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Rh the tin cup, from which the liquor was drunk, contained so much water. The trail from Cowlitz to Olympia has grown into a wagon road, along which is stretched a telegraph wire, and over which the surveyors of the Northern Pacific Railroad have located a line of their road. The old settlers have erected good buildings and fences, and, where once the lords of the forest roamed, grow grass and golden grain."

Note 4, p. 31. James McAllister was the first settler in Nisqually Bottom in 1845. He served in the Indian war of 1855. In 1851 he was one of the party of the sloop Georgiana, who were cast ashore on Queen Charlotte Islands and held for ransom by the Indians. He was killed by Indians at Connell's Prairie October 28, 1855. His son, James, died at Orting, Washington, February 26, 1902 ; born near Washougal in 1845.

Note 7, p. 31. "George Bush was a colored man, a man of intelligence and great force of character" (Elwood Evans' History of Pacific Northwest, vol. I, p. 267). He left Missouri to find a free country in Oregon, but, before his arrival, a law had been passed prohibiting negroes from living in the territory. Bush settled at Puget Sound, thinking the land north of the Columbia River would be British,where slavery would be prohibited. He was born in Pennsylvania March 15, 1778, went to Tennessee in 1788, and to Illinois in 1796. In 1816 he built the first house where now stands Boonville, Missouri. He was probably the wealthiest man who had come to Oregon up to 1859. He died April 5, 1863. He came to Oregon in 1844; to Bush Prairie in 1845 (Transactions of the Oregon Pioneer Association for 1887, p. 68). See Washington Historical Quarterly, vol. VII, pp. 40-45, by John William Ayer.

Note 8, p. 31. Jesse Ferguson emigrated to Oregon in 1844, from Missouri, with the Simmons party. In the Indian war of 1855-56 he built a blockhouse on his claim near Tumwater. He was born near Sandusky, Ohio, May 6, 1824; died near Olympia December 16, 1900.

Note 9, p. 31. Samuel B. Crockett was born in Virginia about 1829; died at Kent, Washington, November 27, 1903. Note 10, p. 31. The full list of the first settlers of Puget Sound, as com piled by George H. Himes, is as follows: Michael Troutman Simmons, Mrs. Elizabeth Kindred Simmons, George Washington Simmons, David Crockett Simmons, Francis Marion De Kalb Simmons, McDonald Simmons, Christopher Columbus Simmons (born near Washougal April 10, 1845), James McAllister, Mrs. Martha Smith McAllister, George McAllister, America McAllister (Mrs. Thomas Chambers), Martha McAllister (Mrs. Joseph Bunting), John McAllister, James McAllister (born near Washougal September 23, 1845), David Kindred, Mrs. Tabitha Kindred, John Kindred, Gabriel Jones, Mrs. Keziah Brice Jones, Lewis Jones, Morris Jones,