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THE SPENT BILL
By E & KNEED LER.
lObpyrleht, ISM, by American Pitta Aivl-
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CHAPTER L
-.,s?Vt ion
Rfral if:
"Hnre J orjotfon tomtfhlfHir
DiJ I ever tell you that story sbont
Jason Brigham, the man without a past?
Ah, 1 thought not! Well, if you care to
spend the faj? end of the uijjht listening
ton uncommon incident PU spin the
yarn. Our train dou't start uutil seven,
and it isn't worth while to go to bed at
four."
The speaker was the major. For the
purposes of this story that is all that
seed be said of him, perhaps. However,
a better all aronnd newspaper man one
would not find anywhere; a more com
panionable fellow one would hot care to
meet We were the last onee left in the
major's den in The Tribune office, for
the paper had gone to press and the
night gang had deserted the rooms.
That we remained was due to the fact
that our annual outing was at hand, and
at seven a. m. we were to cut away for
two weeks the major making a flying
trip south, I going for a little fishing np
near the Sault Ste. Mrjie.
"Light a fresh cigar," said the major,
handing one of his favorite black weeds
over. "It will help keep you awake if
the story don't Tough work this, tell
ing stories, but it's better than missing a
train for the sake of catching a nap that
at best would make a fellow feel stupid,
so here goes.
"I guess you know that in seventy I was
on the Memphis Avalanche. There was
no end of good fellows in town then, and
the papers were holding np a long string
of bright men who were doing 'space
work.' It was kind of haven for the
fellows who were drifting north or south
a half way house where they staid
while to recruit As a matter of fact I
was doing a little recruiting myself, and
bad a sort of brevet place on the city
staff, which enabled me to pay the rent
of a room and cherish a faith that I
might eventually liquidate my board bill
if no unforeseen bad luck befell me. I
came into the office one night, and the
city editor said to me:
"Gilman, we have a new man on the
police work tonight just arrived from
St, Louis and looks a little the worse
for wear. Jones is on a spree and I put
him on. Hadn't yon better take him
home and look after him?"
"Well," I replied, 'Tm used to almost
all kinds of bedfellows, and I guess I
can stand it if he isn't too bad."
"There ie something about him I
fancy," replied the city editor, "rather
something that appeals to me. Tm not
usually susceptible to that sort of thing,
but this new man looks to me as though
he would stand some care, and I knew I
could ask you without your feeling
offended."
"In other words, yon knew I wouldn't
be particular who I roomed with," I re
torted laughingly.
And so the matter was settled. Really
the man dropped out of thought until
the nub of the night was passed and the
work well out of the way. I was vague
ly conscious when he came in and sat
down at his desk, though the boys kept
dropping in and going out all evening,
but along about two o'clock I finished
my assignment, turned in the last page
of copy and lit my pipe. Then I thought
of the new arrival, and looked over to
wh-re he was sitting. His head rested
on his arms as they lay folded on the
desk in front of him. I thought him
asleep. He was of middle height, slender
in build, with a full head of dark hair,
and hands that had been tanned by the
wind and sun. After watching him
awhile I went over and laid a hand on
his shoulder to waken him, but he looked
np instantly, and said in a wonderfully
sweet voice, "Have I forgotten some
thingr "No, I guess not," I replied; "what
makes yon ask?"
"I don't know," and he stammered a
little in confusion, "but sometimes I
have a feeling that I have forgotten
what I set ont to do. Are you the gen
tleman the city editor spoke to me
about?"
"He said you would share my lodg
ings," I replied. "Shall we go now?"
Kow it was plain to me what the city
editor meant when he said this man ap
pealed to him. I could not define the
cause, but I experienced the sensation.
The stranger's features were regular,
clean cut. His forehead was of medium
height, broad and intellectual, his nose
was straight and fine, his eye a trifle
too large, perhaps, but with a wonderful
light in it which gave it a mysterious
hold upon one's thoughts. A brown
mustache drooped over his mouth. It
was a good face, but there was absent
from it that firmness which is the ex
pression of virile manhood. It wag
wanting in resolution, in purpose, and
, yet it was such a face as inspired confi
dence and gave assurance of fast friend
ship. It called forth sympathy even
when one sought to elude it. In other
words, it was a face that a Christ might
wear, or such a mask as a devii might as
sume to trap the unwary. In my time I
have thought it was both but I am get
ting ahead of my story.
