha Teasel Is In grave danger and little fear Is felt here for the safety of the "passengers and crew. How many persons are aboard the vessel Is not known here. The Claremont Is one of the steamers In the regular trade between Grays Harbor ano California porta. DIVORCE SUIT DOESN'T MAR Man and Wife Together Desnlte Man's Charge or Desertion. NEW TORK. May . With her hus band In attendance at the pier. Mrs. Olive Celesta Moore White, who Is be ing sued by Archibald S. White, of Cin cinnati, for divorce on tha ground of desertion and neglect. Bailed for Eu rope today on the Mauretanla. They came to New Tork on the aama train and atopped In tha aame hotel. 'Why not?" asked Mrs. White. Thle la not a disagreement that would keen ua from being the best of friends. Our whole trouble Is that I will not live in Cincinnati. I shall never go on the stage again." Mr. White la rated aa a multi-mil lionaire. FLIGHT FOR FREEDOM ENDS . Alleged ' Horsethlef Caught After Chase Across River. COTTAGE GROVE. Or.. May J. (Spe cial.) After a hot chaae. which in cluded swimming the coast fork of the Wllllamette. City Marshal Frank Snod- grasa today put an end to an alleged horse thief's flight for freedom. The prisoner gave bis name as T. H. Jones, which Is believed to be an alias. A horse, which was tolen from Jeff Medley at Oakland, was abandoned by Jones in his flight. FRENCHWOMAN IS SPY? She Says She Only Tested loyalty of German Soldier-Lover. COLOGNE. Germany, May S. Mm. Thtrion, an attractive Parisian resident here, was arrested today charged with being a spy and obtaining the secret mobilization ' plana of tha German army from an army officer. Tha pris oner offers tha romantic defense that aha had asked for the plans in order to test tha honor of tha officer, who was : a suitor for hsr hand. UNITED SITES IS NOT GREEDY-TUFT Ambition to Extend Do main Denied. . ALLUSION IS TO MEXICO National Peace Conference Is Opened by President. CARDINAL GIBBONS TALKS Illustrious Men Indorse Plan for Arbitration With England Tor onto Editor Pleases Execu tive With Reciprocity Plea. BALTIMORE. May S. President Taft In hla apeech at tha opening of the third National Peace Conference here today said the United States would keep hands off and not seek to extend Its domain or to acquire foreign terri tory. He made no mention of Mexico, but to those who heard him It waa evi dent that ha referred to tha southern republic. "One of the difficulties the United States finds Is the natural suspicions that the countries engaged have of the motives the United States has In tend ering Its good offices," continued the President. "Asseveration of good faith helps but little where suspicion Is the rule, and yet I like to avail my self of an opportunity In such presence aa this to assert that there Is not In tha whole length and breadth of the United States among Its people any de sire for territorial aggrandizement and that ita people as a whole will not per mit Its Government. If It would, to take any ateps In respect to foreign peo ples, looking to a forcible extension of our political power. War Is No Stranger. "We have had wars and we know what they are. We know what respon sibilities they entail, the burdens and losses and horrors, and we would have none of them. We have a magnificent domain of our own In which we are attempting to work out and show to the woeld success In popular govern ment, and we need no more territory In which to show this. But we have at tained great prosperity and great pow er. We have become a powerful mem ber of the community of nations In which we live and there Is, therefore, thrust upon us necessarily a care and responsibility for the peace of the world In our neighborhood, and a bur den of helping thoo natlona that can not help themselves, if we may do that peacefully and effectively." The President spoke to several thou sand persons In the Lyric Theater. Cardinal Gibbons, Secretary of War Dickinson. Senator Gore of Oklahoma, Count Lao Tolstoi, Andrew Carnegie and more than a dosen leaders In the movement for world peace sat on the j platform with tha President. Cardinal Gibbons Sneaks. Cardinal Gibbons and Hamilton Holt. president of the conference, who spoke before tha President, voiced the opinion that the negotiation of the proposed ar- (Concluded on Page 3.) a...... .............. ...... .. .TrTrTTT TTT T W T T T---T - m m m 9 9 , t SOME SHOULD PEEP ARE FOE THE WORST. l CANDIDATES I I . NFOR.EVERY OFFICE 1 - . i 1 ' " ' " " ' .JL................. .-- .X1M...M ........ INDEX TO TODAY'S NEWS Tha Weather. TBPTERDATS Maximum temperature. BT degrees; minimum, 49 decrees. TODAY'S Showers, southwesterly winds. Mexico. Ifadero and Carbajal meet and peace nege- . nation, will open today, page a. Dourlas. Arizona, residents fear attack on Ague Prleta. by rebels. Page 1. Foreign. Lords' veto bill pssses committee stage In musa House or commons, rage 4. Hysteria again halts Caxnarrlst trial. Page 5. National. Investigation of trusts by wholesale begins la both Houses. Page 3. Domestic. "Sluggers"' and gunflgbters run riot in Chi' cago labor war. Page 1. Chicago editor quits Job to be California firmer, f age 1. The Dalles man weds girl who wss child hood playmate In Scotland. Pass 1. Five Ohio Legislators and Sergeant-at-Arms Indicted tor soliciting bribes. Page L Arrtval of Ford at Los Angeles clesrs way lor opening accused dynamiters' trial. Page 3. Five deputies testify in Diets trial. Page S. President Taft rn speech at Baltimore before Peace Conference says United States does not seek to extend domain. Page 1. Pacific Northwest. After week of sensations, new sdmlnlatra- tion takes otfice at Aberdeen. Pane tt. Good roads advocates to meet at McMlnn- yille. Page 7. Woman and her son beld to grand 'Jury for norsewblpplng farmer. Page o. Sports. Pacific Coast League results yesterdsy: Los Angeles 0. San Francisco 4: Oakland S. Sacramento 1; Portland-Vernon game postponed; rain. Page 12. No gstnes were plsyed yesterdsy In. the Northwestern Lesgue, on account of rain. Page L Tacoma player-manager, Mike Lynch, to be reinstated probably. May 14. page 12. Swimming meet during Rose Festival is now assured, page 4. Commercial and Marine. Wool buyers and sellers in Oregon are apart. fage iw. Better crop advices cause selling of wheat. page is. Stock prices are again advancing. Page 19. La Grande Fruit Growers Association Joins XNonnwestern fexensnge. page 10. Jetty work at mouth of Columbia River progressing fast. Page 18. Portland and Vicinity. Kusnilght charges Lombard's attack on Councllmen outgrowth of desire for of fice. Page 10. Big Eastern advertising men com in r to Rose Festival, page 1. Suit to condemn west half of block S for postolTlce site goes to Jury. Page 13. Lombard renews cbarges against Kubll in Councilman's own ward. Page 13. James A. Murray, Montana millionaire, plans to invest S2.wu.uuu in Portland sky scraper. Page 4. Speeches to be omitted in "sane" celebration Of Fourth of July. Page 11. Werlein charges that Lombard forced B. B. Josselya to buy .urety company bonds he did not want. Pace 10. Women held to testify in trial of Chief of ponce cox. page 9. - Idahoans fear psrtlsl veto of appropriation rui invauaaies wnoie amounts allowed tor institutions. Page 7. Naval reserve Lieutenants testify against Commander McNulty. Page 4. Arlington Club site leased for pretentious moving-picture enterprise. Page 11. $1,180,000 IS PAID OVER Government Accepts Compromise In Customs Fraud Case. WASHINGTON, May I. The govern ment today accepted $1,180,000 In com promise of the suits against Duveen brothers, the New Tork art firm, ac cused of customs frauds. The books and papers of the firm will be retained for evidence In a criminal action. The settlement Involved the largest sum collected In any of the cus toms cases, except the sugar frauds. AFFINITY BRIDE VICTOR Final Decree Given Second Wife of Ferdinand P. Earle. NEW YORK. May 8. Mrs. Julia Kuttner-Earle, affinity bride of Ferdi nand Pinney Earle. received the final decree annulling her marriage. The ground for the action was that Earle was not legally divorced from his first wife.- T DREAD OF ATTACK Mexican Rebels Again Menace Douglas; NOGALES ALSO IS IN DANGER Americans Would Suffer More Than in Former Battle. ' GOVERNMENT IS WARNED Federals at Agna Prleta Strengthen Fortifications and Douglas Is In Direct Line of Fire; Ameri cans Man Gnns. DOUGLAS. Ariz., May 3. Tension is again high In Douglas. An attack on Agua Prleta is expected here within two or three days. If it is made, this city will come under a more direct fire from the rebels attacking than in any of the previous battles. ' The trenches running from Agua Prleta to the American line on the southeast corner of the city, where Douglas homes are built up to the in ternational llne,v have teen deepened and embankments thrown up for breastworks. Directly south of Agua Prleta the federals have made heavy entrenchments with adobe barricades and sandbags. In the exact center of the line of entrenchments they have erected an adobe blockhouse with a platform whereon to mount machine guns. Douglas Will Get Bullets. The attacking rebels, firing from any angle, will shoot directly toward Douglas and only bullets stopped by the blockhouse Itself or buildings of Agua Prleta will fail to cross the line. Maps have been made showing Agi v Prleta and Douglas, which are now possession of the American Army and Washington is fully acquainted with the danger to American citizens. The next towp for shelter is Blsbee. 35 miles away, while to the north is only the treeless Government land. 