, 1892-04-09
A ROYAL FAMILY.
CHIEF SEATTLE AND THE PRINCESS
ANGELINE DESCRIBED.
two Noted Puget sound indians
Held i'm Kindly Fsemem berance
Because of Their Friendship for

ing story in last Sundays San Francisco
Chronicle:
Thirty ty-six years ago Chief Seattle, fol
whom the city of Seattle is named, lived
across the inlet, 50 history tells us, on
Bainbridge Isle, at Point Madison, at the
great lodge known as the cold Man
House, This peculiar nomenclature is
explained by the fact that the Indians give
to all inanimate objects sex. In the Chi
nook jargon there is no way Of expressing
the difference between male and female ex-
cept by using the prefix cold man' or
sold woman" This house being large and
strong was thought to resemble a great
chief, so it was given a name which en-
bodied that idea.
Princess Angeline, daughter Of Chief
Seattle, is still living and may be seen any
fine day hobbling along the street or sit
ting fiat upon the pavement in front of
the market, after the fashion of the Indian
women in this country. She carries about
her none Of the outward signs of nobility
no pomp, no pride, no trace Of power is
hers; the beholder sees but a bent and
wrinkled old woman, with great mass Of
tangled hair wound about with bright
coLored bandana.
She says she thinks she is about so years
of age, and DIR. Maynard can remember
when she was a young and handsome wild
oW. Were it not for her piercing black
eyes, which snap with as much fire as if
she were but 16, one might easily imagine
from her bent frame and parchment-like
face that she had been born with the cen
tury. She is short of stature, broad-should-
cred and walks half-doubled over; her face
is square set in a frame of frowsy black
hair, with few threads of gray iii it. The
Indians so seldom grow gray, and attain SO
great an age before they do, that there is a
saying current among some of the tribes
that "the white man is dead before
the Indian is gray"
This American princess wears a red and
yellow dress, as short of skirt as those worn
by the Boston women on rainy days. This,
with a WoO1en shawl wound closely around
her, constitutes her entire costume She
goes about from market to grocery, getting
all the supplies she needs with never "sou
marquee" to pay, for no one will take old
Angellne's money.
Her husband, who died many years ago,
was a half Skagit, half Cowichin Indian,
chief Of his tribe. His name was "Dokub-
bud" Angeline's name was "Kick--som-
lo," but ever since DR.. Maynard's wife
called her Angeline her Indian name has
been lost sight OF and she is known only
by her Christian appellation.
A flight of rickety stairs leads down from
the street to the door of the old .'shack''
which the daughter Of Chief Seattle calls
home. 1t is a rough cabin, eight by ten
feet, with a roof of split cedar shakes
Over the Intel is nailed horseshoe, and
round about the place lie piles of drift
wood, old buckets, tin cans, broken crock
cry, a mass of debris which is the accumu-
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about SO closely that there is scarcely pass
age room between. Filth and dirt abound
everywhere, and the smell Of rancid fish is
The door is ajar and we enter to find our
selves in one Of the darkest, gloomiest,
most comfortless places imaginable. Two
bunks covered with faded blankets, a
smoky tinWare were all the household
utensils visible. Rags and confusion are
everywhere. There is no window iii the
hut, Light and air being gained by means OF
the door.
Here in this rude cabin, scarcely twice
the size of the grave in which she will rest.
lives Princess Angeline, with her grandson,
Joe Foster, a dissolute halfbreed, son Of
her daughter Betsy, who committed
suicide. Her wants are few, and these sup
piled mainly by the old residents, who re-
member her services to the whites in the
early days, when she rode through the
wild forest one night to warn the little set
tlement against an impending attack of
the Indians.
She understands English quite well and
can speak it a little if she chooses, but she
likes best to talk with those who speak
which sounds more like series
of spits and splutters than articulate
sounds. She looked pleased and laughed
broadly when she recognized photograph
Of herself, and said, regardless of grammar,
"that's me-" There have been several at
tempts to inveigle old Angeline away from
her home, but to no purpose. She refused
to go around the world with George Fran
els Train, as a counter advertisement for
Seattle, when he was booming Tacoma
saying her father would turn over in his
grave if she ran off with crazy man.
turning over in their graves is
the worst thing that can happen to Indians
after death.
Proprietors of dime museums have
offered her considerable sums to travel
with them, but she invariably refuses to
leave her home, saying she wishes to live
and die in Seattle and be buried among her
'tillicums," (friends) whom she has known
all her life. She enjoys visitors and being
shown off as one Of the lions of the city.
With any one who can speak her language,
she will talk for hours, repeating thrilling
stories of early days and various incidents
of her own life, with dramatic force and
fervor.
That the citizens of the city of Seattle
hold her and her father in sentimental re-
gard is shown in many ways. Their souve-
mir spoons have bust the old chiefon the
end of the ladle. Within the bowl, which
is clam she'll, is engraved the face Of his
daughter. Over the main entrance of one
of the largest and handsomest business
blocks in the city are two pedestaIs, upon
which will be placed when the building is
completed the craven images Of Chief Seat
Tile and the Princess Angeline,
Chief Seattle was at the head of tribe
which numbered from 500 to 700. His posi-
ton was owing to the fact that his father
was prominent brave of the Suquamish
tribe, while his mother belonged to the
Duwamish. This gave him great influence
in both tribes and made him a prominent
factor among the early settlers. He was
very kindly disposed toward the men who
had braved the dangers of an unknown
land and sea to find homes on tile shoes Of
Puget Sound, and his influence was invari-
ably used in their favor when there was
any trouble between them ana the Indians.
He shielded and protected them in many
a danger, and for this he and his daughter,
Princess Angeliene, who is still living in
Seattle, have been held always in great
esteem by the old settler.
He travelled up and down the Sound a
great deal, making his headquarters at the
''Old Man House," but staying often at
Olympia, 1t was here that he met DR..
Maynard, one of the first settlers, and
made him present of his granddaughter
Betsy. A few years later she married a
dlssolute white man, who ill-treated her
and finally deserted her and her child
Not long after the settlement of Seattle she
committed suicide by hanging.
Seattle had TWO sons. handsome fine