J ' . . . v TOE SUNDAY OREGOXIAy. rORTLAyP, DECEMBER 21, 1913.
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HISTORICAL SOCIETY PLANS FOR
A MEMORIAL TO HONOR PIONEERS
Officers Are Chosen and Annual Reports Bead Wlich Show Organization Is nourishing, Despite Tewer
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A memorial bulldlnar In honor of the
j.ionem of Oregon, to serve a per
manent home for the Oregon. Historical
Society, waa suggested in the .report
of the building; committee at the 15th
annual meeting; of that organization
yesterday at the Public Library. Les
lie M. Scott. Joseph R. Wilson, George
II. Hlmes and Charles H. Moores are
the members of the committee. Their
plan waa approved by the adoption of
the report, and the matter waa referred
back to the committee for definite
. action.
The following were elected officers:
Frederick V. Holraan, president; Jo
seph K. Wilson, vice-president: F. G.
Young, secretary: Edward Cooklngham,
treasurer: V. Holman and William 1).
Fenton. directors for three years, to
succeed themselves.
Annual reports submitted by Pro
fessor F. G. Young, of Kugene. .secre
tary, and Edward Cooklngham. of Port
land, treasurer, indicated that the so
ciety is iu a flourishing conidtion, not
withstanding the reduced number of
visitors as compared with occa
sioned by the removal of all the so
ciety's effects from the City Hall to its
present quarters at 207 Second street,
and the necessity of closing the rooms
for several months.
Membership Is SS3.
The present membership of the so
ciety Is 69. of which 6J are annual,
122 life and 8 honorary. The losses the
past year were ii. It being due to
deaths and 23 to non-payment of dues.
'The number of visitors, rooms only
being open from 1 to 6 P. M, for a little
more than six months, waa 10.77.
The present accessions are:
rocninents
Diane, account books, ate
lapa. chaxta, etc
flwipp4r, tounl volumes........
ro'ewapapera, unbound
iJook. reference, principally. ...
letters of all kinds
Pioneers' relics
Indian relic .......
1'hliipplne war relics . -.
1'ajnpnlet ol all kinds,
masaainea
Historical lantern slides . .
- ld coins
l:rlrf sketchta of uloneora
CltDDlnce relatlns to early settlers
and Historical matters in saneral..
IJadffes. buttons, medals, etc... a....
Members who died during the year
v: James W. Cook. October 25; E.
W. Chrlchton. June 15: William Fraxier,
June 16; Joseph Gaston, July 20; H. C.
Kinney, January 14; Lewis A. Loomis,
Jalv Mrs. Elizabeth Laughlin Lord,
August 26; Henry K. McCraken, Janu
ary -0; James 1L ilcMillen. June 16;
Hamer Sutcltff. November 1; William
H. AValpole. October a: Mrs. Elisabeth
inner Wilson, February 2.
Kort IMIln Keport Read.
The annual report of the old Fort
Ialle Historical Society, an auxiliary
of the state ancifiy. prepared by Mis.
Lulu E. Crandall. secretary, assisted
by Mrs. J. B. Pi lmer, assistant secre
tary, was read, i-howlng satisfactory
growth, ilrs. Elizabeth Lord was elect
ed president of tne Fort Dalles So
ciety one year ago, Sirs. K. S. Shackel
lord. who had served for 10 years, de
clining" re-election.
A vacancy being caused by the death
of Mrs. Lord in August last was the
means of Inducing Mrs. Shackelford to
accept the presidency again for the
remainder of the year, but no longer.
Consequently Mrs. S. A. French was
elected by the paxent society for the
ensuing year, and Airs. Crandall and
Mrs. Palmer were continued in their
respective position of secretary and
assistant secretory.
Professor J. K. Robertson, a member
of the society, now occupying the cjialr
of history in Berea, KyH was elected
a delegate to the annual meeting of
the American Historical Association, to
be held in Charleston, S. C the last
1 of this month.
Crawford Make Trip.
