The Legislative Assembly--The Governor--His duties--Payment of the members--Aspect of the city; the Legislature in session--The lobbyist--How bills pass--How bills do not pass--Questions of the day--Common carriers--Woman's suffrage--Some of the acts of 1878--Judicial system of the State--Taxes--Assessments--County officers--The justice of the peace--Quick work. 145
Land laws--Homesteads and preëmption--How to choose and obtain Government land--University land--School land--Swamp land--Railroad and wagon-road grants--Lieu lands--Acreages owned by the various companies. 157
The "Web-foot State"--Average rainfall in various parts--The rainy days in 1879 and 1880--Temperature--Seasons--Accounts and figures from three points--Afternoon sea-breezes--A "cold snap"--Winter-- Floods--Damage to the river-side country--Rare thunder--Rarer wind-storms--The storm of January, 1880. 164
The State Fair of 1880--Salem--The ladies' pavilion--Knock-em-downs _à l'Américaine_--Self-binders--Thrashing-machines--Rates of speed--Cost--Workmanship--Prize sheep--Fleeces--Pure _versus_ graded sheep--California short-horns--Horses--American breed or Percheron--Comparative measurements--The races--Runners--Trotters-- Cricket in public--Unruly spectators. 174
History of Oregon--First discoverers--Changes of government-- Recognition as a Territory--Entrance as a State--Individual histories--"Jottings"--"Sitting around"--A pioneer in Benton County--How to serve Indian thieves--The white squaw and the chief--Immigration in company--Rafting on the Columbia--The first winter--Early settlement--Indian friends--Indian houses and customs--The Presbyterian colony--The start--Across the plains-- Arrival in Oregon--The "whaler" settler--A rough journey--"Ho for the Umpqua!"--A backwoodsman--Compliments--School-teacher provided for--Uncle Lazarus--Rogue River Cañon--Valley of Death--Pleasant homes--Changed circumstances. 183
State and county elections--The Chinese question--Chinese house-servants--Washermen--Laborers--A large camp--Supper--Chinese trading--The scissors--Cost of Chinese labor--Its results--Chinese treaties--Household servants--Chee and his mistress--"Heap debble-y in there"--The photo album--Temptation--A sin and its reward--Good advice on whipping--Chung and the crockery--Chinese New Year--Gifts-- "Hoodlums"--Town police--Opium. 201