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THE SUNDAY OREGOXIAX. PORTLAND. FEBRUARY 13, 1910. E ON TRIAL TUESDAY Conspiracy Cases Most Im portant on Docket for Present Year. TRIO ACQUITTED ONCE 'CoTernment This Time Will Attempt to Prove Agreement Existed Be tween Defendants and Entry men Previous to Entrance. BOISE. Idaho. P"eb. 12. (Special.) In point of importance the trial of William J. Kettenbach. Messrs. Dwyer and Kes ter. of Lewiston, on the charge of feloni ously conspiring to defraud the Govern ment out of valuable timber lands lo cated along the Clearwater River in JCez Perce County, is one of the most promi nent upon the criminal calendar of the irnited States Circuit Court for the dis trict of Idaho to be tried during the pres ent year. Trial date has been set for Tuesday before Judge Frank S. Dietrich- in the chambers in this city. The result will be watched with interest ill every section of this state, especially that of the north, from which the criminal cases originated. Vigorous Opposition Expected. That the defendants wilt meet ths charge of the CJovernment with vigorous opposition was indicated this week throtigli the installation of their elabor ate legal headquarters, apart from the Federal building, where some of the most prominent attorneys in the state are con gregated preparing the case to be ' pre sented in behalf of the three accused men. Kettenbach, Kester and Dwyer are ex pected in Boise Monday. The defendants will be tried on two of the counts in one of the eight indictments returned against them. All of the indict ments are alike as to the general charge but constitute separate land entries. It 1s stated here that if they are found not guilty of these two counts, the balance of the indictments pending against them will be dismissed by the Government and the prosecution of these famous timber fraud cases dropped. The trial Indictment originally contained five counts. It was, together with the other seven Indictments, returned during the years 190.VO6. The Government went to trial on the one indictment at that time. A .1ury acquitted the defendants on threo of the counts and held them on tn o. Appeal was tsken to the United States Circuit Court of Appeals and the two counts were remanded back to the lower court for retrial. The Government al lowed the case to remain dormant up to last Fall. Indictments Held Sufficient. Demurrers to the complaint and other legal technicalities were raised by the defense, but the court held the- indict ment sufficient for trial. Alleging that fitrong prejudice exists In Nez Perce and other northern counties against the defendants and that political spoil has been made out of the indictments re turned against them, while the news papers had attempted to foster i 11 feelintr against -those accused, counsel for the defendants petitionedv for a change of venue from Moscow to Boiso. f The Government raised no objection to the petition. Judge Dietrich granted the transfer of the trial to this city and set January 20 as the date for counsel ' for the Government to inform the defendants on what indictment they would be tried. This was subsequently done. There are but two entries included in the two counts remaining for trial in this Indictment. The Government will endeavor to prove that an agree ment existed between the defendants and the entrymen prior to the time the land was entered, the understanding be ing that, for a certain consideration, the entrymen would file on the timber land and after securing; title turn it , ver to the defendants. The Government alleges that In this matter the timber-grabbers managed to defraud the Government out of large and valuable holdings. The defense will claim that no such agreement was entered into and that whatever timber they secured was purchased in a legal manner. The sentiment against the defendants In the north Is strong in many quarters, but they are all confident that their trisl here next week will be fair and impartial. ALL READY FOR ROAD MEET iiood-1 loaders Will Travel to Aber deen Convention by Auto. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Feb. II. (Special.) - Preparations for the State Oood Roads Convention to bo held in this city Feb ruary 23 are now reaching a stage in their development which Rives every assurance that the gathering ' will exceed in magni tude any similar event ever held either in this state or the Pacific Northwest. Letters are flooding the hotels of the. city from all points of the state. 