VOL. VIII. NO. 115. PORTLAND,. OREGON, THURSDAY EVENING. JULY 15,' 1909. TWENTY PAGES. PRICE TWO CENTS. ' SM2I"!itfD SS3 CONTRACTOR WILL DIE OF WOUNDS MYSTERIOUSLY INFLICTED Mi 8 HQ RAEF.BRACKETTSHOJDOWH AFTER Midnight Shooting of Electrical Gon tractor May End With His Death, and Police Are Looking For Two Men Who May Be Concerned in Murder. Walls Walla, Wash., July 15 R F. Bracket haa been a resident of this city . about 15 years. For . 12 years he waa chief electrician of the 'Northwestern Gas & .Electric com pany. He married Bertha Hill, daughter of the former cashier of the Baker-Boyer bank. The family Is one of the best known In the val ley. . . ine repori oa, iuo Buuuvmg " as a shock to this city and the woman feature of the trouble Is ' given little credence. Brackett had a faultless reputation. ' j He severed his connection wit! the Northwestern ' company here a few. months ago and went' to Port land. His wife and children live here. His wife left for Portland this morning. Rae Fillmore Brackett, an elec trical engineer, is gasping, out his life at Good Samaritao hospital, his abdomen fearfully tornv by a bullet fired at close ra?nge. While detec tlvea search the city for the two men who, it Is believed will prove to be murderers, Brackett, ki bla: infT quent moments of consciousness, refuses, steadfastly to. reveal their Identity, or even to tell who Is the woman, who', the police are assured, caused' all the trouble. . - The affair - occurred at ;12:M last night on Tamhlll near Fourteenth street. The exact' detail of the shoot- . i i i mvatarv Yflt- thlS ing are oruuuou ...---. -.. f much Is positively known." . 1 In the thick darkness. caused by the overhanging trees t Fourteenth and Yamhill,- Brackett met a gooa iooiu woman, dressed In black. R. E. Dent, tableman at the O. . R. C Ilyeryvbarn Juat across ths street heard Brackett -SPiK. earnestly to the woman, and h.rrf her renly: . - o,'X just woat to' It.- Ton don's aaad to talk to me that way, tot X wont, aad that la all there la so iv 10:80 o'clock. Braca ett was areseed then as when he later appealed to tne v a dark suit and derby hat. ,A : "After the woman had refused to con alder whatever -proposal the man had made to her, they walked on up Four teenth street and I dldnt Bee them aln together." aald Dentthla morn ing. But from thia point the story of the strange midnight promenade is taken up by Edward Ward, buaman for the Hotel bregon. , . TUO'I awry. 1 waa coming home a little after 11 Yamhill street sw ----up agalnat the wall there and Brackett waa standing in front Of .J1"" to ner very seriously, yet ao low that I couldn't hear- what Jh was saying. The woman as I saw her then seemed to M not more- than five- feet tall, and ahe was dreaaed In black. . s "Of course. I didn't know at; the time who either one of them waa, Tut the way Brackett was talking- to her made m remember him when I saw him a little later lying on the pavement. ,1 am aura I could not beonietaken.' Here the uncertainty begins - again. No one ' was v found able- to aay what became of the woman after the shoot Ing began, whether aha left, hlra at the approach of the two men and ran away or stayed to. see the -murder done, it nist nnitalhle to lav. .As to the . shooting itelt-Wardaiils.Wlfa,hanyother woman live at tne rear oi iia jgunmnui street, give the beat account, -although their story la verified In every detail by 8. Trarowakle. a mall carrier, who waa nuttinr hie horse away at a barn on Fifteenth afreet near Yamhill when the ahot was fired. 't Heard Bracket Bpeak. . "T Vrnil onl v been In bed little 'while when Iiheard the shot." Ward relatefl.4 "I got our oi nea ana ran to tne win dow. Juat across the street I" distinctly mw the man lying on the ground and two men attending over him. It was efTtier Don't kill me' or Tou have killed me' that I-heard him -say, as though he waa Soared to , death. I got my clothes on aa quickly as I could and ran out to the street I saw then the ELKS IN SPLENDID . ARRAY PARADE IN i ; ; CITY Los Angelee. Jnly lliWlth- the ex ception or -the- brief meeting of the members of the, grand lodga of Elks In tne afternoon, outdoor, ...ceremonies claimed the attention of the thousands of visitors here today.-- .The program for 'the day - comprised a morning pa rade of the -visiting and local lodge of Elks, visits to surrounding beaches-in the afternoon and an evening parade oft - Thi morning parade comprised 11 dl vtslonB. ' Grand Esquire Raymond Ben jamin acted aa grand marshal-and- his chief of staff was , Brigadier-General Robert. Wankowskt.