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At ItcrHu acci dents of this character are said by Vogue to have been so frequent until a year ago that shortly after Christmas Emperor William summoned the gen eral commanding the various troops stationed in and around Iterlin and in structed him to direct those olllcers who were not able toduneu properly to abstain from attempting to do so ut imperial entertainments. Since then young olllcers are put through their paces by their seniors and are obliged to display a certain prolh-ieucy in pas seuls around the mcssroom billiard table before being allowed to dance at court. On one occasion - a court ball at licrlin -a young cavalry subaltern incurred the anger of the late l'rince 1'rcdcricU Charles by tripping up his partner. The prince assailed the young olllcer so bitterly that the late Empi'ror Frederick, then only crown prince, was obliged to intervene. At the Viennese court, a young secretary of the Roumanian legation once fell so unfortunately while dancing with one of the archduchesses that he came down in a sitting position on her face, causing her llupsburg nose to bleed. It is scarcely necessary to add that he left Vicnnu the next day, and, a week later, obtained his transfer to another post. The duke of Aosla, nephew of King Humbert of Italy, broke his ankle l'.ist winter while waltzing ttt a ball given at Koine by the popular Mine, le Cluit. the wife of the llclcian minister at Washington, and. a few weeks before the tragedy at Meyerling, the now widowed Crown l'rinccss Stephanie had a nasty fall, due to I lie gaucherie of a cavalry olll cer with whom she was waltzing. Km peror Francis Joseph was much an noyed, and so, too. was the late Crown l'rince Uudolph, who spoke his mind in no measured terms to the culprit. Far more polite was Fmperor Na poleon 111., when at a Tuileries bull, a middle-aged of.leer and his fair part ner came to grief. As the mortified lancer scrambled to his feet, the em peror kindly cMcndcd a hand to help iiimnud. turning to the la. ly, remarked: ".Madam, this is the second time that I have seen the colonel full; the first time it was ou the buttle fluid of Mu-geuta." f AN OCEAN COMBAT. The Terriflo Battle Between a ' Whale and Three Orcaa. Enemies Before Whom the Gt.nt nf the Oman Flee. In Terror Their Singular Method of AttscklDr the Monster. Hank Welsh, who has followed whal inff for m.iny years, was lucky enough to be one of a crew beyond the gulf of the Holy Cross last sprint; that came upon a large whale in distress, sur rounded by three monster orcas, or billers, which had him winded and badly wounded. The story of the fitfht was told as follows by Welsh to the San Francisco Chronicle: "We saw a big broadhead half a mile away to windward, and he kept a jumping so hard that we knew he : was in trouble. When we got closer wc saw some thrashers or billers afoul of him, and the water for an acre or two around was bloody. The orcas were pretty big ones and very vicious, j especially one which was fully twenty feet long, and when the w hale went down a few fathoms this old boy rushed down after him, and gave it to him hard. You see a whale can stay under about half an hour, and he can go down four or five hundred fathoms without minding the pressure, but he , can't do a single submarine trick ahead of an orca. These orcas sometimes chase a whale so hard that when he hits the bottom he breaks his jawbone. I Well, this old orca followed the whale so savagely that he did not stay down over five minutes at a time, and when he came up he was jumped on by the other two, which kept watch on him like two hungry wolves. When he saw the ferocious gang he seemed to lose heart, for they were too quick for him. I think he was just about worn out or down-hearted or something, for he anchored for a second. This gave the big orca a chance to slide up and catch him by the under lip and bite a piece out. The old fellow lashed and dived, but down went another orca after him. '"When the whale came up the orca had him by the lip, and the third one caught him by the tongue. Now, a whale's tongue is six feet long and weighs as much as a man. The way the orcas jerked it all out of him piece by piece and then ate off his lower lip in spite of all he could do beat all the fights under the sun. How that whale did suffer till wc got up and let a dy namite bomb into him. When Bill Peters lanced him he seemed to enjoy it, for he turned over and died easily." It seems to be agreed among all whalers that no fight ever seen equals the awful combats which these sea monsters wage against one another with unflagging ferocity. The orca is the only grampus or warm-blooded an