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Valuable in terest have been lost and destroyed iu innumerable instances bv the employ ment of incompetent counsel, and es pecially is ttiis advice applicable to those who adopt the "No patent, n pay" i) stem. Inventors who entrust tbeir business to this class of attorneys do o at Imminent risk, as the breadth and atreurftb of the patent is never eon sidered iu view of a quick endeavor to get an allowance and obtain the fee. THE l'UESS CLAIMS COMPANY, John Weddeiburn, General Manager, 018 F street, N. W.,Wat.uiugton, 1). C, represeniiug a large number of impr taut daily and weekly papers, and gen eral periodicals of the eonutiy, was iu- stituted to nrotiut Us natrous from the unsafe methods heretofore employed in this line of business. The said Cou pany is prepared to tuke charge of all pateut business entrusted to it for rea sonable free, aud prepare aud prosecute applications generally, including rue obniiioal inventions, design patents, trade-marks, labels, copyiights, interfer ences, infringements, validity reports, and gives especial attenion to rejected cases. It is also prepared to enter into competition with any firm in securing foreign patents. Write for instructions and advice. Jorm Weddbtibcbn. til8 F street, ? . 0. Box 883. Washington, D. 0. GOOD ADVICE. Every patriotic citizen nhnuld give Ida personal elWl and ml.utMice to incrca.-.o the circulation tit hi home acT whk-h teach ta the American policy of IVotcc lion, tt is hit duty to aid m this respect in eV'iry way piwaildn. Altur the home papei it taken care ol, why nut sub scrib't fur the Amkkican Kconomist, publii'ied by the American I'roicctivf Taiiin.eayue t One ol its oinx-spoii-denfj8ayi "No true American can get a!ung without It. I consider it the gi eat est and truest political teacher In ti e I'nitcd States.' Feud postal card rcq'ieut for frea ; mplecopy. Addi bu Wdbur F. Wake nan, General Secret try, 135 West 23d St, hsw York. II-' V'.U WASi" ISfOfiMrttlON Aaouv Atl'lrt'-H 11 li'lli-r or iiMMt 'l t'linl hi Till-; PHttM (oni'Y IOHM WtDOERHURN, Maiinuing Attorney, mniiriumy miorncy. WAHlllNil 1UN,1.C. S0LDK9S, WIDOWS. CHILDREN, PARPNTS. !.ho, f r : 'iVr, nnil niloro fltblcl in the Miti' ttf y in tin' r4'K"lr Armvcr Nnv niiir1 tlir wnr. 'irU; r or lin Imil.ui wtir- of lftt-J ti 1H('. nnI 'i r w. ;.!.., now I'ntttlt'rt OMtmiil ivlivtril iM:nmi ' "''i; v. I ! 'ii. -Kin tt cntillcit H) tiiwhfi i.ih-i. 1 .iitll l.i i nh.-irtrit f.if inKl.-.. X ti-.i lre vox Ve cause ct oj OlYncriean. Are you willing o work fur the cause of I'rotiH tiun in plitciiij rt-liahle in for. ination iu the hands ul your aaitiain taiues? If you are, you should be identified with the american Protective Tariff league. (35 W. 230 St., New York. Cut tiiU notice out and iit1 ti to itc L-.-ine, tntiii your poiiftlim, and g,iv a hHofii); hand. tinny, r.nvoiii i ilvma I, i trvuui delmitf, j Hnnslural diKliftrRM K it muliood, dfpondrnoj, iDfll 'Mlorn rry, Wiirmit awav of tb nrgti, mU nl. rlU y cured by foi d ra y tneth d . Cure pitt)Tlr fuaraD'Ma, Qaeii on U.aak aod tftfoknv. Calluf wrtta. DR. WARD INSTITUTE. i IZON. Ninth St., ST. LOUIS, HO. TUX DODD'vS Cure fo OLIC IN HORSES. QUARAINTEtD. rJrtry omir o a burM liuu'tl kvp II till IIBllU. ,1 in. Mr lilt in 01 taluaMr animal Ohm park.ga wa gurv cm hi o mn ratei ftir $1 OU Scut lv Iliad o irft. Our Ao nul ll'H'k. w leu ai)iillnalUaUfe( U. 4.V.JAM1I t Plna St. Gt. Louis, Mo The Old Reliable I;talil! lii'U.wv"r. r.-iitmiloorr.'in il", nmrrit-d or tlnvle, In ci t exurn, aluei, executes or liunioiiriutlos. (MI,t UUAKANTKKI). Hoard Binl ui'iirtnimit fur-ih.Hl wina (li atreil. yuonuvu liimn adUouktr. Call or writ. "A Saved Mer Life- Mra. 0. J. Wooj.naiDoa. of Worlh&m Texas, sawd th lifr t,t her child by tho use ot Ayer-'s riierry I'ectoral. b "One of my ohMihen had Croup. Tti!5 case wag attended by our phvslrhin. and van supl'oscd to he wrll tiiuler control. Onrt ni-i i v.;i itHrttcf hv the child's hard briMthintr, anrj nu going to it fetnid it dtnuv piinr?. Ii. had iif;;rly cr;iSvd to hrt'ailie, Kc.'djzhtg (hat thf chtld's altirmfntr condition h;td become possible in spite of Hu mnlicines fffven. I rftasfTi'(i that mill, remfdif. would brt of no avil- navinz part of ft Imfrie of Ayfr's Ohorry Pectoral In Dip Ik-US'1, I pnvo tlift CI.MH (hv I.pi, at shirt intervals, and anxlMislv wa1rri rilts, From Mis moment th lrtr-v.il :?, jh nn. th. chV hm thing firf-v t. -pi'-r tin). in a sh'-rt tin , sh wan fjft't.icr .)-'.( !r- fjiitu' t'ft'ir-iliy. TU r)ul'l W :-r ! v.j'Jl tci.-l.-'-v. Slid I UO ..,, : ;i '.y-r'.' rry lei Pectoral Vv rk o,, I.oweli, Miuif. Pre:-; THB OL.D DOCTOR'S LADIES FAVORITE. ALWAYS RELIABLE and perfectly BAFE. 