The next year, also, nificance at Conestoga. In the spring of this year an Indian ealled Saantecnce had been killed by two white men, brothers, named Cartledge. At this time it was not only politie but necessary for the English to keep Indians as was marked by a council of great sig- good terms with as many Thereforc, the old record says, "Policy on possible. and justice roquired a rigid inquiry" into this affair, and the infliction of "excmplary punishment."

Accordingly, the Cartledges Philadelphia, and the high-sheriff of Chester County went, with two inflncntial men of the province, to Concstoga, to confer with the Indians as to what shonld be done with them. The were arrested and confined in Indians were unwilling to decide the inatter withont advice from the Five Nations, to whom they owed allegianco. Swift runner (Satcheeeho) was, therefore, sent northward with the news of the occnrrenco; and the governor, with two of his council, went to Albany to hcar what the Five Nations had to say about it. What an inconceivable spectacle to ns to-day: the governments of Pennsylvania and New York so fully ognizing to be anxiously and swiftly atoned for if possible!

Only a little more than a hundred and fifty years lie between this murder of Saantconce in Concstoga and the murder of Big Snake at Fort Reno, Indian Territory, in 1880. Verily, Poli cy has kept a large assortment of spectacles for Justice to look through in a surprising slhort space of time.

On the decision of tho king and chiefs of the Five Nations hung the fate of the murderers. Doubtless the brothers Cart- ree an Indian to be a "person," and his murder a thing ledge made up their minds to die. The known principles of the Indians in the matter of avenging injuries certainly left them little room for hope. But no! The Five Nations took a different view. They desired that the Cartledges should not suffer dcath, and the affair was at length amicably settled," says the old reeord "One lifo," said the Indian king, "on