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IMPOUNDED STOCK
IMPOUNDED STOCK AT AUCTION -- Wednesday, September 11, 1889, at 10 o'clock a. m., at Baxter's corral, I will sell, to the highest bidder, for cash, to pay cost of impounding and keeping one brindle 2year-old heifer, and one 3-year old bull, brindle and white; the owners of said animals to me are unknown. J. C. MITCHELL, Chief of Police, Seattle.
P.I. Sunday Sept 8, 1889
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Seattle July 1st, 1890
To your honor the Mayor and Common Council of the City Of Seattle
As I have been spoken to by members of the Council regarding a bull claimed by Mr Fagan to have been sold and not advertised I have thoroughly investigated the matter ... and I wish to make a statement to your honorable body. I find that on the 5 day of September, 1889 there was Impounded one small brindle and white bull about 3 years he was advertised on the 7th day of September & sold on the 11th. On the day of the sale there was no one that would bid on him & the Chief of Police said that if he was not sold he would be an expense on the City and that I had better take him. I paid $10.00 for the bull put him in pasture for some 30 odd days at the expense of $3.00 and at the expiring of that time I sold him to a sausage maker for $16.00. I did not see any brand on the bull. I understand that Mr Fagan claimed in his statement that he spoke to me about his bull. I remember sometime in the early part of November last a man stopped me on the street and spoke about a bull he had lost but that I could not conceive the idea of connecting his bull with the inferior looking animal that was advertised & sold in September last. The man who spoke to me I afterward found out to be Mr Patrick Fagan.
The above statement can be testified at any time, should it be necessary.
Respectfully submitted A E Boyd Pound Master
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July 7th To your Honor the Mayor & Common Council of the City of Seattle
As Mr A. E. Boyd wished me to make a statement regarding the bull claimed by Mr Fagan as belonging to him, would say that I was keeper of all Impounded Stock taken up by Officer A. E. Boyd in September last, & on the 5th day of September 1889 there was brought into the Corral used for holding Impounded Stock, once small brindle & white bull about three years old, he was advertised & sold on the 11th of September, and at the day of the sale there was no one who would bid on the bull & at that request of the Chief of Police J. C. Mitchell Officer A. E. Boyd took the bull at $10 as the Chief said that the animal would only be an expense on the City if he was not sold. I did not see any brand on him whatever during the 7 days I fed him.
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JUL 8 1890 15 Com from A E Boyd regards to the Bull claimed by Patk Fagan to have been sold and not advertised