History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . these two taking a contract to burn a kilnin July, 1847, on the farm of Simon Plomondon at the Cowlitz. Recognizing the necessity of easier and more direct communi-cations, we find them, in August of this their second year, blaz-ing out a trail from Tumwater to the claim- of Sylvester & Smith,two miles below on the sound, which now began to be calledSmithfield, because Levi L. Smith resided there, and because itcame to be the head of navigation by the law of the tides. The autumn of 1847 f
History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . these two taking a contract to burn a kilnin July, 1847, on the farm of Simon Plomondon at the Cowlitz. Recognizing the necessity of easier and more direct communi-cations, we find them, in August of this their second year, blaz-ing out a trail from Tumwater to the claim- of Sylvester & Smith,two miles below on the sound, which now began to be calledSmithfield, because Levi L. Smith resided there, and because itcame to be the head of navigation by the law of the tides. The autumn of 1847 finds the first shadow creeping over theirprospects. Alarmed by the massacre at Waiilatpu and by theprevalence of measles among the Indians, for which the whiteswell knew these ignorant savages held them responsible, therewere few additions to the population. Two men, Glasgow and Rabbeson, took up a claim and set-tled on Whidby Island in July, but were not permitted to re-main. They had hardly taken possession when a general coun-cil of the tribes of the sound was held on the island, at the insti-.
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