THE SUNDAY OBEGONIAK, PORTLAND, MARCH IS, 1901.
59
M'LOUGHLIN AND OLD CREGON
Return of Jason Lee and the Brigade From Fraser River, From Mrs Eva Emery Dye's Chronicle.
XVI.
Return of Jason -Lee.
1S40.
THE5 grizzlies -wera Tvaklns up from
their Winter naps and the drumming
of the partridge in the -woods gave
token of- returning- Spring. A thousand
crystal streams leaped from the glaciers
of Mount Hood, in March Bruce -was-out
"With a scythe, laying low the thick swaths
of grass. On every hillside the scarlet
currant Invited the gay little Nootka, humming-bird
to sip Its hidden sweets. In
March, too, Chief Factor Douglas and
lanlayson, and Chief Trader Rae and
Eloise. embarked, along with 50 Canadian
assistants, to man the new forts on the
Russian strip.
Often had Elolse e.cen the fur ships come
and go, often had she watched the bri
gades, dimly remembering the time when,
as a little child, she came down the Col
umbia; tout today, for the first time, she
was really bent on a Journey. Dr. Mc
laughlin held his daughter's hand, while
tears ran flown his cheeks. Her mother
eat walling on the shore.
Dr. McLoughlln turned to Rae. "My
son, to you I Intrust my child. Never be
tray that trust." Then the disciplinarian
came uppermost. "You are going to a
dangerous post, "William. "With Indians,
firmness and management can do every
thing. Avoid offence. Soothe Irritation.
Deal honestly. Be kind, be patient, be
( -ust, but remember Napoleon's motto, 'Be
master.' In a subject country always ex
pect an attack. Look for it. Prepare
lor it. Crush it. Trust nothing to chance."
In these few words Dr. McLoughlln out
lined his own life policy with the Indian.
David lingered at his sister's side, but
to Elolse, today, more than father or
mother or brother was the tall young
.Scot whose fortune henceforth was hers.
The bargue spread her wings, and with
fluttering farewells sped like a seagull out
K)f sight.
During the Winter there had been great
excitement at old Waecopam, by. the
Dalles. Daniel Lee had preached to the
.fishing Indians until a thousand fell on
their knees to Christ. Now, In early
Spring, Daniel Lee followed down along
the Columbia to the sea, preaching as he
went. Ho reached a Chinook village.
Naked little pot-bellied, bow-legged Chl
nook children, with wedge-shaped heads
end goggle-eyes, were rolling In the sand.
No white man ever looked upon the queer
little Chinook children without a shudder
there was something so elfish, so imp
ish, so almost inhuman In the distorted
little faces. As soon as a baby was born
'It was swaddled In moss, its poor little
forehead was pressed down with cedar
bark and tightly corded to a board. The
child cried all the time presently it
stopped; sensibility seemed deadened. The
ewelled cheeks and bulging black eyes re
minded one of a mouse choked In a trap.
The pitiful little attempts to smile under
the frightful pressure resulted In grim
aces, funnier than Palmer Cox's funniest
brownies; but to the end of life, all sub
jected to this cruel practice had the most
Aristocratic and flattest of heads.
"Great canoe! Great canoe!" cried the
Indians. The Chinook chief, his copper
Wghness Chenamus, rose from his rush
mat at the door of his cedar house and
looked out. Sure enough, a ship was
crossing the bar. He wrapped his ratskln
toga around him, put on a conical bear
jprafis hat, slipped a scalplng-knlfo Into his
-sheath, and called his runners. They
launchd the royal canoe that lifted her
prow like the beak of a Roman galley,
and Daniel Lee, Chenamus and his two
equaws were oft. With a monotonous
"Ho-ha-ho-ha-ho-ha," to keep time, the
Indian crew sent tho cedar barque like a
wherry through tho water.
Safely tho mate In the masthead cried
his orders, safely the sailor hanging far
over sounded the misty breakers, safely
the good ship crossed the bar. The little
canoe touched her side, then all clam
bered up, just as tho Indian had clambered
Into the Boston ship of discovery 48 years
before (1792). Pressing his nephew to his
bosom, the ever-directing, guiding, ener
getic Jason Lee lingered but a moment,
then chartering the crew and canoe of
Sine Chenamus, set out for tho mission,
to make arranirements for the reception
of his unexpectedly large reinforcements.