50 reser vations alone being telegraphed yester day. The Tacoma and Seattle list of dele gates, most of whom will omio by auto mobile, has been swelled from " to al most double tl'pt number, according to ad vices just received. Everet t is ma king a strong campaiKU. , for the next annual meeting, and will also arrive with a large representation in order to have weight wh'-n the future meeting-place is chosen. It was decided today that all the auto mobiles that can be brought into service will be engaged to go from here to IMym pia the day before the convention to act bs escort to Governor M. E. Hay. who will come to tiiix city by automobile route in order to show what lias been done so far in Chehalis County towards the better ment of highways. Probably one of the strongest drawing cards that the convention extends, aside irotu its great anticipated size, will bo the influence it will have not only in the apportionment among the counties of stat road funds, but also on prospective legislation. Headed by the Governor, many state and county officials, together with state legislators, will put in an ap pearance, and before the two days' ses sion lias been ended statutes of great im portance to state highways will undoubt edly have been instigate!. Mi sin a ted Team, "Chink" In Jail. AIBAXT. Or.. Feb. 12. (Special." Th alternative of keeping his mismated team off the streets of Albany or serv ing 13 daya in jail faces Ah Louie, a lo .al Chinaman. I jouie for some time haa hern driving a team formed of one un usually large horse and a very diminu tive one. The miniated, team, always in poor condition from lack of food, he came an eyesore and 1-ouie was arrested IDAHO TIB Pilffl yesterday for cruelty to animals. He waa released on promise of refraining from driving his mismated team. POVERTY PLEA ONLY" HOAX Weston Family Seek Aid, Hoarded Money in House. Vet WESTOX, Or.. Feb. 12. (Special.) The family of W. D. West, recent ar rivals at Weston from Tennessee, have been receiving aid from the town and county on the plea of poverty. The husband and wife were sick, and visit ors found no provisions but flour in the house. Aid was then promptly ex tended. Later it developed that a boy in the family had carried to school a purse containing $160. and that another wal let well rilled with currency was kept hidden under a pillow at the house. The Wests were then compelled by the town Marshal to pay for the provisions they had received, and to return the cash contributions. A. tpins Divide Suffragettes. NEW YORK, Feb. 12. Members of the Women's Democratic Club have digressed from suffrage to hatpins. Two hours of their latest meeting was devoted to a. discussion as to the prop er length of "woman's topmost imple ment of war. Mrs. Margaret Fitzger ald declared the present law, providing for a hatpin less than, "nine inches,' is dangerous. No hatpin, she said, should extend beyond the crown of the hat. To emphasize -tier point, Mrs. Fitzger ald told of the narrow escape of a man on a streetcar when a woman careened against him and her hatpin was driven into his ear. "If that had been his eye," she said, 'he would have been a dead man." Diplomat Extols King Leopold. NEW YORK, Feb. 12. High praise for Leopold, late King of the Belgians, comes from Henry Lane Wilson, ex-Mlnister to Belgium, who leaves for his new post as ambassador to Mexico next week. "Leopold was intellectually the superior of any reigning monarch in Europe," "said Mr. Wiison, who has just arrived in New l ork, after a brief visit in the W est. "He played his part in a limited field of action, but if he had been Emperor of Germany or King of England he would have been esteemed the first figure of his time. In financial or commercial life he would have been a Morgan or a Rocke feller. "All his Ideas were 'on a grand scale, and whatever mistakes he made were due mainly to the difference between the part he wished to play and the little theater in which he had to play It." 1689 Miles Traveled by Trolley. ST. J--OUIS, Feb. 12. From Syracuse, N. Y., to St. Louis by trolley is the achievement of A. J. Littlejohn, an Eastern traction company of ficlal, who arrived here Friday. Littlejohn took a roundabout course and traveled 1749 miles. The trip back to Syracuse, which he began last night, will cover only 1009 miles. Mr. 1 .ttlejohn traveled 68 miles on steam roads. Between Kala mazoo, Mich., and Niles, Mich., a dis tance of 48 miles, and between Paris and Ridgefarm. 