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Karly In this century a large English brig was wrecked on that part of the Jersey coast. She became a total wreck, but the sailors' lives were saved, and so were the lives of a lot of cats. These felines came from the Isle of Man and belonged to a curious breed found only on that island known as Manx cats. At first the animals were quite tamo, and fre quented the vicinity of the lighthouse, where they nightly held open-air con certs that were not harmonious enough to merit tho appreciation of the lightUeepors, and ultimately resulted in their being driven away. The felines took to the woods and managed to subsist during the ui'st winter on birds, thousands of which lived ill the swamps. The cats increased rap idly in number, and in a few years small packs of them could be found almost anywhere in llarncgut's wootls. Their outdoor life made them savage, and the breed Keeins to have increased in both size and courage, for eventually they be cumo so tierce that they would stand and show fight toward anyone who in vaded their homes. They are curious looking creatures. Tho front legs be ing shorter than their hind legs causes them to make big jumps as they go about, yet it is said they can easily out run an ordinary dog. The cats make good Ushers, and when llsh are plenti ful tliey go along the beach, and, as the breakers run up on the shore, car rying with them small buttertlsh, mul lets and silver bait, they jump into the shallow water ami with their sharp claws pin a llsh to the sand and the outgoing wave leaves their prey ex posed. Then, before another breaker can roll in, they catch the fish and take it up on the dry beach and devour it. At times dozens of these strange looking cuts can bo seen on the beach making meals olT tho surf oluius that are cast up by tho tide. For tho past twenty or thirty years Long Beach has been a fumou". sumnvr resort Many of the cuts have been killed by tourists or frightened back into the swamps. Occasionally some humane visitor en deavors t tamo one of the animals. It is hard work, but when the effort is successful there is no more domestic or affooUouate pet than Mans cat EFFCCTiF TIME. A Woman So Tnat Iter MusolM noog Like U.nin ,m sticks. In the Cornhill Magazine a writer thus records a visit to an Egyptian domicile situated upon the Nile: "We went into the hut after some hesi tation (the dragoman w hispered there were 'ladies' there) and found a vigor ous old man telling his Mussulman beads cross-legged upon a mud bench, and on the floor bent over r!i3 fire the oldest looking human being I ever saw alive. Mummies I have seen, and won dered not that they were dead, but in what part of her withered, desiccated frame that old woman found space to keep the stern, vital energies that lined her grim, carved face I can sarcely guess. She looked no more living than seaweed docs dried and stretched on paper. ' Her arras, her legs (thrust almost into the fire) were so shrunken that the long leathern flesh and flaccid muscles hunground them like dangling shreds on sticks. Round her neck were beads of wood and round her ( wrists leathern bracelets (though, to . bo sure, I cannot feel certain they , were not folds of skin) and on her face lurked not only lines, but gullies and passages they seemed so deep and fallen. I!ut for the occasional up turned glance of her cold, unquestion ing eye I could not have supposed her anything else than one of the earliest ana Dest preserved ol tne remotest queens of Egypt. "The old man gave us lusty Wel come and sent for milk and dat"S and filled our pockets. He showed us his long spear that hung against the wall, and told me with a proud gesture that he had often killed his man, but more often with the sword, and, taking me by the shoulder, showed me fiercely how he used to do it. lie was ninety years old and had never been farther from home than Assouan, and then only once. All his sons sat and stood around us, and in the background against the mud granary white teeth glimmered and the broad, blackfaces of the women shone. I asked him what present he would like and he asked for a little rice and a little, black coffee. All the time he clutched and fingered his Moslem rosary, which, when I admired it, he wanted me to accept. The son came back with us to the dahbeah and carried oil the coffee and rice in envelopes, to which I added j a handful of cigarettes and a couple of oranges, with particular injunctions that one was to be given to the old gentleman." INTELLIGENCE OF BIRDS. Two Htorlel That Demonstrate Their Good Sense. A correspondent of the Indiana Farmer writes: "Once I noticed a tur key buzzard that had taken & position ' on a fence near by where a dead chick- en had been thrown when a crow made . every eirort