All that time Dr. McLoughlln was toling
abroad for the aggrandizement of England
on tho Pacific, Jason Lee, the missionary,
was lecturing In the States. He woke up
Congress, suggested that a mile square of
land be offered to immigrants. He stirred
the entire country. Through him Caleb
Cushing, of Newburyport, conceived the
Idea of trading In the Columbia. In re
sponse to his call for men and money, the
Methodist Board granted $40,000. and a
mission colony of 53 persons, ministers,
mechanics, farmers, and teachers, sailed
out on that ship. Lausanne, from New
Tork harbor. At Honolulu. Jason Leo ar
ranged a treaty of commerce with the
King of tho Sandwich Islands.
Fifty miles an Indian runner sped to
Fort "Vancouver. Back came McLough
lln' s compliments in the schooner Cad
boro bringing milk and vegetables, a bag
of fresh bread and a tub of Sauvle's fresh
churned butter. The Lausanne anchored
at Vancouver with the largest company of
missionaries that had ever left an Ameri
can port Dr. McLoughlln came on board
his momentary surprise at their numbers
passed, as "with the courtesy for which ho
was famous ho invited them all to the
hospitalities of the fort.
"Pest take it all!" grumbled tho clerks.
"The Governor goes too far when he turns
us out of our comfortable bunks to make
room for these Americans."
The same day four ragged boys came
down the Columbia In a canoe. "Well!
well! well!" ejaculated Dr. McLoughlln,
unprepared for this second accession.
"And where do you come from?"
"From tho States, across the plains,"
answered the boys.
"At this time of year? And where did
you Winter, pray?"
"Among tho Indians."
"They are certainly runaways," said the
missionaries.
"No," said the boys, "wo heard Jason
Lee's first lecture when ho reached the
States, and we resolved to meet him here
and grow up with tho country."
With very round eyes the benpvnlpnt
doctor sent them to the dairy to get some
bread and milk.
"It won't be long before others will fol
low in their footsteps." said Joslah Par
rlsh, the mission blacksmith.
"Tut. tut, tut!" laughed the doctor, wav
ing his arm with a grandiloquent air.' "For
all coming time we and our children will
have uninterrupted possession of this
country."
"Before we die wo shall see Yankees
coming across -the mountains with their
teams and families," Insisted the mis
sionary. "As well might they undertake to go to
the moon," laughed Dr. McLoughlln, In
bis genial way, feeling that he had tho
best of tho argument.
XVIL
The Brigade From Fraser's River.
1S40.
JASON LED sped up the Willamette.. AH
night he rowed, watching the fires of
wigwams on the shore where naked sav
ages passed between , him and the light.
"So bo faster nor Dogtor Magloglin,",
Bald the Canadians, as . he . galloped
through Champoeg. The children were at.
plajr, tho dogs slept in the sun. He heard
as of old the crowing cocks and the coo-,
ins pigeons In tho barn lofts; again ho
vaded knee-deep in flowers, again the
larks flew -up and sang. He arrived at" the'
mission unannounced, opened the door of
his own room, and paused upon its thresh-hold.'-There
hung- the dresses of hls-wire.
her books, her portrait, everything- Just
9M fcfc.lcft It two years ago. Through the
wind-swayed muslin curtain he saw her
garden in the rear, blooming just the
same.
"Ah, God, why did they leave it so to
break my heart? It seemed so long ago.
Now It la but yesterday."
. "Do not weep. She Is gone from you
entirely," said David Leslie, hurriedly fol
lowed "by the tearful household. With an
effort In their presence Jason Lee sup
pressed his grief.
"Public duty will not wait upon my
sorrow. We must make place for a great
reinforcement. Here is the list." Jason
Lee passed the day in action, but night
found him kneeling In the dewy grass
under the firs.
Again Jason Lee came tolling down the
Willamette. As he neared Vancouver he
saw the people watching, he heard the
cry. "The brigade! the brigade!"
The flag of the traders' barge, with Its
legend, "Pro pelle cutem," "A 'skin for a
siln," fluttered down the Columbia. Every
canoe shook out Its beaver-painted ban
nerol. The boatmen In full song rose and
fell with the heavy sweep. Jason Lee
paused with the rest to watch the glitter
ing pageant. These were the golden days
of Fort Vancouver, when wealth poured
in on every passing tide. Nearer came
the swish of waves nnd the measured rap
of the paddles on the sides of the canoes;
nearer came the slender vessels, laden,
heaped and sunk to the gunwales with
their precious freights of furs.