111., 20 miles, he aban doned the interurban electric lines. Of the total distance of 1749 miles, 16SJ of them were over electric railways. MUlmen Buy Light Stock. TOLEDO. Or., Feb. 12. Lewis Mont gomery, of the Fir & Spruce Lumber Company, of this place, has purchased a one-fifth interest in the Toledo Light, Power & Manufacturing Company, which Is operating an electric lighting system in this cit. the incorporators, J. F. Stewart, Al Smith and H. L. Collins, retaining the controlling Interest in the company. It is the intention of the company to remove the plant to the Fir & Spruce Company's sawmill within a few days. .The sawmill agrees to furnish fuel for the lighting plant for a erm of five years. Southern Pacific Sued. OREGON CITY. Or.. Feb. 12. (Spe cial.) Thomas Evans today filed a suit against the Southern Pacific Railroad Company for $20,000 damages, alleging that on September 25, 1909, he pur chasei a ticket from the railroad com pany to "Wilsonia, a station north of Oswego, and that on his return trip, as Evans was walking along the track to take the train, it backed without the sound of a whistle or other signal. The train crushed one of his legs so badly that amputation was necessary, he says. Beating WitH Dipper, Alleged. OREGON CITY. Or.. Feb. 12. '(Spe cial.) -William Stubbe has filed a suit for divorce from his wife, Mary Stubbe. The Stubbes are well known at Esta cada, where they have made their resi dence for many years. They were mar ried in Wisconsin in November, 1874. Stubbe alleges his wife has treated him in a cruel and inhuman manner. On one occasion, he says, she beat him in the face with a tin dipper, which caused him much pain. Adventlst Church Nearly Done. FORl-HiT GROVE, Or., Feb. 12. (Spe cial.) The new church building of the Seventh Day Adventists is nearly com pleted, and as Soon as the interior is finished the place wil be dedicated for worship. Recently a church organiza tion was perfected by Elder G. W. pettit. There were 60 Adventists pres ent and preachers from the neighboring churches. MUSICIANS' UNION UNITES Ralph W. Hoyt. I s - I g at . : r. IT g "W- v 1 I r - - 1 ff mwt - L'H f -A,. V J. I ... -tt- v -A " S Portland tlie beautiful, Portland the saily decorated. Portland dressed up s she never. has been to en tertain her hundreds of thousands of visitors for the Rose Festival. This is the motto, the shibboleth of the members of the lot-al Musicians' Union. This organization has come to the front to push the plan of having Portland arrayed in her finest garments for the next annual floral display, and the movement will come to its focus in the grand benefit concert to be given at the Bungalow Theater next Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o'clock. The musicians have agreed to donate the services of 65 of its members to render a programme the like of which no local talent lias yet given the public. All of the locat directors and leaders have come to the front to assist in the benefit and included in the programme there will be soloists who have been ' attached to some of the greatest musical organizations in the country. There will be artists from Sousa's, Oilm ore's. Innes". Creatore's bands, and members of some of the leading orchestras in the United States. Plans are under way to have a large number of the downtown business blocks decorated with novel effects for the daily programmes and embellished with brilliant illuminating features for the electrical and other parades at night. All through the coming week the Musicians Union will make as complete a canvass of the city as lossible In the sale of tickets for the big benefit for next Sunday. President Hoyt. of the Festival, who is a talented musician himself and who will direct the benefit band of 65 members in several of their numbers, says that the programme now being rehearsed is one that could not be excelled by any musical organiza tion that has ever come here from the Kast. JURY DELVES YET Mijchell Letters Are Puzzie to Hermann Probers. DEFENDANT IS SANGUINE Judge Wolverton Orders Investi gators Locked X'p . for Xiglit. Scaled Verdh:t Is Barred. .Result Expected Today.. HKKMAVX Jl BY FEBSOXXEL The Jury which for five weeks "has listened to the testimony upon which the Government has asked that Bin jrer Hermann he declared a member oC the Bine Mountain conspiracy. Is composed ot : Charles W. Riley. Clackamas County, farmer. William Myers. Clackamas County, farmer. Albertus If. Metcalf. Portland, con tractor. Fred Simmon. Portland. Salesman. Ben F. Skalfleld. Portland, con tractor. J. C. Smock. "Washington County, merchant and farmer. C. F. Pearson. Portland, master painter. John B. Thompson. Dallas, hotel keeper. Henry B. Stone. Portland, sawyer and planer. Wesley Houck. McMinnville. farmer. Georae Selkirk. Portland, furni ture manufacturer. Smith Stephens. Portland, farmer. (Continued From First page.) lleves that he will be a free man be fore the day la over. He argues that the fact that the evidence In the case has not been asked for by the jury is In his favor and shows a well denned conviction on the part of some one or more of its members. Heney Is Confident. On the other hand, the assistants to Attorney Heney stored confidence as the hours passed and insisted that the Government was gaining ground by the delay. Heney would not give an in terview concerning; his opinions as to the situation, but indicated that in case the iury failed to sgron. ho would be read" to sro on with .