to dislodge him. but the buzzard only put up his left or right i wing in the direction the crow came at him and held his r'-ice with defiant mien, when Mr. Crow alighted on a fence stake near by and began to "caw" in a rapid manner that soon brought two comrades on swift wings, when after a brief interval of conver- I sation two of them approached him from either side simultaneously, with the third one going at him from the rear. The buzzard was soon dislodged and hustled out of the vicinity by tbe successive sparrings administered. Another instance came to my notice several years ago that for sympathy has but few parallels outside of the human family. (,azing toward the barn one day I saw about half a dozen sparrows on the ground greatly agitated over something, and I stopped to watch the proceedirr- I soon saw that one of them was ii. reat distress. With drooping wings and mouth wide open the others hovered close about it and seemingly peered down the little sufferer's throat. After a time the sick bird hopped up on the lower bonrd of the fence, stretching itself up to its full length, when one of the other Viirds flew up on a board higher direct- j ly above nnd nervously made some cal culations for a few seconds, then quick ly lowered itself, and, clutching the lower side of the top board with its claws, put its bill down into the open mouth of the other one, and, as each bird steadily drew back with some force, the bird from aliove pulled out from the other's throat a white, thin looking object about the size of a silver quarter, darting away, letting it drop on the grass some rods off, but, as 1 could not find the piece, I thought it was possibly a piece of bone that the too greedy little fellow had attempted to swallow. After being relieved it flew away with the others, chirping a chorus of notes with nnoareut delight DAYS OF THE HOIVit MmD. Timet When the fr'anuer'a Clothes Were Made at Home. The cultivation of flax and the man ufacture of linen were universal in the early days of New England. Nearly every house in the country had cards and great wheel and little wheel, reel and swifts, and dye-tub in the kitchen, nnd Rcnrn, warping bars nnd loom in chamber or garret. From the "History of Rochester," N. II., we cull the fol lowing description: Every farmer set apart a portion of his land for flux. It was nn indispen sable crop, and the manufacture of oil from the seed became a proti'ablo business. The flax was carefully pulled up "by the roots and stacked in the Held till thoroughly dry, when the seed was thrashed out It was then, soaked in water for several days, and spread on the ground to be vetted, frosty nights helping to whiten it. After a suitable time it was stowed away till spring, when it was brought out to be dressed by use of the brake, the hntchel and the swingle. By this means the Uax w as thoroughly bruised without cutting, and the tow aud coarse, woody parts separated from the finer libers of true linen. It was then combed to complete the separa tion, and was ready for the wives and daughters to spin aud weave into gar ments. Woolen cloth w as also made at home. The wool was carded into rolls by hand, aud then spun and woven into cloth. All garments were likewise made at home, not only for everyday wear, but the go-to-meeting dresses of tho wom en und the breeches for the men, even the suits that the minister wore in the pulpit and the clothes of repre sentatives lo congress, all were home made. The first carding machine was intro duced by Eliphulet Homo in IMl. It euuseil lunch excitement in town, and set the old people to shaking their heads and asking what the girl would have to do now. KSra N TH5 EAST. Their Great Hulk Correspond! to ' In tricacy of the Locks. In the "History of Nineveh, and Its Palaces," by Joseph llonomi. we find a description of, perhaps, the oldest lock ever discovered, says Hardware. It was used in securing the gate of the apartment in one of the palaces of Khorsabhad. In describing this ancient piece of hardware if such terms may be applied to wooden locks he says: "At tho end of the chamber, just behind the first bulls, was former ly a strong wooden gate, of one leaf, which was fastened by a larye wooden lock, like those still used in the east, of which the key is as much as a man can conveniently carry, and by a bar which moved into a square hole in the wall. It is to a key of this description that the prophet probably alludes. 'And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder;' and it is remarkable that the word for key in the trouble to compare tho areas given this passage of Scripture, 'muf tali,' is In the cvr.sus reports of 1890 and those the same in use all over tho cast at the i in the reports previous to 1SS0 will find present time. The key of an ordinary j surprising differences. The census su street door is commonly thirteen or periut. .