General Medorem Crawford, IT. S. A
retired, now a resident of Washing
ton, 1. C- was elected as a representa
tive of the society and of the State of
Oregon, to be- one of those who are
to accompany Admiral Clark on the
battleship Oregon through tha Panama
Canal. General Crawford was born in
Oregon in 1844.
The annual address was delivered by
Judge W. C Brown, of Okanogan.
Waah his subject being "Old Fort
Okanogan and the . Okanogan Trail."!
Judge Brown said, in part:
"The first American settlement In
Oregon was at Astoria, in April, 1811,
but in July a party waa sent up the
Columbia to establish a trading post.
This they did at tha mouth uf the
Okanogan River In September, 1811. and
this was the first American settlement
-within the limits of the present State
of Washington.
"The tracer in command pt the party
and who built the establishment was
Iiavld Stuart, but the clerk in actual
charge was Alex Ross, who haa left
.a written record of his experiences
there in a book entitled "First Settlers
on the Columbia River." He also wrote
another book entitled "Fur Hunters of
the Far West."
Cx Takes Casuaaas,
"Re was succeeded at Okanogan by
another trader, named Ross Cox. a ver
satile and active young Irishman, who
rebuilt the post or fort about one and
one-ha If miles from Its first location.
This was in Isle. Roas Cox also wrote
a book entitled 'Adventures on the ,
Columbia River, which gives much in
teresting matter as to Fort Okanogan, j
The fur trade was continued there until I
ItsO, when the Hudson's Bay Company
moved all its goods t Keremeos. in
British Columbia. A number of the men
of French blood who were employed at
Fort Okanogan afterward removed to ,
the Willamette Valley and at least two
of them were among those who voted
at Champoeg In 1848 upon the question
f provisional government in Oregon.
I'm Bieasit ky Parse Traim.
"Okanogan was Important as the
siatsway to the New Caledonia district
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Above, Picture Shoerlag Fort Okaaogaa as It Looked Win It was One of tbe
Principal Trading Posts of the Pacific Northwest Below, Scene at tbe
Rearlac of a FUsroole to Mark the Site of the Old Fort Established by the
Pacific Fur Company la September, lSlll Photograph Tikes at tbe Okano
U Cesteaalal Celebration la 181L
of British Columbia, on the Upper Fra
ser River. All the furs from that dis
trict were brought to For Okanogan
hv nack trajn of 400 or S00 horses and
there transferred to boats and brought
to Fort Vancouver. These same Doats
returned un the Columbia to Akanogan
with goods for the Indian trade and
the jjack train was then maae up iu
r.tni-n tn tha trading posts of New
Caledonia, 400 or 600 miles to the
Northwest. This was an annual occur
rence from 1818 until 1849. louring ioo
the Indian wars on the Columbia made
it too risky to continue this route and
a new road was opened up across the
mountains to Fort Hope, on Fraser
River."
Y. M." C. A. PLANS CAROL
Services Today to Bo Appropriate
for Christmas Week,
Tjar'. wrriMi at the Young Men's
Christian Association will be appropri
ate for Christmas week, "ine su-'"
h.ii- necHnninz at 2:30 o'clock, will be
devoted to Christmas observance, with
a Christmas carol and a reading by
Mrs. E. C. Moore. Christmas cakes win
be served to everyone present
The regular meeting at 8:15 o clock
will be addressed by E. R. Hermis
ton. a baseball evangelist, on the sub
ject -Making Good." Mr. Hermisxon s
career has been similar to that of Bil
ly" Sunday, and it Is reportea mat.
ha. nnthine to lose by comparison with
Sunday as a public speaker. Mr. H"-
miston is acompaniea to rvi "" -J
his daughter. Miss MarJorle Hermlston,
who will sing at the service.
As today is being observed all over
the world as Peace Sunday, a place will
k- ,.n nn h. v xt c A. programme
to an expression of the associations
sympathy with the peace movement-
Following tne meeting
...Inn of the discussion clubs and the
fellowship supper. Tonight from 8:30
to 10 o clocK toe evening s
wiU be held.
