The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1889-07-19
The ISLE OF DtsIRucTlo
A Fertile Garden Proteeted I
Low Sea-Wall.
The New Government st,e,.
".uis Indians Dancing A,..,.
Corpse.

Mariners shudder when ~.
island, with its reefs. vrers
shores and treacheroas cs,-s
mentioned. Ii was on Drss,s.ss: !
rocks that the bark Csssan,sr. i =
broke 10 pieces. and near IL
mainland, the bark Port tionss.
lost on the s7th OF last rehms,~ \
gress made provision las, 49,
fog signal and lighthouse a,
and, aud work has been pros.., !.
winter. The steamer Low ~
leaves today With brick IL -. Il
the water cisternS for thu 49, ~
keeper ; dwelling. The foe 49,
ready. anu the machinery - y,
up near the building. In th,s.
more the SIRENS loud voice vii iii -
the navigator 10 steer clear a. -
and's barriers. The station A..
and oil houses were built hvS A..
keek. OF this city. Mr.. Sfenl,ss
kees. who has been suns,,.,s.
the work. is now in Seattle
Mr., Sarkeek says that pess,..x
Island does not deserve its Ell ~
tation. Ii Is some forty miiss 49, 80
of Cape Flattery. The ISLAND -
twenty-five acres in area. ana =.
rocks or highlands, nor anv 49, - q
beach. Ali around, and soms - v
from the shore, is sabmerre3 ~.
rock, and ON this the waves h,s.s .
that the land is not inysdei =
island is not changing its form -
soil reaches down sixty ieet go
Very fertile. SO much 50 thai ~ |.
dams have long used the islsrr ~. =
garden, coming across in their -
from the maitland. vs;s
Is high and hilly. This sum.-
line potatoes were grown. to- =.
few scruhbey trees and ceners,ss - =
ground i covered with hrnsh M =.
salsl. salmon berry and elder r;s,n, y =
a height OF ten or fifteen feet anS n
ing almost impenetfable. TherS i
fog pretty much all of the time - !
The rainfall is very hesyy. 8 -.
there Is an abundance of fr~sh vss.s
always hubbling from the r,cn,ss
Water for the lighthouse kernsrs ! =.
is gathered by making an srti6si.l
watershed einptying into hrisf
cisterns. The governments statier /.
on a southwestprojection OF the 49,
There still remains to be errcte3 A.
light tower, Tor which no con,Yact -
been let.
tine BENEVOLENT orlNArLr ixnnm
The Quits or Quinauls Indians i
the mainland said Mr.. Csrke.l
have wide fame for heroism II -
cuing shipwrecked mariners--a ~
tation that known facts hardly "a,
out. When the Port Gordon vS
wrecked two men went aShofe on l
line near Quits, six miles south Of the
Quillayute. The mate reported that
the men had come ashore alive. ana
brave Dan Pullen, who trusts himse
among the Indians where not NAM
white men would venture, went % ~
point where they landed. He did not
find them, but their cornses afteFvsrd
came ashore three miles further n
the beach, stark naked. II Il sue
posed the Indians at least slripped,ie
seamen, If they did not kin them, u
then threw the bodies cut into he u
TO drift ashore in another place.
THE cook, u negro, cana
ashore alive. He was afterward found
dead beside a little creek, where y
had crawled to get a drink d fiusk
water. evidently having expired I'M
exhaustion. White men buried =
poor fellows body in a shallow essn
near by, which the Indians disgs
cred, The body was promptly Din
TERED and tied standing TO the typaa
of IA tree. The Indians gxthegul
round aud held a 'coqualley. o. ~
boiical native dance. AT the ci0s< 4
a hideous ceremony one OF Tie n
men approached the body and wltk /
knife cut out the tongue. The mi
lated body was after ward found W.
the Indians left il, bound TO TIE nm
To Daniel Pulleu, the QuilhyQN
pioneer, belongs all the honor q ~
LIS tttS EAs ftNVi9 vi thc oAv XV1V03
crew. The Indian agent Ordered II
natives 10 take charge Of the wrecks
and permit no white men along II
beach,"
But how do vessels land q q
island2" was asked.
Between the island and u -
land the water is calm dunn &
worst north or northwest ~. -
sealers run in to take refuge fromt
Northwestern. There is an opening /
the encirclins reef, on The eas1, =
eastward side, and through TIL ~
ture vessels can easily glide. = 10 T.
coral islands. Supplies for tie islan1
are lifted from the steamer By . o.,
rick, mounted on bargs. ard leajed
on'the wharf. Here is q comparatively
good harbor. {.
=" he new light and fog stasi0u ~
be of incalculable benefit to havigs
tors, and take away many d y!