History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . ettlers. The general situation as regards the Indian question on thesound at that early day may be quoted in substance from Evansas follows : The Indians of the sound at this time were a source of con-siderable uneasiness to the territorial authorities. Their friend-ship was questionable Avithout threat of actual hostility. Theywere not afraid of molestation from the whites, who were imi-fonnly friendly, the men laboring and the women doing house-workfor their pale-face sisters. They were
History of Washington, the evergreen state, from early dawn to daylight; With portraits and biographies . ettlers. The general situation as regards the Indian question on thesound at that early day may be quoted in substance from Evansas follows : The Indians of the sound at this time were a source of con-siderable uneasiness to the territorial authorities. Their friend-ship was questionable Avithout threat of actual hostility. Theywere not afraid of molestation from the whites, who were imi-fonnly friendly, the men laboring and the women doing house-workfor their pale-face sisters. They were fairly paid and welltreated, but under all this there was a constant feeling of inse-curity and unrest. A number of white settlers had been mur-dered by Indians in difiPerent sections, and it was generallyrealized that caution should be exercised in dealing with inexcusable act of Butler and Burt stands alone in the his-tory of American settlement on Paget Sound. It was com-mitted against a tribe—those of the far North—who were asmuch dreaded by the Indians of the sound as by the exposed. /y(^2-7^t.^e^ /7Z^?^i,^Auz-^x^ lirSTOliY OF WASHINGTON. 81 white settlers. Ilenoe the murder of their chief had no iiitliieiueripen tlie action or feelings of the savages of the sound. Tiouble,however, was 1)rewing with them from a source nearer at liand. The whole difficulty grew out of their different renderings ofthe application of criminal Jaw from the whites. The white, ina of murder, deals out the same punishment to the accom-plice as the piincipal : the Indian, liowever clear the aidingand abetting. cannot understand why more than one life shouldbe taken lo ai)pease violated hiw where only a single individualhad been tlie victim. In the winter of 1851 a man at Crescent Harbor was mur-dered by Indians. Three years after an Indian, convicted of thecrime, was legally executed. A siirveyor named Hunt was theirnext victim ; he was found unarmed and alone, pursuing hisIjrof
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