Two Years in OregonD. Appleton, 1882 - 311 oldal |
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1 - 5 találat összesen 37 találatból.
5. oldal
... questions put from many lands , as to how we fare in this West- ern country , demand fuller answers than mere letter- writing can convey . I trust that those correspond- ents who are yet unanswered personally will find herein the ...
... questions put from many lands , as to how we fare in this West- ern country , demand fuller answers than mere letter- writing can convey . I trust that those correspond- ents who are yet unanswered personally will find herein the ...
12. oldal
... Questions of the day - Common carriers - Woman's suffrage - Some of the acts of 1878 - Judicial system of the State - Taxes - Assessments -County officers - The justice of the peace - Quick work ....... 145 CHAPTER XIII . Land laws ...
... Questions of the day - Common carriers - Woman's suffrage - Some of the acts of 1878 - Judicial system of the State - Taxes - Assessments -County officers - The justice of the peace - Quick work ....... 145 CHAPTER XIII . Land laws ...
13. oldal
... question - Chinese house- servants - Washermen - Laborers - A large camp - Supper- Chinese trading - The scissors - Cost of Chinese labor - Its re- sults Chinese treaties - Household servants - Chee and his mistress- " Heap debble - y ...
... question - Chinese house- servants - Washermen - Laborers - A large camp - Supper- Chinese trading - The scissors - Cost of Chinese labor - Its re- sults Chinese treaties - Household servants - Chee and his mistress- " Heap debble - y ...
15. oldal
... question - Its importance - Present legal posi- tion - Oregon Railway and Navigation Committee's general re- port - That company - Its ocean - going steamers - Their traffic and earnings - Its river - boats - Their traffic and earnings ...
... question - Its importance - Present legal posi- tion - Oregon Railway and Navigation Committee's general re- port - That company - Its ocean - going steamers - Their traffic and earnings - Its river - boats - Their traffic and earnings ...
19. oldal
... question if we should try to found an English colony here , in the usual sense of the word . That would have involved a separate life from the American residents ; it would have fostered jealousy here , and we should have committed ...
... question if we should try to found an English colony here , in the usual sense of the word . That would have involved a separate life from the American residents ; it would have fostered jealousy here , and we should have committed ...
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Népszerű szakaszok
1. oldal - Straight mine eye hath caught new pleasures, While the landscape round it measures ; Russet lawns, and fallows gray, Where the nibbling flocks do stray ; Mountains, on whose barren breast The labouring clouds do often rest ; Meadows trim with daisies pied, Shallow brooks, and rivers wide ; Towers and battlements it sees Bosomed high in tufted trees...
1. oldal - Turn thy wild wheel thro' sunshine, storm, and cloud; Thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate. 'Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel with smile or frown; With that wild wheel we go not up or down; Our hoard is little, but our hearts are great. ' Smile and we smile, the lords of many lands; Frown and we smile, the lords of our own hands; For man is man and master of his fate. ' Turn, turn thy wheel above the staring crowd ; Thy wheel and thou are shadows in the cloud; Thy wheel and thee we neither love...
159. oldal - That any person who is the head of a family, or who has arrived at the age of twenty-one years, and is a citizen of the United States, or who shall have filed his declaration of intention to become such...
158. oldal - No person shall be entitled to more than one pre-emptive right by virtue of this act ; no person who is the proprietor of three hundred and twenty acres of land in any State or Territory of \ the United States, and no person who shall quit or abandon his residence on his own land to reside on the public land in the same State or Territory...
160. oldal - ... resided upon or cultivated the same for the term of five years immediately succeeding the time of filing the affidavit...
146. oldal - The Governor shall transact all necessary business with the officers of government, and may require information in writing, from the officers of the administrative department, upon any subject relating to the duties of their respective offices.
159. oldal - Every person, being the head of a family, or widow, or single person, over the age of twenty-one years, and a citizen of the United States, or having filed a declaration of intention to become such...
161. oldal - As the law allows but one homestead privilege, a settler relinquishing or abandoning his claim cannot thereafter make a second entry; but...
146. oldal - He may, on extraordinary occasions, convene the legislature by proclamation, and shall at the commencement of every session communicate in writing such information as he may possess in reference to the condition of the State, and recommend such measures as he may deem expedient.
188. oldal - Did the Indians bother any while he was gone?' " 'One time a pack of them came around the cabin and got saucy, finding only the old woman at home. They crowded into the house and began to help themselves, but the old lady she took the axe and soon made them clear out. When the old man came back she told him about it. "Well," says he, "I reckon I shall have to stop at home a day or two and fix these varmints.