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

grave. When Chief Seattle learned that this
city wss to be named for him he was very much
oIspieased aud demonstrated with the whites.
He said that when he died he would have no
rest, for he would be turning over all the time.
His Pieadings to have the name Of the city
changed were in vain. As last resort he
picked mp his family and went to olympia TO in
tercede with Governor stevens 20 have the name
changed. That trip Angsline remembered dis
tnetly and related in Chinook TO Mr.. Crawford,
who Immediately translated the story into Eng
iish. Angeline also said that she knew Chief
Leschi, the leader of the hostile Indians who
came across Lake Washington to attack the city,
and she saw him when he was afterwards ar
rested and shot.
Angelina was wonderfully pleased when she
recoilecied and recounted an incident that hap
pened twelve or ffteenyears ago. Van Whykof
was then mischievous small boy, and he did
not stand in very great awe of the. princess
Every time he met her on the street, he would
''pooh" in her face. Queen Angelina did not
like that at all, and she finally complained to
Vans mother. The mother chidei her son, but
1t did no good. The next time Angeline met the
boy il was the same story. day or two after
the last ofiense, she met Van in Meydenbeurs
store, on Commercial street. He ran behind the
counter TO escape the ira;e princess, and with
moekinz laugh he poked his head out and once
more repeated the obnoxious word. Angelina
came up she hurled big potato at him, striking
her enemy full in the eye. The eye swelled up
and Van was very sorry-looking young man
for week or two, but mis- spirit was irrepressi-
BILE and be continued to worry Angelina Then
Angelina went to Vans father, who was for
more than twenty years sheriff of King county,
and told her story. The father secured big
switch and, calling his son, administered to him
q sound thrashing AngeliRe laughed heartily
the sqeua me mn again in her memory The
boy never troubled her after that she said, but
since arriving az mans estate he has always
treated her with the utmost kindness
In answer 70 an inquiry as to where she
wanted to be buried when she died, Angelina
expressed u decided preference for Seattle. she
said abe had always lived here and she wanted
70 De buried among her "tillicums' whom she
had known nearly all her life.
While the interview had been going on, Joe
Foster, Angelins's grandson, had come in and
thrown himself upon one OF the rude couches.
He can talk Engliih very well, and Indian and
Chinook excslleutly. His father, Joe Foster,
was white man. and he married Angeline's
daughter, afterwards treating her numerically
aud making her life 30 miserable that she COM
United suicide by hanging herself The son is
worthless sort OF fellow, but appears to be good
TO Angelina, his grandmother
AFTER my mother hung herself" he said I'M
concernedly "ny father wanted me to 90 with
him, but wouldn't do it He was q bad man,
SO told him he must give my grandmother
$1,000 before would go with him. He's dead
and buried now"
Though the few remaining members of Ange-
lines tribes. the Squamish and the Duwamish,
do not look up to her with any particular rever-
ence, the people of Seattle regard her with very
charitable feelings, aud Angelina never goes
hungry when she is able to be about the streets.
Her photograph has been taken many times, but
t11.x. H.
the best likeness OF the old woman ever seen in
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