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VOL. XIX.
PORTLAND, OREGON, SUNDAY MORNING, MAY 13, 1900.
NO. 19.
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DONE IN THE COURTS
Decision in Case of Reed et
AI., vs.. Whitehouse.
COMPLETE SETTLEMENT- IN 1893
Plaintiffs Permitted te Challenge
Correctness of .SHfeseqaent Trans
actions Cenrt Notes.
Judge. Cleland rendered a decision yes
terday in the case of C J. Reed et aL,
executors of the will of John Green, de
ceased, rs. B. G. Whitehouse, for an ac.
counting. Se held that a complete set
tlement had been made between W-hlte-house
and Green up to August 12, 1833,
and granted the plaintiffs leave by ap
propriate pleadings to challenge the cor
rectness of any or all items between Au
gust 12, 1893, and July 20, 1S97, the date
of John Green's death, as contained In
books described as exhibits 1, 2 and 3.
The court held that these books, so far
as they purport to show the business
transactions of John Green subsequent to
August. 1893. including an Item of $5000.
which "Whitehouse says was a gift, under
the circumstances, as shown by the evi
dence, must be presumed to bo correct.
The defendant, upon the. showing made,
Is not required to account of produce
vouchers for the Items therein contained.
The plaintiffs may question the accuracy
of any or all the items contained in such
books, and show that any of them, in
cluding the 55000 mentioned, are false,
fraudulent or Incorrect. Plaintiffs may In
like manner show. If they can, that Items
have been omitted which should have been
Included. The court further stated that
the evidence offered tending to establish
that Wihtebouse had in fact paid out
various sums of money for John Green's
benefit, which do not appear on the books,
is at present Incompetent. The court has
not considered the same, and plaintiff
may, if they desire, take an order that
the objections Interposed to this class of
testimony are sustained.
An opinion was expired that the
plaintiffs' are not entitled to an order re
quiring1 the defendant to account for
transactions prior to August 12. 1833, when
a settlement was had between Whitehouse
and John Green. The court found that
H. C. Iteonard read entries to Mr. Green
at that time, and assisted in checking up,
and that the books and papers were sat
lsfactory and were retained by Mr. Green,
and a second accounting cannot be re
quired.
Whitehouse kept the accounts of John
Green from 1SS8 until July 20, 1S37. The'
plaintiffs allege that from August, 1SS2,
until the time of his death. John Green
waa old, almost blind, and feeble In
health, and intrusted his business man
agement almost entirely to Whitehouse.
There was deposited In the name of John
Green In the First National Bank between
those dates $743,441 and drawn out $707,3S0.
In the Commercial National Bank there
was deposited $183,944 and withdrawn
$175,307. The plaintiffs aver that defend
ant drew $5000 from the Commercial Na
tional Bank About December 23, 1E36, for
his own benefit, and that Whitehouse also
refuses to account for $15,005 withdrawn
from the bank. There Is also an Item of
$345, making the full sum of $20,359 for
which the accounting la demanded.
Whitehouse admits an Indebtedness ot
$3224 and also $12,000, the latter secured
by a mortgage on his homestead In favor
of Green. Regarding the Item of $5000,
Whitehouse says he was financially em
barrassed In the year 1S95, and because
of faithful services of 24 years and that
his salary in the Gas Company had been
cut down, etc., John Green authorized
Whitehouse to draw a check in his own
favor for $5000 as a. gift.
Whitehouse, in his answer to the com
plaint, pleaded full and. satisfactory set
tlements with John Green once a year,
which he contended "were final, .and that
it was not proper to necessitate his- ex
plaining all of these th'ngs again, and
was perhaps not possible for him to do
60 with complete detail and entire ex
actness, etc Concerning the Commercial
National Bank deposit, the plaintiffs
charged Whitehouse with not having ac
counted to Green for an item of $513.. an
other of $7S4 and the sum of $12,476 with
drawn by Whitehouse from thla concern.
Judge Cleland, In deciding the case, re
viewed tho Issues presented and the evi
dence Introduced fully, and, among other
hings. said:
"The testimony introduced by defendant
has been directed to .support the propo
sition that settlements were made as al
leged between Mr. Green and Whltehcuse,
In addition thereto the evidence of Mr.
