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There was a newly married couple at one of the down-town hotels the other day, Kays the Vashinpton Post, and they were as dead in love with each other and as anxious to let nobody eNo find it out as such people usually are. He was all attention, and the waiter noticed when they earne to dinner, which was the first meal served after they reached the hostelry, that h. ordered everything she did. She wanted her beef well done, and so did he. She ordered a plass of milk and rye bread, and he immediately did likewise. When she took a sip of the lluid he followed suit with gallant alacrity, and a man with half an rye could have seen that he was drinking her health every time. When they were through and had left the room tho waiter remarked to the star boarder under his care tluit "Dey wuzn' no useter gib seoh fokes two sets er deoshes. Dey doss et de same stulT, an' orter hud wun plate betwi.v uiu." The star boarder happened to be ut breakfast synchronously with the devoted twain next morning. They ordered everything alike until it came to eggs. "How huzyerwaut yeraigs?" queried the waiter. "Soft boiled," replied the sylphlike bride. The groom struggled manfully with himself for a moment or two. and then grow red to the roots of his hair. "liimnte mine fried on both sides," be said with a grout effort. A big pair of blue eyes looked at him reproachfully across the table, while ho discovered something inter esiing in the butter dish. '1 hen she sivheil. It was their tirst difference, and she let him know that she resented it. EDUCATIONAL NOTES. The science of geometry is ascribed to tho Kgvptiuns. Tiik tirst magazine for the blind was printed by Hov. W. Taylor in London in ISM. riiiNTiNO in raised characters for the use of the blind was first done at Par is in ITSrt. Tiik Israelites learned surveying from the Kgyptiaus, who had practiced it for a;:cs. Tin: lirst school for the training of the blind w as established at l'uris by llauy in ITS. Tiik lir-,t regular effort to instruct tho dcuf and dumb was by Pedro da Pouce, Spanish monk. In 1570. Ell P 1 J.lilit of Oui .lii 1 t iliiljr Sport Which i:uui!u4 llor.e mansliip with KxhilHr.ilins: Mu culer Training -Tlitt Gumr Becoming Natiooal- We have, during the past duzen years. WTites Col. T. A. Dodge in HurperV Magazine, drawn from ourtapof ringlo mania a mug brimful of good. How easy it is to blow away tho froth which rests on tlie excellent draught below. One of the most exhilarating of our im ported sports is polo, and us it happens that our plains furnish sr excellent a mount, and our increasing out-of-door habits so many players tlie game may well become a national one. The motto of the day iu English sports is speed. Fox hunting of the last generation was a modest performance at a hand gallop: Sir Roger de Coverly rode to hounds at I a canter. Hut within two score years the cross-country pnee has been run up to racing speed. More and more thor ough blood has been called for in both pack and field, anil the old-fashioned hunter of our sir.-.-- could not live through the shortest burst to-day. The same thing applies to x.lo the faster and more able the pony, the better the performance of the rider. You can get enormous weight-carrying capacity in an under-bred pony, as well as remark able endurance, but not at speed. When you call on a fourteen hands rjonv to carry one hundred and sixty pounds and upward at speed, you must hove blood. Even the veriest weed of an undersized thoroughbred will do wonders in this way. The sudden bursts or racing pace called out at polo have made the English breed for small thoroughbreds. Capital polo ponies have been raised from the hardy Ex moor ponies with blooded sires. More barrel comes of this cro;-;s. together with a certain hardiness; but the little ' knife-blade thoroughbred will often carry as big a man, and endurance at speed is the inheritance only of his race. These words, in f:iet.t sum up that peculiar quality whu.-h Iit, not yet been reached in any other animal, ex cept, perhaps, the greyhound. So much for the English pony, Whe we come to riders, it will be man years before we can boast the skill o our transatlantic cousins, or either ol us that of the Japanese, with thei light cup-wands for mallets, an feather weight balls. The America polo fields by no mens exhibit the play you see in England. Many u man here indulges in recklessness which would warn him off the ground at llur lingham. It takes 'years at the game to produe the atmosphere vviiicl. breeds perfection, and in the twenty il has been played iu England it hits well nigh reached this point. Hut it is wel to persevere. We are making market, progress in all our sports, and polo maj yet become as much tt national game as L.