imal of the ocean that constantly preys upon warm-blooded creatures of his own kind, preferably the whale, the largest of his species. The orea's hab its are predatory and his strength and ferocity are remarkable. "The orcas often travel with sword flsii " f'nnt I'liorn-on, an old whaler, "aud i have sometimes seen a whole school in combat with four or live orcas and a few swordlish. When the swordhsh get under a whale and the orcas commence to teur his under lip and tongue, which are choice mor sels for tliem, he seems to know his days are numbered. I don't know how long a whale van live nfter these sav age creatures attack him, but our crews have found several carcasses of whales which had bled to death from the wounds thus inflicted by their ene mies. I have also seen broken-backed orcas which had been struck by a whale's flukes." I GLOUY LUi.. Uwl.vj QLOMON'S London's Lord Mikyor Is a Gorgeous Crea ture tVhilo Arrayed n Uls K.tbes. The fountain of municipal honor in England, says the London Telegraph, undoubtedly springs from the tiuild hall, London, which justly claims to be accounted tho most ancient of our municipal halls, seeing that the lord mayors of the lasl eight centuries are with justice assumed to have proto types in the Uoman prefect and the Saxon fortreve or portgrave. F'or a considerable number of years the robes of the lord mayor, the court of alder men and the common councilors have been settled with a precision that none, save the most reckless of innovators, would presume to disturb. The lord mayor himself has his "gold" robe for the annua) tiuihlhall banquet and for the times when he proceeds in state either to the new law courts or to the houses of parliament. The alder men have their scarlet gowns, the sheriffs their distinctive and very handsome robes and chains, w hile the common councilors rejoice in gowns called "mazarines," it being generally understood that mazarine is a term for a dark blue color, although, according to some lexicographers, mazarine also means a drinking vessel and an old way of dressing fowls. Then, again, when the sovereign comes into the city the lord mayor is bound to don a robe of crimson or purple velvet, trimmed with ermine. At the time of his in vestiture, he wears a massive gold chain, but when he is honored by re election at the expiration of his term of oToee he wears two chains. The mace of silver gilt, surmounted by a royal crown and the imperial arms, is carried before the mayor by the au thority of the charter of Fdward III.; while the city possesses no less than four swords, one called the "Pearl," presented by Cueen Hess when she opened the lirst royal exchange, and so called from its being richly set with pearls. This sword precedes the chief , magistrate on all occasions of rcjoic-1 ing and festivity. The sword of state ' is carried before the lord mayor as an emblem of his sovereignity within the city proper; the "black" sword is used on fast days in Lent and at the death of any member of the royal family; while the fourth sword is that placed close to the lord mayor's chair atthe central criminal ''ourt. A RACE OF TOOTHLESS MEN. Cotulug tlenerntlons Will llAve to Masti cate by Artllltial Mean. There is reason to apprehend that unless some cataclysm occurs to arrest the progress of civilization our de scendants will be "lis toothless as Eu roptolemus, king of Cyprus, described by the historian FHny as reduced to masticate his food with a structure of solid bone, in lieu of teeth. This, at any rate, in the opinion of the New York Tribune, is the Uifcriuec to lo deducted from the statistics recently published by order of the llritish par liament, demonstrating the alarming ly small number of cases of iu ony way sound dentition among the English rtnTiii h ' people. c children aiicimi..,, the London public schools, there were only 7(;7 who had sound teeth; tvhile during a period of thn-e months 500 re cruits were rejected by the medical de partment of the army for purely den tal reasons. Of course, part of this state of affairs is due to neglect of the digestion. 