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Broadway Theatre RldK.,NewYorkCity. r- CANVASSERS WANTrrv One of the Thin-;, Hh:ch an KnitUdli Clptitlfminn 'ttnnut rmliTHtitiuI. This business life of American gen tlemen is one of the hardest problems for an lCiijrlishmnn to understand cor rectly, ays the Nineteenth Century. Till comparatively lately in Kntflaml commercial business, except hanking, has not been thought highly of for (fcntlcmen. Politics, the church, the army anil navy, the bar, etc., have been the outlets for Knlisli younger roiik. In America it is quite dilTorent. Amoii),' the many reasons for this I will mention but the one important one, that the pursuits above men tioned affor.l but few openings, corn pa rati ve ly spe a li i n g . The church is a poorly-paid profes sion for the sons of the wealthy mer chants, and the army and navy are so small in number that they do not af ford a field for more than a few. The bar is, of course, open, and is crowded in America as in England. I'olitics, for some Inscrutable reason, does not seem to attract many of the higher grades of youth. Consequently, the young American scelis the commercial Held, and in every American city, especially in the west, one finds at tho head of cultivation and progress men whose rise has been duo to successful commercial enterprise. It is well for the individual that success should be so rewarded, anil it is well for the community, also, that the man of busi ness, who has gained his success on legitimate lines, should be its leader. In n new nnd partly unsettled country lilie America, so fortunately situated as to need practically no foreign pol icy, nnd to fear no foreign enemies, the creator or the distributor of wealth is a far more valuable man than the politician or the soldier. The sanguineness of the American is another feature especially striking to nu outsider. The w hole temper of the people is one of hope. No young man enters life in any line without the fullest belief that he is going to suc ceed, nnd going to ninke n great ileal of money, and do it all very quickly. This may be true of young men every where, but it is especially so in the states. And men are justified in their youthful hopes. Practically any younj man of rea ftonablc brains and industry is sure to Bueeee.l. Op miiv;s are nuuv.'rou i, and the shnrp-witte-.l American is quick to take advantage of them. II is a curi ous fact, but one that I have often heard employers of unskilled labor comment up.m, that none of their wor'inu'ii were American Imrn, unless, possibly, some of t!e foremen. As an Im.s'Ushmuu. I tun glad to add that rarely are Englishmen either found as unskilled laborers ui American work, bops. GIANTS IN SWAMPa Mastodons That H-iva Been Un earthed in Marshy Hegicns. Dow Seleotinc Kroearrli nu (teen Allied by the lHHcovcry of Exttnrt Bird, aurJ Animal, iu Wet l.autlH. It would perhaps be dideult to find anybody who would speak a good word for swamps. The man who drains one and turns its marshy surface into productive soil is universally re garded as a public benefactor. So tho projected draining of the Dismal swamp in Virginia and the Okcfcnokce swamp of Georgia is regarded only with favor, and few could be found to regret tho disappearance of these re markable features of our American landscapes, says Youth's Companion. Yet, setting aside the strange pieturesquencss of such marshy regions and the curiosities of plant life which they exhibit, it is easy to show that swamps have been uwful in a manner that could hardly have been antici pated. They have very effectually terved tho cause of science by pre serving the remains of some of tho most remarkable of the former in habitants of the earth. Here in America the skeletons of several mastodons have been found imbedded in ancient swamps, and so perfectly preserved that no ditaculty , whatever has been encountered in re- I storing the bones to their normal po sition. Betting the skeletons on their feet and thus exhibiting to the eyes of modern man the monster animals which were probably familiar sights to our ancestors nobody knows how many thousands of years ago. f In Ireland the ancient swamps were equally efficacious in preserving for us the gigantic elks which became mired in them. Swamps liavo proved no less useful agents of science in other parts of the world, and particularly in Australia, New Zealand and Madagascar. What could bo more interesting than tho bones of a giant bird which was in all probability the roc described by Sindbad? Just such bones have been discovered in the marshes of Madagascar and New Zealand. and there is plenty of evidence .hat the great birds which owned them were the contemporaries of men in the past history of those islands. I!ut for Llie swamps we might have remained ignorant of the fact that birds with legs larger and heavier than those of j the largest horse once nourished in the southern hemisphere. Lately these Madagascar swamps have yielded other remains of extinct animals, hardly less interesting than the huge bird, the cpiornis, itself. These are the skeletons of a creature resembling a lemur of gigantic size, but remarkable for the small quantity of brains which it possessed. It is said ;hat man was responsible for the de struction and disappearance of this creature. If so it was probably a sim-i pie ease of brains against brute force. There is reason for thinking that still other discoveries remain to be made in Madagascar discoveries that will possibly bring to light even more interesting facts concerning the former inhabitants of that part of the world. Suppose one of our swamps, which we regard as utterly useless, should preserve to a remote future age the nly remains of some animal like the jison or the tiger, now rapidly becom ing extinct. The men of science then living would have the same reason for rejoicing that that swamp hud existed that we have for being thankful for the revelations contained in the swamps of ancient days. THE Fh.w. , s..