In those days, when we were "meet
T
ing up," as we used lo iuy, with so many
good fellows, w sometimes overlooked
tiie little forouilitiva of conventional as
sociation with our follow wen, so I did
not even ask the now man his name un
til the next evening. We chatted in a
desultory way about a score of common
place things connected with onr work,
lie said he had just arrived from "up
country," and I t.xik it for granted that
he had drifted down from Chicago or St.
Louis, on the regular fall campaign,
which always wound np in Now Or
leans. It was plaiu enough that ho was
not au "old rounder;" but he did not ap
pear a novice, for ho did his work very
well, as things went iu those days. No
very heavy assignments fell to him at
first In fact, I think he was kept among
the cotton factors, looking np the new
crop, which was just beginning to move,
I was home before him the second
night, for having shown him the way
and given him a nightkey, which the.
landlady relinquished with more or less
reluctance, I took it for granted ho could
find his way iu himself. Feeling in a
reminiscent mood, I was sitting by the
open window taking a good night smoke
and looking out on the magnolia trees iu
the garden opposite, where the moon
light shone so brightly that one could
se the red and waxlike berries that suc
ceed the perishable blossoms. I was
wrapped pretty deeply in thought and
nodding a bit, maybe, when my new
chum came in, and, throwing off his hat,
stretched himself wearily in a big arm,
chair near by.
"We have been in the thick of the
work," I said, "aud that must be my ex
cuse for not formally introducing myself
to you. Then we haven't seen much of
each other and are not likely to, except
as we meet at turning in time. My
name is Oilman, and yours is"
"Brigham, Jason Brigham," he re
plied. "Well, now that we know each other
we will get along better," I said. "I
suppose that, like the rest of ns, you are
merely drifting through."
"Yes, merely drifting," was his an
swer. I looked at him. His face was
in the moonlight, and it wore a curious
expression of unutterable sadness, such
as I have never seen since on any man's
face. Yet there was not the shadow of
an emotion about it It was a negative
sadness a mere deepening of its normal
expression. We sat silent for some time,
he looking ont in the peaceful moonlight
scene, I furtively studying his counte
nance. Then he said:
"I wish the city editor had assigned
some one else to do the Sufferer's ball
tomorrow night"
"Oh, you are booked for that, are you?
Lncky fellow. There will be fair maids
galore, gallant mon, plenty of dancing
and no mean spread in the supper room.
Brigham, yon are to be congratulated.
Ill stay np to hear you go into ecstacies
over it when you get back here."
"It is not exactly in my line," re
sponded Brigham, "and I am not pre
pared to present myself in evening dress."
"Give yourself no uneasiness on that
score. Wiley has a dress suit, and it will
just about fit yon. lie will be delighted
to loan it to you if for nothing else, to
let you know he has it."
"Well, I'd rather stick to the cotton.
It has been a long time since I moved in
feminine society, and I fear I have lost
the fine art of making myself agreeable."
"I'll trust you for that. Where was
your horns originally? I take it you are
an eastern man a New Yorker, per
haps?" As I asked the question he looked at
me quickly, as though seeking to divine
my purpose as a man might who had
some reason for not caring to have his
past probed into too rudely. Then he
passed his hand across his forehead in a
vacant way, and said slowly and with
evident effort:
"You must excuse me, but but some
how my memory is strangely treacher
ous, and I do not remember I can
not tell yon."
"I beg your pardon," I replied. "Let
me assure you I had no intention of pre
suming upon our short acquaintance to
seek to know anything of yonr affairs
which yon would rather should not
be known. The question was asked
thoughtlessly enough."
"And it was a natural one," he said.
"I wish I coald answer it, hut I cannot."
"Say no more about it," I replied,
knocking the ashes out of my pipe. "The
morning stars that is, the vegetable and
fish venders will soon be singing to
gether under onr window. Let us go
to bed and get well to sleep before the
chorus begins."
Deuced strange, I thought, that this
man should be so manifestly reluctant
to tell me of his past. What secret did
it hold that he was so chary about? He
did not look like a criminal like a man
who had done something which made
him a fugitive or an Ishmael, But there
was the hard fact of his evident embar
rassment when the question was asked.
