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Show them one by one. Mr. Hart now wanta to know who pays or the hogs that are no more. MORTGAGED HOGS w USED FOR FOOD LONG BEACH, April 27 Attorney George . Hart has been asked by the State baik of this city to recover six hogs from John De Voe, a ranch band employed on the Elliott place, five miles northwes : of Long Beach, the porkers having bsen mortgaged to the bank by George L Brandon, the baker who recently recent-ly failed Mr. Hart Journeyed to the Elliott n nch to get the hogs and there was told by De Voe that he had eaten the animals to keep from starving to death. De Vo was employed on .the ranch by Brandon, who for the past three months has been unable to pay his hired hand. Totally levold of food for himself and family. He Voe cast about the ranch for something to eat. He found the six hogs the only eatable things on the place. Ac-cordlngly Ac-cordlngly he butchered and consumed |