W. T. Branch, an expert accountant, has
been largely devoted to an accounting In
fact since August, 1S32. The plaintiffs. In
their testimony, attacked exhibits 1. 1
and 3, and undertook to show inaccuracies
and Imperfections therein. Testimony waa
offered by "both parties upon the subject
of the $5000.
"Mr. H. C Leonard was a confidential
business a,clate of Mr. Green, and his
life-long friend. His testimony shows
that the defendant pursued the same gen
eral plan of keeping accounts for himself
and Mr. Green since 1S5S. The difference
if any arose in 1SS8, when Mr. Green's
business developed Into a line of Invest
ments, end his books thereafter Included
an account of loans and purchase of se
curities. An Inspection of the books kept
by the defendant shows that they do
not conform to any good working theory
of bookkeeping, as that business Is gen
erally conducted.
"For nearly 30 yeans Mr. Green was fa
miliar with the methods of the defendant.
He retained him In hlo employ, was sat
isfied with his services and trusted In his
fidelity, and made Wm one of the ex
ecutors of his wllL It must be assumed,
under these circumstances, that Mr.
Green knew and approved of the manner
in which defendant kept his accounts.
"All who speak upon the subject unite
in declaring Mr. Green was capable of
transacting business during his Ufa, and
retained management of his affairs and
neither nought or permitted suggestions or
Interference with his plans or purposes.'
The court reviews the bank accounts at
some lngth and finds that 75 per cent of
the amounts were on checks bearing John
Green's stsnature. and less than 25 pet
cent by checks signed by Whitehouse.
Regarding the Commercial National Bank
account closed In October. 1S33, on which
th.e plaintiffs claim $12,476 because they
are unable to find vouchers or accounts,
the court reviews the checks cashed, al
ludes to the settlement of August 12. 1SS3,
and then, in a general way, covers sub
sequent occurrences.
Other Decisions.
In the suit of John A, Lesourd against
I his son. Frank E. Lesourd, and n.n adopted
daughter, to recover the title to property
In Stephens' addition, the court decided
In favor of the defendants. The plaintiff
placed the property In the name of his ton
to evade his creditors, and by arrange
ment entered into the property was after,
ward transferred to the wife of plaintiff,
Bridget Lesourd. She died, and the son
and daughter receive the estate as her
heirs. Judge Cleland. held that the orig-
l lnal transaction was fraudulent as to the
creditors of plaintiff, and he cannot as
sert his title.
A decision In favor of the plaintiff was
rendered In the case of the Pacific States
Building & Loan Association against Au
gusta Spurrier et aL. and a decree fore
closing a mortgage for $643 was declared.
The court held that the evidence disclosed
that Spurrier read the bond, mortgage and
other papers and subscribed foe building
and loan stock, and seemed to understand
what he was doing. The plea, of usury
was not an Issue, having been disposed of
upon demurrer.
In the suit of C C Cllne against the
Phillips Construction Company, to recover
$209, Judge Cleland decided that the fix
tures In the store of the .Meier &r Frank
Company are a part of the original 'de
sign to erect a building of that kind,
planned by the architect and roado to fit
the different parts of the building, and
that the whole together make a department-store
building. Cllne furnished
paints and materials to the Phillips Con
struction Company, which had the con
tract to put In the fixtures. The decision
of the court makes the fixtures subject to
the mechanic's lien law. The Phillips
Construction Company failed In business,
and plaintiff Is one of the creditors. The
Meier & Frank Company is projected by
a bond given by the contractor,, with a
guaranty company as surety, and'the lat
ter will have to pay. The defense in the
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case was that the fixtures are -separable,
and therefore not within ihe Hen law.
An appeal to the Supremo Court may bo
taken.
Divorces Granted.
Judge Frazer yesterday granted Edward
C. King a divorce from Florence King, on
the ground of desertion, which occurred
March 26. 1S93. They were married at
Portland, October 12, 1SS6. The p'aintlff
testified that he and his wife never quar
reled, but she simply took It into her
head to leave him. His sister and an
other witness corroborated the evidence as
to desertion. The defendant admitted
service of the complaint under her own
signature, but did not contest the suit.
Rachel Hill was divorced from Frederick
K. Hill by Judge Frazer, on account of
cruo. treatment. They were united In
marriage In this city January 15, 1SSS.
