These jumpers without an exception are the firm support and backbone of the Copperhead Clique, and the same parties that caused the riots in New York last year.
John Deegan, a forger, captured--A report that led to a historic raid by Colonel Baker on the bounty jumpers and bounty brokers of New York.
They let most of the other jumpers precede them, getting into the plane.
It was the plane that was to take the women parachute jumpers up the required number of feet.
Owens and these other claim-jumpers hunted with the Happy Family and apparently gave not a thought to claims.
He did not do it noiselessly, and one of the two jumpers sprang backward a pace.
The jumpers apparently had vanished altogether, but he fancied that they were considering some plan of attack.
It rapidly grew louder, and when it resolved itself into such a smashing of undergrowth as might have been made by a body of men, Saunders sprang up and waved his rifle toward where he supposed the jumpers to be.
The man was resolutely quiet and evidently quite ready to meet the jumpers with an empty rifle.
There was no answer, and it appeared that thejumpers had already departed as silently as possible.
Then he added in a suggestive manner: "You probably have had another rather more favorable offer since those jumpers failed?
On the other hand, he did not think they could possibly arrive before morning, which meant that he must keep the jumpers talking for several hours.
After all, the jumpersmay have been acting on their own account.
These were in fact employed by Greek jumpers and were called halteres.
They were unlike the claim jumpers of the older pioneer days who jumped the land because they wanted it for a home.
They paid the claimjumpers well for their services in getting hold of the land.
There was a doubt as to whether the jumpers had hit the time putting their stakes in, and the boys were most for me, but as usual the thieves had a man with money behind them.
I was sitting alone in my tent at night when one of them jumpers came in," Black went on, unheeding.
But we weren't quite quick enough--one night twojumpers pulled our stakes up.
The night was fearfully cold; the men had nothing but the thin serge jumpers which they had worn during the heat of the day to protect them against the bitter night air.
Two men, who had just partaken of this delicacy, were lying stretched out full length under a shady tree, their pith helmets brought well forward over their eyes, their grey serge jumpers thrown open, and pipes in their mouths.
All crawlers, creepers, and jumpers had so long imagined that the land was theirs and had been made solely for their benefit!
During the war for the Union, when enlistments for the army were lively, and bounty jumpers flourished, and money was nearly as plentiful as salt, concert saloon proprietors made enormous fortunes.
When we came up close we saw a number of jumpers and bob-sleighs about, and the tracks of many feet in the snow.
The prospectors' claim proved the richest, and the jumpers and the lawyers paid particular attention to it.
Turton's Creek was soon worked out, and before any professional jumpers or lawyers could put their fingers in the pie, the plums were all gone.
The desire of the jumpers was to obtain possession of the rich claim, or of some part of it; and the lawyers longed for costs, and they got them.
Jumpers and acrobatic tumblers have been popular from the earliest time.
Beard found that the jumpers of Maine did unhesitatingly whatever they were told to do.
By the aid of springing boards and weights in their hands, the old jumpers covered great distances.
In the writings of many Greek and Roman historians are chronicled jumps of about 50 feet by the athletes; if they are true, the modern jumpers have greatly degenerated.
Two jumpers standing near each other were told to strike, and they struck each other very forcibly.
All of the jumpers agreed that it tired them to be jumped, and they dreaded it, but they were constantly annoyed by their companions.
One of these jumpers came very near cutting his throat, while shaving, on hearing a door slam.
The large majority of horses ridden in these events are well bred Australians, which, taking them all round, are the best jumpers I have ever seen.
All confirmed buck-jumpers look out for this opportunity whenever the rider draws the reins tightly.
I hope I am not offending them in saying that Australian horses are the most accomplished buck-jumpers I have met.
I have known the safest of jumpers pulled into their fences and caused to fall by the adoption of such tactics.
They are up to more weight, they have more substance, greater endurance, and, for their own country, are the safest jumpers in the world.
These Irish hunters have been bred and hunted in Ireland for generations and are natural born jumpers for banks, but in Ireland they do not have fences, such as we know them, nor do they have such high jumps in the hunting-field as we have.
Mishaps there were, for all the bad jumperscame signally to grief.
Capital jumpers both," said the sly-looking little man; "the horse for my money.
The successful jumpers are led to wider and wider places in the brook to jump (a new line being drawn to increase the distance), until the widest point is reached at which any player can jump successfully.
They stand with backs to the jumpers and place their inside hands on each other's shoulders with arms extended at full length to leave a space between.
Good jumpers will land on the toes with knees bent and backs upright, not losing the balance.
If you was the kind o' man you used to be, ye'd up and give them jumpers a hemp necktie!
They was Injuns to fight, greasers to work devilment, claimjumpers to rob ye, and such.
After some repetition the astonished mechanic gathered that this gaunt stranger had brought in three claim jumpers to be held until the sheriff arrived.
The claim was his, his papers were recorded and no lawyer could question their validity--no, the best thing was to let the jumpers rage, to say nothing and keep out of sight.
Come on back to the meeting and we'll frame up something on these jumpers that'll make 'em hunt their holes.
Denver tore down his notice and posted the old one, with a copy of his original affidavit that the annual work had been done; and when he toiled up to the remaining three claims the jumpers had fled before him.
At the same time it'll take something more than a slap on the wrist to make these blasted jumpers let go.
So he smiled almost pityingly at the loud-mouthed jumpers and went boldly down the trail.
But to avoid them was not so easy, for as the day wore on and no attempt was made to oust them, the jumpers walked boldly into town.
That snooping Dutch Professor tipped them jumpers off that I'd promised my wife not to shoot, but I guess when they see you come rambling up the gulch they begin to feel like Davey Crockett's coon.
These jumpers ain't my friends and never was--come on, let's take a chance.
Even after driving off the jumpers and regaining their lost claims the majority had gone home after merely scratching up their old dumps in a vain pretense at doing the assessment work.
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