'and of the teeth themselves, a fact demonstrated by the statement that all the girls who entered domestic service from the London public schools last year five-sixths had never even heard of ouch a thing as a toothbrush an assertion that has led the educa tional authorities to institute in many of the metropolitan schools what is now known as the "toothbrush drill." Decay of teeth has always attended the advance of civilization and each barbaric invasion has Ix-en followed by a recovery of sound teeth In the old world. Under the circumstances it might be worth while to consider whether the repeal of the Geary law and the opening up of the United States to a pacific invasion on the part of the Chinese might not go far to im prove the American jaw, which, ac cording to medical experts, is in an immeasurably worse condition than that of the English a fact probably due to our superior civilisation. PLUCKY YCUNG EELS. How They Overcome the Obstruction. In Pnulns I'p tho Thames. Young eels, in passing up a river, show the most extraordinary persever ance in overcoming all obstruction. The large floodgates sometimes fif- teen feet in height on the Thames might be supposed sufficient to bar the progress of a fish the size of a darning needlo, says Eod and Gun. But young eels have a wholesome idea thatnoth-, inrr can Rtnn them. and. in consenunnce. nothing does. Speaking of the way in which they ascend floodgates and other barriers, one writer says: "Those which die stick to the post; others, which get a little higher, meet with the same fate, until at last a layer of j them is formed which enables the rest to overcome the diiliculty of the pass ago. The mortality resulting from such 'forlorn hopes' greatly helps to account for the difference in the num ber of young eels on their upward mi gration and that of those which return down stream in the autumn. In some places these baby eels are much sought after and are formed Into cakes, which are eaten fried. "Eels spawn like other fishes. For long, however, the most remarkable theories were held as to their birth. One of the old beliefs was that they sprang from mud; a rival theory held that young eels developed from frag ments separated from their parents' bodies by their rubbing against rocks. One old author not only declared that they came from May dew, but gave the following recipe for producing them: 'Cut up two turfs covered with May dew and lay them one upon the other, the grassy sides inwards, and then ex pose them to the heat of the sun. In a few hours there will spring from them an infinite quantity of eels,' " Jtussn n Iteslty Itvgulattone. Princess Hohenlohe. the wife of the governor general of Alsace-Lorraine, inherited from her uncle, a Kussiun general, estates in Russia worth 80, 1)00,000 or 40,000,000 rubles. Under the Hussian law foreign non-residents can not hold property, and the princess was compelled to sell her estates at once. She asked the czar to griiit her a little time, as the financial strin gency, which prevails in Russia as well as in this country, has mode real estate hard to dispose of. The czar, how ever, for political reasons, refused to grant the extension and the poor wom an was able to realize only a beggarly pittance of 15,000,000 or 'J0,000,000 rubles from her heritage. LU AS A 'GUNNER. Ha Can't Shoot with a Rifle Well as with a Revolver. So War Department Reports Give Some In teresting Statistics, Snowing the lutlUut to He an Eipert Plt tol shot. Reports received at the war depart ment of recent small arms competi tions among the troopB in the far west show conclusively that the noble red man. as rcpiesented in Uncle Sum's military service, does not compare favorably with hh pale face brother iu the matter of sharpshooting. There is a Mpular idea, gained from Cooper's' Leather Stocking tales, and even more modern literature, about the "dusky denizens of the forest,' that all war riors are superior marksmen. Army statistics, examined by the Washing ton Star, prove that this is a romantic delusion so far as the Indian soldier i concerned. In recent competitions the Indians who have been enlisted in the nimy of the Colorado have had a chance to show what they could do side by side with white men. The best that can be said 'of them in the report is that they have made progress since be ing enlisted, but it also says that the sights ou the rillos are still 'incompre hensible to them, and that much patience has been necessary on the part of the officer to bring them to auv understanding at all of the piin- ciples of marksmanship. Troop L of the Second cavulry, that being an In dian company, showed an individual average figure of merit of 42.33, while the average ligure of merit of the com pany was 7H.S8. lu collective firing the Indian aver age was 31 o7, while the men of the other troops made an average of t3.7( The Indians in the Eleventh infantry made for their company (1) the average individual figure of merit of 2YW. while the figure of the other troops was Oi S7. in the Sixteenth infantry there is one company of Indians. Their figure of merit by individual classifica tion ws an average of 87. U, while the figure of the white troops was the high average of OH 10. In collective firing the Indian average was 39.39. as com pared with the white average of 