This was the third divorce suit filed. Hill
previously contested a case before Judge
Cleland, and Mrs. Hill on that occasion
was denied the decree prayed for.
Antonla ,Jones was granfed a divorce
from Alvln Jones, on the ground of de
sertion and nonsupport. They were mar
ried In Portland In 1S93. Mrs. Jones tes
tified that her husband never provided
her with a home, and endeavored to obtain
her wages when she was employed. She
begged blm to get work, but all to.no
purpose.
Court Xotes.
A decree for $460 and costs was yester
day rendered by Judge Bellinger for tho
plaintiffs In the case of Vancouver Trans
portation Company vs. William M. Hoag.
The will of Charles Logus, deceased, was
admitted to probate, and Louisa Logus
was appointed executrix. Max Smith,
Conrad Ewlng and Adolph Burkhardt
were appointed appraisers.
In the suit of Lusetta P. Beers vs. Rob
ert Hanlln and C A. Aylsworth, garnishee,
the jury found for the plaintiff In the sum
of $350. Aylsworth appears in the case as
a garnishee, and the verdict means that
he owes Hanlln this sum of money. Mrs.
Beers Is trjlng to collect a Judgment
against Hanlln for $500 damages for as
sault and battery.
An order for the drawing of 40 Jurors for
the June term of the United States Dis
trict Court was yesterday Issued by Judge
Bellinger. These Jurors will be taken from
the names submitted for the United States
court panel, the Marshal, Clerk and a
United States Commissioner performing
the work of drawing the names from the
box. The drawing will take place Monday
at 10 o'clock, after whlcn the names of
the panel will be published.
A petition In bankruptcy was filed yes
terday In the United States District Court
for Joseph D. Monthyon, of Multnomah
County. Unsecured claims against his
property were estimated at $4000 39, se
cured claims at $yS5, and notes on which
he was liable for other persons, $1S0. The
total assets were named as 42S4531. qf
which exemptions were claimed amount
ing to $200t In tho matter of G. F. Tyler,
who filed a petition some time past, he
was given a. discharge.
Judge Bellinger yesterday decided
against the habeas corpus petition filed
asking tho release of the Chinese woman
named Li Tom Shi. who came to this port
on the Monmouthshire, the last voyage of
that vessel. Ll Tom Shi was accompanied
to America by a Chinese merchant of
Portland, who claimed that the woman
was his wife. The case will likely be ap
pealed to the United States Supreme
Court, asJn'the order dlanlsclng the peti
tion the defendants were siren 15 days for
perfecting their appeal.
BOERS' LAST CARD
About to Be Played in the
United States.
BY FISCHER AND HIS COMPANION
England Believes When Kragcr
Learns We Will Xet Help Him He
"Will Sae for Peace.
LONDON, May 12. The Boers seem, to
be on the ev of playing their last card,
and, according to many keen observers In
England, It Is being played, not In South
Africa, but In the United States, through
the medium of the Boer delegates who
sailed for New York from Rotterdam last
week.
As the bulk of British opinion does not
contemplate for a moment that Mr. Fisch
er and his companions will achieve success.
It Is only natural that serious thought la
x
ought to throw the "stiff ' ovcrbeard? AH
now confidently devoted to prognosticat
ing the date when the war In the Trans
i vaal will be ended. Most estimates, concur
'In agreeing that hostilities will have
ceased by June, when President Kruger
' learns that the last country appealed to,
namely, the United States, will afford no
help, and that he has no alternative in
, the face- of the overwhelming force now
victoriously sweeping into his territory but
to sue for peace.
What Great Britain's answer to that re
! quest will be was unmistakably defined by
Joseph Chamberlain, the Secretary of
State for the Colonics, at Birmingham yes
terday, when he declared that the Boer
Republics must become a crown colony,
whose initial stage of organization will be
controlled by . military administration.
By agreeing to these terms. President
Kruger must, of course, give up all for
which he has been fighting. But, on the.
other hand now that terms have been so
emphatically enunciated, they must either
be granted or England will jtand defeated.
The latter alternative, however, does not
1 enter England's category of posslblll.Ies.
Her people are firmly convinced that Lord
Roberts will steadily advance, perhaps
with delays and losses of daredevil units,
and may be without Inflicting a crushing
defeat until he occupies the Transvaal.
