Show riCET SOUND IMimS JIOW SEATTLES CUNNING SAVED TOtEM HIOM UnSTllUCTlON The last man bearing the name of SeatUedlcd a few days ago at the Old Man Jloun near Tort Madison I Madi-son John Seattle was the hut of old Seattles tons Angellne the old chief daughter being now the only surviving child It has not been generally known how Seattle became a cbkf S F Coombs laY that while raIIng on oM Seattle ut the Old Man Houio ho learned the following regarding that old gen tlemans early history and why he had been a chief It MAms long before any white people had settled In rot Sound and about the time the Hudson Day Oompauy were establishing their iwsta in the Northwest the Indians living 1 1 on the I Upper Iitn River and tho mountain Indians had lauded together to make a fight on the Iugit Sounil tribes or those known as Ohio Old Man house tribe Word Kached them that a force of those mountain Indians were about to start In canoes from Upper Green nud White rivers In ouch numbers i and so will armed that if I they reached Dunamhh uow Elliot liay the Old Man House trite would U wiped out A council of the old anti WIeCOUl srthretI aDd Seattle then a onng man not over ttI volunteered vol-unteered antI devised a plan to krt81Oe h hfr naa check the enemy in reaching Kilt water AH of the rude inttrumeuts in the shape of axes were called for They lift Elliot Bay l > y canots and i by trail Seattle heading the expedition expedi-tion A hort distance above the mouth of lllack River on White Illvir the Illuffr came m close together that fir trees chopped down on one toldll would reach the brink on Hit opposite side It was at till point that Seattle commenced felling trees Uy dark thirso trees were ktntchcd across the river and to arranged ar-ranged that a canoe could not go under without first upsetting Seattle had his men ambu hedon chIller Me with their rude implements imple-ments of warfare mostly bows nUll i arrow Seattle did not have to I wait long after dark before the mountain Indians canto paddling I down and before hose behind could know whft was the matter In front bus five or six Urge valleys wIth I over 103 warriors were struggling In tho water and many who reached the shore were soon dispatched by Seattles Fiathcad Tho remaining canoes that so ere checked before get ling under the obstruction were turned back and the plot to clean out tho Iugct Sound clameaters was frustrated and young Seattle was declared chief of tho Old Man Houte tiilio which then corapriM l nil the Indians between AIU Point and above Skagit Head on Puget Sound Old man Seattle never learned the Chinook jargon Always when giving white people Information he had an interpreter Old Seattle must have been past ninety at his death Mr Coombs rays that when lie arrIved it Port Madison over thirty years ago tho big logs and posts thcj rested ou at the Old Man lloum were a great wonder to nil Thnlogs reaching acres from QUO post to another mu t have been 100 fee lour and many of them three feet at the Hilt I and about one and n half to two feet at the smillrrcud These logo no doubt were placed in position ttllh trJf r ftil i without the aid of any gear purchase pur-chase or machinery Old man Seattle Se-attle could not inform us as to when they were first erccled I He said the new cedar pest went replaced In tho ground from time to time as the old ono became decayed StalUc ffctf |