It aroused my curiosity, bnt it did not
make me shun him. I had nothing to
lose perhaps that was the reason I only
felt piqued at my guest's disinclination
to talk about what men most glibly talk
of under such circumstances. But that
was his affair, not mine.
CHAPTER IL
lie teas too OmrvioMy matter of the
tiluatUm,
Memphis was not a large place in sev
enty, bnt it was lively and bursting with
the new energy of an awakened commer
mm
.1 . iu i s ill a t pi t f i.
cial life. It eouiMued iu a remarkable
degree, ths two social extremes of the
south th delightful, luxuriant culture
of the old "Itefore the war" days aud the
uergetio, Hggrwssivo spirit of the. new
ettlt which was to plant a victor's ban
ner on the soil. The town was the gate
way of the Yaioo delta, that gnrdeu spot
of Mississippi whose twin portals are
Memphis and Yicksburg, and on which
the bentson tvf plenty seems to have been
poured. We men of tho press were too
cosmopolitan to feel or be susceptible to
any restraint which others might have
experienced. Hail fellows well mot, wo
expected and received the courteous
treatment we accorded all men.
As for the ruffian and tho braggert,
we were familiar enough with him in the
cities of the north to meet him ou his own
ground by a ready resort to the pistol
when necessary. Into the gay social life
of the place we entered with a pleasure
able abandon all the more sincere be
cause the relaxation from work came so
seldom. Thus it was with a good dosi
of satisfaction that I learned early in the
evening that I might attend the Suffer
er's ball, Jones for a wonder being sober
and the rest of the gang all on hand.
Hut it was close to midnight when, hav
ing donned a clawhammer coat, I pre
sented myself at the door, aud looked
around for Brigham. I did not see him
at once, and wandered about lookingjfor
au acquaintance upon whom I might lie
stow myself.
I had been in the city long enongh to
make some friends, bnt I couldn't help
thinking that it would be tiresome work
for my associate on the paper who was
doing that most unenviable of all assign
ments reporting an affair where he
knew no one, and would likely lo treated
with iuditlereut grace as a reporter by
the people he did meet Imagine thon
my surprise when I caught sight of the
object of my solicitude the center of a
bevy of fair girls, who were listening to
something he was saying with the most
evident interest An occasional peal of
laughter showed that his powers as a
rencounter hail a humorous subject
There was no disguising the fact that
Brigham was feeling perfectly at home,
aud that he was covering himself and
The Avalanche with glory.
What was Wiley as a society reporter
compared with this brilliant cavalier
who could hold the attention of half
dozen belles and who looked every inch
the gentleman in a borrowed evening
suit? He was too thoroughly master of
the situation for ms to encroach npou
the ground, aud I waited until the little
group was broken up by an irrupt tun
of evidently envious cavaliers, when
Brigham strolled off with the sweetest
little bit of femininity imaginable upou
his arm. It was the daughter of the
wealthy cotton factor, Jerome Percival,
and Emily Percival was one of the belles
of the town. Not that kind of a beauty
who overawes one, not the girl who
would be the season's belle at Saratoga
or Old Point Comfort
Hers was not the luxuriant southern
beauty yon read about but of the sweeter,
less obtrusive sort which is associated
with home belongings, a tete-a-tete In
the conservatory a presence such as
would make almost any sort of place the
dearest spot on earth brown hair, blue
eyes, red lips, luid cheeks that kept their
color all the time. You see I'm not much
of a band to analyze or describe feminine
beauty, bnt Emily Percival had the kind
that lasts, that don't wither after a ball
room season; the kiud that comes from
good health, good spirits, innocence and
affection.
"Ah, you here, Gilman?" Brigham
said gayly. "You have met Miss Perci
val? Then help me to thauk her for the
aid she has rendered me tonight 1
should have been moping about as a pitia
ble example of the must dejected wall
flower if she had not come to my assist
ance, told me where to get the names of
the guests, found me a messenger, and
raised me from a most forlorn condition
of loneliness into a state bordering on
ecstasy."
"I have reason to know what a good
Samaritan Miss Percival is," I rejoined,
"and I also know that it sometimes re
quires as high an order of courage to suc
cor the wayfarer in these latter days as
it did of old in Judea."