- -r trial as soon as the defense w-.. . i readiness. "I am not altogether hrartless, and I realize that this trial has been a tremendous strain on Mr. Hermann. He Is an old man now. and I do not want to force him to a second trial immedi ately. It would be too much for him,-' said the prosecutor. Attorney AVorthlngton, chief counsel for the defense, said It would be im possible for him to remain here for a rehearing of the case. "My affairs in Washington demand attention, and I must go .back. It will probably be several montns before the case could come up again." he said. Since the indictment was - returned five years ago Hermann has not been placed under arrest or required to fur nish the $4000 bond fixed by the court. "When indicted, Hermann was a mem ber of Congress and was at Washing ton engaged in the duties pertaining to that position, which Is considered as having made him immune. Upon his return to Oregon in 1905 he appeared in court voluntarily to plead to the charges made against him. liCtters Puzzle Jury. Unsigned copies of letters written by Senator Mitchell to F. P. Mays In the Spring of 1902. in which the Senator., re ferred to protests received against the Ftlue Mountain reserve and assured Mays that he would do everything possible to push the reserve through the land office, were the cause of a request by the jury for instructions at 7:45 o'clock last night. When the parties to the trial were as sembled, the jury was brought In and Foreman Myers asked whether -the com munications were from Mitchell to Mays or from Hermann to Mays. They were told Senator Mitchell wrote the letters and were escorted back to their room for further inquiry."" , The Incident was considered by friends, of the defendant to be favorable to Her mann. They reasoned that some mem bers of the jury were standing out for conviction and that others argued the evidence was more against Mitchell than Hermann, t I Defense Gains Last Point. Judge Wolverton occupied two hours in reading his instructions the court having convened at 9 o'clock at the re quest of the jury. The charge con tained 21.000 words. As Judge "Wolverton concluded,. At torney Worthington asked to file an ex ception to that portion of the instruc- TO GIVE GRAND C0NC3RT TO HELP DECORATE PORTLAND FOR ROSE FESTIVAL. jv , w -a C hartr Dirke. SPRING SUITS, OVERCOATSRAINCOATS STILL GOING ON BUFFUM & PENDLETON 311 MORRISON STREET, OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE tions wherein the court advised that "every witness is presumed to speak the truth." - . . - "I know of no law which authorized the court to include that Instruction," said Attorney Worthington. "Oh. yes, there is," broke in Attorney Ileney. . "The court copied the exact lan guage of the Oregon statute." replied Judge Wolverton. "Then I submit that answer as mak ing It more imperative to save an ex ception," Attorney Worthington replied. "The laws of Oregon have nothing to do with a trial in the Federal Court - The exception . was allowed. Jury Room Famous. In five minutes after Judge Wolver ton had. concluded his instructions. Bailiffs Hamilton. Jack Kerrigan and Joe Hoeg conducted the jurors to the room on the top floor of the Federal building which has been heretofore occupied by the office force of Attorney Heney. In that same room juries have decided the fates of many prominent Oregonians. John FT. Mitchell, I. N. Williamson. Pierce Mays, Henry Mel drum, S. A. . D. Puter. McKinley and Tarpley waited anxiously for the end' of deliberations there.. Mr. and Mrs. Hermann awaited th verdict at Hotel Imperial and follow- ingr the noon recess attorneys for the prosecution and defense also sought their hotels. Kosebnrg Kesidcnts Attend. A delegation of prominent residents of Roseburg reached the city on a morning train' and remained in the vi cinity of the courtroom during the afternoon. Among them were Frank Alley, E. I.. Parrett. Joe Micelli, K. I Miller. Linn Caton, H. Marks, Joe Piels ticker and A. C. Marsters. With the close of the Hermann trial the chief counsel for the defense. Attorney A. . Worthington, of Wash ington, D. C. will retire from the prac tice of criminal law. ' "It will positively be my last ap pearance in a criminal court," said Attorney Worthington. "There are of course a few small cases to clean up, wihch wHl have my attention. When this case ends I "am ' practically out of that branch of law. Such cases Im pose much worry on an attorney." Asked if he proposed to abandon all branches of law, Mr. Worthington de clined to-be quoted. "I might change my mind." he said. - - Intent Must Be Shown. The essential points of Judge Wolvor ton's charge to the jury were that the ennqnirnftv must have been formed within ' three years of February 33, 390o, when the indictment