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spent.
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AGED SQUAW REVEALS HER EXPERIENCES TO A
JUNEAU EDITOR; AVERTS STRANGE MASSACRE
(Stroller’s \Veekly.)
Mary Thlautich,* the Indian wo
man who prevented wholesale mas
sacre of the white residents of Sitka
in the year 1879 when her cousin,
Chief Katlean, was out for revenge
for the loss of five Indians drowned
from the fishing schooner San Dieyo
and who has spent the past three
weeks in Juneau, left for Sitka with
a party of Indians in a small boat
Thursday morning. Much of the
three weeks Mary spent in Juneau
was with the family of Rev. Father
Kashevaroff, having, as she says,
| known Mrs. Kashevaroff since she
was ‘‘one leetle girl.’’ Accompanied
by Mrs. Kashevaroff she paid a visit
to the editor of the Stroller’s Week
ly at his office Wednesday evening
when the following interesting story
of her life was obtained. Inciden
tally, Mary speaks English fairly
well, but when she failed to under
stand questions propounded Mrs.
Kashevaroff would come to the res
cue in the Thlinget language, which
made it easy both for the interviewrer
and the interviewed.
Becomes Chief’s Bride.
Mary Thlanticli was the daughter
of a Thlinget chief and was born at
Hoonah about 75 years ago. Mary
is not certain as to her exact age.
When she reached young womanhood
—she thinks she was 15 or 16 years
of age—she was given in marriage
to the young chief of a tribe of In
dians living at Fort Simpson, Brit
ish Columbia, the bridal trip being
made from Hoonah in a canoe. Short
ly thereafter the young couple went
to Seattle to purchase a sloop, the
trip being made in a canoe in which
paddled instead of oars were used.
Mary thinks it was 58 or 60 years
ago that they visited Seattle, which
she says was “just little village, only
few houses.”
The young King George chief and
his bride returned to the North. The
following year was a sad one for
Mary, who lost the only child she
ever had and also lost her chief hus
band, the latter being drowned
from his sloop. Mary then returned
to her own tribe and shortly there
after the seat of the Thlinget gov
ernment was moved from Hoonali to
Sitka, where it has ever since re
mained.
No. 3 Joins No. 1.
Shortly after going to Sitka Mary j
married a white man, an ex-soldier i
by the name of Michael Travers.
Michael was not long spared to en
joy marital bliss and he passed away ,
within a few years. Mary, in due
time, married again and a white man
by the name of Jennings. But again
the cruel waters robbed her of her
own, Jennings being drowned as was
her first husband, the chief of the
Port Simpsons.
But Time is a wonderful healer
of shattered hearts and when an- j
other white man won and wooed ;
Mary the memory of her previous I
husbands became sacred reminis- j
censes to be reviewed in her heart
alone and she yielded to the blan
dishments of No. 4 and again be
came the wife of a white man. But
the grim reaper was still on the job
and within a few years Mary was a
widow once more, two of her hus
bands having been drowned and
their bodies claimed by the sea and
two of them buried at Sitka where
their relic could visit their graves
and drop silent tears thereon when
overcome with emotion.
Returns to Her Own.
But being four ties a widow had
evidently not robbed Mary of her at
tractiveness, for she was again
sought in marriage—not by a white
man but by no less a personage than
Chief Thlantieh of the Thlinget
tribe—and for the fifth time she
was led to the altar. For many |
years she presided over the home of l
her chief and as first U dy of the |
small but select realm she reigned i
with becoming dignity and with an!
eye single to the welfare of the
white populat ion which she had ever '
befriended. But there came a day
when the relentless angel of death
stalked abroad and touched Chief
Thlantieh with his dart. Sadness
spread her mantle over Government
House of the Thlingets and. Mary
■was once more a widow and as such
she has remained and probably will
as she gently but firmly denies that
she contemplates any further mat
rimonial venture.
When Mary’s Friendship Counted
It was while Mary was the wife of
Michael Travers and when Chief
Katlean presided over the destinies
of the Thlingets that Mary averted
what would have probably wiped out
the white inhabitants of Sitka. Five
Indians had lost their lives, which
disaster, while the whites were in
no way responsible for it, was
charged up to them by Katlean and
in his narrow-gauge mind only
white blood would atone tor the loss.
A final tribal council was in prog
ress and the hour was fixed for the
massacre to begin. The last war
ship had been withdrawn from Sitka
some months before and the illy
| advised Katlean and his warriors
were confident that they had things
all their own way when a woman
appeared in their midst. This was
something never before heard of,
for women were taboo in the council
house where only men were fit to
sit or even be seen. Eut Mary was
there and she made her presence
known in a speech that caused the
dusky countenances of the others
present to blanche with fear. Mary
told them what would happen if they
killed the whites; she pointed out
where Uncle Sam’s soldiers were as
the sands of seashore in the matter
of numbers; that Uncle Sam had
canoes and that, in the event his
people were slain, those soldiers and
those warships would disappear sud
denly and soon and that every In
dian who participated in the slaugh
ter would be lined up and shot.
The picture Mary presented was
a rather lurid one but it had the ef
fect she intended. Katlean and his
braves sullenly heeded the advice of
the little squaw- and the intended
massacre never occurred.
A debt Unpaid.
The foregoing is a brief history
of Mary Thlanticli, an aged and
somewhat stooped squaw, who left
Juneau recently for her home in Sit
ka, w-here she supports herself by
making and selling moccasins. She
has a rather pleasant face and a
bright, twinkling eye. She had not,
previous to three weeks ago, ever
been in Juneau, with which she w-as
very much pleased. She arrived in
time to visit the late fair and to her
it was the biggest thing ever seen.
She hopes to return for a visit next
summer.
No public recognition of Mary
Thlantich has ever been made and
none w-ould imagine on seeing her
that more than 100 w-hite human
lives and double that number of In
dian lives had been saved by her
timely and fearless intervention 45
years ago.
Uncle Sam and common humanity
owe Mary Thlantich a debt that has
never even been recognized and prob
ably never w-ill be. In the mean
time the humble little old Indian
woman strains her failing eyes while
with her gnarled hands she manu
factures moccasins, from the sale of
which she ekes out a mere existence.
ALL WHO DRINK
ARE NOT DRUNK
SPRINGFIELD, N. S„ Philip Lan
dry, jailed for drunkenness, com
plained that snakes were bothering
him during the night, and said he
had killed one. The police told
him that if he would sober up the
snakes would disappear, but he in
sisted on a search. The officers
hunted and found twelve large rep
tiles under the wooden floor.
One of the latest wonders of sci
ence is the man-made reproduction
of minerals.
The tomato comes under all three
classes of vitamine bearing foods.
Snow occurred in midsummer in
1924 in Italian provinces.
The costliest fruit in the world is
the ethrog, or sacred Jewish citron.
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occupying the new mission which is
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