"Don't you think it depends a good
deal on the wayfarer?" asked Miss Perci
val. "I am becoming inordinately vain,"
said Brigham sententiously,
"You needn't be a bit," responded the
charming woman on his arm. "I meant
that there are some depths of distress so
heartrending that even the Pharisees
would relent and take pity on them."
"Consider me the embodiment of woe
then," said Brigham, as the orchestra be
gan to play a waltz quadrille, "and as a
further evidence of your gifts as a min
istering angel give this dance to me."
"He will do very well," I thought, as I
stepped back out of the way of the dan
cers and watched the couple float by me
in the graceful movement of the qua
drille. "He will do very well, but it's
dencedly strange that a follow like that
should be so manifestly anxious to con
ceal bis identity."
TO BR CON'TINl'KD
We need the facts about lots of com
parative and competitive tests between
different kinds of separators, and the
extractor, all running at different speeds,
and feeding, temperature, etc., that we
may have a safe limit placed upon each,
and then if operators de not heed the
rules and the admonition, hold them re
sponsible for the results.
In this connection we will note that
we have read of one large factory that
had hit upon a plan to at least relieve an
honest butter maker from nnjuHt suspi-
i cion of incompetency or dishonesty. It
j was to have a competent person, of their
own choosing and under their pay, pre
side at the weigh can and take the sam
ples and make the teats. The butter
maker has in such case nothing to do
with the individual patrons, either as to
weight of milk or the per cent, of fat
in it. He takes the milk in bulk, and is
under obligation only to make a good
showing in product according to the
weight and average test given blm by
another person. Hoard's Dairyman.
OOOO ROADS IN THE SOUTH.
Au Kfrtir, WMoli Mllil Wall 11a Imitated
In tli North mot Waal,
That the agitation for good roads lit
the south Is in the hands of men who
mean business t.t shown by the recent
roads congress at Atlanta, Sncli earnest
efforts to bring about the reform which
will do more to bettor tho condition of
the American farmer than any other one
thing, might well lie imitated in every
state in the Union. Colonel W. W,
Whidby, In explaining the objects of the
road congress to au Atlanta Constitu
tion reporter, snldi
"The object of the road congress is
not so much to discuss the present road
laws iu force in 0orgia as the necessity
for two tilings First, a permanent sys
tem; second, permanent improving of
the public roads.
"There is a wide difference between
working a public Mad aud building one.
As at present enforced in Georgia, the
road laws may do passably well In work
iug the roads, but there Is no permanen
cy in the work, nor no system In it
The road commissioners have never
studied the question thoroughly, and
eveu if they had the law does not give
them the funds necessary to put perma
nent work ou the roads.
"What is desired is permanently tm
proved roads according to a well de
fined and everlasting system, so that the
work done one year will last for years to
come. It must lie In lino with that done
in other parts of the country.
"A small force worked under th di
rection of a nmn acquainted with tlx
requirements of a good road aud with
Improved labor saving Implements aud
material at hand, systematically and
continnonsly, can secure to the jwople
first class roads cheaper than they could
I had under tho road laws of Georgia.
Tills is true when the itrmanuucy of the
work is considered.
"The subject Isoneof vital importance
to all classes. It is patent that our sys
tem of agriculture must be changed tie
fore It oan prosjier. Large farms and
the tenant system must go. Small farms
cultivated ou the intensive system by
the owners must lie the order of the day.
But to roach this result these small
farmers must have good mails to the
markets. The hauling of largo onaiitl
ties of produoe in Us time than can now
lie done is an element of importance in
building up the small farmer.
"Iu this day of rapid transit, transpor
tation by the common road must not Is)
held back to the pace of the past ages.
The country needs the inspiring effect of
faster and better transit"
In regard to the matter, Tlie Constitu
tion said editorially:
The work which these delegates have
undertaken to do is not matter for
a holiday. They cnu hope now only
to call attention to the necessity which
exists for Iwf ter roads, and, by means
of thoughtful and intelligent discus
sion, create a publio sentiment pow
erful euough to Insist ou these vital
improvements in our road system. This
ought to be a very easy matter, but it is
not Our people have made progress In
every other direction except this. Ho
far as our roads are concerned, we are
no farther advanced than the barharians
were; and this statement will apply not
to Georgia and the south alone, but to
the whole country. The roads in New
York and Pennsylvania are no Iwttnr
than thuy are here a f''t which shows
that we are all liurbarians together.