-n.-lets don't trouble themselves fourteen inches long; r.nd the key of to ascertain areas. They accept what the gate of a public bitilding or of a they obtai ) from official sources. The street, or a quarter of a town, is two g-mural laud office ir, one sourve of mfor fect or more in length. The iron pegs mntion, arid doubtless offieial state at one end of tho piece of wood corre- turvcys arc accepted. In 1SS0 the su spond to so many holes in the wooden perintendent of the census used are bar or bolt of the lock, which, when vised set of ureas and Superintendent the door or gate is shut, cannot be P.r.ter a. .-e!lel the figures of that de opened until the key has been in-, cadi- or f.l;,.uvd the sumo authorities, serted, and the impediment to the The supi .-intendents of the census drawing back of the holt removed by adopt ;;n arbitrary rule of regarding all raising up so many iron pins that fall regions having less than two inhabi down into holes in the bar or bolt cor- tints to the square mile as "unsettled." responding to the peg in the key." In most of the New England and mid This description, and others of a cor- die Atlantic states there are no such robatory character, provo that this unsettled areas. Superintendent Por form of lock and key was in use in er found alxmt 4,000 square miles o! Egypt four or five thousand years, he Maine woods and 1,000 square miles during which extended period of time of the Adirondacks region unsettled. it does not appear to have undergone any successful changes. KING COTTON AT HOME. llrllliant Appenranco of n Field of Cotton In June. A field of cotton in June is like a great, brilliant flowerbed. According to the Blue and Cray, its bloom resem bles the hollyhock, and has the re markable peculiarity of changing its color from hour to hour. When it first opens it is a pale straw color; in a few hours it is a pure white; later it is faintly pink, and next morning rose color. The flower is succeeded hy a triangular pod. containing in three cells the seeds in three locks of white down which burst forth when the pod opens. The length and the fineness of this liber, or "staple," as it is called, determines the grade of the cotton. The "sea island" or long stapled cot ton is grown on the upland. The best cotton In the world is grown on Edisto island, south of Charleston; the staple of this is nearly two inches long. Seen under a microscope, the cotton fibers are ribbon shaped, and not straight like flax, but twisted some thing like a corkscrew. The best sea island cotton is in beautiful spiral springs that lend themselves readily to pnipTiinrr. This cotton is used onlv in the manufacture of the most delicate fabrics; in England, a single pound of it has been wrought into one thousand and twenty-six miles of thread. It was at first thought that compres sion would injure the staple of the cotton; that the fiber would be broken oil short, or the spiral screw, so neces sary to good spinning, be crushed flat. But it was demonstrated by experi ment that, so far from injuring the staple, it seemed to preserve it, and since then the great desire of the cot ton shippers has been to get a machine to compress the cotton as much as pos sible. THE STORMY PtTREL. Queer Superstition of Old Sailors About the lilid. One of the best known of the sea birds is the stormy petrel. It is oftenest seen during storms flying aboyc the waves in search of the shell fish and other small animals that are brought to the surface by the tempest, says St Nicholas. The sailors call petrels "Mother Carey's chickens," and do not view them with much favor, owing to their being constant compan ions of storms. "Jack" thinks that rough weather may be expected when he sees petrels about and is not quite sure that they do' not in some way cause the tempest. When tho bird is on the lookout for its prey it seems to walk on the water. Hence the sea men of olden time, in allusion to the Apostle lVtcr's walking on the water, called the bird petrel, from the Latin l'etrellus, "Little Peter." So far from the sailor being super stitious as to the capture of another kind of petrel, the cape pigeon, which is of black-and-white color and about the size of a tame pigeon, I have known "Jack" to take a hand occa sionally in capturing them as a bit of recreation during a dog-watch. In southern latitudes the cape pi geons follow a ship in thournnds. A common bottle cork is tied to the end of a piece of thread and trailed astern so that the cork touches the water. This gives the required tautness to the thread. As the birds fly in clouds from side to side nstern some of them constantly strike the thread with their wings nnd the resistance is enough to turn them over