70.47. At pistol tiring the Indians do bet ter. There is a separate report on this sort of firing for tho sauie troops, .and troop L of the Second cavalry, being composed exclusively of Indians, made a record of which the men should be proud, if they ever learu about it. At dismounted practice they made an average of 73 S8, ascomparvd with tlve general average for the command of tut 70; at mounted practice their aver age was far ahead of that of the white troops, aud their average per cent, for all tiring was C5.72. as compatvd with 5'J 4S for the whole command. The In dians stood first in order of merit for revolver tiring for the department. There were some other interesting statistics obtained .by this practice, ' The natives of the United States stood 5CESS3X nat'onalitit s. Norway. Austria, Swit zerland. Ireland, France. Iie.ninarl:, Scotland, (iermny, I'anailu and Uel piuin coming in order lcf re I be I niied States. The men of six feet in height and over, were also highest in or-K r of merit as sharpshooters anil t be ripn-iest men were the lowest. The men of liht blue eyes were the best marksmen, with those of dark blue next. Even t he light blue eyed men were the best marksmen among the negroes. The report calls attention to the fact that the percentage made by the Indians at revolver practice was greater than the percentage made by the winners of the gold medals iu the revolver matches at the raTalry competitions of the de partment for the years lH'Ji and 1893. It was also the highest record made under existing regulations by any troop in the department. MONEY IN A MONKEY FARM. But the Ignorance or a Banker Prevents Its KstablUhment. "The funniest thing I witnessed during the brief but exciting period known as the boom, in Birmingham, Ala.," said Dr. Everett to a St. Louis (Jlobe-Democrat reporter, "was the formation of a company to establish a monkey farm. About the time the ex citement was at its greatest two bank ers from a country town came with forty thousand dollars in easli and were very anxious to get into the little group of capitalists who were making big money. They haunted two or three of the leading investors until anally Dr. Jackson, who stood at the head of the local financial world, told them he had a friend with a scheme in which he himself was putting in twenty thousand dollars, and if they really wanted to invest he Could, as a personal favor, secure a like amount if one-half was paid down, the other half to be paid in at a meeting to be held in a few days. "The banker wrote a cheek for ten thousand dollars, and felt jubilant that at last he had been admitted into the charmed circles of financiers. In a few days he was notified to attend a meet ing of the stockholders, which he did. Then tho promoter of the enterprise explained it. His plan was to buy an island near Mobile, send an expedi tion to Africa and South America to secure monkeys, stock the farms with one hundred thousand monkeys, and raise them for the market. "An elaborate array of statistics was given, showing the cost and market price of monkeys and figuring out im mense profits, but it was necessary that the entire amount subscribed should be paid at once. The banker jumped to his feet. T don't want no monkey farm. I knows nodings about dose monkey business. You can keep my ten thousand dollars if you release me from that subscription.' This was done, and he swallowed his chargin and disappointment at the loss as best he could. I n a few weeks the money was returned to him, and it was explained that it was all a joke, but the banker had a two hundred dollar dinner to pay for." bMHoRlMN SHREWDNESS. Wonderful Instinct or the Tiger Hunt ers of India. The "Yankee nation" takes great credit to itself for its ingenuity, but a wider . fuaintamvjj with the world would p 'obably lessen its pretensions. Wild an mals and uncivilized men all creat- in. short, who live by their wits have almost of necessity the (uality of shrewdness highly de veloped, at least in certain directions. Capt. Lugard, the African traveler, quotes his brother as expressing the highest admiration for "the wonder ful instinct" of the jungle tribe of Gonds, in India, with whom he had practiced tiger shooting. "If you dropped a Oond from a bal loon in the heart of a forest unknown to him, and then suddenly 'went for, him with a thick stick, he would take the identical path that a tiger would adopt, and it would be found to be the shortest possible way out of the jun gle." Capt. Lugard hears a similar testi mony to the ready wit of the Swahilis, natives of east Africa. He had occa sion to build a fort with all speed, and for that purpose he needed poles. They were diflicult