His forward progress, they believe, will be
stopped only when President Kruge--,
learning of the failure of Fischer's mis
sion, asks for peace. That this will como
sooner than previously expected is the
trend of popular opinion today.
A long siege of Pretoria has become a
remote contingency. Sharp fighting at
Kroonstad and on the Vaal River, a series
1 of rear-guard actions with constantly re
treating forces, an organized development
of a hostile country, and then by June, or
perhaps earlier, peace and occupation.
Such Is the average forecast of the strug
gle In South Africa. Maj be It Is altogether
too optimistic, but the present successes of
the British arms and the evidences of
their well-defined plans and excellent or
ganization form much excuse for optim
ism. In comparison with what 200.000 British
troops havo been doln? In South Africa
during the week, the events in England
Itself are perhaps unimportant. Yet they
teem with human Interest and interna
tional Importance. First and foremost Is
the question of Australian federation. Del
egates from this great colony are cease
lessly speaking pleasant words to London
audiences through the luxurious medium
of public dinners and luncheons, to say,
nothing of copious interviews, but, mean
while, are. fighting Colonial Secretary
Chamberlain tooth and nail in an endeavor
to maintain Australia's objection to having
the Engllah Privy Council as a final court
of appeal for local cases. No compromise
has yet been reached, and Mr. Chamber
lain will shortly Introduce the subject of
federation in the House of Commons, ad
vocating that the bill be passed as for
warded to Australia, with the exception
of an amendment granting- the Privy
Council tho power mentioned above. Pre
sumably the Commons will follow the
government's lead. What Australia will
do remains to be seen. The obligation
subordinating the highest colonial courts
to the Privy Council, under which Canada
now labors, may wreck the whole scheme
of federation.
Whllo Imperial politics are Interesting,
home matters are equally so. The Outlock
semi-humorously sums up these matters
by reporting Lord Salisbury as saying!
"Let us have rifle clubs everywhere and
let the young maidens fetch ,thelr fathers
dinner and beer."
This reference to beer la not half so
facetious as It might appear. Lord Sal
isbury's outspoken opposition to radical
temperance measures in the House or
Lords Tuesday will probably afford a
basis for one of the strongest planks ot
the. opposition platform at the next elec
tion. Confronted by the united archbish
ops and bishops, the Premier spoke more
frankly upon the temperance question
than almost any leading man in English
politics ever dared to. Mr. Goschen, Mr.
Chamberlain, Lord Hamilton and the Earl
of Selbourne would rather have lost an
additional source of Income. All the week
lies, regardless of party, agree in sup
porting the principles of the defeated mo
tion, and doubtless in theeourse of time
the government itself will bring In a
measure to prohibit any minister of the
crown from taking part In the direction of
a public company.
Tho Saturday Review, interpreting Lord
Salisbury's recent generalism regarding
hatred towards England andr the neces
sity of arming the country, as especially
applicable to the United States, declares:
"During the Cuban War there were a
largo number of people In this country
who sympathized with Spain, but they
kept their feelings strictly to themselves.
Not n, discordant note was heard In our
press, and the British Government pre
vented a combination of European powers
that would have thrown the American
Government on Its back. How do the
United States repay us? We were treat-
St. Paul Pioneer-Press.
the pacn$crs are getting sicX.
' cd to all kinds of Intrigues over the Alas
kan boundary and the Nicaragua Canal;
and now at least half the American press
and Nation loudly proclaim their sympa
thy with the Boers, and are organizing
. receptions for their delegates. We shall
have to defend our empire, and must do
j it, as Lord Salisbury says, with our right
arm." x
I Thi3 Is Interesting comment, but It
neither represents the best-informed nor
the popular opinion. Lord Salisbury had
no Idea of referring to American pro-Boer
manifestations when speaking at the
meeting of the Primrose League. More
over, these manifestations are popularly
regarded In England, thanks to the cable
dispatches of English correspondents, as
nothing but a temporary effervescence of
political agitation In a country on the
verge of an election, and as such are of
no serious Import.