it, when the thread is wrapped around the wing and the bird is hauled on board. In this manner 1 have seen hundreds caught in a day. On one occasion a clipper ship carry ing passengers to India captured pigeons by hundreds and the surgeon by some mischance succeeded in en tangling a stonily petrel. Now. the doctor was an enthusiastic naturalist and what to the sailors is known as a "land-lubber" that is, he was on his first voyage. The doctor at once took the specimen to his cabin and mude preparations to skin nnd preserve it In hot haste a deputation of seamen, headed by the old gray haired sail-maker, came aft with a re quest that the petrel be set at liberty, sayiug that otherwise the ship and all on board would surely suiter. The doctor, somewhat surprised, in tended to set the bird free, but his en thusiasm as a naturaiist prevailed over the superstitious warning and when tho sauors had disappeared the bird was added to his collection. Tbe fat soon became known forward among tho men and the doctor was re garded with black looks by the crew for the remainder of the voyage. In the course of time the good ship anchored in the llugil river nnd that dav at dinner the doctor suddenly died There was a gathering of the sailors around the windlass that dog-watch and the doctor's sudden death was at- tribuWd bv the superstitious sailors to I his sUuffhtr of the stormy petrel. STATE BOUNDARIES. How Alteracions Bav3 Boon Made All Over the Country. The Changing of the tinea IIhh ftrtulten in the Lou or Large Tracts of Land to Many of the Kast ern sttitea. Connecticut's discovery that she is some square miles larger than she sup posed is not remarkable, since some thing of the kind has happened to per haps every state and territory in the union, says tho New York Sun. Any man' who bets on state areas by the figures of thirty years ago will lose. The. fathers of to-day who happen to have good memories find themselves puzzled when they hear their children reading r.rcas out of the current school textbooks. Anyone who will take l he other unsettled areas ol tne nortn- 'ast are nardly worth considering. The discrepancies between the set tled areas reported in the census of 1870 and those reported in 1800 are rather , startling. New Hampshire lost in those twenty years more than 450 ; square miles. Massachusetts gained in the same time nearly 250 square miles. Vermont lost nearly 1,100 square miles and Rhode Island more than 200. Con necticut gained tto square miles. New Jersey lost more than 850 square miles and Maryland lost more than 1,200 square miles. Even poor little Dela ware lost IliO square miles und in the census of 1030 she will show a still dif ferent area as the result of her recent dickering with Pennsylvania. As to the newer states, which might reasona bly be expected to show changes in set tled area from one decade to another, the figures given in the census reports of 1S70 and in those of 1800 vary in even greater degree. Nearly all the larger states, whether old or new, show con siderable losses in area since 1870. New York lost nearly 500 square miles; Pennsylvania rather more than 1,000; Virginia nearly 2.000, and North Caro lina over 2,101). I'loridn gained nearly 1,000 square miles, probably the result of an extension of the settled area. Ohio's pain of nearly 1,001) is hardly traceible to the same source, though Tfi'"? Ron coiiare miles in ri n-,oii-, n-,rl in Iowa are. probably assignable to this cause. THE RAILROAD IN PALESTINE. Hodern Civilization's Advances. Into the Lands of the lillile. The present is a kind of "Columbus year" for Palestine, and in commemora tion of the .opening of the railroad in the holy land an extra flag might ha displayed at the great, Chicago exposi tion, writes Selah Merrill, United States consul, in Scribner. During the month of August, 1803, tens of thousands of people for the first time in their lives saw a railroad and a train of cars.' They had a revela tion, and in ihe great city as well as in the dirtiest village of the land wonder was at its height The excitement can hardly be realized by the inhabitants of other countries, to whom railroads, perfected by the highest engineering skill and with lavish expense, are ob jects as familiar and common us a daily newspaper. We forget that not very long a-.ro. in our own country, we had only bridl.