to procure, but as he re marks: "The Swahili is a wonderful fellow when pressed, for 'making bricks without straw.' " Not a tree was in sight, and there were only a dozen axes for two hun dred and fifty men; but he sent all hands out after timber. Kach man was to bring a log, or two men might bring one log, if it was exceptionally large, and only after that was done were they to be at liberty to collect their own food for the day. And the logs were brought. In Capt. Lugard's words: "Tell a Swahili he has to produce a pole before he can eat his dinner, and though you cannot see a tree on the horizon, he will arrive with a pole be fore you have decided in your mind which is the best direction in which to start your search." ABOUT SAUCES. A Freneh Cuok's Treatise I'pon Hlfl Chosen Art and I'rofesslon. "Man has created the culinary art; he does not eat like an animal, he breakfasts, dines and sups." With this quotation the author of a very serious Freneh treatise upon cooking begins his book. He is particularly eloquent on the subject of sauces. "Cooks re cognize four great sauces," he says. "These are the foundations of all others. They are Spanish, Veloute, Bechamel and German. The Spanish and Veloute were known in the seven teenth century, and were modified in the eighteenth by the great masters (cooks) and by Carcme, the Eaphael of the kitchen. "The Spanish is composed of juices extracted from a mixture of ham, veal, chicken and pheasant. Veloute is similar, but is not colored. Bechamel is Veloute to which cream has been added, and the German sauce is Veloute to which yolks of eggs have been added." After telling how to prepare these the author discusses the "Theory of Sauces." Certain writers, it seems, have condemned the use of thickening of browned butter and flour in meat sauces. He contradicts them emphat ically, and quotes Careme, who says, severely: "Now, I ask the writers of these ridiculous books in what respect butter mixed with flour is corrosive and incendiary? But of what conse quence ar these ignorant men? Let them blunder on: let them coutinue to disgrace their profession. "Sooner or later an cuhghtened prae titioucr will urrive, oue who Teil the evu of charlatanism. Will un- ITA ,;)! vengre science, and will cause them to disappear from the face of the eartn.' will r-rX 811 g CLEArI n (LONGp SKINJ L'FE Ilplli MENTAL 14 i STRONG ENERGYjJP-NERVESj mi Sarsaparilla M. Hammerly, a well-known business man of HIHsboro. va., snds this testimony to the merits of Ayer's Sarsaparilla: "Several years aito, I hurt my leg, the injury kmvme; a sorewhirh led to erysipelas. Mv suffeniius were extreme, my leu. Irom the kni'i! to the inkle, heiut! a solid sore, which beaun to ex tend toother parts ot I he hoily. 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Everyone needing' a dorter's ndvio sbould read one of Dr. Footed dim' pHmphlets on "Old Eyes," "Croup," Rupture," "Phimosis," "Varicocele," Disease of meii, Disease of Women, and learn Hih best manna of Rpl'-cme. M Hill Pub. Co., 129 East 28th 8t., New York. STOCK BRANDS. WMIg yon keep your tiubsoriptiuu puid up you oaij keep yuur brand id free of ohaige, Allvn. T. J.. lono. Or. HorseB GO on left shoulder; otittie name on left hip, ondflr bit on riht oar, aiiri upper bit on the left; range, Mor row county. Armstrong, J. C, Alpine, Or. T with bar un der ii on left shoulder of horses; cattle eaine on left hip. Allison, O. D., Eight Mile, Or. Cattle brand, O I) on left hip and horses same brand on right shoulder. Range, Eight Mile. Ad kin 8, J. J., Heppner, Or. Horses, JA oon uei'ted on le t flank: cattle, same on left hip. Bftrtholamew, A. G-, Alpine, Or. Horses branded 7 E on either shoulder. Range in Mo. -row countv Bleakman, Geo., Hard man, Or. HorsPB, a flag ni left shoulder: cattle same on right shoulder. hannister, J. W., Harriman, Or. Cattle brand ed B on left hip and thigh: split in each ear. Brenner, Puter. liocaeberry Oregon Horses branded P B on left shoulder. Cattle same on right side. Burke. M St C, Long Creek, Or-On cattle, MAY connected on left hip, ctop off left ear, un der half crop off right. Horses, same brand on letft shoulder. Range in Grant and Morrow eonnty. Hrosroan, Jerry, Lena, Or. Horses branded 7 on right shoulder; cattle H on the left side. Left ear half crop nd rigbt ear upper slope. Barton, Win., H ppner. Or. -Horses, J B on r.ght thigU: cattle, aame on right hip; split in KfU'h PlRT. Brown, Isa, Lexington, Or. Horses IB on the right stine; cattle same on right hip; range, Mor row county. Brown, J. C., Heppner. Or. Horses, circle i with dot in ne ter on left nip; cattle, same. over It, on the left shoulder. Cattle same on left