With only less eclat. It was a repetition
of the splendid panorama of the Govern
or's return eight months before. Again
the bastions roared a welcome; even the
mission ship caught the enthusiasm, and
waved her flags and fired her guns. The
fort gates opened to receive not knights
in armor clad, but the brigade of gay and
happy trappers with their Winter's catch
of skins.
Dr. McLoughlln, with an eye to busi
ness, lingered a moment. Clerk Roberts
called, "Pack In the bales, pack In the
bales." The voyageurs leaped to the task
and trundled up the furs.
Chief Factor Ogden, homely and kind,
passed on up to the fort with Dr. Mc
Loughlln and the other factors of his
fleet. His good wife Julia and his daugh
ter Sarah Julia followed at a distance
with Archibald McKinley, a tall, red
headed Highlander, second in command at
Fort St. James. All the way down the
zig-zag rivers of the North McKinley had
sailed and sung with Sarah Julia.
"Mons. Pete," as the voyageurs called
Peter Skeen Ogden, was of the Ogdens of
Ogdensburg and the Skeens of Skeensboro.
Away back sometime his ancestors had
founded those cities In New York, but
when the Revolution broke out the Tory
Ogdens crossed tho border "saved so as
by flre." . Peter Skeen was born in Can
ada. Ab a lad he returned to what would
have been his native state and entered
the service of John Jacob Astor. Astor
sent him to Astoria, on the far Pacific
He reached there Just in time to And the
post in tho hands of the British. Of
course, Ogden became British again. He
it was that explored the Yellowstone, the
Utah and Shoshonie countries, made his
Winter rendezvous at Ogden's Hole In the
A1
Bear River Mountains, paddled his ca
noes on Great Salt Lake, and discovered
Ogden's River, that Fremont renamed
the Humboldt. He raided the beaver dams
of Colorado, and following Jedediah Smith
over the Sierras, trapped on the Sacra
mento. He it was that built the first
forts to the north, stirred up tho rouble
wlh the Russians, and now ruled Fort
St. James, the capital of all that region
from the Fraser to the Russian border.
"Here, August." Ho handed one his
wet moccasions, who flew away to hang
them up to dry. Little Cecelia balanced
on her arm the pretty feathered pouch
that contained "Mons. Pete's" shot. Lit
tle Benjamin proudly bore the beautiful
embroidered sheath that held "Mons.
Pete's" big hunting-knife. Sarah Julia
fled past her father Into the arms of Mrs.
Douglas. The women withdrew Into the
Douglas apartments.
"I don't want to get married," cried
Sarah Julia, throwing oft her sun-hat and
bursting Into tears.
"She too young," said Princess Julia,
her mother. "She 15 Summer."
"I want to stay with my mother,"
sobbed Sarah Julia.
"Who want to marry you, my child?"
inquired Mrs. Douglas, slipping her arm
around the sobbing girl.
"Monsieur McKinley. He say he leave
the service I do not."
"He can wait," suggested Mrs. Doug
las. "No, he will go with my father."
"And where is your father going?"
"To Canada when the brigade go."
Mrs. Douglas understood. Lifting the
tear-stained face, she said: "My dear, your
father do not like to undertake a journey
and leave you unsettled. If anything
should happen to him, what would become
of you? Mr. McKinley may be chief
factor some day. Have you seen him
much?"
"Every day every evening at Fort St
Jame my father taught me," came be
tween the sobs. "When he gone Mons.
McKinley taught me till I read and write.
We have read books together."
"And do you care forvhim?"
"Ye s," Sarah Julia admitted, still tear
ful, "but how can I leavo so good a
mother?"
And she had a good mother. Princess
Julia made the fortune of Peter Skeen
Ogden. Long ago he went Into the Flat
head country and was drawn Into a quar
rel. The chief sent for him. "What!"
cried the impulsive Ogden. "Do you de
mand my life for a paltry pony?" Ripping
open his shirt and pointing to his breast
"Do you think you sent for an old
woman? Fire!"
