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from the System Easy Expenditure of Government Money Un popularity of Human Sympathy Efficiency of Superintendent Dart Thirteen Treaties Effected Lane among the Rogue River Indians and in the Mines Divers Outrages and Retaliations Military Affairs Rogue River War The Stronghold Battle of Table Rock Death of Stuart Kearney s Prisoners 205

CHAPTER VIII.

PLAUSIBLE PACIFICATION.

1851-1852.

Officers and Indian Agents at Port Orford Attitude of the Coquilles U. S. Troops Ordered out Soldiers as Indian- fighters The Savages too Much for Them Something of Scarface and the Shastas Steele Secures a Conference Action of Superintendent Skinner Much Ado about Nothing Some Fighting An Insecure Peace More Troops Ordered to Vancouver 233

CHAPTEE IX.

SURVEYS AND TOWN-MAKING.

1851-1853.

Proposed Territorial Division Coast Survey Light-houses Established James S. Lawson His Biography, Public Services, and Contribu tion to History Progress North of the Columbia South of the Columbia Birth of Towns Creation of Counties Proposed New- Territory River Navigation Improvements at the Clackamas Rap ids On the Tualatin River La Creole River Bridge-building Work at the Falls of the Willamette Fruit Culture The First Apples Sent to California Agricultural Progress Imports and Ex ports Society -247

CHAPTER X.

LAND LAWS AND LAND TITLES* 1851-1855.

The Donation Law Its Provisions and Workings Attitude of Congress Powers of the Provisional Government Qualification of Voters Surveys Rights of Women and Children Amendments Preemp tion Privileges Duties of the Surveyor-general Claimants to Lands of the Hudson s Bay and Puget Sound Companies Mission Claims Methodists, Presbyterians, and Catholics Prominent Land Cases Litigation in Regard to the Site of Portland The Rights of Settlers The Caruthers Claim The Dalles Town-site Claim Pre tensions of the Methodists Claims of the Catholics Advantages and Disadvantages of the Donation System 260