bin. Boyer, W. G.. Heppner, Or. Horses, box brand or rigb hip cattle, same, with split in eacn ear. liorj'. if. O.. HenDner. Or. Horses. P B on left shoulder: caitlo. same on left hip. I itrownlee. W. J.. Kox.Ur atue. JH connected on left side; crop on left ear and two splits and muuue piece cut out on ngm ear; on norses same brand ou the left thigh; Range in Fox valley, Grant county, (at suer Warren, Wagner, Or. florse-j brand ed O on right stine; cattle (three bars) on right ribs, crop and split in each ear. Range in Grant and Morrow oounties. Cain.E., ( aleb.Or. X 1) on horses on left stifle V with quarter circle over it, on left shoulder and on left stifle on all colts mder & years; on left shoulder only on all horses over 5 years. All range in Grant county. Clark, Wm. H., Ler a. Or. Horse WHO con nested, on left shoulder: cattle same on right hip. Rat ge Morrow and Umatilla counties. Cate, Chas. R Vinson or Lena, Or. Horses H C on ritrht shoulder; cattle same on right hip. Range Morrow and Umatilla counties. Cucil, Wm., Doaglas, Or.; horses J 0 on lef shoulder; cattle same on hft hip, waddles on each jaw and two bits in the right ear. Curl, T. H John Lay, Or, Double cross on each hip on cattle, swallow fork and under bit iu right ear, split in left ear. Range in Grant oouniy. On sheep, inverted A&ud spear point on shoulder. Ear markoa ewes, crop on left ear pouched upper bit in right. Wethers, crop in right and under half crop in left ear. All radge iu Grant couutv. Cook, A. J.,Lena,()rj Horses, Won right ehoul dei Cattle, sttuie on right hip: ear mark square crop off left aud split in right. Currin, R. CurrinBVilie, Or. -Horses, QQ on left stitie. Cox Ed. 8., Hanlman, Or. Cattle, C with t in center: horses. CE on left Sid. Cochran, K. E., Monument, Grant Co, Or. Horses branded circle with bai beneath, on left shoulder; cattle same brand on both hips, mark under slope both ears aud dewlap. i naoin. n.. uartiman. or. noraes nrannea on right hip. ( 'attle brauded the same. Al hn.ii.iA ( I on horses rmht lliliih: cm t e sj,ie brand on right shoulder, and cut off end of riuht ear Lickens, Ebb Horses braided with three tineo fork on left Btitle. Cattle sanf on left side. Douglass, W. M ,Gallowtt. Or. t attle, K 1'ou ritght side, swa. low-fork in each ear: horses, R D ou left hip. Douglas, O. T., Douglas, Or Horses TD on the right stifle; cattle same on right hip. K..v J. H. .V Hons. Douxlat). Or. Horses brand ed L'Li on left shoulder, cattle same on left hip. hole ir right ear. Elliott. Wash., Heppner, Or. Diamond on right shoulder. Emeis, I . H., Hardman, Or. Horses branded (reversed C with tail on lett shoulder; caU tie hHDiu on ii. hi hip. l.ange in iUorruw county. fc'leek, JucKbou, Heppner. Or. Horse. 7fr' M.nnitvl Hi! riifht shoulder: cattle same on right hip. Earmark, hole in right and crop oil lft Florence, L. A., Heppner. Or. attle, LP on right hip; hom F with bar under on right should r. Florenoe. 8. P. Heppner. Or Horses, F t ritri.t ahm. riHi : cattle. F on right hm or thigh. rreuch, George, Heppner, Or. ('attle branded WF. with bar over it. on left side; crop off left su.iv Hurst, same brand on left hip. Gay, Henry, Heppner, Or. G A If on left shoulder. G ilman-French, Land and Live Stock Co., Foe sil. Or. Horses, anchor b on left shoulder; vent, Hiii on left sune. value, same ou oom nips rr.it rlcH. mm off riifht ear andnnderbit in left Range in Gilliam, Grant, Crook and Morrow oounties Gentry', Elmer, Echo, Or. Horses branded B H. with a quarter circle over it, on left stifle UnntrM in Morrow and L man lift counties. haie. Geo.. Lena, Or, Brand JH connected wit h Quarter circl- over it, on lert shoulder. Hiatt A. B,. Utdge, Or. tattle, round-top K with quarter circle under it on the right hip. Hat He in Morrow and Umatilla ronnties, ( Hinton j Jenks, Hamilton. Or Cattle. two ban on either hip; crop in right ear and split in left. torses, J on rnrni tnigu. rajigeu urnci: county ( wh. Wmnfr, Or- (T I .tiii,'tetlW)ii riht thoulder on hor..: on cattle. Jiuht r d riit in left. iUntm in Hsjuck 1 diMnct. ono. mra. , .n.,UMl tK- irrlewith paral.el tails) on J.;n mummer eith'pttrHlipl liiB) "D tie same on ien iup Hall. Kdwin, John Day.Or. -('attle E H on right up. horws same on right shoulder, frangeu. tiraut county. Howard, J U Galloway. Or.