- hIATURE. The luNtinct of hcif-l'reHervatlon lllug trateil by T BliiTular Clrciim.tancFfl. "I never realized the strength of the instinct of soif-prcservation in man," said a St. l.ouisan to a (llobc-Dem-ocrat man, "until I witnessed a test of it on a steamboat. Among the passen gers was a man who had a black rat tlesnake in a box with a glass top. The snake was a very vicious one and would strike the glass whenever any one approached. The owner of the reptile challenged anyone in the crowd to hold his finger on the glass and let the snake strike at it. There could not be any danger and there was not a man who did not think it an easy thing to do. One big fellow, who looked as if he never knew what nerves were, tried it first, and, after rep atcd at tempts, gave It up. Then every pas senger on the boat attempted it, and failure followed iu each case. It sim ply could not be done. Instinct was stronger tha n reason and will power combined. 1 witnessed another illus tration of this in Paris. A young man had lost his last sou at a gambling table. Not only was ho without means, but he had lost a large sum be longing to his employer. He started for the Seine to drown himself. On the way there was a great commotion, caused by the escape of a tiger from a strolling menagerie. The animal came down tho street and people fled in every direction. Instantly the man who w'as seeking death climbed a lamppost and hung to the top of it, trembling in every muscle. When the animal was captured and the danger was over he went to the river and com mitted suicide. I was interested in the account of the suicide, and prompted by curiosity, went to sec tne binly, instantly recognizing it as that of the young man whom I had seen make so frantic iiu effort to eseajM? death, evidently but a few minutes be fore he sought it and at the very time that he w as seeking au opportunity to end his existence." trie i.i-.iljo v,..,.ilNALS. In IS!) there were CTS7 persons in the prisons of this country, or 503 per 1.000,000 of population; now there are MV.'SS, or t.lSO per 1. 000,000. The prison population of India, large as it is. is only S per 100,000 in habitants, or less than half the propor tion that prevails in (treat Uritain. Is 1S00 there were 4.r.3:i3 penitentiary convicts in the I'nitcd States. 10.338 inmates of the county jails and 14,S4u boys and girls iu the reformatories. In Saxon murder cases the number of compurgators demanded was some times very large. One case is recorded in which the judges demanded 1,0X1. ExKct'TloNS ceased to be publie in Kngland in 1S05. licfore that time they were in the squares in front of the jail and attracted thousands of people. In (SST 103. 3.V.! persons were arrested in tlreat llritnin for crime, of whom s.V-'.M, or 50 per cent., were vagrants or persons having no stated employment. SHIPS AND WHALES. Vessel, and Crtncean, Collide Sometime, with Disastrous Effects. The steamship Petersburg, of the Russian volunteer fleet, had a unique experience near Minicoy, in the South Indian ocean, says Chambers' Journal. A sharp shock was felt by all on board and she stopped as though gripped in a vise. The sea was found to be colored with the life-blood of two huge whales, which lay floating in their last agony. One was cut through by the steamer's sharp stem and the other killed by re peated blows of the screw propeller. The German steamship Waesland. bound from Antwerp to New York, ran into and killed a sleeping whale. A small steamer, the Kelloe, col lided with a whale ner.r Sea ham harbor and wounded it badly. The celebrated yacht Gencsta narrow ly avoided collision with a dead ceta cean during the jubilee race around our island. In 1889 a Shields steam ship, the James Turpie, nearly cut a whale in two one starlight night. The schooner O. M. Marrctt was almost wrecked by passing whales in the north Atlantic. Many of the school struck her repeatedly with such vio lence that her whole hull shook and articles in the officers' rooms were thrown to the floor. In 1890 a small sailing vessel, the Ocean Spray, bound from Galveston to Kngland, struck a sleeping whale and received damage. On the morning of ; tho 17th of July, a whale fifty feet long made its appearance close alongside the steamship Port Adelaide, Capt. C. M. Ilepworth, R. N. R., in 43 degrees 60Uth, 75 degrees east. He followed the vessel for four days, never more than seventy yards away, and general ly close astern, much to the edification of numerous passengers. He threw up the sponge in 41 degrees south, 97 de grees cast, after traveling nine hun dred and eighty statute miles, cer tainly without resting and