Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, February 21, 2018
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The Plaques of E Clampus Vitus: by Sublime Grand Noble Bill Wensrich
The second in a
continuing series of articles
prepared by Bill Wensrich.
“If you ain’t plaque’n,
then you ain’t Clampin’”
Under the guidance
of Carroll Pepperdine, the
Chapter’s third Humbug
(Club President), Montague
was selected to plaque. First
erected in 1975, this second
Humbug Chapter plaque is
located in City Park along
11th Street between King and
Webb Streets. Wording on
the plaque’s first rendition
was later discovered to be in
error. Seeking to correct the
historical record, Pepperdine
drummed up support to
re-plaque the site. The new
monument dedicated in
1993 was placed in a four
inch concrete layer right on
top of the old plaque which
now serves as sort of a time
capsule. The exact wording
for the first City of Montague
plaque can be found at the
bottom of this article.
The Yreka gold rush
brought enough people
to the area enabling the
establishment of Siskiyou
County in 1852. The famous
Deadwood/Yreka county
seat election resulted in
Yreka becoming county seat
and later principle hub of
commerce for Shasta Valley.
By the early 1870s,
Southern Pacific Company,
part of the Central Pacific,
began building their leg of
the Oregon and California
Railroad through the
Sacramento Valley where it
would eventually connect just
south of Ashland, Oregon.
Samuel Skerry Montague,
Central Pacific’s chief
engineer, planned to bring the
railroad to Yreka guaranteeing
its continued prosperity. He
died in 1883 and the Southern
Pacific subsidiary resurveyed
Shasta Valley looking for a
lower cost route. Citizens
of Yreka were stunned when
Central Pacific Railroad
announced their decision to
continue the rail line north
and go through what would
become the City of Montague.
With the completion of
the Oregon and California
Railroad in 1887, Montague
became the center of
commerce for Shasta Valley.
Not to be outdone, Yreka
quickly built their own short
line to the Montague hub.
That railroad became known
as the Yreka Western.Fares of
four bits for a one-way trip to
Montague and 75¢ for a round
trip were the going rate at the
time.
The plaque can be
viewed in Downtown
Montague. While there, visit
Montague Railroad Depot
Museum located at 230 – 11th
Street.
Today in History: by The Associated Press
Today is Wednesday, Feb. 21,
the 52nd day of 2018. There are 313
days left in the year.
Today’s Highlight in History:
On Feb. 21, 1965, black
Muslim leader and civil rights
activist Malcolm X, 39, was shot
to death inside Harlem’s Audubon
Ballroom in New York by assassins
identified as members of the Nation
of Islam. (Three men were convicted
of murder and imprisoned; all were
eventually paroled.)
On this date:
In 1437, James I, King of
Scots, 42, was assassinated in Perth
by a group of conspirators led by
Walter, Earl of Atholl; his 6-year-old
son succeeded him as James II.
In 1513, Pope Julius II, who
commissioned Michelangelo to paint
the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel,
died nearly four months after the
project was completed.
In 1613, Mikhail Romanov,
16, was unanimously chosen by
Russia’s national assembly to be
czar, beginning a dynasty that would
last three centuries.
In 1885, the Washington
Monument was dedicated.
In 1916, the World War I
Battle of Verdun began in France as
German forces attacked; the French
were able to prevail after 10 months
of fighting.
In 1945, during the World War
II Battle of Iwo Jima, the escort
carrier USS Bismarck Sea was sunk
by kamikazes with the loss of 318
men.
In 1947, inventor Edwin H.
Land publicly demonstrated his
Polaroid Land camera, which used
self-developing film to produce a
black & white photograph in 60
seconds.
In 1958, the USS Gudgeon
(SS-567) became the first American
submarine to complete a round-the-
world cruise, eight months after
departing from Pearl Harbor in
Hawaii.
In 1972, President Richard
M. Nixon began his historic visit to
China as he and his wife, Pat, arrived
in Beijing.
In 1975, former Attorney
General John N. Mitchell and
former White House aides H.R.
Haldeman and John D. Ehrlichman
were sentenced to 2 1/2 to 8 years in
prison for their roles in the Watergate
cover-up (each ended up serving a
year and a-half).
In 1986, Larry Wu-tai Chin,
the first American found guilty of
spying for China, killed himself in
his Virginia jail cell.
In 1992, Kristi Yamaguchi
(yah-mah-GOO’-chee) of the United
States won the gold medal in ladies’
figure skating at the Albertville
Olympics; Midori Ito (mee-doh-
ree ee-toh) of Japan won the silver,
Nancy Kerrigan of the U.S., the
bronze.
Serb rioters broke into the U.S.
Embassy in Belgrade and set fire
to an office during protests against
Western support for an independent
Kosovo. President George W. Bush
concluded his six-day African tour
in Liberia, where he offered help to
lift the country from years of ruinous
fighting. A Venezuelan plane crashed
in the Andes, killing all 46 on board.
Author Robin Moore, who wrote
“The French Connection” and “The
Green Berets,” died in Hopkinsville,
Kentucky, at age 82. Former Arizona
Gov. Evan Mecham (MEE’-kuhm),
who was removed in a 1988
impeachment trial, died in Phoenix
at age 83.
One year ago:
President Donald Trump
condemned recent threats against
Jewish community centers in the
U.S. as “painful reminders” of
lingering prejudice and evil; the
president also denounced “bigotry,
intolerance and hatred in all of its
very ugly forms” during his first
visit to the new Smithsonian black
history museum. Conservative writer
Milo Yiannopoulos (MY’-loh yuh-
NAH’-poh-lihs) resigned as an editor
for Breitbart News, apologizing for
comments he’d made in video clips
in which he appeared to defend
sexual relationships between men
and boys as young as 13.
Thought for Today:
Five years ago:
Drew Peterson, the Chicago-
area police officer who gained
notoriety after his much-younger
fourth wife, Stacy Peterson, vanished
in 2007, was sentenced to 38 years in
prison for murdering his third wife,
“In scandal, as in robbery,
the receiver is always as bad as the
thief.” — Lord Chesterfield, English
author and statesman (1694-1773).
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