The miserable condition of our public
highways is a national habit, and the
outcome of it is a uluimefiil piece of ex
travagance. Nevertheless the reform of our present
system must proceed slowly at first No
experiment is more painful aud depress
ing than that which undertakes to break
np a bad habit, and the condition of our
roads today represents more than a hun
dred years of sloth, negligence, igno
rance aud willful extravagance. One ex
cuse for this is the fact that our commu
nities have invested the most of their
surplus funds and energies in the pro
motion of railroad enterprises. The re
sult of this is that the development of
our steam transportation lines has goue
on very rapidly almost too rapidly, in
fact, for perfect comfort
Fortunately this development of steam
transportation is now and will be a pow
erful factor in convincing the farmers
and others that good roads are a neces
sity. They are more of a necessity now
than ever. There is a greater demand
now than there ever has been for rapid
transit of produce from the farm to the
railroad, and thence to profitable mar
kets. The problem is one of the most
important that the people can consider.
It is as important to the towns as it is
to the farms, since it affects the whole
public.
We have no intention of going into a
detailed discussion, but we desire to im
press on the minds of our readers the
importance of the work which lies be
fore the two conventions. It is a work,
too, which will have to be done mainly
By indirection. Among other things
they will ha-ve to convince the farmers
That the railroads do not and cannot
supply all the demands for transporta
tion. That the cost of farm production is
largely increased by the difficulty of
transporting it over bad roads, and that
this increase of cost is not added to the
market price, but falls wholly on the
fanners.
That the work expended on the roads
nnder our present system is time, labor
and money wasted.
That good roads will ennble farmers
to hanl twice as much produce to mar
ket with the same teams, the same labor
and in the same time.
That the solution of the road problem
will go far toward solving and settling
the convict problem,
That an improved system of roads,
scientifically and economically con
structed, will build up the country,
bring the farms nearer to market, in
crease the value of farming lands and
bring about intensive culture of diversi
fied crops.
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THE
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OFKKItS INIU't'KMKNTH TO
HomeSeekers
INVESTORS.
I Wo have lids .lOx'-'tH) f,.t, ItHix'JiK) foot, nil favorably locatetl. These
lots twice the ordinary nuo iiro hut half tho usual price of other lots aim
! ilnrly located. Wo have otto-acre, two-ncro, tho mid ten-itcro tracts-,
j suitable for suburban homes, convenient to town, schools, churches,
jCtc, ivnd of very productive soil. A lurijo, grow ing "Prunu Orchard," of
which wo will fell part in small tracts to unit purchaser, mid on easy
terms.
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B9 HtnrU Mt.,
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form hni n or black, which, when dry,
will neither rub, sh oil', nor suit linen.
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In thu name ut Ihr rttale of orrifun von are
hrrby riulrii1 to nipinr ami an. wit Ihi'imiiv
pl'ilnt flleil nitaln.t ymi In Iho above tMiUtlt'il
nil an or helnre tin lth ilay nl April, hm, the
aame being the nr.t ilav of (he next rtnlnr
term nt tali! eoitrt following the explrntlnii of
tin tune pre.i'rlhvil In the cinlernf publication
of thl. autnmuni, anil If ynu fall to apptnr atitl
Att.wer .ah! eomplalnt plaintiff will apply to
the court for the rtlhf iliinntil In (he
riimplnlnt, to wit: a rlliiwiliitloii of the marrlniio
rotitrant exI.Hujr htwen ymt anil the plitln
lltr, ami for the rare ami mi.toUy nl a minor
rhilil natnoil in until Complaint, ami for mirh
nther ami further relief a plaintiff l In eipilly
entltliMl to PiihhttliH by onler of Honorable
Frank J. Tay'l r, .Imiire of nabl roiirt,iuly made
on Ihe vr.it h ilay of JaniMry. 1W.
2:6 8:11J U. II UYK, Attorney lor lM'ff.
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Cnpp., ilecea.eil.