-- At thehead of the -column rode the-grand lodge of fleer a in carriages, followed by 'the -drill , com panies of the local lodges. . , . Cincinnati lodre No. a and the Pao famento lodge -formed the third division. two men round the corner tip Fifteenth street and Brlckett staggering down to the atable, where he asked for help." " 'You've got me now,' was what I though I heard the man who waa shot say, but I waa so excited I might be mistakes," Mrs. Ward said. "I ran out to the gate and It waa so dark I guess I was pretty ' badly scared. But I wasn't so frightened that I didn't See those two men come back over the lawn of the house across the street and stand. In the Phadow of the big tree there, while they watched Brackett One of them was rather heavy and tall and the other was not very tall or very heavy, but they were both well dreaaed. Down the street very soon, came the police patrol and .the ambulance and I heard one of them aay, "We'd .better get out of this,' and they both ran. ; - The mall carrier who waa putting his horse away on Fifteenth street saya he saw ths two men run paat him. His description of them coincides with that of the Wards. He says that he saw them come back and climb up the bank and creep In ths shade of the trees over toward the place where a few moments before the shot was heard. " Tracks Followed. Between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets on the south side of Yamhill are two houses, one on the corner of Four-! teenth street, the other in the middle of the square, surrounded by a Jtwa sepa rated from the street by a, wall about four feet high. It was directly in front of the second house that the shooting occurred. 'Qolng over th ground thia morning the tracks of the men aa they entered the lot 'from the Fifteenth street side and passed over the croquot grounds, for which lot is used, were found. More tnvstlfvta than ur ntbw nir- cumstance connected here la the distinct print of a .woman's ahoe, made In the shrubbery Where the shade is deepest. Other tracks are Indistinct save- thoso made, by th men- as they dashed along the wall and down the earth .embank-, ment on the Fifteenth street side. Hera there Is no evidence of caution, and the marking are so plain that ltwould have seemed an easy matter , to catch both the would be murderers had they been trailed at once with bloodhounds. r ' Bays He Was Held up. Brackett . told Dent the stable man that he . had- been held up. Then he fainted. - Before the ambulance arrived he recovered consciousness, but ' b made no explanation to Sergeant Keller, Captain Batyor Sheriff StevenSwflJLtha frolics department, that would aid them n catching ths two men. ' .., Brackett,: It was learned .this morning, came to Portland from Walla Walla less than a month ago, expecting to go Into partnership with a nan by the name of Meyers aa electrical contractors. H. ).. Brackett senior partner la the Crescent Paper -company, living at 34S -North Grand avenue. Is a brother. Ed fcpaul- aing, in tne iransrer omce at Zb (second atreet where Brackett & Meyers had engaged office room. Is a particular and correctness of life. - "Brackett left his wife In Walla walla when ne came to Portland about a month ago, said JJr. J. C. Elder, ,260 H Third street an uncle by marriage, thia morning. "His relations with his wife had always been harmonious and there aire several children. She eipected soon to Join him here. " His. wife Is the daughter of the late John M. Hill of Walla walla. ., BtilV I wouldn't be sur prised if there waa a woman la the case, no surety was out , too lata at night . Braolcett'B Condition. Before an operation was performed on Brackett last night, at which time it was found necessary to remove his left kidney, he asked that his - wife. wno whs wun ner people at 11 uiinton, be notified of his Injury and asked to come to him. She waa reached by long distance leiepnone ana will arrive in rortiana tui evening, r Bracxett was round ' to have room 114 in the Qoodnough building. Here only some pictures of his wife and baby were found In addition to one of him self., .There were no letters or notes other woman. A. bottle of imf. fume on his dresslnr . table, an nkh. orate manicure set and other things In dicate fastidious habits. Detectives Snow and Dav who are working on the case are confident that a woman , waa the causa of ths shoot ing last nta-ht They attribute the mo tive to jealousy.. -"Wo have informs. tlon-to show that