was returned, but if they. found that a conspiracy had been formed before that' they could still hold the de- V. H. Borer. NOW ON tt y Warbiirton 'Fistol SPECIAL REDUCTION SALE fendants responsible If an overt act had been done within those three years. Tho Judge said a person might enter without evil purpose or illegal Intent a conspiracy, but after he was in it having knowledge of its illegal purpose joined therein then he becomes a party. That Hermann did not benefit from the conspiracy is not essential. The court said the Commissioners' duty was to conserve the public lands and to protect the Government from depletion of iia public lands. Regarding Intent, the court said that circumstantial evidence could be used to prove it only when sucli evidence could have no other reasonable hypothesis than that of guilt placed on it. GEN. RANDALL'S WIFE DIES Woman Xnrscs Invalid Husband; Called First by Death. News was received yesterday of the death, at Cheyenne. Wyo., of Mrs. Georg-e M. Randall, the wife of Major- (lAnfirfll 1"? -i n ( o H "... n,l.ir u A u 1 1 I couver Barracks during 1902 and 1903. Mrs. Randall had' been In poor health l for some time and died Saturday. . She was the daughter of the late j General Henry M. Black, who served at several', of the pioneer forts along the Lpper Columbia River. Although born in the East. Mrs. Randall was well known in Portland, having spent, several years here and at Western schools. In the early '80s she visited the Central States with her father and was married in Detroit in 1885. After having been at Van couver Barracks with her husband, she accompanied him on a trip to the Phil ippines, later returning to the Coast. During the last years of her life she devoted herself to nursing Major Ran dall, whose health was broken by his long Army service, and who survives her. EDITORS SAIL FOR COLON Xatlonai Association Sends Kxcur sions to See Isthmus. NEW . ORLEANS, Feb. 12. Election of officers, choosing the next meeting place, reports of Important committees and several addresses were features of the last day's session of tho Na tional Editorial Association. About ."0 members were included in the list of passengers on the steamship lurriaioa, sailing today for Colon. More than twice this number will sail for the same port on another steamer. The parties will remain several days in Panama. James P. Baumgartner. editor of the Santa Ana, Cal., Register, was elected president. NEWS ARRIVES TOO LATE Man Is Suicide When Notification of Wife's Ieatli Arrives. SEATTLE. Wash., Feb. 12. Chief of Police Horriston, of Minneapolis, tele graphed today to the Seattle police, asking them to notify Charles Ounstead that his wife was dead in Minneapolis. Gunstead committed suicide here a week ago by swallowing carbolic acid at midnight on a waterfront street. Tho finding of his body, which had been dragged into a dark spot and robbed by thieves, gave rise to a sensational story of murder. Gunstead had been despondent be cause unable to find steady employment, and the sickness of his wife is now given as an additional reason for sui cide. ATTIC TENANT DIES RICH Man Apparently Abjectly Poor Has Real Estate, AVortli 950,000. PUEBLO. Col.. Feb. 12. In a dismal attic room of an unoccupied bui lding, which he owned. E. S. 'Owens, aged 65 years, was found dead in a chair this morning by a policeman. Search of the room revealed papers indicating that the man. who had lived in apparently abject circumstances, waa the owner - of real estate in Pueblo worth $30,000. He waa taken ill Wednesday, but refused-to call a doc tor. Southwest Miners Confer. ST. LOUIS. Feb. 12. President Iewis. of the .Mineworkers of America, began a conference here this afternoon with the miners and operators of the Southwest. The two organizations, according to Mr. Lewis, are at out over wago ecalee and breach of faith in contracts. . rY'LE DISPLAY BOX OPPONENTS ARE-SHY Recall Election in Ashland Finds No Candidates. SPITE WORK, SAYS MAYOR No Matter What Result Is, Declares Official, Reputations Are Tar u ished by Invoking of Amendment. ASHLAND, Or.. Feb. 12. (Special.) Interest in the forthcoming recall election for Mayor to be held Febru ary 21 has not reached a white heat and there is no evidence yet of life in the campaign, as no opponent has offered himself or has been persuaded to enter the race against Mayor R. K. Snell. Ashland is believed to be the largest city in Oregon in which the new' recall amendment to the con stitution has been invoked, and the novelty seems to be attracting com ment. Mayor Snell takes the position that the election la not a good advertise ment for the city, and that, regardless of the outcome, it is bound to leave a blemish on the character of the official attacked. He says in an authorized publication: "My contention