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HANFORD, NOV. 1 --
At a late hour last night Marshall Drew finished as far as he could the removal
of the property of John W. Cockrel from his home. The work occupied two days
and he experienced considerable difficulty from having no one to point out to
him correctly the property of Mr. Cockrel and the land lines of the
neighborhood. The large stack of straw he piled in the road, for the hogs he
had a pen built extending into a slough where they could get water, and he
supplied them with pumpkins hauled from the ranch. He removed only part of the
chickens and put them to a coop he had made for them near the straw stack. He
removed the pickets of a fence, but the house and a great part of the poultry
and some other property was not removed from the land in dispute, and the
papers were not served on Cockrel consequently Cockrel is not legally and truly
dispossessed. Having done his work courteously, faithfully, carefully and as
best he could, the marshal withdrew from the land of Cockrel with the teams,
wagons and men furnished him for the occasion, and this morning on the four
o'clock train he departed with the teams and drivers, leaving Messrs. Riley and
McAuliff to hold Cockrel's land for the supposed new claimant, Mr. Knox. Here
it must be said Marshal Drew did his disagreeable and difficult duty in such a
way that none found fault with him. The marshal was not interfered with at all
in the performance of his duty. Riley, who was left in charge for Mr. Knox,
this morning went to Sand Slough, near Mr. Cockrel's house for a duck hunt,
Tulare County being noted for its abundant water fowls. He had not been on the
slough long before he found a large flock of ducks. He began peppering them
with his shotgun and soon had some fifteen bagged. Unfortunately they proved to
be the tame ducks of Mrs. Edw. Kelly, whose husband's ranch is on the opposite
side of Sand Slough, and her son reached Mr. Riley in time to inform him that
these were her home ducks. Such are the misfortunes of settling in a new
country without being acquainted with it.
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