DILLON, HENRY CLAY, b. Lancaster, Wis., Nov. 6, 1846. Ed. public schools and Lancaster Academy. Grad. Racine College, 1872 (Gold Medalist, 1870.) Came to California in 1888.  Writer of clever short stories and law.  Lecturer on Common Law Pleading, etc., University of Southern Calif. Address: Colorado Orchards, Long Beach, Calif., and Los Angeles, Calif.

DONOVAN, ELLEN DWYER, b. Castletown, Beara, Co.  Cork, Ire. Ed. Academy Sisters of Mercy.  Came to Calif, and contributor to leading magazines on Art Criticism.  Writer of short stories.  Will shortly publish a Romance of Ireland in the Nineteenth Century. Address: Ashbury St., San Francisco, Calif.

EDHOLM-SIBLEY, MARY CHARLTON, b. Freeport, Ill., Oct. 28, 1854. Ed. public schools and college.  Writer and lecturer on social and economic subjects.  Founded Lucy Charlton Memorial for unfortunate women and children, in Oakland. Author: Traffic in Girls. 30c.  Sales go to help the Memorial. Address: 904-6 Security Bldg., Los Angeles, Calif.

EDWARDS, ADRIADNE HOLMES, b. Placerville, Cal., May 7.  Student of Grand Opera.  Writer and composer of songs. Author: My Nightingale, Sing On (words and music.) O Bonniest Lassie Yet.  Enticement. Address: Hotel Hargrave, 112 W. 72nd St., New York.

EMERSON, WILLIS GEORGE, b. near Blakesburg, Monroe Co., Iowa, March 28, 1856. Ed. district school, Union Co., Ia.  Attended Knox College, Galesburg, Ill.  Studied law.  Admitted to practice in District U.S. and other courts.  Taught country school for four years.  Platform orator.  His speech replying to “Coin” Harvey’s Financial School was issued as a Republican campaign document, 1896, and in 1900 over half a million copies of his speech on sound money were circulated throughout the country. Author: Winning Winds, 1901.  Fall of Jason, 1901.  My Pardner and I, 1901.  Buell Hampton, 1902.  The Builders, 1905.  The Smoky God, 1908.  Has written over 100 stories of travel and sketches of mining camps and mountain scenery. Address: Los Angeles, Calif.

EVANS, TALIESIN, b. Manchester, Eng., Nov. 8, 1843. Ed. private schools England and Wales. Author: Fisher’s Advt.  Guide to Calif., 1870.  Editor and author of Popular History of Calif. (Revised and enlarged.  First edition by Lucia Norman), 1883.  American Citizenship, 1892.  Municipal Government, 1892. Address: 212 Fourth St., Oakland, Calif.

EYSTER, MRS. NELLIE BLESSING, b. Frederick, Md.  Lived in California since 1876.  Active in W.C.T.U., Indian and Chinese mission work.  Contributor to magazines.  Lost the MSS. of two books in S.F. fire of 1906. Author: Sunny Hours, or The Child Life of Tom and Mary.  Chincapin Charlie.  On the Wing.  Tom Harding and His Friends.  A Colonial Boy.  A Chinese Quaker. Address: 2618 Hillegass Ave., Berkeley, Calif.