apparently fasting. In November the ship Earnock, Capt. Parson, was under sail in tit) degrees south, 21 degrees west, when a large whale lashed the sea into foam with his tail so near the ship that the chief otlicer, who happened to be below for ward, came quickly on deck to see what had happened. He actually felt the impact of the water against her bows. In June, 1891, while her majesty's ship Immortalite was steaming from Arosa bay to Gibraltar at the rate of twelve knots an hour, she stopped short as though a submerged danger had been located. It was presently found that she had cut deeply into a whale, and It became necessary to go astern in order to get rid of the incum brance. Tour months later the Anchor line steamship Ethiopia collided with a whale when about eight hundred miles from New York. RUSSIAN EXPLORATIONS. The Government Is Welt Supplied with Ueliahle Maps. A vast but fascinating problem con fronts Kussia on her Chinese frontier a problem which cannot he disnosed of m one or even two generations. No power, however, knows better how to wait than Itussia. Time is on her side, and as the necessary preliminary to ail wise action is knowledge, the Russian general stall has been making the full est use of the opportunities which treaties afforded to gain accurate in formation concerning the Chinese ter ritories and everything appertaining thereto. Not a corner of .the whole empire, save what comes within the "sphereof influence" of the French, but has been intersected by Russian government ex plorers and armed expeditions during the past thirty years. These explorers, include botanists aud geologists, of course, but the mili tary expert and the skilled topographer are the animating soul of these expe ditions. Occasional glimpses into their pro ceedings are allowed to the world, but every fact of military or political sig nificance is carefully conserved in the archives of the Russian intelligence department. Tin! minute information concerning all the northern and western territo ries of China, which is now iu the pos session of the Russian staff, is not only such as no other power possesses, but is incomparably superior to anything in the hands of the Chinese govern ment itself. Ilenee it is that whenever a question of boundaries arises Kussia is prepared .vith elaborate maps of the regions, to which Cuba has not only nothing to jppose, but which she is not even able to criticise. FRIGHTENED BOLIVIANS. Thvr Thought aa Klwtrlc Light Was a Spirit. The Bolivian government recently attempted to establish a telephone line between Lapas and Lake Titicaea. forty-five miles apart, says the Wash ington Star. It was torn down and de stroyed so frequently by the Indians that the government was compelled to abandon it. The electric light plant in Lapas was preserved by adopting an ingenious method of overawing the na tives. After the plant had been in operation but a few nights it happened that there was an eclipse of the moon. The superstitious Indians believed that the electric light was absorbing or swallowing the moon. They gathered in a large body at one quarter of the town and moved upon the plant to de stroy it. It was saved only by the in tervention of a large body of troops. The government the next day selected several representative Indians, took them to the power house, shocked them severely, then took them out along the line and shocked them again with the wires and informed them that the elec tric light was au evil spirit and that they had better leave it alone. Since then they have had no trouble on that score. ORIGIN OF PROPER NAMES. Gouohtly, Lightfoot, Ilarefoot and Koefoot were nicknames having allu siou to speed. Chook, Crump, Cramp and Crimp are but changes rung on an old nickname for u cripple. Sanders, Saunders, Sonderson, are variations of Alexander, a favorite name in Scotland. Wiskmax was once a conjurer, hence the family names of Wise, Wisely, Wiseman ami Wisman. Stkvkn was the original of Steven son. Stephens, Steenson, Stiuson, Stimson and Stimpson. Town formerly meant a farm, hence the Touner, Toatrs, Town sends, Tones, Tunes nnrl Tuns. ji.,A- ,... .j HOW TRAMPS TRAVEL. Truck ((Iiiiatf Twry in the Country tttht ttf ,ti 3tt.riU.tppi. The November Century contains a unique article entitled: "Tramping with Tramps," being a record of the actual adventures of a young Americun who disguised himself as a tramp and took to the road. The following is an extract from th. article: Of the states iu the western district, I think that Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota. Colorado, Washington and a part of California are the best fir tramps. Illinois is thought especially well of by vagabonds because - of its "good" railroads. The Illinois Central, for instance, is known the country over as the best for a journey south, and I have known tramp to travel KIliIN" ON A IKL'CK. from New York city to Chicago, and g o south by this line rather than start from New York direct for New Or leans. The "C. Ii. & Q." is also a great "snap;" in fact, so much so that, when I was on the road, it was called ' the bums' line." In Nebraska, where the "Q." becomes the "11. & M. R.," the lines are more tightly drawn, and it behooves a roadster to take to the trucks if he is anxious to make good time. Truck-riding is necessary almost everywhere west of the Mississippi. 