-Horses, cross with bar above it) on right shoulder; cattJe -ameon lett side. Range in Morrow aud Uma tilla counties. Hughes. Mat. Heppner. Or. Horses, shaded heart on the left ahonlder. Range Morrow Co. HuiiBaker, B . Wagner. Or. -Horses, t on left -honlcler. oa tie. Bon left hii-. Hardisty, Albert, .ye. Oregon Horses.A H connected, on left shoulder; Cattle on the left nip, crop off left ear. Bumphrevs, J M. Hardman, Or. Horses. H on lef flank , Bayes, J. M., Heppner. Or. Horses, wineglass on left shoulder cattle, same on right hip. Boston, Luther. Eight Milo. Or. Horse H on th left shoulder and heart on the left stitie Cat. Ue same on left hip. Range in Morrow Bounty. Ivy, Alfred, Long Creek, Or Cattle 1 D ou right hip, crop off left oar and bit in right. Horses same brand on left shoulder Kange n Graut countv Jtinps, Harry, Heppner, Or Horses branded ft .1 a.n it.o luft shiiuliier: cattle baanded J ou right hip, hIso undeibit in left ear. Range in ft or row cennty. Juntun, b. al.t neppner, ur norewtj, norw shoe J on left shoulder. Cattle, the same. Kange on Eight Mile. n . , - Johnson. elix. Lena, Or. Horses, circle T on left stitie; cattle, same on right hip, under half crop ir right and split in left ear Jenkins, U W.,all. vernon.ur. j on norseaon Left shoulder; on cattle, J on left hip and two smooth crops on both ears. Range in Fox and Hear valleys Kenny, Mike, Heppner, Or. Horses branded KNV on left bin cattle same and crop off left ar: under slope on the rluht liirk J. T., Heppner. ur. Horses tJW on lert honlder; cattle, rtW on left hip. Kirk. J (;, Heppner. Or. Horses. 17 on either hi.k eattle 17 on right side. Kirk. Jesse, Heppner, Or,; horse 11 on left -Loin der, cattle same on light side, underbiton ighl enr, Kumberland.W. G.. Mount Vernon, Or. I L on cattle on right and left sides, swallow fork in It ft ear and under ciop in right ear. Horses same brand on left shoulder, Kange in Graut countr. Loften, Stephen, fox, Or, 8 L on left hip on cattle, orop and split on right ear. Horses same brand on left shoulder Range Grant countv. Lienallen, John W., L0""0-' Or. Horses branded half-cnole JL connected on left shoul der. Cattle, saint on left hip. Range, near Lex. ington lueuhey, J. W. Heppner Or. Horses branded Lauu 1 left shouJder; oettie same on left hip, wattle over rifelit ye, three slits in r.ght ear. Lord, George, Heppner. Or. Horses branded double U oonneou Sometimes called a swing H, on left shoulder. Markham, A. M., Heppner, Or. Cattle lare ftl on lefL side both ears cropped, and split in bo h. Horses M ou left hin. Range. Clark's canyon. Minor, Oscar, neppner. Or. C'attle, M D ou right hip; horee. M on left shoulder. Morgan, M. N.. Heppner, Or. Horses, M) on lefi should"? cattle same on left hip. MoCumber, Jas A, Echo, Or. Horses, M with bar over on right shoulder. Morgan. Thus., Heppner, Or.Iiorsoe, oircia T on loft shoulder and left thigh; cattle, Z i.n I'itffit tliigli. Mitchell, Oscar, lone, Or. Horses, 77 on rhii.t hip; cattle, 77 on right side. McClaren, D. G., Brownsville, Or, Horse, Figure 9 on each shoulder, cattle, M2 on h-n McCartv. David H. Echo Or, Horses brundod DM connected, on the left shoulder; cattle same mi hip and side. Motlirr, Frank, Fox Valley, Or. Mule shoe with toe-cork ou cattle on ribs and under in each ear; horses same brand on hut stifle, McHalsy, w. naiuiivuu, Or. tm Horses. " with half circle under on Ibft shoulder; on battle, four bars connected on top on the right side Uungo in Grant County. Neal. Andrew. Lono liock, Or. Horses A N con- uecieu on leit snouldsr; cuttle fame on both hips, Nordyke, E., tiilvorton. Or. Horses, circle 7 on left thigh : cai tie, same on left hip. Oliver, Joseph. -Can von Citv. (ir. A 2 on nD7tia 011 left h?p; on horses, same on loft thih, Uwme n ttrant county Oiler, Perry. Lexiimtou. Or. iJ O .m !n shoiudtM. Olp, Herman, Prairie City, Or. On cattle, 0 LP connected on left hip; horses on left stills and wan le on nose. Ktiuge in Grant county. Pearson, Ohm, Eight Milo, Or. Horses, quar ter oircle shield on left shouldor and M ou left hip. CHttle, fork in left yar, right cropped. 114 ou left hip. Rarigt on Eight Mile. Parker & Gleason. liard-uan.Or, Horses IP on h fl shoulder. Piper, Erne-t, Lexington. Or. Hordes brand e WK (L K connected) oi. left shoulder ; cattle s me on right hip. Range, Morrow county. 1-iper, J. H., Lexington. Or. -Horses, JE con nected 01 left shwulder; cattle, same on left hip, under bi in each ear. Pattys, A. 0., ionb. Or,; horses diamond P ou - shoulder; cutilo, J 11 J connected, on the left hip, upper slope in loft ear and slip in bha light. Powell, John T., Dayville, Or Horses, JP coti uec ed ou left shoulder. Cattle OK connected on left hip, two under half crops, one on each ear, wattle under throat. Rai go in Grant county. Rood, Andrew, Hardman, Or. horses, square orosr. with quarter-circJe over it on left stifle. lieninger, Chris, Heppner, Or. Horses, C R on lefluhouldei. liice, Dan, Hardman. Or.; horses, three panel worm fence on left shoulder; cattle, DAN on right shoulder. Range uear Hardman. iloyse, Aaruu, Heppner, Or