He cleared up several thousand dollars in the deal.

When the Burlington built through the Sand Hills he contracted to furnish meat for the construction gangs and he did furnish it in such quantity that Bratt & Company thought he could not be supplying it entirely from his own herd. An investigation and search of the Sand Hills disclosed a secluded spot with the fragments of about a hundred hides, all of which were once worn by Bratt cattle.

Yeast was arrested, but he sprung a surprise with a bill of sale from some Omaha firm, of cattle which Bratt & Company had marketed there, and which later had been sold to Yeast. Bringing Bratt cattle with Bratt's brand on to the Bratt. range, yet in the legitimate ownership of Mr. Yeast, made any successful prosecution impossible, and was embarrassing to the Bratt Company.

For eighteen months before the election of Harrison as President in 1888. the Burlington building operations stood still. Yeast sold some beef, but in very diminished quantity. He went over into Sand Hills north of the new line, and located on Swan Lake.

Here he built a ranch on more prodigai proportions, and had a nice hay valley all his own.

The section homestead act went into effect, and he was one of the men who saw its possibilities under the older lax methods of the land office department, and a number of men who settled around him were supposed to have contracts to deed him the land after acquiring title. He was indicted on the federal charge of conspiracy to defraud the government, at the same time that Bartlett Richards and others were in the same trouble.