"The Flathead never killed a white
man," calmly answered tho Indian chief.
A council was In session; in the coun
cil sat the chiefs daughter. She ruled the
council; she demanded restitution for the
stolen pony, and Ogden had to pay it
but he saw the power of that Indian girl
and resolved to win her. She proved to
be a high-priced maiden Ogden sent 50
ponies before there came any sign of
acquiescence. Then the chief's daughter
came out and mounted the last one that
was the wedding. He called her Princess
'Neath climbing vine and sylvan shade,
By singing brook and grassy glade,
Is heard the voice of evening's breeze
That whispers low among the trees,
And sweetly chants a soothing prayer
That calms the parting day of care.
The golden rays bf sunset's glow
Engild the distant peaks of snow,
"WTiose shaggy sides are wrapt in blue
That fades into a somber hue.
And far below, but dimly seen,
Are verdant hills and forests green,
TVhose deep ravines and cooling shade
The midday sun cannot invade.
There, canopied from Summer's heat,
"Within their cool and fresh retreat,
And watered by the mountain snow,
The fairest little flowers grow.
Thus far remote from walks of men,
In haunts of green by mossy glen,
These treasures of the forest hide
And in sweet solitude abide.
Upon, the clouds that lie at rest
The day still lingers in the West;
And as the golden colors fade,
Their forms assume an amber shade,
And then, attired in sable gray,
They take their leave of parting day.
Meanwhile the dusky twilight gloom
Succeeds the fading sunset's bloom.
TK.e sunless hills recede from view,
The air is chill with falling dew,
The evening breeze is now asleep,
The world is hushed in silence deep.
Anon the darksome shaaus of night
Replace the dim, uncertain light;
The gorgeous hues of day, alack!
Are merged into a raven black;
And in the stillness so profound
The queen of night seems walking 'round.
The starry host comes forth to -play
And dance upon the Milky "Way.
The Pleiades now westward fly,
The bold Orion sweeps the sky,
And in their far-off Northern zone
The Bears protect Polaris' throne. j;.
With jealous watch they 'round himstroll
And guard his station at the pole.
Of all the stars but he alone ,
Jn majesty sits on his throne
Unmoved, while ages pass away
And crumble 'neath fell time's decay.
By land he aids the traveler lost
And on the sea, by billow tossed,
The mariner looks for his light
To guide his vessel in the night.
The warlike Mars frowns on the scenes
Great Jove's aglow with brilliant sheen,
And Saturn, to. enhance the sights,
.Displays-his rings and satellites.
V jPRAnk-jason y4&$imklk;
Mar.l6, 1904. V.J.
Julia. There was a great feast consum
mating the nuptials of the son of Isaac
Ogden of Montreal, Chief Justice of Can
ada, to the daughter of the chief of the
polite and unobtrusive Flatheads.
This marriage was distinctly a business
transaction, a stato alliance. Ogden mar
ried the chief's daughter for her Influence,
but In time he valued her far more for
personal bravery, for distinguished tal
ents, and undying devotion. With the
form of an Indian squaw Princess Julia
had the head of a statesman. One day
there came a little pappoose to Ogden's
tent he named her Sarah after his mother
in Montreal, and Julia after his Flathead
spouse. Mrs. Ogden had much finery
about her pappoose-cradle embroidered
coverlets, blrdwlhgs and hoops of bells
that Jingled as they rode.
Once a party of American trappers came
near the Ogden camp and began selling
liquor to the Indians to get away their
furs. In the hostile state of feeling that
ensued there was a stampede among the
horses. Along with a packhorse loaded
with furs Mrs. Ogden's Cay use pony
dashed away Into the hostile camp with
Sarah Julia hanging to the saddle.
"The prize is ours by the laws of war,"
said the Americans. At that Instant Prin
cess Julia ran into their midst, clasped
her child, leaped upon her pony, and,
leaning down, eelzed the halter of the
packhorse.
"Shoot her, shoot the da'mned squaw,"
was the cry.
"Stop! She's a brave woman! Let her
go," tried the captain, as Princess Julia
and her baby galloped out of camp.