Brackett boasted of Demg out witn another map s girl, and that he declared he would go aaaln, although It made the fellow awful mad," said Detective Day this morn ing. The source . ot this information the police would not give, saying that It waa of a- confidential - nature. -They hope, however, working on the clue, te learn who Is the woman, aad ultimately (Continued on Page Four.) OF ANGELS Ths Boston lodge marched 1n the fourth division and Denver lodges. IT and 17, inclusive. In ths fifth division. The rear of ths fifth division was brought up by- the San Diego lodge. Oakland Elks comprised the sixth di vision. Baker. City, : Or., and Freano nuea out , tne seventn; santa Barbara lodge" the eighth; Montana lodgea led WIV u . . Mill. 1 1, 1UIIV W WVJ VJ IWigCI from Red lands. Riverside, Pomonsx and the ninth division, followed by lodges Ban Hernaroino, - Division 10 waa filled by marchers of the Long, Beach lodge: division 11. Santa Monica, and division 12, Arlsona lodges. ; , . ' . . Hands . of the various lodgea were scattered through all- divisions. -- i The parade started at 10 o'clock and took two hours to pass ths reviewing stand. -" ' - i : ' ,; ymmrnt II Sis: 1 1 mmmmmU&f, . - s : t - -, r - - - ' i f ' - - ' J- - . -A ' s , - , . ' . t - , . I Mr., and Airs. R. F.. Brackett. JULY WHEAT'S Goes to $1.29 Fatten Said to Be Framing Up Coup Flour Advances. . tUnlted Press Uased Wire.) Chicago, ulyl5. July wheat reached a new record for the crop today, -when it went to $1.2, but it declined again suddenly this afternoon. It Is current report that James A. Fatten : holds 4.000,000 bushels of July wheat and la attempting .to repeat hla coup of a few weeks ago. July wheat closed at 11.23 H; The reaction la attributed-partially to reports of conditions of the Russian cron. This report caused a number of brokers to dump wheat sud denly and smashed the price.- . Minneapolis. July - IS. Flour Is uotad from $6.45 to $6.60, S cents un erthapriee -during Patten's May deal f. o. b. here today. The advance in Srloa la the result of the advance -In lie wheat market.. - WOMAN RUNS FOR ,i . V BOAT; HEART FAILS (United Press Letted Wlre.T - Seattle. July 16. Mrs. Katherlne H. May, 67 years of sige. Is dead ftom the exertion of running to catch the steamer Montlcello, which left. Tacorna for Seat tle yesterday afternoon. She caught the boat just as It was leaving the wharf but. died before the steamer reached Seattle. Her son . met . the boat, . but found .her dead when tbe steamer docked.' Mrs. May waa a very' large woman and her heart - could not stand the strain, of the extra exertion caused by running to the boat . . 4 sum SURRENDERS, Mi -, -.- . . - . : , . -j. J- h' '. ,- - " fCnlteo Press - Leased Wfre. ' , ; Teheran, Jt'ersla, July : 1 5. Order: ing the ? Cossacks to V cease tiring about noon today,' Colonel Liakhoff, commanded 6t, the forces which have been defending the city, indicated that he would surrender to the nationalists.- This -means -the 'over throw of 'Shkh Mohammed : AJi. "and theestabllBhrAent:of a new. Persian government under a constitution. At daybreak, today the nationalist GOVERN WOU'S Keal Murderer of Living stone Remains at Large While Accused Man Faces Trial as Itesult of Plot, Asserts Defense. (By s Staff Correspondent.) St. Helens, Or., July 15. If George ,Murgatroyd hangs for the murder of Robert Livingstone, whose body wis found in Livingstone's Iso lated cabin at Ooble on the morning of December 11, 1908, with the skull crushed, , a woman's plot will have been successful and an inno cent man will have "expiated an other's crime. Tbis Is the conten tion of the defense in a murder case teeming with remarkable features and Involving a combination, the defense asserts, determined to rail road Murgatroyd to the gallows that tbe real murderer, a member of the combination, may go free, -! This afternoon Mrs. Fannie Richmond V Junction City. Or., will testify that Miirgatroyd, confessed, ijo.fcbat As killed Livingstone. Mrs. Richmond was recently granted a dlvorc at Eugene, on the grounds that her husband ac cused her of improper, relations with other men. Mrs. Richmond, was. it is said, on Intimate terma- with- Murga troyd. This morning James Kelly testi fied lhat Murgatroyd inaJow at a Junction City hotel, said to a cook: "I killed one man at Golile with an ax and would just as soon chop another to pieces." James Kelly ' Was last winter convicted of robbing a house! at Ku gene. An attempt by the defense to show that he had spent nine years