In re O'Gara

BELLINGER, District Judge.

Upon this application reference was made to the referee in bankruptcy for Umatilla county, who finds and reports:

*933That thP bankrupt commenced business by purchasing the stock oí goods then contained in the White House grocery store, on Main street, in the city of Pendleton, about the 1st day of December, 1896, from his present wife, who was then Miss G. B. Stubcnbordt, for the sum of $2,200 cash. That lie has continuously conducted said business from that time up to the 28th day of November, 1898, when he was closed by attachment at the suit of Levy & Spiegel,…