As lonjr as she lived Mrs. Ogden retained
her Influence over the Flatheads, and her
services secured her husband's rapid pro
motion among the fur-traders. On both
father and mother's side she was related
to all the great chiefs of the. Northwest,
making It safe for them to travel where
no one else would dare to go. Once at
Salt Lake the trappers were away. The
faithful Julia, mistress of the lodge, heard
the dreadful war-whoop and ran out to
secure tho horses. Like a Scythian horde
the enemy came dashing down upon the
defenseless camp. Gathering up the hal
ter straps. Princess Julia turned and
faced the hawk's eye and the Roman nose
of a Crow. The war-bonnet of eagle
plumes trailed . in his hair.
"Ah!" said the feathered chief, leaping
from his horse, "is that you, my si3ter,
that Is camped here? Let your horses
eat; we will not trouble them"; and the
rascals of the mountain, deadly as the
BJackfeet, passed like the whirlwind.
Many a time she kept the Indians from
going to trade with the Americans. "Bring
the furs to me," she said.
Never was the wife of the chief factor
Idle. Into her husband's work she threw
the full ardor of her nature. When the
strong, swift Snake was at Its highest
notch and no horse could cross It, she
tied a rope about her waist and -towed to
the other shore a raft of priceless furs.
Once In March sho swam the Snake for a
goose for her sick child. When she re
turned to camp, there was a necklace of
Ice around her neck where she held her
head above the water. What the Hudson's
.Bu-TB
2
(Bay Company owes to Indian women can
not be told. In a few cases they acted
as spies, to shield the wrong-doing of
their own people, but as a rule they be
came faithful allies of their white partners,
persuading the Indians to bring In their
trade and settling many a difficulty to the
satisfaction of both parties.
Dr. McLoughlln introduced Mr. Ogden
to Jason Lee. "By my faith, it's not a
bad thing to havo a minister here Just
now,' exclaimed the chief factor. "Never
before these later days have I heard of
sermons or prayers either In a Hudson's
Bay fort. But remember, my friend,"
said Ogden, with an impressive shake of
the finger, "remember, gunpowder Is
stronger than prayers."
Jason Lee was astonished at the effemi
nate voice of Peter Skeen Ogden, a voice
so out of harmony with the hunter's rough
external make-up.
Chief Justice Isaac Ogden was the great
est lawyer In Canada, and Peter Skeen,
too, bad been destined for the bar but:
that voice! As a boy in Montreal he
pored over the yellow tomes. He set them
back on his father's .bookshelf. "I can
never plead In this falsetto, father. The
very clerks would snicker In their
sleeves." So that harsh, squeaking, un
manageable voice drove Peter Skeen Og
den into the fur trade. Instead of devot
ing his life to tracing the" seigniorial sub
divisions of Canadian property, the son of
the Chief Justice became a Nlmrod of that
Drimltive age fast slipping into fable. So
long had Ogden been among the Indians
that his manners resembled theirs. There
was the same wild, unsettled, watchful ex
pression of the eye, the same gesticulation
in conversation. Never did he use a word
when a sign, a contortion of face or body.
would indicate his thought.
"Let me Introduce you to my klooch-
man (wife)." continued. Ogden In the
same saueaky voice. "She's the best
moccasin maker this side of Winnipeg,
Mr. Lee. Not so handsome as some, but
I tell you, she's a goddess. And tomorrow
I want you to marry this young man to
my daughter." turning toward McKinley.
Sarah Julia had yielded to her late.
"It was due to the company," Mrs.
Douguas said. That was a great consid
eration. Everything was due to the com
pany. And Peter Skeen himself he would
not have tho company lose a promising
young man for want of a bride, even If
that bride were to be his own daughter
and the groom a much-less desirable man
than Archibald McKinley.
These Hudson's Bay men, living in the
vast solitudes, seeing, hearing, knowing
little but the fur trade, naturally looked
up to "the company" as the one great
power next to England s queen. Its In
terests were their life. Their, devotion to
it became a mania. As contrasted with
Indian wigwams, their substantial log
posts took on palatial splendors, their
Governors were kings, their chief factors
high nobles, and their daughters fit con
sorts for the best-bred young gentlemen
the company could employ.
The gentlemen from the various posts
assembled at Fort Vancouver viewed with
apprehension the host of missionaries
within their domain. Right there In
Bachelor's Hall Jason Lee made appoint
ments to stations at The Dalles, Puget
Sound, the Falls of the Willamette and
at Clatsop-by-the-Sea.