-' " let us hope without its commercial aspect. The American polo pony is no other than our little bronco friend. Many come from Texas, Wyoming, Montana. The clever cow-pony is ready trained for the polo ground. He will catch the idea of the game us quickly as he caught the trick of cow-punching, and he has already learned to stop and turn and twist as only he can do. When he is taken off the cars on arrival here from his familiar haunts on the cuttle ranges he is the sorriest, gaurite.t, most miserable equine specimen one can find in a day's tramp. In a month or two you would never guess your plump, handsome, able little pony to be the same individual. No other animal will recover from such Strapazon, us the Hermans phrase it. And when he has undergone the torture of docking, and is finally in vested with the pigskin, nothing but the brand remains of the ragged little hero of the plains. Tlie pony Is used to a single gag-bit. Hut he is tractable, and not a few will learn to work perfectly in a snallle. So many of our polo-players require the bridle as a "means of support'' that the loose rein of tilt; now boy will in no wise do. The perfect p. !o rider has ;iot yet made bis iippKiiM.iee. Under lim the bronco would more illicitly be Mine the perfect polo p. my. It would lake but a few months' training to teach him to guide by the legs alone, if need be Indeed, his Indian master mode him do just this. He learns to follow the ball in n few days. There is no sort in which training would be better rewarded than in polo; and though it would be useless to aim at the delicacy of the haute civile for the sharp runs and stops of jiolo make this .is practically impossible us it Is In I muting still, given a rider with perfect scut, n ithout a suspicion of riding the bridle, und a pony which is taught to guide by leg pressure alone, ami il would seem that tlivy should, other things being equal, be the best player in the game. BRAIN WORK AT NIGHT. t'llhtus It 111 IniHrtitlvtf It Should D. Avoiilril. To the imaginative young writer 'here is a fascination aboutthe quietude if uninterrupted night work until much if its mischief has been done. If he ins a fixed dally occupation, or is pop ular among his friends, the night offers Ihc best chance for continued applica tion by its quietness and peace. This very cessation of life's turmoil and tho resulting feeling of euse should be ac cepted us nature's preparation for rest. Unless it is imperative night work should be avoided, says a writer in the Herald of Health. It must be Impera tive to the staff tif morning papers, and the question thus assumes importance of accomplishing the work with the least possible expenditure of vitul force. While by working during the day per sistently und deliberately an enormous amount of copy can be thrown off, that produced after midnight absorbs the best part of tho writer's vitality. When he should be iu the prime of hit faculties he is nervous, suffers from in somnia, and his overtaxed nervous sys tem cannot rest, even in artificial slum ber. The natural temptation is to ap ply the whip of stimulation to the jaded bruin; but thii is dangerous, and at the best only a transient and unevrtair remedy. The imagination au-.wers lit fully to this kind of forcing, the next day's critical judgment of the result almost certainly will be unfavo-iible. and the mental excitement thus indneei' will probably I extravagant. Try tt jnstain the brain under such stress rather than to excite it. Thp Oi'Zette is Ibe live paper of Mor row onnnty. Now is the time to subscribe. One) Benofloitil ; Ah( AFRICAN P?T. The fro.cdlle pud llj Oirll.U Dutm; tipn nf li'uutan t.il. With regard to the utility of the crocodile there ore diverse opinions. It is certainly a scavenger, though, when the rapid currents of most rivers are taken iuto consideration, the im portance of his mission dwindles. The author of "In the Morambala Marsh" says that along the banks of African streams it is dangerous to approach the river-edge. Water for domestic purposes Is obtained from the top of the bunks by means of a cup attached to a bamboo pole twenty or thirty feet in length, and in spite of these precau tions the death-roll is a most ghastly one. The primitive dugouts used by the natives for traveling on the rivers are In many cases merely death-traps. While the niun is paddling along, bare ly two inches above the surface of the river, the crocodile seizes his hand and drags him to the bottom. On one occasion I sent down some letters by a Hindoo merchant, and a few weeks later heard that both letters and postman had been devoured by crocodiles. At another time I was strolling along the bank, and hearing cries, arrived at the water's edge in time to seize a young boy whose leg had been caught