The Speaker, commenting upon Rus
sian railroad and territorial aggression in
China, declares that Lord Salisbury and
Mr. Chamberlain cannot protect British
interests, real or Imaginary. In any part
of the world, and that the United States
has been the only guardian of our mter-
t ests in China, while Lord Salisbury has
I been a helpless looker-on.
. Salisbury's speech was delivered when
tho nation expected exactly the op
posite kind of remarks. To Implore
his countrymen to awake to the per
ils constantly menacing their great em-
J pjre and its existence at the very moment
wnen a long penoa or patient waiting naa
been replaced by jubilation over Lord Rob
erts' successful advance, was an expedient
so utterly bereft of the first principles of
I politics, especially considering the approach
of the elections, that some of Lord Salis
bury's own supporters believe he was al
most off his head when he spoke.
Not content with this, he pulled down
every pretty fabric that had been built
around the Queen's visit to Ireland, calmly
comparing the political efforts to attain
home jule to Boer conspiracies and hos-
( tility. And this after the Queen and every
leading member of Lord Salisbury's Cabl
I net and party had been at particular pains
l to bury the Irish hatchet. Moreover, the
t whole tone of the speech lacked all those
formalities, reticences and veiled allusions
to which the English people have been ac
customed since the days of Pitt and Pal
merston. Lord Salisbury hitherto had re
ligiously followed such precedents, but on
Wednesday he spoke to the public as he
might to an intimate friend after dinner.
So amazing and so interesting has been
Lord Salisbury himself, as revealed this
week, that the broad and from the stand
point of other nations, the far most Im
portantsensational feature of the speech
i has passed almost unnoticed. Were the
Premier of any other European state to get
up in these times of wars and rumors of
war and urge the people-of an emlnently
commerclal race to accustom themselves
to the use of firearms and to establish
rifle clubs In every city, village and hamlet,
there would run through Europe such a
shiver of fright and such Ivld anticipation
of hostile Intention and devastating con
flict that market prices would drop by de
cades and mobilization plans would be at
the finger tip of every war minister.
That this has not occurred appears to be
due to the generally recognized fact that
Salisbury is more a philosopher than a
statesman and that when he pessimistical
ly painted the hostilities toward England
the world over, he was speaking purely In
the abstract,, without harboring In his mind
one concrete instance whereby that hos
tility might become an Immediate menace.
DALY IS FOR SILVER
Fusion Candidate for Cong
ress Declares Himself.
STANDS ON PLATFORM OF 1898
Cautions 3Iet to Say Too Mseh'for
Fear of Losing? Ike Sapport et'
tke Gold Democrats.
CORVALLIS, Or.. May 12. Dr. Bernard
Daly, of Lakeview, the Democratic and
Peoples-randldate for Congress in the
First District, Is conducting an unobtru
sive campaign. Ho la quietly going the
rounds, giving all comers the glad hand
and the happy smile, but making no
speeches nor saying anything that would
tend to alienate free-silver shouter or gold
standard Democrat from his support. To
all Inquiries whether he intends to take
the stump, he makes the affable reply:
"It would be taking unfair advantage for
me to go on the stump when Mr. Tongue
Is at Washington attending- to the state's
business. If he were In Oregon I shouM
take the stump." Dr. Daly has already
distributed his handshakes and smiles to
tho admiring Fusionlsts of Linn County.
Wednesday he journeyed to Lincoln Coun
ty and -visited Toledo, Newport and the
SHetz Indian reservation. He returned to
Corvallls yesterday and is being shown
around by E. L. Bryan, who helped bring
about his nomination In tho Democratio
convention. From here he will go to Dal
las for a conference with J. H. Townsend,
Democratic National committeeman for
Oregon.
For Free Silver, but Cautious.
