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Cross-eooaminnation: 

 By Mr. Adams : 



Q._ You say that you have not been on speaking terms with your 

 nephew since he cut on your lands ? 



A. No, sir. 



Q. How many years ago was that ? 



A. He commenced cutting there in the winter of 1879 and 18§0. 



Q. Since 1879 and 1880 you have not been on speaking terms with 

 him? 



A. I don't put myself out to speak with him at all; I don't want to 

 have anything to do with him. 



Q. The hard feeling commenced at that time ? 



A. The hard feeling commenced at that time. 



Q. And exists at this time ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. This survey that you speak of, what land was that you mentioned 

 the surveyor you helped survey ? 



A- We went around the northeast quarter of township 18, some 

 8,000 acres. 



Q. You went the outline of that lot ? 



A. We went the outline of that lot and then run a center line. 

 • Q. The outlines of that, the land that you sold Hartwell, did that 

 lie next to any one of these exterior lines ? 



A. It was on the north side of the quarter. 



Q. So the lands you sold Hartwell laid just north between the two 

 and land you owned and sold to Hartwell the line of that was the 

 same line of the next lot, was it not, common line between the two ? 



A. Yes. 



Q. That line was one of the lines that you surveyed ? 



A. That line was a line that was surveyed before my brother and I 

 got it: 



' Q. I am speaking of the time that you and the surveyor surveyed;, 

 you surveyed this line ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



Q. Between what you sold Hartwell and this other lot; did you 

 survey this common line as a matter of fact ? 



♦ A. I was with the surveyor who ran that line before my brother 

 and I partitioned. 



Q. You evade my question; did you survey those lands at this time? 



A. Yesj sir; we made a second line. 



Q. You surveyed it again ? 



A. Yes, sir. 