01 course one can "fool around" freight trains, but he is liable to be knocked off when the train is at full speed, and unless this occurs on the desert, or where the ground is rather soft, it may prove dangerous. I once attempted to ride a "freight" on the Southern Pa cific road, and it was the hardest ex perience I ever encountered. I hung on to the side of a cattle-car in order to keep out of the brakeman's way. but he eventually found me, and ordered me to get up on top. There I was made to turn my pockets inside out to convince him that I had no money. Iteing angered that I could not give him a dime, he said: "Well, hit the gravel! 1 can't carry you on this train." I told him that I would never hit the gravel unless he stopped the train. "You won't, eh!" he said; "well, now, we'll see." So he chased me over his train for about fifteen minutes. 1 dodged him here and there, and found that I was quite, able to elude him as long as he alone followed me; but soon the "Con" appeared, and then the chase bcran in earnest. They finally pressed so near that 1 was com pelled to climb down the side of a cat tlecar. They then tantalized me by spitting and swearing. Finally the "Con" climbed down also, and stepped on my fingers, so I had to let go. For tunately, the train was slackening its speed just then i really think the en gineer had a hand in the matter, for he is usually a good fellow and I got off safely enough. Hut. I had to "drill" twenty miles that afternoon without a bite to eat or a drink of water. In the far west after that experience I al ways made use of the trucks. The usual time for eastern and western tramps to start south is in October. During this month large squads of vagabonds will be ound traveling toward "Orleans." I once was on an Illinois Central freight train when seventy-three tramps were fel low passengers, and nearly every one was bound for either Florida or Lou isiana. A REAL KING IN AMERICA. He Is a Half-Breed Comanche Indian and His Itule Is Absolute. "There is a real king out in the south western part of Indian territory," said a citizen of St. Louis to a Washington Star reporter recently, "and in a recent trip down through the Comanche and Kiowa countries I met Quanna Parker, head chief of the Comanehes. The Comanches are still 'blanket Indians,' that is, they are not civilized and edu cated like the Choctaws and they live in tepees. Hut they are among the sharpest and brightest of Indians. Every boy remembers in dime novels that Comanches were the favorite enemies of the brave trappers and hardy pioneers. They were fighters and are the most expert horsemen in the world. Hut they fight no longer, are rapidly becoming civilized, and for their progress and docility Quanna Parker is to be thanked. "Parker is a half-breed, the son of a chief whose wife was a white captive girl. When but a youth Parker, by his daring and bravery and successful ex ploits against other tribes and the whites iu the Indian wars, rose above the older chiefs and became the leader. Now that the wars are forever over his same great will power and strong per sonality impress themselves as strongly upon his tribe, but in the direction of advancement and civilization. He is virtually a king. His word is law; his will supreme. He says he will civilize his tribe, and he will do it. As one result of his ef forts many of his Indians live in frame houses. He compelled them to save one-half of their money received from the sale of their cattle. With sixty In dians' wagons he went down into Texas, bought lumber, then came on to Washington and persuaded Indian Commissioner Morgan to build the houses. He lives in a fine nine-roomed frame house, handsomely furnished in modern style, Brussels carpets, tine up holstered furniture, mural adornments, and decorated nicely. His office, with its desk and fittings, occupies one room, and it is here he transacts his business. He wears a white shirt and trousers with leggings, braided hair, and colors his face when among his people, but when traveling dresses ex pensively in fasHonably made clothes and sports a big '. .amend pin. He has horses without number, two coaches, four buggies and other vehicles. He has six wives to brighten his household, and I never heard of any hair pulling. There is a method in his polygamous madness. Each wife is the daughter of a chief of the six principal divisions or squads of the tribe. So he is solid with the whole lot on this score. ' Parker is about forty, tall and muscular, with a light copper-colored skin, the Indian facial characteristics, with s piercing black eagle eye. He speaks Lnglish well, and is a general favorite with all who know him." Only t!ie Scars Remain. 