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Show EX -GOVERNOR WANTS HIS LOBBYING FEES EUGENE, Ore , June 21. -Oswald West, ex-governor of Oregon, has been given a verdict by a Jury In the circuit cir-cuit court hero against Coos county. Oregon, in the sum of $19,681 which he claimed was due him as a commit; I slon for lobbylryR, before congress at ; Washington in 1919. He worked for a bill to reimburse Coos ronnty 1490,-I 1490,-I 000 in taxes on the Southern Oregon land grant which would be turned back to the government. The ex-governor offered testimony to the effect that he had a verbal j agreement to the county courts of i I Coos and Douglas, that he was to be jJrii i p;iid 4 per cent of the amount reft ed to these counties The case wilj appealed to the supreme courtflBT cording to an announcement of 1TJI neys for Coos county. |