The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1896-07-25
SEATTLE YEARS AGO
SHE ATE BREAKFAST IN YEsLER,s
LOG CABIN.
Carried the War News From the
Reservation to Seattle in the
Winter of 1854.

See those teeth? Well, sir, just 26 years
ago the doctor pulled out some of my sec
ond set, and now / am getting a third set.
The truth is that sometimes l look in
the glass and then laugh at myself for
living as long as do"
That was one of the remarks which
Mrs. Maynard made to a Seattle Times
reporter who had a few minutes CONVEX
sation with her at her home in that .ity.
Mrs. Maynard is now so years of age or
rather, viii be in few days Ye like
the pioneer that she Is, she gets around
with as much ease as the average person
As she says, she is getting a third set of
teeth, and her hair is coming in again
She enjoys comparatively good health
and to hear her talk you wouldn't think
that she is as old as she is once during
the conversation she was asked to repeat
| something. She looked at the reporter
and said:
Are you deaf, or amt 1 talking loud
enough"
Mother Maynard came across the plains
from one of the middle western states in
1850. She originally came from kentucky
/ Her first husband died on the plains, and
IN 1888 Mrs. Maynard married the doctor
at Olympia. The marriage took place
While the doctor was route for home
from the convention, which concluded to
make the territory of Washington out of
| a part of Oregon. DR.. Maynard was a
| delegate to that convention which was
held in the fail of 1859. 1t was Dr. May
nard who gave Seattle it's name. For Is
years DR. and Mrs. Maynard conducted
private hospital at Seattle and the pa
tents always called Mother Maynard
! their angel.
81 could handle them better than the
! doctor" said Mrs Maynard. My hand
was steadier, but then you can't ind
! many old people today whose hands are
as steady as NINE.
Mrs. Maynard never liked Henry L. Yes
| Ter well, but she liked his partner, Stro-
J bel, who afterwards sold out to Yesler
and went back to Ohio, where he died
! Strobel cooked the first breakfast hat
/ Mrs. Maynard ever ate in Seattle. That
meal was eaten in Yesler's log house.
| Mrs. Maynard's brother was Colonel Sim
mons, who crossed the plains In 1874
| when | told Charles Prosch that the
other day he laughed and said he never
knew that" said Mrs Maynard.
| 81 have had a good many experiences
on Puget sound, a good many more than
the people know of. And 1 am going to
tell you something that some told mo
the other day. They said that Angelina
was not a friend of the whites, and then,
too, they say that she was not old after
all. Now, / knew Angelina and / knew
her well. Why, 1 taught Angelina to
wash. Now, when / came across the
plains in 1850 and settled in this country
| Angelina was then between AS and 80
call old woman. considering that she
was an Indian. She had a couple of
daughters, too. So that would make her
at the time of her death more than 50
years Of age any way Now, let me tell
you where they are wrong when they say
she was not our friend 1t was in the
winter of 1854 that the Indians We're Civ
ing us a great deal of trouble, and it was
then that the Decatur was in the harbor
Dr. Maynard was then on the Indian res
ervation in Kitsap county. You couldn't
get a white man to stay with him, so
made up my mind that / would go with
him. 1t was while there that 1 commence
ed to carry what known the eX-
press. In other words, l brought the war
news from the reservation to Seattle. A
white man could not have done it. They
would have killed him. 1 had to be care
full myself. Tell you how it was done?
old Bill 1 don't know his other name
who died some time ago, great
friend of the white men, and he used to
go out to Vashon and over to West Sc
attic fishing. There he would meet some
of the Indians and they would tell him
their plans. Immediately he would dis
patch a friend to where / was and L
would bring the news to Seattle. One
day | learned through Old Bill that the
Indians We're prepared to make an attack
on Seattle the following day.
Il waited until darkness, and then, with
a half dozen squaws, l took a canoe and
started for Seattle. l was placed in the
bottom of the canoe and covered UP so
that the Indians could not see me. On
that first trip Angelina, whom they talk
so much about, came with me and helped
to bring the canoe to Seattle Off Sandy
point the Indians, who were on the look
out for what they considered spies, saw
our canoe. They stopped it and asked the
squaws what they We're doing. The
squaws said that they were coming to Sc
attic with some clans. All the time
was in the bottom of the canoe, but the
Indians never suspected it. We reached
Seattle long before daylight, and delivered
our news. When we reached the Decatur
they wanted to help me aboard. l told
them l could take care of myself, and SO
/ could 1 fastened back to the reserva-
ton before it was daylight, in order that
/ the Indians would not know that I was
gone.
1.-The Indians had intended to make
! their attack all right, but Curley, the
treacherous devil--excuse me, but that's
: just about what he was-learned that TIE
} white folks knew of the coming attack
and were prepared to slaughter the red
: skins. So he let the Indians know of 4
= and the attack was postponed for about
> two days. He was working for Yeslel
= then. Then they got ready for it, ano
Old Bill, having learned the news, let us
= know of it. Again came over in a canoe
-, handled by squaws and notified our peo
= pie. Governor Stevens did not think TIE
S attack was going to be made, and started
:. | off on a business trip. He had not beer
on the water long when the reds showed
up. They came around by way of LAX
a Washington. Then the fight came off
f You have read about it. 1t was at tina
It time that Judge Hanford's young brothe