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Everyone neKlirj? a doctm'e mlvict should read oue of Dr. Foolr's diaie pamphlets on "Old Eyes," "Crnnp," Rupture," Phimosis," "Varicocele," Disease of men, Disease of Women, nnd learn th beat means of sel -cure. M Hill Pub. Co., 129 Eabt 28th St., Kew York. STOCK BRANDS. While you keep yonr subscription piud up ycu mm Kuey yuur ui una iu iinuui ciinrKt, Allyn. T. J.. luce, Or. Horn's (Hi on loft shoulder: cuttle ame on loft hin. nrnWhlrnn right ear, aiiri upper bit on the left; range. Mor row connur. a vr,u T n- rri ;.i miuoiiuui.. v.,nipjur,vi, Willi UUT UL1- der 11 on left shoulder of boreee; cattle same on len Dip. Allison. O. D Eisht Mile. Or. PattlH hranr) O D on left hip and horses same brand on right AdkinB, J. J., ITeppner, Or. Horses, JA con nect ed on le t flah k; cattle, same on left hip. Bartholamew, A. Q., Alpine, Or. Hopbpb Dranuea i n on eiiner shoulder. Kane in ftlo row county Bleak man. Geo., Hard in an, Or. Horses, a Hav oiiieii Miiouiupr; carue qame (ti riK'iT nhnumr bannister, J. W., Hard man. Or. Cuttle brand. fa n on left nip and tliiKh; split in each ear. Brenner, Peter, Ito se berry Oreou Horses branded P B on left shoulder. Cattle samo on right siae. Hurke. M St C, Long Oreek, Or On cattle, MAY connected on left hip, oiop off left ear, un der half crop off riht. Horses, same brand on letft shoulder. Banga in Grant and Morrow Bounty. Bros man, Jerry, Lens, Or. Horses branded 7 on ngni snoumer; cattle u on the left side. Left ear half crop nd right ear upper slope. Barton, Win., H ppner, Or. -Ilorses, J Bon right thjgn, cattle, same on right hip; split in each ear. Brown. Isa, Lexington, Or. Horse" IB on the rignt stine; came same on righthip; range, Mor row county. Brown, J. C, Heppner, Or. Horses, circle wun aoi m ne terun wxi nip; cattle, same. Brown, w. J., Una. Oregon. Horues W bar over it, on the left shoulder. Cattle same on left nip. Boyer, W. O., Heppner, Or. Horses, box brand or righ hip cattle, same, with split in each ear. Borg, P. O., Heppner, Or. Horses, P B on left shoulder; caitlo. same on left hip. Brownlee. W. J.. Fox.Or ( Rttln. .IH nnTinotMari on left side; crop on left ear and two splits and middle piece cut out on right ear; on homes same orana on tne lett thign; Hange in f ox valley, (irant county. ('arsiier Warren, Wagner, Or. Horses brand ed O on right stifle; cattle (three bare) on ngni rioB, crop ana spin in eacn ear. ttange in ti rant and Morrow counties. Cain,:., Caleb, Or.-i D on horses onleft stifle U with quarter circle over it, on left shoulder and on left stifle on all colts u der ft years; on left shoulder only on all horses over ft years. All range in Grant county. Clark, Wm. H.. Le. a. Or. H orsef WHO con nected, on left fchoulder: cattle same on right hip. lia ge Morrow and Umatilla counties, . Cate, ('has. K Vinson or Lena, Or. Horses H C on right shoulder; cattle same on right hip. Hange Morrow and Umatilla counties. Cecil, Wm., Douglas, Or.; borne JV on lef shouldur; ca'tle same on left hip, waddles on each jaw and two bta in the right ear. Curl, T. H., John Day, Or. Double crosB on each hip on cattle, swallow fork and under bit iu right ear, spiit in left ear. Range in Grant county. On Bheep, inverted A and spear point on shoulder. Ear markoa ewee, crop on left ear punched upper bit iu right. Wethers, crop in right aud under half crop in left ear. All mum ii Graiitcouutv. Cook, A. J.,Lena.Or. Horses, fiOon right shooi der. Cattle, sameon right hip; ear mark square crop ofl loft and split in right, Currin.lt. X., Currinevilie, Or. -Horses. 21 on left stifle. Cox Kd. 8., Hardman, Or. Cattle, C witt r in center: horses. CE on left Sip. Cochran, K. K., Monument. Grant Co, Or. Horses bianded circle with bai bfiiPHth, on tefi shoulder: cattle htuiid brmid un both hips, uiHrk uuder .lope both earn Hiid tlewlnp. ( uupiu, H., hurdmaa. Or. Horse, braoOetl -ouriKht hip. luttle bniuded the Hume. All. brio.ds I I oil horHf. iiht ihijrh; tt.if biand on right .houldvt, ai.d out iff ina ol right ear Liiclii-ne, Ebb Porees braided with three tinrti li.rk un let! Btitte Cattle na'iie on left side. DoukIhmi. W. M .Uallowu, Ur. Callie. K i'ou ritiht .jilt, swa low-furs, iu eauu oar; homes, K i) on left hip. Dimnlns. O. T., Douelas, Or Horrai TD on the light Btifle; cattlw same on right hip. Kl.v. J. U.ASoiib, DuaKlu, Dr. Moreen brand ed tL bD left shouiaur, cattle mn:t en left hip. hole ir right ear. tllioti. Wa.li., heppner. Or. Diamond on right .houldHr. fcmiM', t. a.. Hardman. Or. Hnrees branded lieveiBidt iihtuiion left shoii'der; vat-tiet-ame ol ti-hi hip. I..,. g? in Morr-.w county. He. JaL-Rpoi., lie-ir, Ui. Hon,, U counseled ii. right ehoiildm-; cattle same on riht hip. Lar usark. hole in rtght anu erui on left. Florence, L. A., Uepnner, Or. Cattle, LF on right hipi nor, t with bar under on right shoulder. Florence. 8. P. heppner. Or Horses. K on right shot Idei ; oattle, r on right hip or thigh. french, George, Heppner. (Jr. Cattle branded w F, with bar over it. ou left side; crop off left ear. Horses, same brand on left hip. (jay. Henry, Heppner, Or. UAH on left shoulder. Oilman-French, Land and Livestock Co., Fob ail. Dr. Horses, anchor B on left shoulder; veal, sau e no left .tine. Cattle, same on both hips ear marks, crop off right hot and nuderhit in left Range in (iiUiain, brant. Crook sxd Morrow oouuties (jentrs, Elmer, Echo, Or -Horee branded I'. 