-pnthx and scarcely u yearly post, while railways anil steamboats had not even been dreamed of. Lot all the world rejoice if this medieval coun try is experiencing a sensation which it can hardly omprehend. The s'gnhieartee of this event is not that fifty-three miles of railway have been built, or that tho capital and the seaport have been united by iron rails; it is that this has been done in Turkey, which has always, hy all the prejudice and fore:1 of its religion, Vjy all the arts of its diplomacy, aud by every other means at its. command, done all in its power to keep out western civilization. It is, therefore, a well aimed spear thrust in the side, of this old despotic, backward-looking government, and may foretoken for it either tho dawn of health or the shadows of inevitable death. CHIMNLYo IN ueauLAND, They Were Not In tso There Before the Twelfth Century. There does not appear to be any evi dence of the use of chimney shafts in , England prior to the twelfth century. I 1,1 Rochester castle, which is in all j probability the work of V. Corbyle, ! about 1180, there are complete fire- places with semicircular backs, and shaft in each joint supporting a semi circular arch over the opening, which is enriched with a zigzag molding; some of these project slightly from the wall. The flues, however, go only a few feet up in the thickness of the wall, and are turned at the back, the apertures being small oblong holes. i At Castle Iledingham, Essex, which is about the. same date, there are fire places and chimneys of similar kind. A few years later tho improvement of carrying the flue up through the whole heigiit of the wall appears, as at Christ church, Hants; the keep at Newcastle; Sherborne castle, Dorsetshire; Conis borough castle, Yorkshire, and lioothby l'agnell, Lincolnshire. The early chim ney shafts are of considerable height and circular, afterward they assume a greut voriety of forms, and during the fourteenth century they are frequent ly extremely short Previous to the sixteenth century the Bhaft is often short and notunfrequently terminated by a spire or pinnacle, usually of rath er low proportions, having apertures of various forms, under and sometimes in it, for the escape of tho smoke. There are also taller shafts of various forms square, octangular or circular surmounted with a cornice, forming a sort of capital, the sr.-.nke issuing from the top. Clustered ehiviney shafts do not appear nut;', rather late iu the fifteenth century; afterward thev be- camt? vei7 comawn' and frequent- i -v Jer"y ornameniea. especially wuea of brick. Qn!y fis Scars Remain. "Among the many testimonials wiiicli I ee in regard to certain medicines ipt-ifnnn-Ing cures, cleansing tlie Ulood, etc.," wrliej Hbmuy Hudson, ol the Jamei rrmili Woolen Machinery Co., Philadelphia, Pa., "mme Impress me more Uian m jr own case. Twenty years ago, at the age of 18 years, I had swellings come on my legs, which broke and became running sores. Our family pli siciuii could do me iiu good, and il was learcd that the hone! would be affected. At lust, my pnorl old mother urged me to try Aycr'i Snrsapnrilln. I took three bottles, the sores healed, H and I have not heen &t troubled since. Only the cars remnin, end the memory of the past, to remind me of the good. Ayer's Sarsnparllla has done me. I new weiidi two hundred and twenty pounds, nnd am in the best of health. I have been on the road tor tbe past twelve years, have noticed Aver '8 Sanaparilla advertised in all parts of the United States, nnd always take pleas ure 111 telling what good it did for me." For the cure of all diseases originating in impure blood, the best remedy Is AVER'S Sarsaparilla Prepared by Dr. J. C. Aer & Co., Lowell, Mses. Cures others, will cure you WANTED. tiniUrrit ANT LADY, mploydoronwnpIoya, wlw n If LLni can nki U.ia (Ti fw hours work each any. Solary o-commlfiion. flO iBinplM frtt Addrcii H. BthJAMIN A CO., 822 Pine St., St. Louli, Mo. Dp. Hash's Belts & Appliances An tlMtrO'ffMvanic ftMterj i bo .led into medicated. mil Appliances, Abduiu inn! Supporters, Vents, Drawers. Oiiico Caps, IiiftoieH. etc. Core Rheumatism, Liver and KMnej JomplnintH, IyHpepia, .Errors of Y 'tilth, jont Manho'ut, Nervounen, Sexual Weak less, and allTrouhlfS i MhIb or j einale. mention Blank and liook free. Call or lite, Volta-Medica Appliance Co., ZZ Flue Street. ST. LOUIS. MO. I'oot-PrintK on llie Path to HchHIi. Everyone nmiintf ft doctor's ml vice should read one of Dr. Footed dimi1 pamphlets on "Old Eyes," "Croup," Rupture," 'Thimoaw," "Varicocele," DiBeHpe of men, Dispose of Women, nnd learn thft best menns of sel -cure. M Hill Pub. Co., 129 fcast 28th HU New York. STOCK BRANDS. While you keep your subscription paid np yea can keep your brand in free of charge. Allyn, T. J., lone, Or. Horses G(i on left shoulder; cattle name on left hip, under bit on right ear, and upper bit ou the left; range, Mor row counts. Armstrong, J. V., Alpine. Or. T with bar un der n on left shoulder of horses; cattle same on left hip. Allison, O. D., Eight Mile, Or.