by one of these brutes and torn from him. He escaped with : his life, thanks to my timely arrival. In some places one sees thousands of crocodiles on a mudbank, most of them ; scarcely two Inches in length, evident ly just hatched. A week does not pass but in some river village wails and lam entations are heard for a fresh vic tim to the crocodile's insatiable appe tite. CHIN LwwiiMiJ GROUND. Surop.u XatloDt Are Rapidly Absorbing Her Torrltory. Vast and populous as China is, the experience of the present century shows that she is weak for aggressive purposes. She has not the hold on ter ritory adjacent to her borders which she could claim a hundred years ago. European nations are pressing on her, both on the south and on the north. She has been forced to cede a portion of her territory to England, and she has been compelled to avail herself of the help of Englishmen, both for civil administration and for military com mand. All these things, says the Edinburgh Review, show that an expansion of the Chinese race does not necessarily in volve an extension of Chinese domin ion. On the contrary, they tend to prove that it is the order introduced by European a Iministralion which leads to the multiplication of these industri ous people; and there is, therefore, at least as much ground for saying that, though Borneo, Sumatra and New Guinea and the great islands of the Eastern Archipelago may be ultimately peopled by yellow races, they will be governed by the white races, as for believing that a new Chinese empire is in process of formation; a Chinese India may, in other words, be devel oped in these great and fertile islands. HOW OLD OAK IS MADE. The IVocttRA by Which Oreeu Material Is Matin to J.ook Aged. You will have to go a long way be fore you find a hotly of men more well, clever than those cabinet makers who produce goods to satisfy the desire of the public for furniture made of old and fancy woods. They can, says Waverly Magazine, trans form white wood into all kinds of ex otic woods by means of chemicals, and a chemist would be surprised if he were to have the run of one of those factories for a day. The manufacture of "old" oak is one of their easiest processes. The boards, moldings, panels or whatever pieces are required are made of oak which has just had time to dry sufficiently to prevent excessive warping. They are then placed in a dark room, on the floor of which, and quite close to tho furniture to be "aged," are placed several bowls, plates, and so forth, of liquid ammonia; the room is len hermetically closed up and the wood is left for a month or two, ac cording to the age which is required. The coloration will extend to a depth of nearly a quarter of an inch if the room is kept closed for a few months. That is why there is so much old oak furniture about Of course, a little re flection would show that it could not be genuine the forests of the middle ages would not have furnished one half of it; but people do not always re flect ODD BOX OFFICE RECEIPTS. Pigs, t'oultrr, Corounuts end Fruit in Pay ment for a rooeert In the 1'acltlc. There is no more interesting subject of study than currency. People do not realize how difficult it would be to get along without it. Some years ago, says a writer in the Washington Star, Mile. Zelle, of the Theater Lyrique, at Paris, on a professional tour around the world, gave a concert at the Society islands, in the South Pacific. It was arranged that in payment for an air from "Norma" and three or four other selections she w as to get one-third o. the receipts. Her share consisted o, a pigs, 33 turkeys, 44. chickens, 5.00U cocounuts and considerable quantities of bananas, lemons out! oranges. The live stock and produce would have rep resented a value of about 4,000 francs In the mar ;ets of her native city, but It was hardly practicable to dispose of the former oit-huiul und the hitter had to be fed to the pigs and poultry. A ioint ptoe1.- eomounv. Unon-n na t'w. Af rican Harter ctimpuny, limited, now ex isting in London, carries on a great business on the west coast of Africa entirely by bartering European manu factures for palm o 1, gold dust, ivory, coffee, gum anil other raw products. Eggs have been in circulation in lieu of money in the Alpine villages of Switzerland. Nails have been similarly employed in Scotlaud, dried codfish in Newfoundland, whales' teeth in the Fiji islands, mats of rice straw in Augola, salt In Abyssinia, beesw ax in Sumatra, red feathers in the isles of the Pacific, tea in Tartnry und iron hoes iu Muda guseur. A century ago tobacco ws made legal tender in Virginia. When women were imported in.o that colony for wives for the settlors 100 pounds of tobacco per bead wns charged for them, the price being subsequently raised to liO pounds. Mms. Caluriwob