8. with quarter circle over it. on left .lid, Kanico in Morrow and Umatillsconiuiea. tiaee. (,eo., Lna, Or, Hraud J il connectoo with quarti-r circle over it. on lelt .houlder. Hiall A. B., Hidge, Or. tattle, roui d-lop wilh quarter circle urder it on the right hip Kanae in Morrow and t roatilLa ,-onnties. iliiiton A .tanks. Hamilton. Ur Cattle, two h.., on either hip; crop in right ear and .plil in left Horses, J ou right thigb. liajigeui l,r.im count! rl ivhe.. Sinael. Wagner, Or F" (T r I connected) on nght thoulderon hote; on cattle on ri-hl hip and on left side, swallow fork it nght ear and slit in left. Kanaw in Haystack district. Morrow oecmrj. 1 Male. Milton, Wagner. Or.-Horses branded )- I'-irclH with parallel lailB) on left shoulder, i-ti le same on left hip aleo large circle on left Ide. nail IMiwin, ifiiun ,'. ,r. a, lie , n u dp; horeea same on nght shoulder. I'angein i.ranl connty. Howard, J L, ailoway, Or. Horses, -f- (cross with bar above it) on right shoulder; cuttle eameon lelt side. Kange in Morrow and Cma tiila comities. UliuhA. Mat tfar,nnn (1.11 .ha.ia.1 heart on the left shoulder. Hange Alorrow Co. HuiiHaker, n f . Vvagner. Or. Horses, V on left -honlder; oa tie, a on left nil-. Hanilery, Allwrt, Nye, Oregon HoraeB.A H i-onni-med. on lft shoulder; Cattle on the left in. crop off loft oar. Hnniphrova, j l Hardman, Or. Horsee. H on 1 hank Hayee, J. M., Heppner. Or, Horses, wineglass ,ii left Mhoiililei cattle, name on right hip. Hiislon. I.othor, iughl Mile, I Ir. Horse Hon tne teii HiittuioerHuu Heart ou bile tell stine UaX. He Rame tin left hill. Itanira in Morrow connty Ivy, Alfred, Ijong Creek, Or Cattle 1 Jj on right hip, cropotf left ear and bit in right. Horses same bnibd on left shoulder Haitse n Oram oomitv Jones, Harry, Heppner, Or Horses branded II J on Ihe left shoulder; cattle baattded J on right hip, mImi uutlei bit in left ear. Kongo in Monow ct umy, Juiikm, rj. dl., Heppner, Or Horses, horee nluie J on left shoulder. Cattle, the sams, Ha'iMH on Kight Mile. Johnson, relia Lena. Or. Horses. circleT on left .line; rattle, same on right hip, under half moi in right and split in left ear .1. Illtiott. I W.-Ml. Vwr., II. .1 n left shoulder; ou cattle, j on left hip and two Binooih crops on both ears. Kangeis Fox and lleur vall.tya Ktuinj, Mike, Heppner, Or. Horses branded KNY tin left hip oattle same and crop off left -ur: miller elniieonthn right hirk J. T., Heppner. Or.-Horsee 69 on left .honltler: cattle, oil on left hip. Kirs. J (J, Heppner. Or. Horses. 17 on either flank; uattle 1? on right side. Kirk Jesse. Heppner. Or.; horse" 11 on left sLon der; oattle same on light side, underbit on rigln eur. Kumberland. W. Q.. Mount Vernon. Or. I h ou oattle ou right and left sides, swallow fork in l ft ear and under ciop in right ear. Horses same hrniid on left shoulder. Uange in Grunt conntv Loften, Htepnen, Fox, Or. b L on left hip on cattle, orop and split on right ear. Horses same brand on left shoulder. Kange (irant county. Lienallen, John W., L-l "- Or. Hones branded half -ouole JL connected on left shoul der, (.aitle. aamt on left bio. Kanze. near cx. ington Leahey. J. W Heppner Or.-Horses branded L. auo A o lelt shoulder; oettle same on left lap, wattle over r.tht ye, three slits in right Lord, George. Heppner, Or. Horsee branded double H coi.necu Sometimes oalled a swing H, on lefl shoulder. Warkham.A. M Heppner, Or.-Cattle larga M on left side both eiirs oropped, and split in bo h Hor.es M ou left hip. Hange. Clark's canyon. Minor, Oscar, neppner, nr. rattle. At D on rtimUnp; horse. JlJ on lefl shoulder. Morgan. M. N., Heppner, Or.-Horses, Ml on left should?, cattle same on left hip. MoCumber. Jas A, Echo, Or. HorsoB, M with I ar over on right shoulder. Morgan, ibos., Heppner, Or. Howes, circle I on left shoulder and left thigh; cattle. L on ngnt thiKh. Mitt-hell. Oscar, lone. Or. Horses, 77 or rial t tip; cattle, 77 on right side. M.-Claren, D. O., Hrownsvills, Or, Horae-i Figure ft on eauh shoulder, cattle, Mi! on bin Met any. David H. Kclio Or. Horses branded DM connected, on the left shoulder; cattle sa'ne on hip and side. MeUuT, Frank, Fox Valley, Or.-Mule shoe with toe-coik on entile on ribs awl under In oach ear; horses same brand on left stifle. McHaloy , . i ., i,aujt,-.n,0r. on Horses. with halt ,;irclo under on left shoulder; on cattle four bar, oonneotad ou tup ou the right side Hangs in Oram County. Iveal.Audraw Lone Kock.Or.-Horses A N oon uecied on left ahoulder; cattle same on both hips. Nonlyke, li., Silverton. Or.-Horses, circle 7 on left tlugl.; cat tie. same on lelt hip. 0,lVv.T' J'BHI'!'' 1 """" ' '. Or. A on oattle on left hip : on homes, same ou lefl tuigh, Kaj in Grunt county ' tiller, J'erry, Lomngton, Or. 1' 0 o.'j W;t ho Olp, Herman, Prairie City, Or. On oattle, O - .up; uttrses on lett Btiue and narlle on none, llangn jn Grant oounty. Feareon, Olave, Kitfltt Mile. Or.-Horsee, quar ter circle shlelo on left shoulder and U on left hip. ( little, fork in left ear, rhtlit crapped. 