Dr. McLoughlin, a model host, with
boats, provisions and packhorses, was
there to speed the parting guest. But
before they separated Sarah Julia became
tho bride of Archibald McKinley.
XVIIL
DEPARTURE OF THE BRIGADE.
1840.
MULY brought the shining days of Ore
Jt gon Summer, beginning with twilight
two hours after midnight and ending again
in twilight. The clerks were fitting the
brigades for their return to the interior.
Indian goods were packed for transpor
tation. Tho blacksmiths were prepar
ing axes, horseshoes, brldle-blts, beaver
traps. The newly-gummed boats were ly
ing at the shore. The freshet had reached
its climax, and the Governor came out
to set up his graduated, painted pole to
note the number of feet. Old Waskema,
the squaw, watched from under her shag
gy brows and said: "The flood Is over,
It will stop now. The Whlte-Headed
Eagle has set out his stick to stop the
river's rise.
The Indians looked' with awe upon the
old crone. Sure enogh, the river did
cease to rise. "She talks with the dead
at night. She understands the white
man's magic" In their eyes old Waskema
was wise as the chiefs at Fort Vancou
ver.
The voyageurs were dressed for the
launch, devoting an unconscionable
amount of time to the decoration of their
legs. The fringed buckskin trousers were
tied with beaded garters and knots of
gaudy ribbon. From their silken sashes
hung fire-pouches like ladles' reticules
with pendent tails embroidered with beads
and sine
"My canoe Is my castle," laughed the
electric-eyed Monlque, strutting in the
bow of his boat under a bonnet like the
headpiece of a drum-major.
At 10 o'clock Dr. McLoughlln summoned
them Into take the parting cup of good
fellowship. Some songs, some tears, and
repeated handshakes wafted the half
wild, Arab-like voyageurs upon the wave.
"Good-bye! Bon voyage!" The New
Caledlonan brigade shot gracefully Into
the current. All the up-river boats fell
In. The cannon boomed, the trading guns
sent back a parting salute. The boat
song struck, and Sarah Julia turned In a
paroxysm of tears from the last, fond
look of her Indian mother. No more she
traveled up the .zigzag rivers of the
North.
The brigade bore straight toward the
base of Mt. Hood. No mountain In the
world looms like Hood beside the Colum
bia. Although 23 miles away, it appears
to approaching boats to rest on the
broad waters, and towers pyramidal Into
the clouds.
The brigade turned to the left and was
lost amid the hills. At Okanogan they
transferred to horses and boats again on
the "Upper Fraser. It was a thrilling sight
when the caravans of 250 and 300 horses,
laden with merchandise, wound through
the pack-trails of the North. Merrily, as
amid the lochs and bens of their home
across the sea, the hardy Highlanders
sent the skirl of bagpipes screaming from
hill to hill. At old Fort Kamloops the
rout and revel rang, as the trading brig
ades drove through the gates and hung
their saddles on the wall.
Fort St. James, 54 degrees north, on a
peninsula in Stuart's Lake, was Ogden's
castle. Here the humorous, eccentric,
law-defying chief factor ruled absolute
among the red men and sent his dog
Sleds over the snow to still more northern
forts. Every April he left St. James with
his family and retinue for the Summer
trip to Fort Vancouver, reaching home
again in late September. This" time, how
ever the chief factor bade his brigade
adieu in the warm and fertile Flathead
country, and turned his face toward the
Rockies.
Ogden carried a breeze across tho
Rockies.
"What does Dr. McLoughlln mean by
encouraging so many missionaries? What
does he mean, I say?" exclaimed Sir
George Simpson, the most arbitrary Hud
son's Bay Governor since the days of
Prince Rupert. "I'll checkmate this
American move if I have to depopulate
Red River."
Sir George recognized the resources of
Dr. McLoughlln. He did him the .honor
to overestimate them. Dispatching his
agent, he made this promise to the pros
perous farmers of the Red River valley:
"To the head of every family emigrating
to the Oregon country we will give ten
pounds sterling In advance, goods for the
Journey, horses and provisions at the
'forts en route, and on the arrival at "Pu
get Sound the company will furnish
houses, barns, fenced fields, 15 cows, 50
sheep, oxen, horses, farming implements
and seed. On the other hand, the farmers
shall deliver to the company one-half of
the crops yearly for five year3 and one
half the Increase of the flocks at the end
of five years."
