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Caples, who is now serving his third term as Prosecuting Attorney of the Fourth Judicial District. As an attorney, Mr. Mulkey has few superiors. As Deputy Prosecuting Attorney is a terror to evil doers, and once on their trail never Hags until they aie brought to the bar of justice. In his pro- fession he ranks with men who are, by many years, his senior. As a speaker none are more forcible, and his flights of oratory are frequently such as hold an audience spell bound, while his cool and logic reasoning has great influence with a jury. His face is clear-cut, with beard and mustache, his eye being keen, o'ershadowed with an expansive forehead. He is an un- swerving Republican and an active worker iu the party, and as an attorney and politician, he has a bright future before him. He was married in 1862 to Miss Mary E. Porter, of New Haven, Connecticut, and has a family of two children.

AUSTON MIRES. ESQ.,

Stands high among the young attorneys of Southern Oregon and has estab- lished a foothold in Douglas county, from which it would be difficult to eradicate him, possessing, as he does, talent, energy, ambition and industry, qualifications that entitle him most conclusively to the place he has won. He was born in Des Moines county, Iowa, in 1852, and came to Oregon in 1853, and with his parents settled in Douglas county, where they have re- sided ever since. He was raised on a farm and attended the common schools and is a graduate of the Umpqua Academy. He was for three years em- ployed as route agent on the Oregon i*t California Railroad between Port- land and Roseburg, during which time he laid by money enough to pay his expenses through the Law Department of the University at Ann Arbor, Michigan, from which he graduated in 1882, and returned to Oregon, where he gained admission to the bar of this State and was then admitted to part- nership with Hon. W. R. Willis, of that city, During the session of the Legislature just closed he has acted as Chief Clerk of the Senate, the labor- ious duties of which position he has performed with promptness and pre- cision, and has thereby gained a host of new and enthusiastic friends. He is considered fine-looking, being of rather low stature, well-built, full face, ruddy complexion, well-defined features, heav>' mustache and light brown hair. He is unmarried, but is very popular among the ladies, a red hot Republican, and a prominent young member of the Masonic fraternity. His career promises to be a brilliant one in the profession he has chosen.

ALFRED KINNEY, M. D. Of Salem, is one of those jovial, good-natured men that we are always glad to meet. He is active and energetic, and what he does he does with a will, and infuses humor and good nature into all with whom he comes in con- tact. He is an Oregon boy, and made his debut on this world's stage in Yamhill county, near the town of West Chehalem, on the 31st day of Jan- nary, 1850, and when ten years of age moved with his parents into the town of McMinnville, where he attended school until he was eighte