The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-02-11

ere sssis ID AZ I O'Clock the Cedar
x'sa bssck Rivers changed dealers and Dr.
sak vas replaced By William Roxers
Aneess readsIy eomprehenas4 the re-
sposs;aaity imposed upon him. and sakins
: second wind started sn vita renewed
Neor The change MAS = wise one. for at
O'Clock last evea1nx Rogers had xors
eaek % points bed By the other side and
~ tire game stood II vas tie. Thus.
aiser ID hcufs. neither side had point to
It's credit 4 short consultation vas held
ana the game declared . draw. The
.eary Indians did nos gai. their seats,
cat doubaed rp. and in fifteen minutes the
horse o. the tom-som and chant vas re-
paced By the sound Of deep snoring
Among the Back river tribe at the
sahz-ga'nhies we're the following we'll
Known worthless: Dan James and his boys
Ssin and Dave and his daughters Louise
ana Matte, jake Foster. George Washing
.ons Daniel WEBSTER. Jim Moses and Jim
prscoll Those Of the Cedar river: DR..
JACK. William Rogers and his son Pete.
enaef William. D.. Bill. Ben Solomon and
mas boy Dave. Frank Allyn. Charley Moses.
fsci Williams. Henry Tom, George Yuk,
jerry ksnm, Thomas Josh, Kuitus job my
ana Green River Jimmy On the PuyaIlup
s'ce we're Nuke sesaiiis. George Nez aiiup,
John Wallace. Johnny McKemm. Johnny
wrinkles and Boston Charley. Il will be
noticed THAI some Of the names are En-
giish. but Englisk IL only adopted by the
Indians when 1t IL found that the rntn-
toreu psieface cant twist his foreign
sonsue around the native names
During the progress Of the game on Mon
DAY the squaw OF Jimmy Moses, q ponder
Gus Indian woman. was suddenly taken
III. With symptoms Of insanity The game
Was not stopped even for . moment. but
Ut. Blu was summoned and he immedi-
afeiy began preparations to drive away the
evh spirit OF which the woman was sup
posed to be possessed. Mrs. Moses was
nrss seated in front OF one of the fires near
the entrance TO the main tepee and DIR.
Bai then ran his hands over the squaw's
face and shoulders, manipulating and
estimating n much the same manner as =
magician when he essays 10 place sub
jeet under hypnotic spell. In fact.
the old doctor, notwithstanding his
wise gEimaces and solemn blinkines, gave
evidences Of having at some time witnessed
an exhibition OF mesmerism. While the
doctor was subduing the evil spirit In the
woman the wives Of old DIR. Jack filed an
empty whitehead key full Of water and
placed II beside the afflicted woman. Then
stone a. large as . persons hand was
placed in the fire. Now the fun began in
earnest. The woman's friends joined the
doctor in weird dance around the fire,
all singing in low. weird tone:
"Si-si Tomomaliess
ssi-si Tomomaiies!
'sSi-si vel.
TomomaIis is supposed to be the imp Of
sickness who takes possession Of good and
bad Indians alike, and rends and tears
them and causes them pain. BY making q
hideous noise and calling ont .Tomom-
allies, the spiri. is frightened and seeks to
hide itself Having fondness for cold
water, IL win generally leave the person
whom IL has possessed and 60 to the
water. Thus IL was that . kcg OF water
was placed by the side of Mrs Moses.
Finally tho squaw became quite placid.
and then with a war-whoop DIR. Bill
rolled the stone. now red hot. from the
FIRE and dumped it into the keg of water.
The women danced liyelier and yelled
louder than ever, while the doctor repeat
eddy soused his hands and arms in the
!. boiling water up to his elbows The hot
rock was put into the water for the pur-
pose Of torturing Tomomalies. The doc
tor did not hope 70 kill the spirit. for that
Is impossible, but no wanted to give 1t
such warm reception that Ii will not
modest tho tribe In the future. There was
time, in the long, long ago. when a
doctor. who failed to save . patient. snf-
fered the death penalty. II became the
duty of the nearest male relative of the
deceased TO cnt the doctors throat, and IL
the relative neglected TO carry out the Gus
tom and commit the bloody deed. he was
liable TO punishment himself This Gus
tom served TO make the profession a dan
gerous one. and consequently there were
few doctors, but now every tribe has
several doctors, who practice the art of
healing with Indifferent success.
few hours after Tomomalies had been
boiled Mrs. Moses was herself again and
occupied o back seat. indifferent to the
chant of those engaged In the sing
gamble" She was busy with an old pair
of carders, carding a bunch of yellow
wool. An American, who had a limited
knowledge of Chinook and who was Curl
Gus to know what the old lady was about,
asked her:
: ''fcta mika mamockf"
"Sika mamock wool kapo sock. ("
promptly replied the squaw. siFnifying
that she was carding the wool preparatory
to weaving il into socks.
But the game still went on. The savage
song of the siwashes and monotonous
sound of the tom-tom continued to dis
turh the repose Of the residents of Renton
and make the advance of night thing TO
be dreaded. IL Is interesting to note that
this is only the second gal played within
the last sixty years that ended in a draw
At game between the Black and Cedar
river tribes, the date Of which is not
known. the Indians played for tour days
and five nights. at the expiration Of which
time they were completely exhausted and
the game was declared q draw.
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