Widow Agnes Joyce received a letter from a Joyce family member who had sufficient funds from Parliament's stipend to buy a hotel in Oregon. Agnes was invited in this letter to come to Oregon with members of her family and help operate the hotel. So, Agnes, along with her son-in-law Larkin Harry Manes, his wife Henryetta, and their nine-year old son Edmond Victor Manes, started from Dallas in an ox cart for a three-month journey to Oregon. In route to Oregon,this group had to ride through Indian Territory in an area now designated as the State of Oklahoma. Larkin later reported that the Chief of a tribe in Oklahoma offered to let them settle on land (from horizon to horizon)if they would just remain with his tribe. Agnes was more interested in living a life of luxury in an Oregon hotel. The Chief's offer was declined and the ox cart continued without incident to Oregon. At an Inn a few miles North of Grant's Pass in Oregon is the Wolf Creek Inn. This Inn is well known for the writings of Jack London in a second-story room. What is know to very few visitors except members of the Manes family is graffiti scribbled on a door frame of a room just opposite Jack London's room "Vic Manes." This could only have been made by nine-year old Edmond Victor Manes. Ironically,the night before Agnes and her fellow travelers arrived at the Joyce hotel, the Joyce owner engaged in a gambling session. He lost in one night all of his money assets as well as the hotel. When Agnes learned of this financial disaster, she and her family immediately hitched up the ox cart and started back to Dallas.