in the Oklahoma state - prison waa ruled out by Judge Campbell. -. Will Defease Bare-not Whether the defense will succeed in baring the alleged plot agalnat Murga troyd a plot Involving a band of yeggs and undesirable cttlsens, according to the defense, which tlrst planned and executed the murder of Robert Living stone In a futile attempt to obtain hi hoard; then hatched the scheme that has resulted In George Murgatroyd being charged with the crime whether this gruesome creation of a woman's brain will be brought So light la a mooted question. Should success crown the de fense's efforts the state, it Is pointed out, will be held up to public ridicule as the dupe of this combination. An inkling of what may develop occurred yeaterday afternoon when Rov Malone, star wltnesa for ' the state, broke down under the relentless 'volley of questions from Murgatroyd's at torney, Abel, and contradicted hla first story which Implicated Murgatroyd as Livingstone's slayer countless " times and theft, succumbing to his remorse less Inquisitor's attack, almost con fessed to the killing of Robert Living stone. Malone was not put on the stand by the state this morning, as waa an ticipated yesterday. Why Is not Malone arrested? How much does Mrs. Katherlne Zlgler of Goble, the woman whom Malone accused in his signed statement or Tutting this awful task before me," knowT - These are questions that the defense is seeking, answers to. - Following is Malone's statement: . Statement by Boy kXalone. ' "I arrived" at Goble about December 1, 1908, and oh arrivlnr there I lencoun- tered Mrs.' Zlgler. If I had Only known what kind of a woman, she was 1 would of been glad to have kept on moving. When I went there- I was as aood as anybody oould be. Well, I era good yet. our sue iriea ner nest to ieaa me astray. I kept on the right path to keep out of Jail, but I am landed there juat the same, and .lt was only for the . dirty work which Mrs. Zleler wanted me to do. - , - ' "The first Bundav after T waa at Mrs. Zlgler's. at the breakfast table she put this awful task before me. end I couldn't Imagine what In the world she, meant To be very rrana with her, which I thought the beat, and after wards proved out the best way, I gave her the answer; 'No.' whloh made her a little hostile, but that air grew over in a short time, and then she told me to tell three men she had seen walking , Continued on Page Four.K rebels, who : Invested the) city two days: agd and. have beea '"fighting their way 'toward the shah's palace, renewed their furious attack upon the barricades held by the loyal Cos sacks. The firing- continued for several hours before Liakhoff or dered his men to cease. . ; : The ; commander of Ahe shah's forces. It Is understood,: la now deal ing with the leaders- of the rebels, agreeing to surrender if his men are AND ENmiLLBE Sharg - Two official- wha are investigat ing bureau . of. commerce and labor clerks. ' Washington, D. C;, July 15. A sweep ing Investigation" of the clerks In the department of commerce and labor is to bear results this week. . Secretary Jfager- arrtl - hrs-a.bte-asststant,Tm sby McHarg, have' been working quietly, endeavoring to find out if the govern ment Is -getting 'its full value out of its - employes, and , the , results have proven conclusively that, It Is not Xust .Sot Droo Pen. Under Secretary Naget's Instructions Mr- McHarg has investigated the case of, each Individual clerk in the depart ment and has renorted those whom he classes as -"mechanical" clerks to his superior. By the term "mechanical" he means "the man -who drops his pen in ' ths middle of a letter at quitting time, who- takea no pains to Inform himself as to the proper performance of his duties, whose chief recommenda tion la not what he Is dqing. but what he has done In days gone by, or whose nerves need , alcohollo - stimulant , to i for his dally task." stimulate him Mr. McHarg is .known in his depart ment as a strict disciplinarian. 'A hard worker, himself at all times, he insists that his employes shall like wise render's fair equivalent for the money paid them. Since Mr. McHarg has taken bold, of the .department of commerce and labor the output of work haa been Increased, he says, fully SO per cent "Indeed. I would swear It - haa been; increased 26 per cent" he exclaimed; 'and it is simply the result of making the men Just do then plain duty. No one is asked or expected to work himself to death or make a phenomenal record. It is simply a cans of doing what he la paid for; that Is all there Is to it Xotainf Definite. "No one- can sav at this time lust who or what percentage of clerks In the department of commerce and labor Is fro go this month," said Secretary N'acel this morning. - "I generally do things 'first and talk of them after ward. I oroDOse that the employes of this department shall -render a fair equiv alent for the salaries paid them, and those who do not must get out." con tinued the secretary.