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Show NAILING LAND GRAFTERS Trial of Perjury OasoB in Oregon Is Continued. PORTLAND. Or., Aup. 14. Tho trial coninioticuil tucl&y in tho. Unit oil Stntea District Dis-trict court of Cluronco IJ. Zuchary, a prominent promi-nent roiddcnt of Wheolor county, Oregon, chnrgod with perjury in declarint; that Charles A. Watson, now uudor conviction of defrauding tliu Governniunt of n homestoad, had complied with all the requirement of law in perfecting titlo tu his nomuBtcnd hi Whenlor county. Tho ease ih identical with -thnt nRdiiiKt Cou 15. Barnard; who vii con; victed lust wouk. Tho two ncn worts 'indicted 'in-dicted jointly, but their "cKbt-.i were separated. At tho lttorniric wcfihloii u jury was secured and ttl'o witnesses examined. Judge Bonnet, counsel for the defendant, did not cxamino any of tho. talesman, though he excused two of them poiomplorily. He alao entered gon-ernl gon-ernl objection to tho trial of his client on constitutional grounds and conlcntnd himself with crosH-cxatnininp only one of the witnesses. wit-nesses. Severul witnesses wcro examined during tho afternoon, all of whom, gnvo idontical testimony with that which thoy gavo in the Watson and Barnard ca6cs. Good progress was niado todny, and it. id boliorod that tho caso will co to tho jury not later than Wednesday night. |