'We cannot move bur household effects," said a prominent citizen to night, "and if we vacate, there Is danger of looting, and, more important, the possible breaking out of Are from damaged electric wires and flues." Fight to Be at Close Range. During the last battle, many Fed eral soldiers, their shoulders sore from the recoil of Mauser rifles, placed the butts of their guns on their thighs and fired. As a result their aim was so high that thousands of bullets passed clear over Douglas. I Instead of digging trenches south of the old rebel earthworks, the fed erals have cleared the fences and other obstructions .in Agua Prleta, evident ly foreseeing hot fighting at close range. It Is stated that five Americans will man each gun the rebels have pre pared for the next battle, there being one 12-pounder, one mortar and one machine gun. Unless they know how to use these accurately, Douglas will be in dancer from exDlodlne shells. Colonel Charles M. O'Connor placed a whole troop of United States cavalry at (Concluded on Page 8.) BORDER OWNS IN Jof OREGON MAN WEDS J .ae, sasa. a as, a, srea. ., s a aa as CHILUHUUU CHUM CHANCE BRINGS ROMANCE HIGHLANDS TO CLIMAX. OF .! Provision. Merchant of The Dalles Rashes to San. Francisco to Make Margaret Gow His Bride. SAN FRANCISCO, May S. -(Special.) The Argonaut Hotel wag the scene of a very pretty ' romance in real life yesterday, when Albert Milne, a busi ness man of The Dalles, Or., and head of a provision company there, married Miss Margaret Gow, of Chicago. Milne and his bride grew up together as children in Aberdeenshire. Scotland. Tears ago, like many another country man of his, Milne came to America to seek bis fortune and succeeded in ob taining a competence. recently, through chance, he heard that the girl of his boyhood days was visiting In San Francisco, and he im mediately boarded a train bound for for the world's fair city. when the sweethearts of former days met again they hastened to inter view Rev. O. K. Kelly, who said the words that bound them in matrimony. loaay tney are speeding toward their future home in the North. RAINBOW MINE PURCHASED! Big Eastern Company Pays $750,- 000 for Property.. BAKER. Or., May 8. (Special.) By the terms, of a transaction announced today one of the biggest mining deals in recent years in Oregon goes on record. The United States Smeltinsr Company purchased the Raloow mine. in tne Mormon Basin district, from tha Commercial Mining Company, for a consideration of $750,000. The initial payment was $200,000. The closing or tnis deal Is the greatest boost the Eastern Oregon mines have ever re ceiver The coming of the United States company means the greatest activity in the mining Industry the state has ever seen. ine Kalnbow property was discov ered about nin years ago and was de veloped from a prospect mainly through tne efforts of W. E. King, of Hood River. The other principal mines in the Mormon Basin are the Humboldt and Cleveland, but there are also many properties in the immediate district that are in greater or less stages of development. The transaction means more than anything else to the mining industry or Eastern Oregon. a. r. Anderson and H. S. Lee. the engineers of the United States Smelt ing & Refining Company, left for the mine yesterday and are now In charge. xaey nave Degun tnelr arrangements for men and added equipment and stated that they would begin their op- viuuuiis vii m. large scale as soon as possible. SHE-MAYOR 'MEETS' ALONE Hunnewell's Chief Has Clash With Council About Meeting. HUNNEWELL. Kan.. May 8. Hunne well's new Mayor, Mrs. Ella Wilson, clashed with the City Council, last night On Mrs. Wilson's motion the Council voted last week to meet In a local ho tel. The five Councllmen went to the hotel to hold their meeting last night; but Mrs. Wilson "met" in a feed store. She had the clerk's Journal and other papers but, as she alone was not a quo ruin, neuner session transacted any Dusmess. Meanwhile Mrs. W. E. Hilton and Mrs. G. A. Osborn, who were to have been appointed City Clerk and Marshal, still lack their commissions. RICH YOUTHS ARRESTED Drexel, Ryan and Gould Family Heirs Caught Speeding. NEW TORK, May 3. Although they admitted in tho Police Court in North Bergen, N. J., that they had exceeded the speed limit while motoring along the Hudson County boulevard, Anthony J. Drexel, Jr., husband of Marjorle Gould, and Allan A. Ryan, son of Thomas F. Ryan, were let off with suspended sentences today. Howard Gould, who was with Drexel when he was arrested, told tho court that "a little dinkey machine" had passed them, "and Ve could not stand for that." GIRL TO PRACTICE- LAW Stenographer of Former Acting Governor Passes Examination. PENDLETON, Or., May 3. (Special.) Miss Wayfe Hockett, former stenog rapher in the Condon law office of ex- Acting Governor Bowerman and a mere slip of a girl, is now a full-fledged at torney before the bar of Oregon. She took a special examination before Jus tice Moore Monday and today with four young men was admitted to practice. The men are: Harold H. Clifford, of Baker; Robert Service, of Baker; W. T. Miller, of Wallowa, and J. W. Grif fin, of Wallowa ' PATROLMEN