"Tn tJift o.htllv Autumn nlehts th farm.
i'ers talked It avert
"Not every day doer cli. a f ectsse; fall
Into our laps. Charlefoux says It rains
and tho grass Is green all Winter. Never
Is there a thunder, never a lightning.
never a blizzard, drought or hall. Let us
go." they said.
So 23 families of SO persons altogether
agreed to accept Sir George's offer, and
meet at rendezvous the following June
on the White Horse Plain west of Fort
Garry.
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attle. Wash.
TRAVELERS' GUIDE.
COLUMBIA RIVER SCENERY
PORTLAND to THE DALIES
Regulator
Line Steamers
OJULT (EXCEPT SQKOJIT 7 iL H.
DIRECT LIKE far Msfttfs, St Marts' ui Cofllas'
Ket Springs.
Conaectlfig at Lyle, Wash., with. Colom
bia. River Jk Xorthera By. Co. for Golden
dale and Klickitat Valley points. landing
toot of Alder street. Phone. Slain 914..
8. Ji'DOXALD. Azeat.
For South -Eastern Alaska
LEAVE SEATTLE 9 A. M.
neamshlps COTTAGE CITY.
CITY OF SEATTLE. RA
MON A arid HUMBOLDT.
March 10. 16. 21. 26. 3L
Steamers connect at San
Francisco with company's
steamers for ports In Cali
fornia. Mexico and Hum
boldt Bay. For further in
formation obtain folder.
Right is reserved to change steamers or sail
ing dates. .jjcxex OFFICES.
Portland .......210 Washington st.
atettl..'..".i..."-1'J,uas and "Dock'
8m Fraaclsco 10 ilarkof at.
C.-D. DUN ANN. Gen. Pass. Agt.
M Varkat st. Sa ' Francises,
X8ATEXXXS GTJXDX.
O.RN.
OJtEGOff
Shorj Line
iw Union Pacific
3 TRAINS TO THE EAST DAILY
Through Pullman standard and tourist sleep
ing cars daily to Omaha. Chicago. Spokane:
tourist sleeplnr-car dally to Kansas City:
through Pullman tourist sleeping-car (person
ally conducted) weekly to Chicago. Kansas
City. Reclining chair caw (seats tree) to tne
East dally.
UNION DEPOT. Leaves. Arrives.
CHICAGO-PORTLAND 9:13 A. M, 5:25 P. iL
SPECIAL for the Hast Dally. Daily,
via Huntington.
SPOKANE FLYER, 7:45 P. SL 8:CO A. M.
for Eastern Washing- Dally. Dally,
ton, Wans. Walla, Lew
lston, Coeur d'Alene
and Great Northern
points.
ATLANTIC EXPRESS. S:lfl P. M a-OO f
for the East via Hunt- Dally. Dally
lngton.
OCEAN AND RIVER SCHEDULE.
FOR SAN FRAN- 8:00 p. SI. 5;o6 p M
CISCO. S. S. Geo. W. From
Elder. Mar.- 7. 17, 27. Alaska
S. S. Oreeon March Dock.
2, 12, 22.
FOR ASTORIA and 8:00 P. M. 5:00 P iL
way points, connecting Dally' Dally
with steamer for II- except except
waco and North Beach, Sunday. Sunday
steamer- Hassalo, Ash- Saturday
street dock. 10:00 P. M.
FOR DAYTON. Ore- 7:00 A. M. 3:30 P. M.
gon City and Yamhill Dally Dally
River points steamers except except
Modoc and Elmore. Sunday. Sunday.
Ash-street dock (water
pen).
0R .IEWISTON. 4;05 A. M. About
Idaho; and way points. Dally 5:00 P. M
! from Rlparta. Wash., except Dally
Steamers Spokane and Saturday. except
Lewlaton. Friday.
TICKET OFFICE, Third and Washington.
Telephone Main 712.
PORTLAND ASIATIC STEAMSHIP
COMPANY.
For Yokohama and Hong Kong, calling at
Kobe. Nagasaki and Shanghai, taking freight
via connecting steamers for Manila, Port
Arthur and Vladivostok.
For rates and full Information call on or
address officials or agents of O. B. & H. Co.