Parrks, who came here as the Greek delegate to the woman's congress, is recognized in her native country as the first woman there who trijdtoinake way for the entrance of women in the various trades and professions. She represented ten so cieties at the late congress, all philan thropic or educational, and most of them under the protection of the queen. Clubs More Sellable fttan Guns In ! Enntinc the) Seat The Wonderful fcffrrl of Muale oa the Timid Animals A Urpvu Hunter's Karrow Escape from living Torn to Places. Seals are very fond of music, and the hunters who pursue them most success fully often make use of some musical instrument to attract them. In "A Seal Hunt on the lilasket Islands" a writer in Outing describes an adven ture with seals, when a gun proved a dangerous weapon. The oars dipped slowly, O'Brien's eyes wero fixed on the eaves, and the boatmen sung in unison a weird, wild song in a kind of undertone. To the writer th s seemed a curious accompaniment to a seal hunt; but he was still more surprised when one of the men produced a flute and played on it a quaint, sympathetic air, that echoed and re-eohoed among the caves. The musical effects were marvelous; but our author turned to OTlrien and asked: "What is the meaning of all this?" "Oh, it is to at tract the seals. In a few minutes you will see them basking on the water and on the ledges, charmed almost to unconsciousness by the music." And so it happened; for underneath, on "an easy ledge." we saw two seals scramble up ami Ho quietly listening. "Nt.w is our time," said O'Urien, and the boatmen gently rowed toward the fascinated seals, the flute-player still continuing his tune. Without gun or spear my friend sprang to the rocky ledge. He had with him only a bludgeon and a long knife. Noiselessly advancing upon the seals he dealt one of them a blow on the nose and then slid forward and 'tilled it witli his knife. Thus our first capture was made. "Why not shoot the poor brutes, and so end the affair?" I asked. O'Prien laughed. "My dear sir,"he replied, "it is impossible. I will prove it to you. You have your rifle with you. Well, the next time we meet a seal I will allow you to do the work with powder and ball, and we shall see how you faro." Then we went over to Currigduff and endeavored with music to inveigle oth r seals. And we were rewarded, for 'ar within the "great cave" there ap neared a splendid male, much larger than those we had before seen not a ;ommon seal, but one of the large, bearded seals. He was, to all appear mce, unconscious of our approach. The flute .player continued his tune, md the oars pushed the waters as aoiselessly as possible until we were within a few yards of the game. "Now, try your gun," whispered O'Brien. I climbed out of the yawl and got close to the seal. I feared to get too close, lest I should frighten him off the ledge, so I rested against tlie slimy rock, und, taking earefulaim at apoint between his shoulders, fird. The din was awful. It seemed as if the little island were being blown to pieces by some modern battery. I be came aware, too soon, that my shot had not killed the animal, and that by a series of curious spine-made move ments he had come close to me and caught my ankle in his powerful jaws I nearly fell. I was too fear-stricken to cry out. All this happened in a moment. I felt my ankle crunch as though the foot would come off. As swiftly as possible I reloaded. I could scarcely see the brute that held my ankle, so blinded was I from pain. And I could not understand why It was that OTlrien had not come to my rescue. Hut there was no time to spare. I must lose my leg or kill the seal. Placing the muzzle of the rifle against what seemed to be the shoul der of the seal, 1 fired. The hold on my ankle relaxed for an instant; then came a more angry bite on the thick part of my leg, and I became coL3cious of some one near me. A dull blow sounded, and I fainted. It appears that O'Brien, who was looking on all the while, clambered on the rock where I was engaged with the seal and with a blow of his bludgeon ended the battle. In all likelihood he saved me from death. ..