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עמוד 76
... Government and people of the United States — for it has never been so decided , and I hold that it is a grave and solemn wrong for a writer to cast slurs or call names when such is the case - but will simply present the evidence and let ...
... Government and people of the United States — for it has never been so decided , and I hold that it is a grave and solemn wrong for a writer to cast slurs or call names when such is the case - but will simply present the evidence and let ...
עמוד 77
... Government . In the course of time Fisher died , and his widow mar- ried again . And by - and - by , nearly twenty years after that dimly remembered raid upon Fisher's cornfields , the widow Fisher's new husband petitioned Congress for ...
... Government . In the course of time Fisher died , and his widow mar- ried again . And by - and - by , nearly twenty years after that dimly remembered raid upon Fisher's cornfields , the widow Fisher's new husband petitioned Congress for ...
עמוד 78
... Government was not responsible for that half . 2. That was in April , 1848. In December , 1848 , the heirs of George Fisher , deceased , came forward and pleaded for a " revision " of their bill of damages . The revision was made , but ...
... Government was not responsible for that half . 2. That was in April , 1848. In December , 1848 , the heirs of George Fisher , deceased , came forward and pleaded for a " revision " of their bill of damages . The revision was made , but ...
עמוד 79
... trifling part of the destruction , and set down at only $ 3,200 all told ) , and that the Government troops then drove them off and calmly proceed to destroy- Two hundred and twenty acres of corn in the field GEORGE FISHER , DECEASED . 79.
... trifling part of the destruction , and set down at only $ 3,200 all told ) , and that the Government troops then drove them off and calmly proceed to destroy- Two hundred and twenty acres of corn in the field GEORGE FISHER , DECEASED . 79.
עמוד 80
... Government was not responsible for that $ 3,200 worth of rubbish which the Indians destroyed , but was responsible for the property destroyed by the troops - which property consisted of ( Í quote from the printed U. S. Senate document ) ...
... Government was not responsible for that $ 3,200 worth of rubbish which the Indians destroyed , but was responsible for the property destroyed by the troops - which property consisted of ( Í quote from the printed U. S. Senate document ) ...
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עמוד 19 - ... filled him pretty near up to his chin — and set him on the floor. Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog, and fetched him in, and give him to this feller, and says : ' Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his forepaws even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word.
עמוד 18 - It might be a parrot, or it might be a canary, maybe, but it ain't — it's only just a frog.
עמוד 15 - If there was a horse-race, you'd find him flush, or you'd find him busted at the end of it; if there was a dog-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a cat-fight, he'd bet on it; if there was a chicken-fight, he'd bet on it; why, if there was two birds setting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first...
עמוד 14 - W. Smiley — a young minister of the Gospel, who he had heard was at one time a resident of Angel's Camp. I added that, if Mr. Wheeler could tell me anything about this Rev. Leonidas W. Smiley, I would feel under many obligations to him.
עמוד 17 - ... grip and hang on till they throwed up the sponge, if it was a year. Smiley always come out winner on that pup, till he harnessed a dog once that didn't have no hind legs, because they'd been sawed off by a circular saw, and...
עמוד 20 - Smiley he went to the swamp and slopped around in the mud for a long time, and finally he ketched a frog and fetched him in and give him to this feller, and says: " Now, if you're ready, set him alongside of Dan'l, with his fore-paws just even with Dan'l's, and I'll give the word.
עמוד 19 - The feller took the money and started away; and when he was going out...
עמוד 19 - And the feller took it and looked at it careful, and turned it round this way and that, and says, 'H'm — so 'tis. Well, what's he good for?" 'Well,' Smiley says, easy and careless, 'he's good enough for one thing, I should judge — he can outjump any frog in Calaveras County.
עמוד 15 - ... that straddle-bug to Mexico but what he would find out where he was bound for and how long he was on the road. Lots of the boys here has seen that Smiley, and can tell you about him.
עמוד 14 - There was a feller here once by the name of Jim Smiley, in the winter of '49 — or maybe it was the spring of '50 — I don't recollect exactly...