"No pent up Utica contracts our powers;
The whole of this boundless domain is ours."
When I look in the faces of this multitude I see before me but few who were men and women grown when I first came here. Some of you gray-haired ladies and gentlemen were then, as the Indians called them, petite squaws or skinneways. Your fathers were Niseshin Shomoko men. But I think scarcely more than a dozen are now living in this county who were then men and women. And
"I feel like one who treads alone
A banquet hall deserted,
Whose music is hushed, whose guests are gone,
And all but me departed."
ISAAC BUTLER
Pioneer Resident of Springville
[CHAPTER XX]
Early Linn County Lawyers and Courts
BY JUDGE MILO P. SMITH