-Cattle brand, O D on left hip and horses same brand on right shoulder. Itange, Eight Mile. Adkins, J. J., Feppner, Or. Horses, JA con nected on let t hank; cattle, sum eon left hip. rlnrlholaraew, A. O., Alpine, Or. HorBes branded 7 E wn either shoulder. Range in Mo. row countv Bleakman, Geo., Hardmnn, Or. Horses, a flag ot left shoulder: cattle name on right shoulder. oannister, J. W., Hard man. Or. Cuttle brand d R on left hip and thigh: split in each ear. Brenner, Peter. tmnphprry Oregon Horses branded P B on left shoulder. Cattle same on right siue. linrke. M 8t C, Long Creek, Or On cattle, MAY connected on left hip, ciop off left ear, un der half crop off right. Horses, same brand on letft shoulder. Kange in Grunt and Morrow Bounty. Hrosman, Jerry, Lena, Or. Horses branded 7 on right Bhouider; cattle B on the left side. Ift ear half crop nd right ear npper slope. Barton, Wm.. H ppner, Or. -Horses, J Ron right thign. cattle, same on right hip; split in each ear. Brown. Isa, Lexington, Or. Horses IB on the right stifle; cattle same on right hip; range, Jlor row county. Brown, J. C, Heppner. Or. Horses, circle with dot in oh teron left hip; cattle, name, Brown, W.J. , Lena. Oregon. Homes V bar over it, on the left Bhouider. Cattle same on left hit. Boyer, W. G., Heppner, Or. Horses, box brand or ngn hip cattle, Bame, with split in etch ear. Borg, P. O., Heppner, Or. Horses, P B on left !honlder; cattlo. BHmeon lefi hip. Brownlee, W. J., Fox.Or-Cattle, JB connected on left side; crop on left ear and two splits and middle piece cut out on right ear; on horses same brand on the left thigh; Kange in Fox valley, Grant county, Car sner arren, Wagner. Or. Horsea brand ed O on right etifle ; cattle three bars) on right ribs, crop andBplit in each ear. Kange in Grant and Morrow counties, Cain.E., ( laleb.or. Y 1 on horses on left stifle U With quarter circle over it, on left shoulder ttnd on left stifle on all colts n-der ft years; on left shoulder only on all homes over 6 yearn. All range in Grant county. Clark, Wm. H., Ler a. Or. Horse WHO con nected, on left shoulder: cattle same on right hip. Ha ge Morrow and Umatilla counties. Cate, Chaw. H Vinson or Lena, Or. Horses H C on right shoulder; cattle Mime on right hip. Uange Morrow and Umatilla counties. Cecil, W m., Douglas. Or.; burses JC on lef shoulder; ca'tle same on lefi hip, waddloB on nadi iaw and two bits in the right ear. Curl, 1. H,, John buy. Or. Double cross on each hip on cattle, swallow fork and under bit in right ear, split in left ear. Hangs in Grant county. On sheep, inverted A aud spear point on shoulder. Ear markou ewes, orop on left ear puuohed upper bit in right. Wethers, crop in riuht and under half crop iu left ear. All rung in Grant conutv. Cook. A. J.,Lona.Or. Horsee, Won right slmnl lei Cattle, sameon right hip: ear mark square rrop off left and split in right. t urrin, K. YM Currinbviile, Or. -Horses, C on left stitle. Cox Ed. 8., Hardman, Or. Cattle, C with u- ueiuer; norses. i r, on loll nip. Cochran, It. E., Monument, Grant Co, Or. Uomes btandid circle with hai beneath, on tefl nhoulder; cttitlesaine brand on both hips, murk under olope both ears mid dewlap. Chai'iii, H.f HardinKU. Or, Horsee branded " on riKht hip. t attle brawled the same. Al . brni ds l 1 on homes light iliih; ct t e s r e oiandon right bhvmklei, si d cut iff tnd of rittlit ear Dickens, F.bh Horses brat ded with three urio'i fork nn left t-title Cattle sa ne on left side. Douglas. W. M .UhUowu, Or. l aute, ti Don right (.ide.swn low-fork in each ear; homes, K D on left hip. Douglas, O. T., Douglas, Or Hortes TD on the i ik til etirie; cattle same on right hip. Klv. J. b. Jt Hons, Doiikiiw,lt. Homes brand, ed EL cn left shouluer, cattle stone on left hip. hole tv riyla tvtr. Elliot). Wash., Heppner, Or. Diamond on right shoulder. Emeij. t Hardman. Or. Horses branded l'fvmtd . with tail on left shomder ; cau tietame on ii-hi hip. Itunge in Morrow county. Flerk, JbckfOli, tlfOpuer, Ol.Horm, oooneciea ol right shoulder: cattle same on riyht hip. tar mark, hole in right and crop ofl left. Florence, L. A., Heppner, Or. Cattle, LF on right hip; homea I1 with bur under on right shoulder. Florence, 8. P. Heppner. Or Horses F on right shm ldei ; cattle. F on right hip or thigh Jrwich, George, Heppner. Dr. Cattle branded w r, with bar over it, on left tide; crop off left ear. Dors, same brand on left hip Gay, Henry, Heppner, Or. GAY on left shoulder. Gilman-French, Land and Live Stock Co., Fob. sil. Or. Horses, anchor 8 on left shoulder; vent sun eon left stifle. Cattle, same on both hips' mr marks, crop off right ear and underbit in left rUuitfe m Gilliam, Grant, Crook and Morrow 0. unities Gentry, Elmer, Echo, Or. -Hores brsoded H. 8. with a quarter cirvle over it, on left slide Kange iu Morrow ami Umatilla comities. Hrtjes. dfo., Una, Or, Dmud J It connected With gimrtfr cuvl- over it, on iett shoulder. Hunt A. H htdtte. Or. at tie. round-top with quarter circle under it on the right hip. hhi.ite ui Morrow nnd L umtilt ,-onniiea. Bintou A JenkN Hamilton. Urt attle. two h; on either hip; cn-p in miht ear and split in (eru Homes, J ou right thigh, tiang in (irniii county H kN, uuel. Wagnrr, Or - (T f i oounectedf on right shoulder n hor; oucsttle, on right hip and on left side, w allow fork in right ear aud slit in left. Kant in Hajttack district. Morrow county. 