A Big Chancery Case

Many of our readers will remember Warren H. Mills, a wealthy young San Francisco manwhograduated in the University in 1889 and started on a post-graduate course the next year. In June, 1890, he married Miss Celia McMillan, of this city. A few months previous his father died in San Francisco, leaving him property to the value of 200,000 in California and Oregon. The will was in proper form for California but not for Oregon, where Mills had 5,000 acres of land and some personal property. In order to get possession of this proprty, Warren Mills sent his cousin, Fred Mills, of Bridgewater, this county, ho was in the University with him, to Oregon. Six months after Warren Mills' rnarriage he died, leaving all his property by will to his wife, Mrs. Celia Mills, n the meantime a deed of the real estáte and a bilí of sale of the peronal property in Oregon had been made to Fred Mills. This had not een recorded and according to the claim of Mrs. Mills had not been delivered. Fred Mills claimed to have paid forit in cash andproduced the papers. He is charged with having taken them from among Warren Mills' papers after his death. Testimony is being taken this week in this city by George H. Durhatn, an examiner of the Unites States circuit court for the district of Oregon, and many interesting questions are involved.