Oregon City, February 4, IK'JZ 2;,V-8:3
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milnteil administrator nl the e.tato of (lollllch
Jacob, decea.eil. All pur.ona having claim,
again. t .aid e.tatn are notified to pre.ent them
to me, duly verllled at tny home In O.wugo,
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thl. notice.
Janiiary 15, 1HU2. J. C. Hainkh,
11. K. Cro.a, Ailmlnl.trntor.
Attorney for Kuluto. l-15:2-l'i
Notice of Hale of Keal Katste,
Notice la hereby given that In purmianee nf
an anler the t:oiinty Court of the HLiild of
Oregon for thoCounly nl Clackainaa, ha. here
tofore duly made ami entered In the mutter of
the e.tate of I'utcr Htcclc. (Iccckhc.I, the ninlor
.Igned, theexecutnr of the .aid nutate, will .ell
at public auction, to tho hlghe.t hldilnr, for
cash, gold eoliinf the United Htnte., anil uh
leetto con ti rum t loi by wild County Court, on
Hatiirilay, tha 7th dny ol February, Win at IU
o'clock, ii in., at the Court limine door, In Oro
gon City In .aid County and Htnte, all the right
title, Intere.t and e.tate of the .aid I'utcr,
Htwie, and all the right, title and Intercut tlmt
mill oatii to Inn, by operation of law or
othurwlxe. acniilrcil other than or in addition
to that of the Mild l'eter Hteule at tho time of
III. death in and tn the certain paicel nf real
e.tate .lliiated in the County of ClackHinaa,
Htnte of Oregon, and particularly de.oribed a.
follow.:
The went half nf the nnrtliwe.t quarter of
ncellon twenty-two (ail), lit town. hip two,
Mouth, range (4) oimt ol the Willamette meridian,
containing eighty (HO) Here.
Term, and ootiditlon. of aale: Garth, gold
coin of the United Htatea, ton per cent of the
purchfote money to he paid upon the day of
.ale, balance ou eoiinrmiition of .ale hy .aid
County Court. Ueed lit exiieime of purchmer.
J.C. MctiHKW,
Exectilnrof the e.tate of Peter Hleele, ducoH.otl
Dated Portland, Oregon, January 2'2nd, lh'J'i.
1:22-2:111
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Knelt si'ro ol irtm lrt. II ot mt prim Wiet,
villi But M-veritl hiiii'lriHl unusrn or rem,
I when itr iiiiiilt Iu Wr,
& Get Prices
OH UK, OU ON
at Portland 0il.ee,
I'O It I I.A l.
(.'null tor county warrant. ('. II. I'ye
over Oregon City lunik.
Notice of Aiinliititnnt of Ailmliilatrulnr.
Notice 1. hereby given thtt the iitiiter.lgne1
ha. hrtoi apoloti-it ailiiiliit.lrnlor id tlie e.uic
of Alexalnlcr Mcilrirvey. dcce.kt-d, Alt M'r.ol.
liavtug i-lalui. Mgilii.t .itd e.tnip are imtinnl
to pre.cnl tn me properly verified, at my
orb, tn Oregon rity.ori-gMU, within via moiitha
from tiie dntv ol thl. nonce.
I'lloMt,. CHARM4N.
Adnilnl.trator nl tlie e.tate ol Alexander
Mdiarvev dccrnM-d
It. F. Cr, attorney lor e.tate,
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N'oTH F. FfiK PftllJCATUlN
Ijind Othreat tiregnn fit jr. Oregon,
Hee. 31, mwt.
Notice I. hereby given that the tnllowtug
tiHRicil cttler tin. tili-il notice ol hi. Intention
to make final proof in .upport of lit. claim, ami
that .aid proid will lie made before the Itegl.
ter and Itwelvvr of the I'. S Land cm. o at
Oregon t ltv, Oregon, ou February Mi, law, vl:
Joeph YV. Kenna,
Pre. 11. H. No. 7 till, for the u t aeo li.llt
r e.
lie name Ihe following wltneaea tn proof
hi. eoutluitoiii re.lilciice tiiiou and ru'llvalloii
of, .aid latlil. vtx: John W. Mclntyre. Jnmea
Fltri itrtck, Martin llyer and Jurgen 11. Peter,
all of Handy P. l, Clackama. roitnty. Oregott
IM.i tt ' J, T. Al'I'KllftoN, Hest.ter,
NOTICK FOIt PlJlll.lt ATItlN.
