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Show ''Claim Jumping.'" Ail the at- j tempts at coLfL-ea-.ion schemes bv kral j enactment ha-.-ng faLed, tie !iit resort ! of the "ring" L- to attempt the -juxp. ing ' of lands cud::va:ed and inn; r jved for many year-. They Lave a lenry eye for M.rncon p-sissir." TLty would like h.a5s aid crchird-, t': ' failing that, the n:-x: thing is to iqeiat dowa on f.-nced acd :n.-rjved lata and pretend a claitn to it. It might be well for these indivi dials to rea-tEler the woid: of tbe Sc:tti-h lard: L'Pr hc:::an : attire's aye tbe ;a"e 'VS ketaer in saint or sisr." It is much tie same whether you find it in California. Nebraska or Utah. In the two States earned this "claim jumping" has made serious trouble-j and has cost many lives at one time and another. There is always dancer in it, no ma'ter where it i attempted, for men wiil not tamely be robbed of their rights and possessions Where j they have expended large amounts in j means and toil, to make hnd cub.iva-table cub.iva-table and profitable, they are not likely to stand quietly by while interlopers lay claim to it and seek to wrest it from them. "We say this because it is human hu-man nature, and because we do not wish to see trouble, nor to know of difficulties being thus made; and we would recommend intending "land claim jumpers'' to be very slow in their movements. There is an abundance abun-dance of virgen soil in this great west that can be settled upon, opened up and made fruitful, without going on to the property that other men have toiled and sweat to make valuable. It is better to steer clear of danger; and we say to those who try this game that we think we see danger in it, for the whole history of the we,t, from the Missouri to the Pacific, tells that "land claim jumpers" have invariably come to grief. |