An Oregonian reporter met Dr. Daly at
the Occidental Hotel yesterday, and asked
him for his views on the money question
and for any answer he cared to make to
the statement recently published that,
when a member of the Legislature, he had
caused people to believe that he was not
for free silver. To the flrst question ha
replied that the financial declarations of
the Democratic. Populist and Silver-Republican
platform of 1S3S, as affirmed by
the Democratic platform of 1S00, fully rep
resented his views on the money question;
to the second, that when In the Legisla
ture he had always voted with the Demo
cratic party on all party questions. Tha
Populist, Silver-Republican and Demo
cratic declarations on money In 1S3S, which
Dr. .Daly now accepts, follow:
Wo demand the free and unrestricted coin
age of silver and gold at the present legal
ratio of 10 to 1, without waltinjr for the con
sent of foreign nations; and -we are unalter
ably opposed to the poller of. the present Re
publican Administration In demanding- tho re
tirement of greenbacks, and the turning over
ot tho money-making power of the Govern
ment to tho National banks, as presented by
tho bill drawn by the Republican Secretary ot
the Treasury and indorsed by President Mc
KInley; and we especially denounce the avowed
attempt by slid bill to fasten the country Ir
revocably and forever to the single gold stand
ard. We demand a National money, safe and
sound. Issued by the General Government
only, without .the Intervention of banks, of ls
sus. to be a full legal tender for all debts,
public and private; also a Just, equitable and
efficient means of distribution direct to tha
people through the lawful disbursements of
the Government.
We demand that the volume of circulatlns
medium bo speedily Increased to an amount
sufficient to meet the demands of the busi
ness population of this country, and to restore
the Just level of prices of labor and produc
tion. ""
"We favor such legislation as will prevent for
tho future the demonetization of any kind of
Ipgal-tender money by private contract.
We demand that the Government. In pay
ment of Its obligations, shall use its option as
to the kind of lawful money in which they are
to be raid, and we denounce the present and
preceding Administrations for surrendering this
option to the holders of Government obliga
tions. v
We demand that there shall be no further
Issue of United States Interest-bearing bonds.
Pressed for a further discussion of tho
money question. Dr. Daly smiled one of
his sweet Hibernian smiles, patted the re
porter on the shoulder, and said: "A can
didate for office must be careful about
what he says."
Views on Other Questions.
Dr. Daly said the Democratic platform
represented his views on expansion. Tha
platform favors an Immediate declaration
of the Nation's purpose to give the Filipi
nos a stable form of government, inde
pendence and protection from outside In
fluence. It favors extension of the Na
tion's Influence, "not through force and
violence, but through the persuasive power
of a high and honorable example."
Dr. Daly was more communicative on
Porto Rico, Nicaragua and other subjects
than on finance and expansion. Ho said:
"I am strongly in favor of the Nicaragua
Canal. Its construction Is necessary for
the development of the Pacific Coast. Tho
large railway corporations and syndicates)
are responsible for delaying the passage
of the canal bill. They know that con
struction of the canal would reduce freight
rates between the Atlantic and the PaciPc,
and they want to monopolize the trans
continental traffic as long as they can.
"I find farmers complalrlng very much
of the low price of wheat. They claim
that It costs 45 cents to raise a. bushel of
wheat, and the best price they can get la
40 cents. Producers are much discouraged
because of the prevailing- low prices. They
complain also that everything they pur
chase has increased In price. They say
that barbed wire and nails havo almost
doubled In cost the past year, and attrio
ute tho increased burden to the trusts. I
am greatly opposed to trusts of all kinds,
and believe that the duty should be re
moved from all articles controlled by tha
trusts. This would be a- cure for tho
trusts.
"I am very much opposed to taxing tha
products of Porto Rico. I hold such taxa
tion to be unjust, contrary to the princi
ples of our republican form of govern
ment, and unconstitutional, because sec
tion S, article 1, of the- Constitution, de
clares that alt duties. Imposts and excises
shall bo uniform througnout the United
States. I think it would be just as legal
to tax the wool, hops, wheat and lumber
of Oregon as to tax tho products of Porto
Rico.
"I am for Colonel Bryan for President.
The Vice-Presidential nomination should
bo given to a conservative business man.
This would materially strengthen our
ticket. I do not care to say whether tho
candidate for Vice-President should bo a
Democrat of a Populist, so long as he Is
a man who favors tho union of the reform
forces."
Court of Appeals.
SAN FRANCISCO, May 12. In tho
United States Circuit Court of Appeals yes
terday the appeal of Louis Salla and oth
ers for a new trial on writ of error waa
submitted on briefs. The appellants are
under sentence ot 20 months' Imprison
ment in the State Penitentiary at San
Querrtin for having obetructed the mails
during: the miners' strike In Idaho a.
year ago.
The case of Lewlsohn Bros, against tho
Anaconda Copper Mining Company waa
dismissed by stipulation.
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