5 1 Q 1 I RLZ-li f t HhIo. Milton, WnKiiar. Or.-Hitnw bnrodftd -- (irrie wiu parallel tails) on left shoulder, flttle same on left hip also largo circle on left Mall. Kd win. John Day.Or. Cattle E Hon right nip; ImrHfs sume on right shoulder, tangaiii raiit county. Howard, J L, lloway. Or. Hordes, -f- (cross with bur above it) ou ripht shoulder; cattle HUieon leftside. Kazitfe m Morrow and Uma tilla counties. Hughes, Mat. Heppner, Or. Horses, shaded heart on the left shoulder. Kanve Morrow (Jo. Hunsaker, ti , Wagner. Or. "Horses, U on left (mu)(ifr. ca tie. Oon left hip. HardiBty, Albert, Nyu, Oregon Horses, A H connected, on left Bhouider; t attle on the left tup, crop off left ear, Humphreys, 4 Ai. Hard man, Or. Horsee. H on lef Hank Hayes, J, M., Heppner, Or. Horses, wineglass on left shoulder cattle, same on right hip. Huston, Luther, iueht Mile, Or. Horse H on the left shonlderand heart on the left stifle Cot tl Rami on left hip. itanire in Morrow county. Ivy, Alfred, Long Creek, Or Cattle 1 JJon ritrht hip, crop off left ear and bit in right. Horses name brand on left shoulder. Uange n Crrunt conutv J'nes, Hurry, Heppnr, Or Horses branded fT J on the left shoulder: cattle baanded J on ;.,k 1.1. . ai... n.u.i,.t t IIS.M1 Hip, r.oil KUUVI 1U Kill VOI.. MUJffO borrow ct ntity. .liiiikm. H. Hi.. HeonnAr- Or HnrwM hnrao. xhoe J on left shoulder. Cattle, the aamt. Kfiiijfe on Eight Mile. Johnson, telii. Lena, Or. Horses, circIeT on mit bliuw; i-awiw, ottiuw uli ngiti uip, uuuer nait cno in right and split in left ear ii'DKins, u w.,mi. veriion,w. j onnorseson left shoulder; oti cattle, J on left hip and two smooth crops on both ears. Kangein Fox and Kenny, OJike, Heppner, Or. Horses branded K.NY on left hip cattle same and crop off left tu: undiT N.ope on the right Kirk, J. T., Ueppuer, Or, Horses 69 on left -honlder; cattle, r'iH on left hip. Kirk. J C; Heppner. Or. Horses. 17 on either iiank: cattle 11 on right side. Kirk. JeBse, Heppner, Or.; horse 11 on left sLonJder; cattle same on light side, underbit on right ear. k umberland. W. Q.. Mount Vernon. Or. I h on cattle on right and left sides, swallow fork in It ft ear and under ciop in right ear. Horses same hmnd on left shoulder. Itange in Grant county. Loften, Btepnen, Fox, Or. 8 L on left hip in cattle, orop and split on right, ear. Horses same brand on left shoulder. Bangs ttrant I'OUDtV. Lienallen, John W., L- Or. Horses branded half-cncleJL connected on left shoal ier. Cattle, sain on left bin. ttange, near Lex. intfton Leahey, J, W- Heppner Or. Howes branded L aim A o i h'tt Bhouider; cettie same on left hip, waitle ovtr nfcht t-ye, three siiu in right ear. Lord, George, Heppner. Or. Horses branded double 11 coi.nect Nmetimee caIImI h HWing H, on lefi Bhouider. iMarkham. A. ftl Heppner, Or.-Cattle large M on lufi Bide both aura cropped, and tplit in ho h Homos M oi, left iiiu. Kauize. i'lurlt'H Minor, Oscar, neppuer, or. Cattle, M. Don right hip; home. Moo ieftshouluer. Morgan, ti. N Heppner, Or. Horses, M) on lefi should"" cattle same on left hip. McCumber. Jaa A, Echo, Or. Horaea. M with bar over on riifht shoulder. Morgan. 'Alios., Heppner, Or. Horses, circle T on loft shoulder and left. thih; cattle, Z on ritdit thiirh. Mitchell. Oscar, lone, Or. Horace, 77 on rigU din: cut lift. 11 on riuhi siHa Mc laren, D. G Brownsville, Or, Human, FiKiire Son each shoulder, cattle. M2on hin McCarty. David H. Echo Or. Homes branded DM connected, on the left shoulder; cattlo same on hip and side. McGirr, Frank, Fox Valley, Or. Mule shoe with toe-cork on cattle on ribs and under in each ear; horaos same brand on loft stitie. alcPd.' w MnwiutMn.Or. on Honm. S with half jirttle under on hjft shoulder; on oattle, four bars connected on top on the right side Kange in Grant County. Neai. Andrew. Lone Kock.Or. Horses A N con nected on left shoulder; cattle same on both hips, Noidyke, E Nilverton. Or. Horse, circle 7 ou loft thigh: caitle.same on left hip. Oliver, Joseph, Canon City, Or, A Son cart on left hip; on homes, Bame on lot't thigh, llang in Grant county Oiler, lorry, Lwtbigton, Or.iJ O lttt O j -"- vs. mi nip, lll'IBtW OU leiL b 11 11 9 and wanle on nose, itango in Grant county. Pearson, Olave, Eight Mile, Or. Horses, quar ter circle shield on left shoulder and 34 on loft hip. Cattlo, fork in lefi iar, ritrht cropped. 24 on left hip. Bang' on Eight Mile. Parker & Gloason, Hard man, Or, Horses IP on I- ft shoulder. P per. En e t, Lexington, Or.