Dennis Sheedy bought this outfit sometime after, and here was the famous Seven-U (7U) brand. He increased the herd to large proportions. Sheedy accumulated a fortune and has been busy for years in the commercial affairs of Denver, being president of the Denver Dry Goods Company only a short time ago, and now (1919) vice-president of Colorado National Bank. It is to be ventured that his active brain is still working in lines for which it was splendidly equipped.

Around the Seven-U clusters a number of old anecdotes which extended down to the advent of the granger. The cowboys used to sing a song, "The Famous Seven-U Brand," when I first came into the west. It was more of a slam than a song, and one time years after, when Sheedy stopped at Tusler's, the lady, who had an old melodian, thought to revive a pleasing memory by singing it, but it made Mr. Sheedy indignant.

James O'Hallern was in charge at the time I first visited this ranch, and he was a character all to himself. He liked company and had many festive occasions at the old sod ranch house, where the people came for one hundred miles to dance.

HISTORY OF WESTERN NEBRASKA

Tim Montrose was the cook, and a good one he was, albeit that he "was not much larger than a drink of water," as the cowboys used to say. Tim was particularly tired of one fellow in the olden days who settled down near the ranch and made it his general source of provender. Almost; daily he would sojourn from his squatter's cabin to the ranch to visit Timmy, and incidentally "get his fill of grub."