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State fo Washington
County of King
Patrick Fagan of
lawful age bring duly sworn upon his
oath states:
That he is a citizen of the
U S and of the State of Washington and
a resident of the City of Seattle and
was during all the times hereinafter
mentioned a resident of said place.
that during the month of August 1889 and
prior thereto he was the owner of a fine
young bull to years old post of Guernsey
and derhau stock work the reasonable
value of two hundred dollars: That is
the latter part of August 1889 siad
animal broke out of his enclosure on
the premises of this affiant and strayed
therefrom. That this affiant made
diligent search for said animal but
was unable to find him. That he
looked over the City papers to see if
such an animal had been empounded
and found a notice to the effect that
a yound bull had been taken up about
the time afficents became missing, but
the descriptions as seen in the article
of the Post Intelligencer did not
accurately describe this animal.