-AST ART WORK. A Chitreoal Sketch Worth One Hundred Dollars Drawn in Ten Minutes. Improvisation as an art is usually as sociated with music, but artists also can "dash off" a picture when the spirit moves them; and the spirit seems to have been very vigorously at work on Mr. T. B. Hardy, whose seascapes are so widely renowned, on a certain fes tive evening not long ago, says the London Telegram. There was stretched before him, so it is credibly reported, a sheet of paper measuring about three feet by four on an easel, and upon this canvas he was invited to execute a char coal drawing iu ten minutes. The sub ject chosen by him was "The Pool" below London bridge, with the usual accessories of the tower looming in the background and barges and steamers coining up the river on the Uootitide. So deftly did the artist's hand trace the design already recorded in his brain that the whole picture was fin ished Within the very short space of time already mentioned. "Aerial and wave effects." we read, "were obtained by rapid rubbing with the hand or a cloth." It might naturally be expected that a drawing done under such trying circumstances would be somewhat "sketchy," and no doubt the details in it were rather suggested than careful ly filled in; but the result was very far indeed from being a mere smudge, and the company of brother artists, literary men and actors before whom the feat was exhibited were loud in their praise. Their appreciation indeed w as shown in the most practical of all pos sible ways, for Mr. Hardy's chr..-coal sketch, which had taken him only a sixth part of an hour to complete, at once changed hands for the price of twenty guineas. NATURE'S WONDERS. As oil well in Venango county. Pa., does its spouting only on Sundays. Two perfectly" formed chickens lately emerged from one egg, in Olym pia, Washington. Fob thirty years the beard of a man named Whorton, In Webster county, W. Vo,, has been entirely gray. Now it is turning black, its original color, in his eighty-ninth year. A kemakkabi.b rock formation is lo cated on a peak of mountain about five miles from Aguas Calientas, in Arizo na. The rock, which measures three hundred feet high, is shaped like a barrel and can bo seen for mile dis tant . A Gentleman Who formerly resided In Conautlcut. but vbo now resides in Honolulu, writes: "For 20 years past, my wife and I have used Ayer's Hair Vigor, and we atliiliiile lo it the dark Srgj hair which she and I u" wiuiB uuu- tiictlj of our acqualut auces, ten or a dozea years younger tliau we, are either gray-li ended, white, or bald. Wlieo asked how our hair lias retained its color and fullness, we reply, By the use of Ayer's Hair Vigor nothing else.'" ' Id 1868. my affianced was nearly bold, and MM .iTa the hair e'C!keP,,a11- f e r y day. I Induced heitouse Ayer's Ualr Vigor, and very snnn, it not only checked any further loss nf hair, but produced an entirely new Bl ow III. which has remained luxuriant and glossy to this day. I can recommend this preparation to all in need nt a genuine hair-restorer. It Is all that it Is claimed to be." Antonio Alarrun, Bastrop, Tex. AYER'S HAIR VIGOR WANTED. fC IUrrV ANT LADY, employed or otwmploy! , WiJ n TfLLlni n i tkelLuf-rafew houri work net da. FMarv co mm 1m Ion. HO triplet frt Addrtit H. BUlMMIN & CO., 822 Pine at., St-Uuil, Mo. Op. Hash's Belts & Appliances tlta. Suspensories, fipt- iml Anuliance's. Abdoiu 'Jl irrt.wers, Oliico Caps. Cnres Rliemtmtlgm, JLiver and Kidney JomplattitH, I)ypiii .Errors of Youth, jost Alrtnho'vi, Nervousness, sexual Wenk .Bg, and all Troubles Iti Mute or i einale. ,,'itestion Blank and Book free. Call or Trite Votfa-Medica Appliance Co., Flue Street. - SX. LOUIS, MO. Foot-Prints on the Puth to Health. Everyone nepdinf? a doctor's fidvice should read oue of Dr. Foote's dime pHmptiletH on "Old Eyea," "Crnnp," ,'Rupturo," "PlnmoniN," "Varicocele," DfseHpe of men. Disuse of Women, und IpHrn thr best mentis of sel -cue. M Hill Pub. Co., 129 East 28th Ht.. New Yo.k. STOCK BRANDS. Whilo yoo keep your subscription paid Dp ycu can keep your brand in free of charge. Allyti. T. J., lone. Or. Horses (Hi on left shoulder; cattle name on left hip, under bit on right ear, aiid upper bit on the left; range, Mor row county. Armstrong, J. C, Alpine, Or. T with bar un der n on left shoulder of horses; cattle saiue on lefi hip. Allison, 0. D., Eight Mile. Or. Cattle brand, O D on left hip horses same brand on right shoulder, liange, Eight Mile. Adkins, J. J., Heppner, Or. Horses, JA con nected on lei t tiank: cattle, same on left hip. Bartholainfw, A. Alpine, Or. Horses branded 7 E on either shoulder, liange in Mo -row countv Bleakman. Geo., Hard man, Or. Horses, a flay dt'left shoulder: cattle same on right phoulder hannister, J. W., Hard man, Or. Cattle brand, d Hon left hip and thigh: split in each ear, Hrenner, Peter, tun seberry Oregon Horses branded P B on left shoulder. Cattle same on right siae. liurke, M 8t 0, Long Creek, Or On cattle, MAV connected on left hip, ciopofT left ear, un der half crop of! right. Horses, same brand on letft shoulder. Range in Grant and Morrow eonnty, Hrosman, Jerry, Lena, Or. Horses branded 7 on right shoulder; cattle B on the left side. Ieft ear half crop nd right ear upper slope, Barton, Wm., H ppner, Or. -Horses, J Bon right thigu, cattle, same on right hip; split in each ear. Brown. Ina, Lexington, Or. Horses IB on the right stiile; cattle same on right