Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-07-17
SEATTLE t. THURSDAY MORNING. JULY H. 1884

stand before the FIRE while she was co,t
ihe One day an old Indian. with onIx
shirt on, came into the house and ner
sisted In keeping in her wzy. staudino
All the While close before the Ere. Shs
RAD nothing but a shake for a shovsI
and, after pokiEg up the fire with /,
until 1t was very hot, she struek the In
dian With this shake shovel a sharp blou
N IT, baEs legs. TLis made the indian
!u'ip up and get outside in a hurry. a,
tue same time swearing al her in 60
plain English. Mrs. Low WAS ysrv mnch
frightened at this. and locked III. a.
ane feared that the Indians would tAke
ohense and try to Kill them ali. Wher
ar Low Game Ia from work she told
hiln @hat had happened, when he took
SLICK and gave chase to the In.iian
VITO ss'h hung around the cabin, and
whipped Alm With the stick AZ long AZ
hs couid Keep up With him. A few days
aiFf~srd tue same lndian came 10 Mr..
Low to oo:aln work, and he worked IN
heiping u load the vessel. Mr-. Low
i'ad Tar less trcable with the Inai4ns.
siIer shaping this one on the bare legs
~Au tn net shovel. than before this
took place.
ihe men were about a month loading
tue vessel. her cargo was secured about
nile from their cabin and Just arsaad
Tue point. by the time the vessel was
loaded every one at Alki Point was ont
OF hour. No more -four could be Oh
tainsd until her return frouSsan Fran
cisco Tor another cargo of piles. They
hao some haFd-taek on hand, and, by
purchasing potatoes, hsh and venison Of
tue indians, they got along without suf
ferlne from lack of food. fhe Leonez
on her return. brought full supplies, To-
Rether with \ cook stove for Mrs. Low.
iheY all had an abundance OF food af-
ter that.
For the next cargo the men went TO
Fort Orchard, leaving the women and
children at Alki Point. Mr.. Low and
.: Z. Terry we're engaged in getting out
piles and shipping them to San Fran.
CISCO all that spring aud summer. They,
With others, stopped nearly all the tilae
at their logging camp at Port Orchard;
those having families only making an
occasional visit 10 where their families
were.
In February, 1852, Bell. Boren and
Denny tArthnr A. located claims where
Seattle now stands. They did not move
their families there until In the spring.
Arthur A. Denny was the last to move;
his family DOT leaving until May or
June, ls52. When they we're gone Mrs.
Low Was left alone with her childyen;
no white woman and only Que white
man, an old Scotchman, being on that
side. While left alone with her csild.
ren, during the summer of 1852, her
time would have passed very heavily
had 1t not besn that Capt. Howard prs-
sented her with q number of volumes
OF Dickens's novels, which he had oh
tanned In San Francisco. This aas her
first acquaintance with those works,
and she was 50 situated an TO fully sp-
preciate them. She would 60, almost
every pleasant day, To the top of the
high hill Just back of the point, where
she had a fine view both up and down
the Sound, and there under the lone
tree" would pleasantly pass in reading
these novels. with ber children playing
around her. what would otherwise have
been many weary hours.
On the second or third trip of the
Leoneza from San Francisco, that yes-
sol brought from San Francisco a stock
OF general merchandise for Low h FERRY,
which was kept In the shed room OF
oeived keg of whisky, which vas kept
in the same shed room. Mrs Low was
afraid the Indians would break in, OBJ
tain this whisky, get drunk and kill
them all while the men were away across
the Sound. So she had Terry train her
IN the use of Colt revolver uAtil she
could hit tree a good distance off;
bat she never had occasion Co use her
revolver.
Many times she would feel lonely and
become greatly frightened at the num-
ber of Indians encamped there from all
parts of the country. her fear would
De greatest when the Northern Indians
came there. The Indians were curious
to observe the ways of white people, SO
that hundreds of Indians from different
parts of she Sound would come aud en-
camp on Alki Point who might not have
come there at ali bot for the presence of
the whites.
At one time thirty canoes full OF
Northern Indians came in there. All
the Indian women and children oamped
there; as soon as they saw them they
ran TO the woods. crying Ssickine!
Stickinep' while the Indian mrn took
their old Hudson Bay musksts and ran
To the beach. IL was long time before
they would allow any OF these Northern
Indians to come ashore. Then only n
part Of them landed. They claimed to
be peaoeable, and professed to be ON
their way up the ) und to trade aud
sell their furs At For, Nisqually. After
getting fresh water they passed On.
Once Mrs. Low was awakened nc night
by noise which WAS certain was pro-
duoed by passing steamer. She got
up, went 10 the bank, and found that
the noise was caused by big school
of blacktish passing the point. AZ an
other time a very large whale came
close IN shore.
In October, 1852. at Alki Point, Mrs.
Lows fifth child. Nett,e Low, now Mrs..
George Foster, of Seattle, was born
She was the second white cbild born in
King county. Mrs. Arthar A. Dsany
came and nursed Mrs. Low for one
week, after which her husband was her
only nurse.
For one whole year after the other
families left Mrs. Low remained at Alki
Point, and then the whole family went
To Cha,n,.ers Prairie, four miles from
Olympia. :
The whole number of the party land
ing at Alki Point was "a. ~ adults and
II children. OF that number all are
living but five. The descendants of
the party number 81. all living but four
making total Of 81; rumher OF deaths,
nine. TIE party was not Of the most
robast GLASS; two OF the adnlts. now
dead. being plainly marked consump-
tives at the time OF their arrival. We
think this showing. for q period OF nearly
33 yeaas, speaks well for the healthfui-
ness Of the climate.
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