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Pacific Press Publishing Association · Mountain View, California · Sep 20, 1910

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 37, No. 37.

OUR correspondent in Portland, Oregon, writes of an interview which he had with Dr. Wilbur F. Crafts in Portland of that state on August 28, as follows:

"The Rev. G. L. Tufts, who was formerly the Pacific Coast representative of the International Reform Bureau, has been discharged by Dr. Crafts because he failed to send ten per cent of all the money he received to Dr. Crafts at Washington, D. C. Mr. Tufts was formerly located in Portland, but Dr. Crafts said he was now in Berkeley."

He further reports that Dr. Crafts intends to divide the Pacific Coast district into two or three parts. California and Nevada will have a representative, Oregon and Washington another, and Idaho probably another. The man for the California and Nevada district is already engaged, and is said to be a prominent Methodist minister. He will begin his work about October 1. A committee of eighteen or twenty members will be organized at important points like San Francisco and Portland, with committees of three or four in each of the other towns of the state of importance. This has been done in California, and will be done in Portland, Oregon.

There may have been a reason for Mr. Tufts's withholding the ten per cent. It is a matter of question whether he received very munificent donations in his work here. His own expenses may have demanded all he received.