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Show BINGER HERMANN TRIAL PROGRESSING RAPIDLY PORTLAND. Ore, Jan. 10. Former United States Representative from Ore-pou Ore-pou Ginger Hermann, in the United .States court, today pleaded not pnilty to tho indictment charging liim with conspiracy con-spiracy fo defraud the United States covonimcnt in connection with the Bluo Mountain forest, reserve in this state. Tho work of securing a jury is in progress and when court adjourned tonight, to-night, twolvn men had beeu passed into the .box, subject to peromptory challenge, of which each side has three. These will be exercised tomorrow morning and the jury may bo completed by tomorrow night.. A stipulation .was agreed to that portions por-tions of tho' testimony given at Hermann's Her-mann's trial in Washington on the charge of having destroyed the public records of the land ofiicc, will bo read into the record of the present enso. This was done to save the defense the ex-ponso ex-ponso of bringing witnesses from Washington. |