The men yonder say that they own the claim---that they found it first, and that it is theirs.

However, they never staked it off---never filed their claim." "It's our claim, just the same," spoke up the at the four men.
"And we won't have it jumped by any gang of tenderfeet on earth.
So get out of here, all of you, or the music will start at once.
We don't want to hit any woman or children, but we're going to hold our own property.

If the women and the child won't get out of here, then they'll have to take their chances." "That's the case, and the line of action!" growled another of the men.
"But let me ask you men," continued Tom, facing the quartette, "do you claim that you ever made legal entry of your asserted title here ?" "Maybe we didn't," grunted the spokesman.

But we've known of this place for 'most a year Today we came to settle here, stake off our claims, file our entry and begin living here.

But we found these benzine trotters on the ground.
"But these people state that they have made legal claim here," Tom urged.
"We have," insisted the portly man in black.
"If there is any dispute over the facts, my friends," Tom continued, turning once more to the four men, "then it looks like a case for the courts to settle.