Laud Ofllce at Oregon City, Oreguu,
Jan 14, latrj.
Notice l hereby given that the following
named aettler hn. fll(,,t nollcu of hi. intention
to make final proof in .upHri of hi. rlalm, and
that .aid proof wilt be made before the Itegt.
ter and Receiver of the H. H l.nicl t iltlci, at ore
ou City, Oregon, on March 0, liuJ,vl:
O. J lloel,
hmatd entry No, lltlll for the nf ec 2H, t 4 I,
r a e.
Ho namea the following wltue.ae. to provs
til eonilnuou. rc.ldouce Umiii aud ctiltivatlou
of, .'thl land, vlx:
.1. P. ol.cn, Win ('. Ilu. liner, Tom Martin, Tom
Grace, all uf Clark. P. (, I'lackama. to,
Oregon. J, T Ai'i'KKmiN, Iteglater.
lrw-aai
TIMHK.lt LAND, ACT tl'NF. S, P0H.-N0T1CE
FuR Pl'lll.lCATIIlN.
t'NiTgn Httk I.anii Orrn it,
Oregon City, Oregon, October it, 1H1.
Notice la hereby given that In compliance
with tiie provl. Ion. of the act of Congre.aof
June X, lh7, entitled " Au act for tho aale ol
tliuher land, in the .tale, nf California, Oregon.
Nevada and Wa.hliiglou Territory,"
Petor Jllankholm,
uf Portland, County nf Multnomah, Sluloof
Oregon, ha. till, day filed In till, ofllce 111.
worn atiitement No, iNWt, for the pitrrhnaeof
tlie e ot lie1! nt of .e of .ec No. 2ti, ill town -ihlp
No 1 north, range No. fl ea. I, and will of
fer proof tn .how that the land .ought la mnrt
valuable for It. tlmlwr nr atone than for agri
cultural uurpimea, and tn e.tahll.h hla claim to
.aid land before tho Kegl.ter and Receiver of
tlila olllce at Oregon City, Oregon, ou Thuratlay,
the Kith day nf March, 1H1I2.
Ho niinie. a. wltiie.Ne.: John O. Ilenrlcl,
Theo. .Icli.cn, M. llenn, Jna. Lllmk, all of Port
laud, P. O. Multnomah county, Oregon.
Any and all ncr.on. claiming advor.ely Ihe
ahnve-dcnrthcii lauil.are renueRted to Die their
claim, it: thl. nilioe uu or before ."Id IMtli day
of March, lnV2
12-11:2-12 J. T. Aitkkhon, Iteglitor.
tim he it land, act junk , m.- notice
Foil PUliMCATION.
tlNtTKIl HTATKfl I,ANI1 OPftOS
Oregon City, Oregon, Oct. UN, IWH,
Notice la hereby given that In compliance
with the provl.lou. of the act nf emigre., of
June 8, 1H7H, entitled "An ant for the aulo nf
timber lands in tho Htatea of California, Ore
gon, Nevada ami Washington Territory "
Kilward M Hnnda,
of Orngon City, county of Clacknina.,
.late of Oregon, hit. ihli day filed lit
thl. nlllce hi. .worn .tatoment No. 2tli:l. for the
piirchaeo of tho ne!i otnwli, wiji of nw'., of
.ecllon No, 84, In town. hip Nn, 1 north, range
No. S east, and will oll'iir proof to .how that the
land .ought la more valuable lor ll timber or
.tone than for agricultural tiurno.e.. and to
oHtabllHh hl claim tn .aid land before the
Hcgl.ter and Receiver nf thlaolllno nt Oregon
City. Or,, ou Tiiemlay, tho nth' day of March,
1HU2,
Ho n iimo a. wltne.Ke.: John W. Prapor, ot
Oregon City, Clntikamii. Co. Or,, J. 0 Hummel,
Frank Atkins, Ueorgo Hopkins, of JlrlUul Veil,
Multnomah Co., Oregon.
Any and all per.on. claiming advorsoly the
above-de.erlhoil laud, are reiinested to file
their eliilme In tills olllco on or before anldntlj
day of March, 10112.
12:11-2:12 J. T. Ai'pbkhon, KogUtor,
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