hip; range, Mor row county. Brown, J. C, Heppner. Or. Horses, circle (' with dot in cr ter on left hip; cattle, Bame. Brown, W. J.. Lena. Oregon. Horses W bar over It, on the left shoHlder, Cattle name on left hip. Boyer, W. G.. Heppner, Or. Horses, boi brand or rigii hip cattle, Bame, with split in each ear, Borg, P. O., Heppner, Or. Horses, P B on left shoulder; cattlo. same on left hip. liniftnlee, V. J., Fox.Or-Cattle. JH connected on left Bide; crop on left ear and two splits and middle piece oat out on right ear; on horseB same brand on the left thigh; Hange in Fox valley, Grant county, Caisner Warren, Wagner, Or. Horses brand ed O on light stifle; cattle (three bars) on right ribs, crop and split in each ear. Range in Grant and Morrow cotintieB. Cain.E., aleb.t )r. I) on horses on left stifle U with quarter circle over it, on left shoulder and on left stifle on all colts U' der 5 years; on left shoulder only on all horses over 5 years. All range iu Grant county. Clark, Wm, H., Lei a. Or. Horset. WHO con nected, on left shoulder: cattle same on right hip. Ha ge Morrow and Umatilla counties. Cate, ('has. R Vinson or Lena, Or. Horse H C on right shoulder; cattle same on right hip. Range Morrow and Umatilla counties. Cecil, Wm.. Douglas. Or.; horses JO on lef shoulder; ca'tie same on left hip, waddles on ach jaw and two bite in the right ear. Curl, 1. H John bay, Or. Double cross oij each hip on cattle, swallow fork and under bit in right ear, Bplit in left ear. Uange in Grant county. On sheep, inverted A ud spear point ou shoulder. Ear markoa ewee, crop ou left ear pnuched upper bit iu right. Wethers, crop in right and under half crop in left ear. All ratig iu (iraut count?. Cook, A. J. ,Lena,Or. Horses, (Won right Phonl jui Cattle, sauie on right hip: ear mark squan crop otl left and split m right. Currin, R. X., CurriiiBVille, Or. -Horses, 30 oi left HtiriH. Cox Ed. 8., Hardman, Or. Cattle, C will Hi center; horses. CE ou left Sip. Cochran, It. E., Monument, Grant Co, Or. Horses branded circle with bai beneath, on left shoulder; cattle same brand on both hips, marl under slope both ears and dewlap. Chapin, H.t hardman. Or. Horses branrten on right tup. attle brauded the same. Al--brM.ds ( I ou horses light thigh; c t e b r biamion ngnt thouldvi, ai.d cut iff tnd ol riKht ear Incki-nB, Ebb Horses braided with three ti.ueu fori, on left stifle Cattle ba-ni-on left side. Douglas. W. M . GhIIowki. Ur. t attle. U Dm. right Kide.swa low-fork in each ear; horses, R D on loft hip. Douglas, O. T., Douglas, Or Howes TD on the light stifle; cattle same on right hip. Elj, J. B. A, ttons, Douglas, Or. Horses brand ed i-Li on left shouluer, cattle same on left hip. hole tr right ear. Elliott. Wash., heppner, Or. Diamond on right shoulder. Emeiy. t . B., Hardman, Or. Horses branded lieverstd C with tail on left shouider ; cat tle same on iihi hip. Range in Morrow county. Eleek, J acksou, Heppner, Or. Horse. J t counected oi. right shoulder; cattle same ov. rihcbt hip. Earmark, hole in right and croi off left. r loreuce, L. A., Heppner. Or. Cattle, LF oi. right hip; human F with bur under on right shoulder. Florence. 8. P. Hemmer. Or Hhnm if . j right shoi lde : cattle, r on right hip or thigh. French, Ge.rg Heppner. Or. Cattle branded r, wun ui utei it. on itu sine; crop on left ear. Hore-6, same brand on left hip. Gay, henry, Heppner, Or. GA1 on left shouider. Oilman-French, Land and Live Stock Co., Fos sil, Or. Horse, auchor fcj on left shoulder; Tent, sail e on left stifle. Cattle, same on both hips iear marks, crop on right ear and underbit in loft Raiik'e in Gilliam, Grant, Crook and Morrow counties tientry, Elmer, Echo, Or. Horses bn-nded h. S. with a quarter circle ot or it, on left stith lUi gv in Morrow and Cuiatillftcountiea. hajes. den.. LrfMift, Or, Brand JH connecteo with quarter nril o?er it, on left shoulder. . Hiatt A. 11., Uidge, Or. t attle, roui.d-top ( with qmuttf cirvie under it on the right lup h.M ue in Mnrruw and Cumlillainuntiee. Ihm.'ii A Jenks, bamiltun. Ur Catiie.twohs.i n either hip; crop in right ear and split in left Hui pes, J nii ntrht thigh. Rargein Grnnt county wtis, S nael. Varn-r, Or r (T K l connected , on right -.houider on horoes; on cattle on right hip and on It-ft side, swallow fork ii I right ear and slit in left. Raiige in Haystack I district. Morrow county. Bl. Milton, Waguwr. Or. FIure Dfatidfel -O- (.'irole with parallel tail) ou left shoulder 4 Mtle same on left hip a!o large circle on left side. Hall. Edwin. John Day.Or. Cattle E Hon right hip; horses same ou right shoulder, l'angeii. Grant county. Howard, J L, f'alloway. Or. Horw, -f (en with bar above it) on right shoulder; cmle name on lett Bide. Range in Morrow and Uma tilla counties. Hughes, Mat, Heppner, Or. Horses, steaded