The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-08-02
ANGELINA.


to 60, saying that her father would be so mad at
her running of with q crazy man that he would
turn over II his grave SO she stayed at home.
Many years ago Chief Seattle, her father, was
the head OF q tribe numbering many people-ac-
cordng to Mr.. A. A. Dennys .bsst estimate,
probably 500 to 100, including women and child
rem. The old chief was very friendly to the
whites who came to Alki point in 1852 and
within few years there came a time when
his friendship stood the pioneers in
good stead. War broke out among
the Indians. and for a while the settlers had to
look sharp to the safety of their families and
themselves as they went about their work in the
thick forests. Pat Kanim and Seattle, two
chiefs, who, unlike the savage caders of other
tribes. refused to slaughter the whites, were
always held in high esteem by Mr. Denny,
Dr. Maynard, Charles Terry, Mr.. ID. T. Denny,
Hillory Butler, Mr.. III. L. Yesler and
others OF the early settlers. To DIR. Maynard,
many years dead, is ascribed the act of naming
the city after Chief Seattle, and Mrs DR.. May
nard, according to Angelina, has the credit for
naming the princess herself. So great was the
respect in which Chief Seattle was held that last
fall Mr.. A. A. Denny, assisted by Hlllory Butler,
II. l. Yesler and others, erected a fine monu-
ment over the old Indians grave at Port Madi-
son. The inscription this monument gave
the name of the dead chief as SSeslth," which
more nearly resembles the name as pronounced
by the Indians.
Angelina is probably about so years old, but
her withered skin and bent form make her APP
pear twenty years older than that. Her cabin
on the beach was discovered the other day by a
PosT-INTELLIGEScER reporter. Yesterday, in
company with Mr.. Samuel L. Crawford, who is
an old-tims expert Chinook interpreter, the re-
porter called on the old lady.
The cabin or ''shack" is about Sx1o feet in size
with roof OF split cedar shakes" Half of one
of the gable ends has the clapboards put on d.
agonally, with the upright pieces paralleling
one side of the roof. At one corner OF
the house is huge pile of driitwood,
gathered from the ruins of fallen cabins in the
neighborhood, or picked up from the bay near
by. In the front yard are half dozen tin and
wooden buckets rusty and dirty. Two abbreyi-
atsd clothes lines are strung at one end of the
house, and hanging on them are a handful of old
rags, long strangers to soap and water. An old
heap of slaves, representing what was once q
tub, and dozen dilapitated boxes scattered
about the shack, complete the scene. A narrow,
dwarfed door and little dirty pane OF glass
constitute the means of getting light into the
interior of this palace. A horseshoe and
mules shoe are nailed Immediately above the
entrance. The door stands open all the time,
but hanging over the upper half of the aperture
is a curtain. its texture being gunly sack fresh
from some generous ash barrel.
"Karta mika, Angelins?" (How are you, An
geline p said Mr.. Crawford, looking in through
the open doorway. Angelina was lying down.
but she instantly rose to a sitting posture and
answered the salutation. The reporter followed
Mr.. Crawford into the cabin. There was hardly
room for such a crowd the only space in which
the iloor visible being about three feet
square. Two low hunks END a shorter one, COW
cred with remnants OF dirty blankets a rickety
little cook stove, few rude cooking utensils
and wagon load of rags, old shoes, pans,
boxes, etc, were stacked up on the beds. under
the beds and on the floor Across the middle of
the room was stretched a rope, on which hung
other ciothiag, mostly that OF Angeline's grand
son, Joe Foster who lives with her. Cleanliness
was not one of the virtues of the cabin or its
contents. The ceiling, the walls and the door
were covered with scot and cobwebs.
Angelina was very willing 20 talk. and under
the clever cross-examinaton OF Mr.. Crawford,
she told many things that have never been pub
lished.
She said that when DR.. Maynard came she was
a good looking young widow. Her husband WAS
a half skagit, half Cowichsn Indian chief, his
name being Dokub Cud. Kick .i-soYn-l WAS her
name before Mrs. DR.. Maynard re-christensd
her. Angelina had three brothers and two ais
ters aud she also had two daughters-one being
the mother of Joe Foster. All of these relatives
are long since dead. When Angelina was born.
she said, her father Chief Seattle, was about IS
years old. He was great chief, and the Boston
liked aim very mdCA- W Dea her mother
died Mr. Denny aud Mr.. Bell built q coffin for
her There were white men here when she
was girl. Or. Maynard came first, Mr. Bell
and Mr. Denny next She remembered the first
Boston house that had been built, aud she re-
mernbsred the Indian war very we'll She spoke
OF many of the old settlers-Mr. Denny, Mr.
Bell, Charles Terry, Mr. Yesler and Bob and
Tom Russell Bob Russell, she said, was
"kloshe tillieum" good triendl OF hers, and
since he died she had been very poor. The old
settlers had been good 10 her, however. ana had
always given hsr food when she asked for Il
When Mr. Crawford asked Angelina how long
she lived in her present house, she held up her
two hands spreading out her fingers to indicate
ten wears As she did 30 she exposed q broken
wrist the result of fall several years sgo. Pre-
yious to that time she had lived further up the
hin. Never in her lifetime had abe bsen further
nwsy from seattle than olympia The trip that
abe did make was before the Indian war, and its
nurposa was novel one The Indians have q
surerstition that if the name OF a dead Indian 10
nFonouneei sloud he viii turn over in his