- "It Is tiurelv a question of putting the department on a business basis. , I sm less disposed to be exacting with a man who has grown gray in the service after years of faithful performance of duty than with the young fellows who have come lnto It- to be supported. - The fellows who observe office hours because they are compelled to, who drop their pens at the nour for qutttln nour ior quitting, n no matter what the condition or their work or (Continued on Page Four.) NEW ESTABLISHED guaranteed, protection and allowed to join tho. forces of the new; govern ment when . ft la established. ) t St. Petersburg, July 15. The for eign1 office today sent ordenr to the Russian troops "stationed in Persia to- arrange tor; the' safe removal of the shah across the frontier. This order. Is Inferred, to mean that the shah is about to be forced to abdi cate and floe : ' - I jUdivihkipiiz THIRTEEN ' Sheertiess. Eneland. Tulv wrecked arul sunk to the bottom of the English channel, caus ing the loss "of 13 lives, and another was seriously damacred in a collision today between three The submarine C-ll, with X of the channel. The C-17, with which the wrecked vessel is" reported to have collided, is serious damages attended to. S An official statement given out by the atuhorities this after-X-noon says Lieutenants Vrodie and Watkins and Staman Stripes were rescued irom the L-Il when she sank and that 13 seamen" were drowned. It is believed the freight steamer Eddystone caused the dis aster by crossing the line of the flotilla as the submarines were aligning to enter the Thames. All other vessels in the flotilla have been accounted for. " t - '- ,....... - Allen B. Bowen, accused ' of tha at. tempted1 robbery of the grocery and bakeshop of William Zlqck, 1287 Mil waukee avenue, was sent back to ths training ship Pensacola at San Fran Cisco today: - He .deserted . from . the ship about six weeks ago. Bowen has been held in' the county Jail for several days for-his attempted robbery. - He- la the 1 7-year-old son ot L.. W,- Bowen, of 1708 Pacific avenue, Spokane, hla father being superintend ent of the Spokane division of the Great Northern. The family Is prom inent in social circles In Spokane. Efforts of his parents and his uncle. F. J. Fellows, president of the Fellows Grocery comoariv of Portland, to have the boy sent back to hla home came to naught because of the interference of the government authorities.' Toung Bowen will be compelled to serve out his C-Dtlra term of-enlistment, nearly lour years or wnien races mm. - Bowen waa captured . in Ladd's farm about an hour after the attempted hold up, following a chase of a mile or. ao by Zlnck. A. L. Billings, whom the boy accused of having planned the holdup and . who. ordered the storekeeper at the point of a revolver to deliver his money, escaped. . ...... : ... . ,. Bowen conressea everytning . to xne authorities on the night of his capture, while being held in the city JalL Being under age, he waa turned over to the juvenile authorities, and has since been detained in tne county jail. Last spring Bowen enlisted as an apprentice In the navy at Bremerton, Wash., with the consent of his parents. Transferred to the Pensacola at San Francisco, he learned that, with several hundred recruits, he waa to be detailed to the Asiatic station. Disliking the prospect, Bowen, Billings, wno is rrom Ballard. Wash., and.' about -1 00 others, deserted. Tramptn about the coast for five weeks. BUUnas and Bowen arrived In Portland on the Southern Pacific late Tuesday night - Hungry and without money, they planned to commit the crime. When, instead -of the storekeep er calmly complying with demands to hand over hi eaah, he showed flirht. the boys ran. Bowen was run down. snake: bridge E Bill (Washington Boreas of The Journal.) Washington, July 15. The omnibus bridge bill. Introduced in the house to day, authorises the construction of a bridge over the Snake river at the town of Ontario, Or. Authority Is granted the county commissioners of Malheur coun ty, the chamber of "commerce of the town of Ontario, Or., and the county