from the beginning of this dastardly spite work has been that no matter what might be the re sult of a recall election. It would leave a blemish on the character of an honest and faithful public servant, simply to gratify the spite of a few men who have personal spleen to vent and who have not been able to use me for their personal ends and gatn, to the injury of the general public, since I have been Mayor. Such unjust strife and conten tion can result in no good to the public and a recall election on such flimsy charges would be a shame and disgrace to the City of Ashland, and leave a stigma upon the fair name of our beau tiful city, from the effect of which it would not recover for many years." The petitioners for the recall as sert that the taxpayers of the city have lost confidence in Mayor Snell'a financial management of the public funds, and that his retention in office will retard the rapid growth anfl de velopment of the city. CLAIMS NOW PAID QUICKLY Xew York Central Official- Tells Congress Railroads Reformed. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. Representa tives of the claims department of the big railroads were before the House committee on interstate and foreign commerce today. One of them testified that last year he settled claims amount ing to more than a million dollars against his road. "lsnt it a fact." asked. Representa tive Townsend, Republican, of Michi gan, "that some roads never pay a claim until they have to?' "Yes, it is," admitted P. L. Calkins, claim agent of the New York Central Railroad, "but that sort Is. getting less all the time. The railroads are begin ning to realize that the sooner the claim is paid the better It Is for both the road and the claimant." Mr. Calkins said occasionally the roads were asked to pay damages on freight never received or improperly billed or invoiced. "I remember one claim for 'valuable oil paintings that had been shipped over our road as 'rabbit skins, " he said. Albany Beats Salem In Game. ALBANY, Or.. Feb. 12. (Special.) The fast basketball team of the Albany High School overwhelmed the team of the Capitol Business College, of Salem, in a game in the Alco Club gymnasium in this city last night and piled up a scor of 65 to 10. O. A- C. Cadets Plan Dance. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COL LEGE. Feb. 1 2. ( Special. ) Tbe of ficers of the O. A. C. cadet corps are making final preparations for the an nual Washington's birthday hop. These 9 officers hops are among the most prominent social events of the college year, and as they are conducted as f;ir as possible according to military cus tom many out-of-town people are al ways attracted. This year the hop will be held on the evening of Feb ruary 22 in the college armor v. FRUITGROWERS TO MEET JHtuglsis County Slon to Hear Kwrt SpcakOTS lTebniiirj 26. ROSEBURG. Or.. Feb. 12. (Special. 1 Douglas County fruitgrowers TviU meet here February 26. rnd will b addressed by four of Oregon's lradinjr experts. A. IT. Carson. Commissioner; Professor O'Gara, Government expert; AV. K. Newell, president of State Board of Horticulture, and Charles A. Park, District Commissioner. Xfw Inauguration Date Opimscd. WASHINGTON, Feb. 12. An unfavor able report has been forwarded to Con gress, by the Commissioner of the Dis trict of Columbia, on the bill recently in troduced by Representative Guernsey, ot Maine, providing that public ceremonies in connection witli the inauguration of the1 President and Vice-President be held on the last Thursday of March of eacli inaugural year. The measure was pre sented with the Idea of avoiding a con stitutional amendment by permitting the President and Vice-President to take the oath of office in the House of Represen tatives on March 4. and fixing the later date for public ceremonies. Missouri Governor Buys l-'arm. JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., Fcl. 12; Gov ernor Hadley, a firm believer in life on the farm as the ideal existence as well as a solution of the high cost of living problems', demonstrated his sincerity ye terday when he bought a 120-acro farm near this city and announced that he will move his family there as soon a? warm weather comes. lie will raise stock and poultry and devote his spare time to scientific farming as taught by the Agri cultural College at Columbia. Tapan Adopts Reduced Budget. TOKIO. Feb. 12. The budget was passed after si ight additions by the House of Representatives. The passage of. the budget was assured through the recent compromise whereby the land tax was reduced S per cent, involving $4, 000,000, and trie appropriations were proportionately decreased. FREE PILE CURE Sent to Demonstrate the Merits, Pyramid Pile Cure. of What It Has lon for Others, It Can IX for You. 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