The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-07-22

time. let down as gently as possible.
After getting pretty well down, one Dam
lei e. Lane, who had IL good four-horse
team. and who fnscieJ he could drive.
iocseu All four wheels of his wagon and
undertook to drive. Welt he didn't 90
Tar until he begun to slide. and the mo-
mentum was such that he soon found the
wnoie business piled up in heap against =
friendly tree. That stopped the outfit
ana we helped him out OF his snarI. glad
tnat II was no worse. Down on
mus SIDE the timber was so heavy
chopping out \ road. We had no saws.
ana when we came to logs too big to cut
through with axes, we laid up approaches
OF smaller logs and butt big corduroy
bridges over them. You may imagine
that 1t was rough road. We went on To
steilacoom, my father making frequent
exploring expeditions meantime. but he
found nothing which pleased him so well
as the location on the Puyallup. When
the claim was taken we came tn where
sumner now Is in canoes up the
puyaliup. packing our goods around
the drifts in the river and
hauling the canoes on the ground around
the distractions. At this work the In
dams helped, we paying them at the rate
OF u day. Manv hardships accompanied
tnat settlement. Exposure and severe ex-
ertion caused some sickness. NV father
was taken very sick with something re-
sembiing pneumonia, and we hardly knew
what to do, but a friendly Indian woman.
who was sort of doctress among them
undertook to cure him. She procured
some pitch from the fir trees and compie-
teiy covered his breast with it, and made
him drink some sort of herb tea. and he
was we'll in two DAYS
Money we were unable to get at all in
the woods IN those days. and an existence
was an we conid wiring from our hardest
exertions. We worked at Steilacoom and
at various places along the Sound, or we
should have been unable to STAY upon our
claims. Flour was as high as $50 per bar
rel, and other supplies in proportion.
In October, 1855. the Indian troubles
eliminated in open hostilities. We had
long been expecting something of the
kind from their excited and hostile
manner. One night a friendly Indian
came and warned Us. .Mussachee chad
lndians) coming. We lost no time in
putting distance between us and them.
My younger brother was then but a child
ana my mother being dead. my sister. now
The wife of Senator l.. f. Thomson. had
acted the part of mother to the boy; carry
ing him in her arms, she went across the
river In the darkness upon slender log
which she would have hesitated TO cross
alone and III the daylight. After
going some distance | remembered
mat my gun ana ammunition was vet in
the house and returned for it. my father
waiting for me at the bank of a creek near
by. The Indians were all about us. and
although We were in hiding could see then,
from time to time. My father and myself
were near place where crossing was to
be made when an Indian crossed so close
TO us that could have touched him with
my gun. wanted to kill him. as
could easily have done, but nv
father prevented me. We finally
made our wav to Steilacoom, aud a
long and troublesome time between the
the whites and Indians began. In fact, we
did not return to our homes here for some
SIX or seven wears, our cleared fields were
overgrown with brush and the only thing
of our construction which remained was an
old chicken house. not valuable enough for
the redskins to burn. Times were hard and
hardships many, even after this, and it was
only after the great success which attended
the hop business, introduced by old Mr..
Meeker, that we began to accumulate any,
thing which might be called wealth. Since
that time our progress has been rapid and
we can look back with certain degree of
pleasure to what was really pretty hard
way of living
would not thank anybody to insure me
$500 pounds TO the acre upon my pIanta-
ton. and If the price should go to 25 cents
per pound, as is quite likely, you can read
lily see that an enormous amount of money
will be distributed In this vicinity and the
financial prosperity of the community be
assured
Mr. Kincaid lives in beautiful house in
the pretty little village of Sumner, which
he laid out and named for the late Hon,
Charles Sumner