heart on the left shoulder. Kan go Morrow Co. Hunsaker, B . Wagner, Or. -horses, tf on left xhmiider. ca tie, 9 on left hit . Hardisty, Albert, Nye. Oregon Horses.A H connected, on left shoulder; Cattle on the left hip, crop off left ear, HnmphrerB, 4 41 Hardman, Or, Horses, U on lef flank Hayes, J. M., Heppner. Or. Horses, wineglass on left hhouldei cattle, same on right hip. Huston. Luther, Eight Mile, Or. Horse Hon the left shoolderand heart on the left Btifle Cat tle same on left hip. Kange in Morrw rmmty. Ivy, Alfred, Long Creek, Or Cattle 1 Don right hip, crop off left ear and bit in right. Horses same brand on lfcft shoulder liange n Grant countv J'UIpb, Harrr, HeppnT, Or Horses branded FI J on the left shoulder: cuttle tummled J ou right hip, )'lso undtii hit in lett ear. Range iu Morrow cnnty. Junkin, B. ai., Heppner, Or Horces, horse shoe J on loft shoulder. CaMle, tho same. Rang? on ttiuhi Mile. Johnson, l"eiix Lena, Or. HorstiB, circle'!' on left slille; cattle, same on right hip, under lialf nrop in richt and solit in left ar Jenkins, D W.,ii. Veniou,Or, J on horseson left shoulder: on cnttte. J on loft liioHndtwo smooth crops on both ears. Range in Fox and Hear vau-uK Keunj.Mike, Heppner, Or. Horses branded on left klip I'ftttlti WHni6 mid omp off loft ,ar: umicr m!uiw nn llm ritiht Kirk, J. T., Hoppner, Or. Ho.-Hee tin on left khoulder; cattle, HM on Ifitt hip. Kirk. J (', lieppner. Or. UuriM. 17 un eithei Hank- cattle 17 on right side. Kirk. Jeese, Heppner, Or.; lireeL 11 on left itlimiider; CHltle name on ight eide, underbit on rluhl ear. kuuiberlaiid.W. G.. Monnt Vernon. Or. I L otl catlle on rigiti and left sidee, ewailow fork in It ft ear and under ciop in right ear. Horeeaname nrand on left ehonlder. liange in (irant countv. ljoften, gtepnen, fox, Or. tt L on left hip ,n catrle. crop and split on right ear. lloreen name brand on left shoulder, liange Grant t'ountv. Lieuallen, John W., I, - Or.-Horee branded half Allele J JL connected ou leftahoul Caltle. hriu, on left tiiu. Kauge. near Lex. lngton 1-ei.i.er, J. W Heppner Or. Homes branded t. auo A o lt-rt shouider; cettle Heme on left hip, wattle over r.(,ht ye, three slit, in r irht ear. IjOrd. (jeorse. Hennnnr. fir double 11 coLnecu .sometiuios called a swing H, on lefl shoulder. ftlarkharo, A. JV1.. Heppuer. ()r.-('nttle large M on left ide both euro cropped, and i-plit iu bo h llorses M on left bin. lianiie, t'luik'a cnr.yon. M inor, 0cnr, neppner, nr. rattle, M O ou right hip; horae. Mou left shoulder. .Morgan, 8. N., Heppner. Or. nurses, M ) on left shonidf! cattle same on left hip. McCnmber, Jns A, llcho, Or. Horses. M with bar over on right slionldor. Morgan. Tliua., HeppniT, Or. Horses, i-rc'e T on left shoulder and left thitrh; emtio, L on right thijth. Mitchell. Oscar, lone, Or. Horses, JJ on ri,-i.t hip; catlle, 77 on right sido. Mct.'laren, D. (i Hrownsville, Or. Hiirsei, Figure fion each shoulder, cattle. Alii on bin McCarly. David H. Kcho Or. Horses brauded Dl connected, on the left shoulder; cattlo same nn hip and side. McOirr, Frank, Fox Valley, Or.-Mule shoe with toe-cork on cattio on ribs and under in each ear; horses same brand on left stiflo, AlcIIalt,,, . ! .. namutoa. Or. (in Horses. H with half .iircle under on left shoulder; on I. Mtle, four burs connected on top ou the right side liange m Wrant County. Neal.Andruw. Lone iiock.Or. Horses A N con nected on left snouider: cattle same on both hips, IHordj-ke, ii., Silverion. Or. Horses, circle 7 ou left tliigl: : cui tie. same on loft hip. Oliver, Joseph, anyon I ity, Or.-A 1! on cattle on left hip; on horses, sumo ou lefl thigh, liange in (mint county l.'lier, Ferry. Lexington, Vir.-V 0 on left shotl.dei. Olp, Herman, l'toirie City, Or. Ou nulla, '.) Li connected ou left hip; horses on left stiile and wartle on nose, liange in (Jrant county. Pearson, Oluve, Eight Mile, dr. Horses, quar ter oircle ahieln ou left shoulder a ud Z on left hip. ( attle, fork in lef; ear, right cropped. 24 on left hip. liangf on Eight Mile. Parker 4 Qleason. Hardluan.Or, Horses IP on I' ft shoulder. P,Wi .""'' Lington, Or.-Hor-os brand e E (L E counseled) oi. left shoulder ; cattle s nieon light hip. hange, Worrow county. 