commissioners of Canyon county, Idaho. ORCHARD TO County Fruit Inspector; Fonts "Will Cut Down 250 Trees Near Portsmouth Because of j Incurable - Disease Serves Xotice That Law Will Be Enforced. it has condemned and will destroy at once an eld mixed orchard of about S50 trees near Portsmouth on the Lower Penin sula. These trees are badly Infected with San Jose scale, dead spot and ap- Fle ranker and are so- badly diseased, in he -opinion of -the Inspector that spray ing will not save them. - Inspector Fones Is 'determined to set rid Of fruit tree nests In Multnnmnh county 4f a liberal, wielding of the ax will accomplish It He haa notified a number of ownera of Infected trees that tney must- eradicate the diseases in their orchards either, h-r BDravina or destroying the trees, and in event of their fstlure to do either, he Intends to follow the law to the letter and destroy uued uywir, LIVES LOST 15. One British subrtiarine was vessels, according to wireless 13 men aboard, is a the bottom hurrying to. Yarmouth to have ... : ;, Government j.-offlcialg have- run to ground what, appeara to be one of the most flagrant - case' of duplicity- aver played by a woman upon her husband-, and one that for cunning - and daring Stands quite alone In' Its class. -The', principal characters- in' thia drama of life were lodged in the county Jail last night and the authorities are now busy gathering additional evidence by which -It is believed the principal win u, cunrwini wimoui,. muca aim oulty., ' ' - '. , . - 1 French E. Dodge, a middle aged man of the desperado type,, is the man in the case, and Mrs. Orovil Connor, wlf of a farmer and rural mail carrier of Shedds Station, Or., la the woman. They were brought . Into Jail late last . night. from Gresham , after their arrest there by Deputy Marshal WUUamjQrJlflth thou. oia lunraraeoi ioutn; AnuT nicnors, ppeclal agent engaged aa Francis J. Honeys Doayguara aurmg tne la mi fraud trials here some time ago,-and Constable Henry Gullackson -of - the Gresham district Griffith and Nichota arrested Dodse and Constable Gullnck. son, accompanied ty .Nlcnois, - arrested the woman. " : - 1 , ' -.- vivth y-vMur. niw isriiier - wiiv nan been mulcted out of a turn running close to 11000 and lost the affections of his wife and two daughters,' according to the statement made to the government offi cials, it has been ascertained, is a highly respected resident of his district and has the sympathy of the entire neighbor hood. He admits that but for their friendly advice he would probablv still be playing the short end of a game In which he had been selected aa an easy victim from, the start. , &and rraod Dodged- ; The facts as laid before the ' authori ties by Farmer Conner are that October. 1 4, last year, French E. Dodge came to Connor's farm near Shedd's Station, ant presented himself as a special agent of the government .working en the Oregon land frauds and that he was also In the, government secret service. He. told Con ner thst It had come- to ths -notice of the frovernment that Mr. Conner had, been located on a. homestead at Uklah, in eastern Oregon, by a man named Marsen, snd who was now under Indict ment and under $2600 bonds, and that Mrs, Conner had perjured herself by . stating when she took up the homestead, that she was a widow, and furthermore had never lived on It. . 4 Dodge, said that hla' position In the government service made It possible to shield the woman and save her from goln to McNeill's 1 aland providing Connor would - pay him $800 cash te put uo for bonds. He. said to further arrange to have the government pro vide her with transportation to Can- . ada. where it would be Impossible . to molest her in the future. , Pays. Hash Mossy, , To save the family, from disgrace," as he stated to Special Agent Nichols. Connor mortgaged hla farm for I600 Continued on Page 81iteen.) BE UPROOTED - 4 t the diseased trees. ' "I am willing to help the orchartll! of 'Multnomah county ve their diseased trees," said Mr. Jones, "ail will go when called upon to any fast of the county, examine the orchards an i confer with the owners to h h-- meana to persus to get rid of the reur "I also wleh to- anurK- that I w: 1 be glad to have owners of InfwtM tr---h call at my office anil I will advi n i them about the rnip-r irwinitr-t f the d!eaes an wtil extend any s ;-!-ance in my power Inspector Fones hs had ! y' experiem in fruit ciiltur In ti ty and is entire It f.n!lur r diseane that attack trs In I . ; ot the state, " . , DUPESIM UUI Ul IVIIL