GO HUNGRY New Order Forbids Meals While Po lice Are on Duty. Members of the second relief of the police department, who did not eat hearty meal before going to work last" night, patrolled their beats while hun ger gnawed at their stomachs. Cap tain Slover issued orders at rollcall at 11:15 that hereafter officers would not be allowed to eat on their beats. It Is said that officers had been In the habit remaining too long in restaurants, c f mm r IUUIII IUII I LIIU IIUII RIOT IN CHICAGO Workers Are Forced to Flee for Lives. MORE STRIKES NOW THREATEN Freight Handlers and Tower Men Likely to Go Out. ATTEMPTS AT PEACE FAIL Steamfitters Driven From Tasks at Revolvers' Muzzles by Oppos ing Faction Maintenance Jlen Fight Detectives. CHICAGO. May 3. (Special.) Pro fessional sluggers and hired "gunmen" ran riot in the city today, while Gov ernment and state officials, architects, building contractors and International labor union officials worked in an ef fort to restore harmony in the Indus trial field. Late tonight all negotiations be tween the freighthandlers and the rail roads were declared off and a strike will probably be called tomorrow. This will involve the territory in an area from the Canadian border to New Or leans and the Pennsylvanlan line to Western Iowa. It will also bring In the teamsters in all affected cities. A new element of discord was inject ed Into the troubled building trades situation when the Otis Elevator Com pany hired elevator constructors to take the place of the machinists who have been doing the work for two years. Sluggers working for the ma chinists who were ousted by the com pany raided a number of buildings and attacked the elevator constructors with the result that one man is In the Alex Ian Brothers' Hospital and a number of others are seriously injured. Men Flee for Lives. In the plumbers'-steamfltters' war. International association steamfitters were driven at the points of revolvers from two school buildings where they were employed. Frank Donohue, presi dent of the steamfitters' union, was one of the men compelled to flee for his life. James Henderson, an elevator con structor, wan thrown down an elevator 8haft three Btorles and was removed to me nopiiai in a eenous conamon. At the McNeil building, the machin ists' pickets made an attack on the constructors as they left work. One man received a broken Jaw. Fou( other employes of the company were beaten In different sections of the city. Three hundred machinists employed by the Otis Elevator Company in Its shops were called out on strike in thja afternoon and efforts will be made tomorrow to take out the iron mould ers, pattern makers and blacksmiths. The trouble will be spread to all the shops of the company throughout the country, according to the local officers of the machinists' union. Knives Are Drawn. A riot was reported among the main tenance of way employes of the In dian Harbor Belt Railroad at West Hammond, when a number of employes living in boxcars of the company were ordered to move by railroad detectives. The men refused to move and in a fight which followed, knives were drawn and several men were injured. Seven men were arrested and fined $50 each. Demoralization of railroad traffic in Chicago, both passenger and freight, was threatened today when the offi cials of the Brotherhood of Mainten-ance-of-Way men announced their in tention of calling out 300 tower men employed on six railroads involved in their strike. This would mean, they assert, drawing into the strike of prac tically every railroad running out of Chicago, because of complications that would result at interlocking crossings. H. A. Verpla, vice-president of the International organization, made the following statement today: "Fully 90 per cent of the tower men are organized and are ready to go on strike with 2500 maintenance-of-way men, who are now out Without these tower men, the railroads will be able to move little traffic. The strike at present involves four belt lines and the Illinois Central and Chicago, Milwau-. kee & St. Paul Railroads, but other roads are sure to be Involved if the tower men' strike, as all of them cross at least one of the strike-bound roads at some point." Tower Men Have Grievance. The tower men aV. not members of the Brotherhood of Malntenance-of- Way employes, but they have griev ances of their own, and were said to ba ready to cast their lot with the strikers on a promise that all would stand to gether until a settlement satisfactory to all is reached. Non-union section-hands are em ployed during the day on all the roads but it was reported that the striking pickets were forcing them to quit as fast as the companies hired them. Dr. Charles P. Neill, Commissioner of Labor, arrived in the city from Wash ington In the afternoon and at once took up the dispute between the rail-' roads and the freighthandlers. 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