1 iper, J. H., Lexinguu,. nr. Horses, JE con. uected oi left shoulder; cattle, same on left hip. under bu in each ear. Pettys, A. (J., ione, Or,; horseB diamond P on shoulder; catlle, J H J connected, on the left hip. upper slope in left ear and slip in the light. Powell, John T., Dayville, Or Horses, J P coil uec ed on lefl shoulder. Cuttle OK counected on left hip, two under half crops, oue on euoh ear, wattle under throat. Kai ge lu (irant oounty. iiood. Andrew, Hardmau. Or. Horses, square cros, with quarter-circle over it ou left etilio. Kemnger, ChnB, Heppner, Or. Horses, (J ii on left shouidet . Kico. Dan, Hardman, Or.; hones, three panel worm fence ou left shoulder; cartle, HAN on right shoulder, liange near Hardmau. Koyse, Aaron, Heppner, Or Horses, plain V on left shoulder; cuttle, same braud reversed on right hip and crop off right ear. liange in Alor row couuty. Kueh Bros., Heppner, Or. Horses branded S on the nghl shouider; cattle, IX ou the left hip. crop off left ear and dewlap on neck. Hange in Alorrow and adjoining counties. liust, William, liiuge. Or. Horses K o left shoulder; cattle, 11 on left hip, crop off right ear, underbit on loft ear. Hheep, li on weathers, round crop oil ngh ear. liange Uma tlllaand morrow c muliea. lieaney, Andrew, Lexington, Or. Horeel branded A 11 on right shoulder, vent quarter oircle over brand; cuttle same ou right liip, liange Morrow couuty. lioyse, Wm. H, Dairyville, Or HK oonneotei with quarter circle over top on cuttle on right hip and crop off nghl eur and split in left. Horse, same braud ou left shoulder, liange in Morrow uraut and tiilham counties. lieclor. J. W., Heppner, Or. Horses. JO ol left shoulder. Cattle, o on right hip. Mpicknall. J. W., Gooseberry, Or. Horse brauded 31 on left shoulder; lungo m Jlon" county. bailiug, C 0 Heppner, Or Horses branded on left shoulder; cattle same on left hip Swaggan, H. Jr., Lexington, Or.-Horses with dash under it on left stifle, cattle H with ukbIi uuuer it on right hip, orop off right ear and waddled on right luud leg. liange in Morrow, (jilliainund Lmatula couuties. bwaggurt. A. L.,Atheua. Or Horses brandc1 1 on lelt shoulder; ueltle same On left hip. OroD on ear, wattle on left laud leg, btraight W. K, Heppner, Or.-Horsoe shaded J b on let. stine; cattle J Bon left hip. swallow fork in ngh. ear. underbit in left. bapp. ihos., Heppner, Or. Horses, 8 A P ua left nip; caitit same on left hip. bhner.John, JTox, Or.-MC connected on horses on right hip; came, same on right hip crop otl ngul ear and under bit in left ear. liange in (irant county. bnuth Bros., Bussnville, Or. Horses, branded d.Z. ou shoulder; cattie, ame on lef t shoulder. bquires, James Arlington, Or,; horses branded JB on left Bhoulder; cutlle the same, also nose waddle, liange m Morrow and liilliam co .nties. Stephens. V. A., hardmau. Or.; nurses BSoo right sune; cattle U..nsontal L on the light side Bivensou, Airs A. J., Heppner, Or.-Cattle, rj ou nghl ni, ; swaltow-fora iu lefl ear bwaggart.O. W Heppner, Or.-Uorses. 44 on left snouiUe. ; cattle, 44 ou lefl hip Bperry, E, G heppner, Or. -tattle W C on lett hip, orop off ngnt and underbil in left year, uewiap; horseB W ton lefl shoulder. llioiupBuu, J. A., Heppuer, Ur.-Hi.min, S on lett slioulu. r; cattle, z ou left shoulder lippeu..B.i.,Eu.erpriBf.Or. Horses. (J-on left aliouhiel'. cl 'lumcr It. W. Heppner, Or.-SmMll capital T .ell sluraldei, horses; cattle same ou left h'D with split iu boll. ears. ' ihorutou, 11. il., lone, Or.-llorses branded rl I connected on left elitie; sheep m bm. Yauderpool, H. 1.. Lena, Or;-Uo,es il V eon. ueciea on right shoulder ;caille, sauie on right Vyalbridgc Wm . Heppner, Or. Horses, U. h. Z '01usu,""u'"'i ule same on tight hi orop off feft ear and right ear looped. VYuboii, Joun i 0 Sulem or Ueppuer, Or. Horso brauded Ju on the left shoulder. Uauee Morrow uoonu. Warreu.W if. ( 'aleb, Or Cattle W with cnwrte, circle over it ou left side, split iu rigni ear. Horses same braud ou left shoulder, ilail.-eia liraut couuty. Wright bliss A Heppner. Or. Cattle branded 3 tt on the right hip. square crop oil ngut eat and split in left. Wade, Henry. Heppner. Or.-Horses branded ace of spades on len shoulder aud loft mo attle brandeu same on lefl sme and le?t uto Wells. A. ., Heppner, Or. Horses. on lef -nouiuer- can e u Woifiuger, John, John Day City,Or-On homo Jiree parallel bars ou left shoulder; 7 on sheep, oit in both ears, llauge in G rant und ilalfiuei joulitlea. " Woouward, John, Heppner, Cr. Hor-toe rp couuectt'd on lefl snouluer. ' Watkuis, Lishe. Heppner, Or.-Hurw bind-d UE connecteo on left stide, Wallace, Charles, Portland, Or.-ctt!e, W on right thigh, hoi, in left ear; horses, W )n r-ht ihouiuer. som, same on left shouldei. Whittier Jbros., rjui.iu.gion, baker Co.. Or -Horses branded W B couuecten on lefl shoulder Williams vasco, namuton. Or.-Q.Jartr"oir-le oi.r three bar- on left hip, ciut'e aroj .urses. liange Gram eoonli. Ha Williams, J O. Loiurt'rerlt. f'.r-iiors,,, r,mr er circle over turn, burs on lefl hip; cattle saS ....I .111 in ch ear. lUng,. , ,,r(J,; ' Wien, A A., neppner, Uj.-Hom r,.rnir.si A n shoulder; ('all,,-, same ,. ngh; .;. " Walker Eiiiabeth A Sons, Hardman Or mtle hranued tE W connected) t'w on left ide h..rs.s same on right slo.iliier. J. W V, ! V "' " lett hip, horse, sera, n left shoulder. All range In J.ouon coonLr