EAST via
SOUTH
Union Depot.
Arrive.
OVERLAND EX
PRESS TRAINS,
for Salem. Rose
burg, Ashland. Sac
ramento, Ogden,
830 p. ar.
7:45 A. 3C.
San Francisco, Mo-
Jave. Los Angeles,
El Paso, New Or
leans and the East.
Morning train con
nects at Wood burn
8:30 A. M.
r.-oo p. zl
(dally except a un
lay) with train for
Mount Angei. su
verton. Browns
ville, tspringueia.
wendllng ana macros-
4:00 P. M. -
Albany passenger
connects at Wood-
no ao A. M.
5:50 P. 34
118:23 A. M.
burn with Mt. Angel
and Sllverton local.
730 A.M.
114:00 P. M.
Corvallls passenger.
Sheridan passenger.
Dally. llDaily. except Sunday.
PORTLAND-OSWEGO SUBURBAN SERVICB
AN1
YAMHILL DIVISION.
Leave Portland daily tor Oswego at 730 A.
M.. 12:50, 2:05. 3;23. 8:20. 0:23. 830. 10U0
P. M. Dally, except Sunday. 0:3U. 6:30. 8:35.
10:23 A. IL. 4:00. 11:30 P. M. Sunday, only
8 A. M.
Returning from Oswego, arrive Portland dally
830 A. MT. 133, 33. 435. 6:15. 7:35. 9:03.
llilO P. M. Dally, except Sunday. 633. 70,
030. 10:20. 11:45 A. M. Except Monday, 12i
A. M. Sunday only. 10:00 A. M.
Leave from same depot for Dallas and Inter
mediate points dally except Sunday, 4:00 P. M,
Arrive Portland, 1030 A. M.
The Independence-Monmouth motor tine oper
ates dally to Monmouth and Alrlle, connecting
with S. P. Co.s trains at Dallas and Inde
pendence. Flrst-clasi fare from Portland toSacramtnta
and San Francisco. $2Q; berth. 5. Second-class
fare. $13; second-class berth. $2.50.
Tickets to Eastern points and JSurope- Also
Japan. China. Honolulu and Australia.
CITY TICKET OFFICE: corner Third ana
Washington streets. Phone Main 712.
TIME CARD
OFTRAINS
PORTLAND
Depart. Arrive,
Puget Sound Limited for
Tacoma. Seattle. Olympla,
South Bend and Gray's
Harbor points Stfff am 5:3&p
North Coast Limited for
Tacoma. Seattle, Spokane.
Butte. St.. Paul. New
York. Boston ana all
Ll..E"!..a...S.---h: 3:00pm 7:00am
Twin City Express, for .
Tacoma. Seattle. Spokane.
Helena, St. Paul. Minne
apolis, Chicago New
York. Boston and all
Tacoma, Seattle. Spokane.
Butte. Billings. Denver.
Omaha. Kansas City. St.
Louis- and all points
East and Southeast 8:30 am 7:00 am
All trains daily except oa South Ban
branch. chaRLTon. Assistant General Pas
senger' Agent. 255 Morrison St., cornet
Third; Portland. Or.
BRArH0RTHERH
Ticket Qffice 122 Third St. Phf6$l
2 TRANSCONTINENTAL
TRAINS DAILY X
Direct connection vis Seatti or
Spofcans. For tickets, rates and full
information call on or addreM 2L
Dickson 0. T. A., Portland, Or.
JAPAN - AlVlimCAN LINE
STEAMSHIP IYO MARU
For J a X COlna and all Asiatic poiau, ttt
laave Seattle
ABOUT MAKUH 9th.
Astoria & Columbia
River Railroad Co.
fO OSEH&SHASVU-il
Leaves, UNION DEPOT. Arrive,
Dally. For Maygers, Rainier, Dally.
Clatskanle, Weatport. '
- CJifton, Astoria. Wor
8:00 A.M. renton, Flavel. Ham- ii:H A.X.
tnond. Fort Stevens.
Gearhart Park. Sea
side, Astoria and Sea
- .c shore.
" Express Dally.
7:00. P. ii Astoria Express. 9:44 F. X.
Dally; '
C A. STEWART. J. C. KAYO.
Comm'J Agt. 24S Alder ct. O. a?,i
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