-Hor-es brand e E (L E connected) i. Iett shoulder ; cuttle s mu on right hip. Itange, Morrow count. i'lper, J. H Lexington, Or. -Horses, JE con nected oi left shoulder; cattle, same on left hip. under bn in each ear. PettyB, A. C, lone, Or,; horses diamond P on ehoulder; cattle, J li J connected, on the left hip, upper slope in left ear and slip in lilie light. Powell, John T Dayville, OrHorses, JP cou. nee ed on left shoulder. Cattle OK connected on left hip, two under half cropB, on on each ear, wattle under throat. Ka ge m Grant county. Hood. Andrew, Hardman, Or. Horses, square on with quarter-circle over it on left stifle. Kenmger, ChriB, Heppner, Or. Homes, G K on left shouidei. Bice. Dan, Hardman, Or.; horses, three panel worm fence on left shoulder; cattle, DAM on right shoulder. Itange near Hardman. Hoyse, Aaron, Heppner, Or Homes, plain V on left shoulder; cattle, same brand reversed on ritihthfp and crop oft right ear. liange in Mar row oouuty. Hush Bros., Heppner, Or. Horses branded Ji on the right Bhouider; cattle, IX on the left hip. crop ofl iolt ear and dewlap on neck. Bange In Morrow and adjoining counties. Bust, William, Bidge, Or. Horses H oa left shoulder; cattle, It on left hip, crop oil right ear, underbit on left ear. Hheep, H on weathers, round crop off righ ear. liange (Jma tillaand Morrow o -unties. Kbaiiey, Andrew. Lexington, Or. Horaw branded A K on right shoulder, vent quarter circle over brand; cattle same on right hip, Uange Morrow county. Itoyse, Wm. H, Dairyville, Or HR conneotw. with quarter circle over top on cattle on right hip and crop off right ear and split in left. Homes same brand on left shoulder. Itange in Morrow Grant ana Gilliam counties. hector. J. W., Heppner, Or. Horses. JO on lef t shoulder. Caitle, own right hip. Jipioknall, J. W., "Gooseberry, Or. Honwi branded ill ou left shoulder: lange in Morrow county. bailing, C C, Heppner, Or Homes branded on Iett Bhouider; cattle same ou left hip. bwaggari. B, J?'., Lexington, Or. Horses with dash under it on left stitle. cattle H with uash unuer it on right hip, crop otf right ear and who died on right hind leg. itange iu Morrow, Gilliam and Umatilla counties. bwHggart, A. D.,Athena. Or. Horses branded J in leu shoulder; cettie same on left hip. Cron on ear, wattle on left hind leg. btraight W. K, Heppner, Or.-HorseB ahadtnl j b on lei. slihe; cattle J 8 on left hip. swallow fork in righ. ear, underbit in left. bapp. iiiot.,, Heppner, Or. Homes, H A P ou Iett nip; catLit sameon left hip. bhrier.Johu, Fox, Or.-NC, connected on homes on right hip; oatue, same on right hip. crop oil ngiit ear and under bit in left ear. Kange in urant couuty. "n buuth Bros., buwnville. Or. Homes, branded H. Z, ou shoulder; caitie, ame on lef t shoulder. bquires, James Arlington, Or,; horses branded JBoniett siiouHier; cattle the same, also nose waddle. lUngeinilorrowandOiliiamoo-inties. btopheua, V. A.,Hardinau. Or-; homes b!iou right sune; cattle horizontal L on the right aide toteveusou, airs A. J., Heppner, Or.-Cattle, ti on right bi, ; swallow-fork in left ear bwaggart. G. W Heppner, Or.-HorBes. 44 on leti Hhuuitte. ; catUe, 44 on left hip bperry.E. G., Ueppuer, Or.-Cattle W C on Iett tup, crop off nBnt and underbit in left year, dewmp; homes W M on left shoulder. ' liioinpBun, J, A., Heppner, Or.-Horses, Z on ieit shoulo. r; cattle, Z on left shoulder shomuen ,tn'WrprWv'Ur"Hor8eti' C"on iBf luinerlt. W., Heppner, Or. -Small c&nitAl T wiln biht iu boll. earb. lluTiituu, 11. il., lone, Or.-Horeea braodcl H 1 couuwiod oo eft .titles 8h00) ,,,, braud Vaiiilerpuol, H. J... Lsna, Or, liorees H V oon. jiec-UHl ou run liualdl,r;iaiti1e.8am0a S ..Ny?lb,ri.d.'")LWm.-HeP"uer'0r- HoreM, U. i. on llie leu nhuuicter; cuttle same on right hit,, criipott loft ear aud rinht ear in,..,i tf Wrtlmm, Jonn Q Saltui, or Heupne! tk.rbua brauded Jq on Uie left Bhouider. Vtarreu.W h.'l Web, Or-Cattle W with qmrter Circle over i mi i-ft -i., 7. . Homes wane braad ou iett shoulder. tntlll (mints liange m riKl,t cilas A Heppr.er, Or. Cattle branded lds,p'l,t'u,rie1u1''l,-'')Uar" CrP U" nt"'te" aue, heury, Heppner, Or.-Horeos branded ate oi epaae. on leu shoulder and loit hiu el s, A. ., Heppner, Or.-Horeea. on I i on lef W olfinger, John, John Day I'ity.Or-On horfe. hH, W"' "hoauior; 7 on eh" u!?ti Ututt a UrM" Dd coT?nrefJshoHu!urr' 0r-ti0 - Wallace, Charles, Portland. Or. Cattle W mi rjuhiUugh.hou in lef, ThorSTw on Jht houluei. .om. sameon left shoulder. " hiitier ton nur,iu.;,on. baker Co.. Or -tW hnu,ded W H cnnti on left Mulder W,ll,ains vasco, Hamilton. Or.-Qoarter oir- honT "ha' ''""i U"",0" boto tUe 2nd norbea. Itai.gt; braul couutj. W IkereoKt l, san.eon lut hia. horse. oo.eu should. Ail rn. la kutro lou 18 X&t'SZgT'' 0r- brM