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Updated: June 24, 2025
"You needn't think we are going to be allowed to dig that hole without the toughest kind of a fight, Jimmie," he predicted. "The minute the news gets loose, we shall be swamped with 'interferences, relocations, law-suits, process servers and constables, to say nothing of the strong-hands and claim-jumpers.
Big Medicine came up over the hill a hundred feet or so from them; goggled a minute at the bold trespass and came loping across the intervening space. "Say, by cripes, what's this mean?" he bawled. "Claim-jumper, hey? Say, young feller, do you realize what you're doing squattin' down on another man's land. Don't yuh know claim-jumpers git shot, out here? Or lynched?"
Meantime, it keeps off all claim-jumpers or thieves who need a little hard yellow metal." "But you must admit that it is a tough proposition to mine here," said Mr. Brewster. "A land-slide is apt to happen any moment and bury all the apparatus. All previous efforts will be wiped out and you must begin all over again.
Eleanor then told about the forest-fire, and where the men were. The more recent excitement had quite driven the story of Hank and his claim-jumpers from her mind. But Polly anxiously asked for her mother. "Oh, yes Simms and the party hadn't arrived when we left Four Mile Blaze. But they will be all right, as Mike is gone to meet them.
Gals in cabe alle-right. Mike smell fire. He go see who burn. Fin' tree bad miner One gone happy hunting-groun', two sleep f'm much fire-water. Tree hosses hobble on down trail." As he spoke he acted his words so that it was plain that he had found the three claim-jumpers who were dead drunk, and their mounts which were trying to break away in sheer fear of the fire. "Mike, Bill and Mr.
It occurred to him that perhaps the old man had discovered, at a distance, the presence of the claim-jumpers; and was merely waiting in the thickets for a chance to take action. If such were the case, sooner or later they could join their fortunes again. It was also easy to imagine that Ezram had lost his way on the journey out.
"Wall, now, seem' as we-all are well along the way down, Ah may as well tell you-all: thar hain't goin' to be no danger of any claim-jumpers staking your land if Old Grizzly knows anything about it. Thar war a turrible avalanche yesterday and a leetle one at suppertime; it looks like-es-how anuther powerful one will hit the trail any moment.
It did not take long for a settler to see in his land a home for him and his dear ones, and the generations to follow; and we felt a great bitterness toward these claim-jumpers, who were no better off than we were.
And now there came into the county and state a class of men called "claim-jumpers," who pushed in on the claims of the first comers, and stood ready to buy their new homes right out from under them.
He called the Dane to the door claim-jumpers were keeping close to their cabins, these days and told him that he was on another man's land, and asked him if he meant to move. "Sure I don't intend to move!" retorted the Dane with praiseworthy promptness. "I'm going to hold 'er down solid." "Yuh hear what says, boys."
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