Arizona weekly citizen., 1883-01-14
FAITHFUL LUCY.
An Indian Girls ROmance-Her solitary
 Home in Oregon-Long Nears Of Wait
From the Atlanac Monthly.

U
 She was California Indian, probably of the Tulares, and migrated to Oregon
 with her family thirty years ago. She was then young giri, and sad to be the ! handsOmest squaw ever seen m Oregon. 1 In those days white men Tn wildernesses
 thought it small shame, if any, tO take
 Indian women to live with them as wives, and Lucy was much sought and | wOOed. But she seems tO have had uu- common virtue or cOldness, for she re sisted all such approaches for 8 long
 time
 Finally man named P0meroy ap-
 peared, and, as Lucy sald afterwaTd, aS
 soon as she looked at him she knew Le
 was her ''tumtum man, and she must
 go with him. He had small slOop all
 Lucy became its mate. They two aluur
 ran lt up and down the river for several
 years. He established @ little trading
 post and Lucy always took charge 0l
 that when he went tO buy goods. Nle-
 gold was discovered at RinggOid bar
 Lucy went there, worked with q rocker
 like man, ana washed out hundreds Q
 dollars worth of gold, all of which she
 gave to POmeroy. With 1t he built .
 fine schooner and enlarged his business,
 the faithful Lucy working always at hls side and bidding. At last after eight or ten years, he grew weary of her and Oi the country and made up his mInd Co go to California. But be had not ths
 heart to tell Lucy he meant tO leave ieI. The pllOt who told me the story Was at that time captain Ot schooner on rle river. Pomeroy came to hIn one da. am n Hfa | effects down tO Columbus. He saId ht told her she must go and live with l,r relatives while he went tC California and ! looked about, and then he would s-l- ]. for her.
 The poor creature. who had no Idea uI . tTeachery, came oE board chse-tC'iy ana ! willingly. and be set her of a. CuIuu | bus. This was in the eariy spriug 1 Week after week, month after uuu5r, whenever his schooner stopped there. ! Lucy was on the shore asking If he had | heard from POmsroy For a long anne. ! he said. he could not bear to ttI her. At lass did: but sue would pot teLeT- him Winter came On. She had -ot 1 few boards together and built herself sort of hut, near house where L-t. an eccentric old bachelor, vino ulaly ! took compassion on her, and, to save her from freezing, lct her c0ms into n-. shauty Co sleep. ue was a ulyst r,ru. old man, a reciuse, with a morbid aver. sion to women. and at the Out-rt '' wa- @ great struggle for lm tO leg even n. Indian woman eros hIs tlr--l... But Ettle by little, Lucy won her vag,I first she washed the dishes, theu -.. would timidly help at the cooking Faithful, patle mt, unpresumlng, at las. she grew tO be really the old mar'> as well as servant. n lost his health, and became bind ! Lucy took care of him till he died, and followed him to the grave. his only the only human being iu the country with whom he made any tit. He left her his little house and a few hundred dOllBrs-ail he had-aud theT she is still, alone, making out tl lIv. by doing whatever work she can ind Ir he enelghbOrhOod Everybody respects her. She is known as ''Lucy' mp and flown the river. "I did my bes, tp hjrr her C. come and keep house for my wife" said the pilot. Id rather t1yr her for nurse or cook than any white woman in Oregon. But she would not come. | don't know as she's done looking for POmerOy to come back ye and she's going to stay just where Ice eft her. Sbe never misses tim. waving Co me when she knows wha. boa; I'm on, and there isn't much going pm on sbe river she doesn't know.