24 on left hip. ltaiw ou Kight Mile. Parker AG Itwauu, Huxihuun.Or, Horses IP on I' fl shoulder. P Tr;.tr"e Lw"Sti,Or.-Hor-e8 brand e ti (L Hconuooied)o, left shoulder ; cattle me on right hip. Kange, Morrow oounur. I iper. J. 11., Islington, ur. Hurees, J V. con. necied o, left ahoulder; oattle, same on left hip. under bp in each eur. I'ettys, A. C, lone. Or.: horsee diamond P on - - shoulder; cattle, JuJ connected, on the light"' 116 1"It ear aud elil ' Ui Powell, John T., Jjayville, Or-Horaes, JP oou. uec ed ou lelt shoulder. ( battle OK couueoted on lefl lup, Iwo uuder half crops, oue on each ear. wattle under throat. Kui ge in Grant oounty. Hood. Andrew, Hardman. Or.-ltorsea, square croe. wilh quarter-oiicleoventon left stifle. Bellinger, Chris, Heppuer, Or.-Horsee, C K on left blieiildei . Kice. Dan, Hardman, Or.; horses, throe panel worm fence on lett shoulder; cattle, DAN on right shoulder. Kange near Hardman. Koyse, Aarou, Heppner, Ur Horses, plain V on left shoulder; catUo, same brand reversed oa right hip and orop oft right ear. Kange in Mor row county. KuBh BroB., Heppner, Or.-Horses branded Ji un Hie right shoulder; oattle, IX on the left hip, crop ofi left ear aud dewlap on neck. Kange in Morrow and adjoining counties. Kust, William, Kidge, Or.-Hqrees li oa . , UD,o, ou ieit nip, crop on right ear. underbit on left ear. Bneep. K on ,v: ""i "8" ear. xiunge uha tllla und Morrow c unities. illusion, ur. Horse, branded A K on right shoulder, vent quartet ..wu u.oou, unuie same on right nip. Knnge Tlorrow county. koine. Wm. H I ,,!,..,st u n. u . .i . T "i na oonneetec wnh quarter circle over top on oatUeon right hin and crop i, right ear and split in left. Horses same brand on left shoulder. Kange in Morrow ...mo ouu vjttittouj cvuuues. Keillor. J. W., Heppuer, Or.-HorseB. JO oa lett shoulder. Caitle, o ou right hip. Sinlt,.Bll .1 r i . . ., . uootteuerry, ur. uorse. branded Jl ou left shoulder; lange in Morrow ' v -.efuniui xiorses Dranoeo on left shoulder; cattle same on left hip. Kitioio r.r. Han.... r- n , , . l T"t ' . . eamgion, ur. nones Wilh tluuli ,iHar ,, n I.... ....... .. ... j. . , auuu. catue n with oash under it on right hip, crop off right ear and .. . , ....v ,,,,,,1 ,eg. nauge in morrow. Gilliam aud Lmatilla counties. bwaggart, A. L.,Alhena. Or.-Horses branded 3 un lelt shoulder: oeitlesume on left hlD. Cron un eai, wattle on left lund leg. Ktrtuuhr Ul. h Mu. rt . . . i "L . V . r ' "dhi, norses snadeil fork mrl ''t? 1 I". M- " bupp. ihos., Heppuer, Or.-Hu'rsos, S A P on lett nip; cutu, same on left hip, Ki,r,Hr .1.,!.,, . . v.,. ,j connected ou horses oi, right hip; came, same on right hin crop tl right ear and under bit in left ear. Kange in Grant couuty. bmitu Bros., Buaanville, Or. Horse., branded U. 4. ou shoulder; cattie, ame on left ahoulder. ntinirntt. .Imhimm Apl,..u,.. 1 1 . l . . . . . iu I . -- .'"ul,,!,, vrti uorses oranded JBunlett shoulder; cattle the same, also nose -..e. u.ui morrow ana Gilliam counties. Stephen.. V. A. itardmau, Or-; horsee S3 on righl siine; cattle bonioutal L on the right Bide Bleveuson. Airs A. J.. H, ,,.- ,, r.. 7..?" ., ou right ai, ; .wallow-fork iu left eaV. twaggan.O. W., Heppner, Or.-Horses, U on letl .nouiue. ; cattle, t on left hlD Koerrv. St. G 11,.,..,. it- ... .. lett nip, orop off rigut and underbit in left yea' dewiau: nttnteM U i.,, l.f, n, u yea., iliuiupson, J. A., Heppuer, Or.-Horsee, z on lelt .nouiu. r; cattle, i on left ahoulaer. ilL,LUn,.Cl.l..l niHrttrtu.. t l. Ll . .huuider. .L.-oniert lelt pW T wilh .pl.t in botl, ears oa ,ett ",p luiruiou, u. ii., lone, Or.-Horees brandetl VkZ""1"! "u ;ftl": sheep same bS neced on' riht-.houTdr oVri Walhn,l Wm U r,- r. ... on th. lei t.,,.,Tl... W P- c.ottlft;ar"aldVig7,,0arTp"pSi: "M ....tn-iMuiiu Bttiem or Heppner, Or. oro branoed Jy ou Um Mt liwuiilHr. K.- Jiorrow county. F .... . v ontue rv witn quarter circle over u ou iett Be, split iu riShil horc onB bmad ou left shoulder. Kanir S Grant oouuty. w Wriaclir. .ilu k r. , . . h u V iiari i wt, uame Drand1 idplurieu'.thll'-"1U,'re 0n)1 OH ' w. "tTi'un, or.-norsea Dvunile.. act ui sptiuw on imt sboulder Kiid left h:p vl Ti 'wn Bine ana lett hw. W ells. A. (V. HAi.lUiMr (It.IJ v: . - 1 "ui Don a on ier n oinnger, John, John Ony City. Or On hnrjw. three prauel oar- on left shoulder; 7 on sipp bit in both ears. ICmi.o ir- ri. J. .1 Wooaward, John, Heppinjr, Or. Honi TJ connected on left should.?. L A OK oonnecteo on lft ititial braLd right Uugh,ho4, in left ear; horais. w thouiuei. Stun, aatiteon lufi ul Tj itM tt l.iltl.e .. . ' Horees branded W H conni-cusi on left ihoSier" Williams Vasco, namuton, Or.-Quarter nr. Jle over lhr- bar. 01. leu hip, Mh oatSe Si uorses. Kaj.ge Grant county. ana illuuiis. j o. lx.ng Creek. Or-Horsoe ouar r circle oyer tbrw bur. ou left hip; ciuJe' uul .11 iu eai-li wit ll.... ... 1 ... z l saioet - tit tirant county Wien. A J , eppner. Or.-Horsee nmninaA A ..n shoulder; t attie. same on nght hip. ailkY,EI,?'tthu So!li' H"lnn Or.- H-erscnt au.eon Ut hi,, i.... .. " n .ett h.,iji,l. r. i.i t ir: """" - u jio.row coul ty V IS on