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 268 JENNIE B. HARRIS. Boise, Prosecuting Attorney on behalf of the Territory, be and hereby is appointed to act on behalf of the United States for the present term." For this term the following Grand Jury was called: 1. Hillyard Shaw 9. M. Scott 2. H. T. Hilt 10. B. Davis 3. Z. Sweet 11. I. Davis 4. C. Sweet 12. P. Blair 5. John Leasure 13. P. Bryan 6. F. McMurry 14. J. Peek 7. Wm. Smith 15. L. Howe 8. P. Comegys Hillyard Shaw was appointed foreman. Of these men, the only one known to be living is Mr. Comegys, a respected citizen of Eugene. Concerning this term of court, Judge R. P. Boise, of Salem, gave the following interview, October 31, 1906, to Carey F. Martin : "Yes, I remember that term of court, we had been holding court at different places in Oregon and went, if I remember correctly, from Albany to Eugene City, Oregon. We all put up at the home of the clerk, Mr. Skinner. In the party were Judge 0. C. Pratt, U. S. Marshal Sam Culver, M. P. Deady, then an attorney-at-law, and myself. Court was held, as I now remember it, in a log cabin, containing only one room. To whom the log cabin belonged I do not now remember. The cabin was located near the west end of Skinner's Butte, but its exact location with reference to the present town of Eu- gene, I cannot state. I remember that there was an unob- structed view to the Willamette River, looking north past the butte, and that there was an old sawmill nearby. The cir- cumstance of the log cabin having only one room is recalled to my mind in this way: The Court (Judge Pratt) had author- ized me to instruct the Grand Jury and there being no room available other than the one in which the Court was being held, I went with the Grand Jury, a short distance to where some logs or timbers were piled or lying, being timbers of the sawmill, and there instructed the Grand Jury. * * * I