Horses, plain V on left shoulder; cattle, same brand reversed on right hip and orop off right ear. Range in Mor row county. Hush Bros., Heppner, Or. Horses branded X on the right shoulder; cattle, IX on tho left hip. crop oil left ear and dewlap on neck. Range in Morrow and adjoining counties. Kust, William, Ridge, Or. Horses R oa left shoulder; cattle, R on left hip, crop off right ear, underbit on left ear. Sheep, R on weathers, rouud crop off ri(jh ear. Rauge Uma tills and Morrow c muties. Keaney, Andrew, Lexington, Or. Horse brauded A R on right 6houTder, vent quartet circle over brand; cattle lume on right hip, Range Morrow county. Royse. Wm. H. Dainvillo. Or HH with quarlur cirrie over top on oattlo on right hip and cro, off riyiit ear and Bpht in left. Hones same brand on left bhoultler. llanga in Morrow Uraut ana uiuiam counties. uector. J. w llu,uor, Or. Hm'see, JO leu enomuer, lvalue, uuu right hip. SDickliall. J. W.. (JooHAhnrrv ir H.-.run. bruudsd al ou left su.,ulder ; lange in Morrow uuunty. Hailing, C (; Heuuner. Or Home. hmmloH on left .houlder; uattle same ou left hip. owBMrL, i,. j.., ijexingum, Ur. MorseH with Ua.li under it on left ntlhe. cattle 11 with uaeh under it on right hip, crop oil right ear and waudlod on right hind leg. Kange in Morrow, Uilliamand Umatilla oounties. Hwaggurt, A. L,.,Alhena. Or. Horses branded 3 un lelt shoulder; cettleeame on left hip. Crop un ear, wattle on left hind leg. Straight w . K., Heppner, Or, Horses ehad.-d i 8 on let, Btitle; cattle J B on left hip, swallow fork in righi ear, underbit in left. bapp. Thoe., Heppner, Or. liorsea, 8 A P on left hip; catUt same on left hip. Bhner.John, t'ox, Or. Nt; connected ou homes on right hip; cattle, same on right hip, crop B right ear and under bit in left ear. Kange in uraut couuty. Smith BroB., SnsMmlle, Or. Horses, brandral H. Z. on shoulder; cattle, ame on lef t ahoulder. Squires, James, Arlington, Or,; horses branded Jo on left snoulder; cattle the same, also nose waudle. Uaiige in SI urn, w and UUiiam oo .nties. tttepheus, V. A., Hardman, Or-; norees Hciou right siitte; cattle horizontal L on the right side Stevenson, lira A. J ., Heppner, Or. Uattle, t) ou right aii ; swallow-fork in left ear. bwaggart, (1. W., Heppner, Or. Horses, U on left sliohlde, ; cattle, 44 on left hip. Sperry, K. Ii- Heppner, Or. Cattle W f! ou left hip, orop off right and underbit in left rear, dewlap; horses W t on left 6honider. 'ihoinpeon; J. A., Heppner, Or. Horses, s on lelt should, r; cattle, 'I ou left shoulder. Tippet.tl.X.,tnierpri6e,Or. Horses. C-on left shoulder. Turner K. W., Heppner, Or.-SmaH capital I lett Bhouldei, horses; cattle same on left hip with split in both ears,. Ihurnum, H. a., lono, Or.-H.ireee branded H I connected ou left stitie; eheoo same brand. Vanderpool, H. T.. Lena, Or;-Horeee HV oon. necled on right shoulderattle, same on rigut hii Walbridge, Wm.. Heppner. Or. Horsos, U. L. on the left shoulder; cattle same on right hip. crop oft left ear and right ear lopped. Wilson, Jonn Q,, Salem or Heppner, Or. Horses branded Jo on the left shoulder. Kang. Morrow county. V, arreu, W B. )aleb, Oi-Cattle W with quarter circle over it, on left side, split iu ritit ear. Homes same bram! on left shoulder. KaugeiQ Umut conutj. Wright, ails. A. Heppner, Or. Cattle branded S W on the right hip. square crop oil right ear aud split in left. Wade, Henry, Heppner, Or. Horses branded ace of spade, on lelt shoulder and l,ft hip Cattle branded same on left side and left hip. Wells, A. S Heppner, Or. Horses, on lot shoulder- catt e same Wolfinger, John, John Day City, Or On horse, three parallel bars on left shoulder; 7 on Meyp bit in both ears. Kange in tirant and llalhner counties. Woodward, John, Heppner, Or. Horse. UP oonneclcu. on left shoulder. ' Watkms, Lishe. Heppner, Or. Horses branded UL conuectea on left stitie. Wsilac., Charles, Portland. Or. Cattle W on right thigh, hoi. in left ear; horaee, W ou right ehoulusr. soru same on left shoulder. Whittier troe., nunimgiou. Baker Co Or -Horses branded B connected on left .honlder Williams, Vasoo, Ilauiuton, Or. Quarter cir cle over three bars on left hip, both cattle and horses. Hang tir&nl countjf. Willimns, J O. Long Creek. Or Horse nimr ter cirile over three bare on left hip; cattJe sruna anil slit in eaoh ar. Itanire in (irant count? Wren. A. A., n.ppner. Or.-Horees runningA A on shoulder; l attle. same on right hip. Walker Eliiabeth Sous, Hurrlman Or -aille bmnue,! (E W connected) tw on left side. hor.e same on right shoulder. J. IkerBcet,-. saceon lett hip, horses sam. n .eft shoulder. Ail range In Morrow count IOOM.J. 8., Gooseberry, Or.-H,,r Than til. rlcht should-. f branded