COOK ESTATE IS VALUED
Report Places Worth of Property
left at More Than $1,00,000.
The estate of James W. Cook, who
died October 25, 113, is valued at
$L078,2SS.47. according to the Inventory
and appraisement filed in County
Clerk Coffey's office yesterday oy v..
C Alvord. H. W. "ries and L. H. .Max
well, appraisers. All tne estate was
left by will to the widow, Mrs. Ian the
Cook, in whom the testator said he had
confidence that their two daughters.
Mrs. Cully Crumpacker and Cornelia
Cook, would be properly cared tor.
When the will was filed tor proDate it
is estimated that the estate was
worth not more than 8500,000.
The greater portion or the estate is
real property, which is worth approxi
mately 8900.000, one piece, a 625-acre
ranch near Linn ton, being appraised at
8&3b.OOO. Cash in Dana amounts w
H4.4J0.6. and notes and mortgages axe
estimated at approximately 810,000.
MlseioB Remembered on Christmas.
Mrs- X. Kelly, of the Interdenomina
tional Mission, at 18J Russell street, re
ports that many friends have remem
bered the mission during the past week.
Woodard, Clarke si Co. donated 80;
Olds, Wortman A King a box of toys
and E. P. Charlton & Co. a box of toys.
The mission extends its thanks to these
and many others who sent presents.
The articles will be distributed to the
mission children on Christmas eve.
CUPID WORKS COURTHOUSE
Two of Clerk CoKey's Aides Will
Orange Occupation Soon.
The noticeable slackness of business
at the marriage license. window at the
Courthouse is not caused by the girls
who are employed in County Clerk
Coffey's office, for two of them will
Our Own Factory Products
' Ui-lted ; Stolen Tlroo
"Eureka" Fire Hose "Rerere" Mechamcal Goods
"American" Rubber CIotMng "Mechaisical Deve'land," su-wS
"Sawyer" Canvas Belting
"Meyer" Rubber Footwear
Stoughton" Qothing
Goodyear's "Glove" DruggUu' Sundrio
BRANCHES AT
PORTLAND, ORE.: 24-26 NORTH FIFTH ST,
Los Angeles, CaL: 923-925 So. Grand Arc.
Fresno, CaL: 1257 K St.
Phoenix, Ariz.: First and Van Buren Sta,
San Francisco, CaL: 50-60 Fremont St
Seattle, Wash.: 212-216 Jackson St
SpokancWash.: 101 1-1013 Fst Ave.
Tacoma, Wash. : 1316-1318 A St
Osaka, Japan
discontinue their services there before
the New Tear bells ring, and begin
their new duties of housewives. . The
December brides recruited from the
office are Miss Antoinette Beck, who
will be married to Robert T. Lines
Christmas morning, and Miss Margaret
Keating, who will be married to W,
McCoy, an abstracter employed in the
office. New Year's eve.
Associates of the prospective brides
In the recording department had Misses
Beck and Keating as guests of honor
yesterday from 12 to 1, and presented
them with handsome wedding gifts.
Miss Keating received a cut-glass berry
dish and Miss Beck a hand-worked bed
spread.
The two girls, who have worked to
gether as deputy clerks since Mr. Cof
fey went into offlc4ast January, are
close friends, and will take part in
each other's wedding. Miss Keating
will be bridesmaid at the Beck-Lines
wedding on Christmas morning.
Bales, administratrix of the estate of
her husband.
Bales was driving across the car
tracks at Forty-sixth street and Six
tieth avenue 'when his horse stepped
en a rail, which. It is alleged, was
highly charged and unguarded, the
horse becoming frightened and running
iway. Bales, it waa charged, was
shocked as a result of the runaway,
his death following shortly afterwards.
His wife brought suit for 1750, through
attorney J. G. Arnold. The railway
company's case was conducted by At
torney Frank Lonergan.
Tigano Is Still Married.
' Because Guiseppe Tiango was not
able to produce any evidence in sup
port of his complaint. Judge Coke has
refused to annul his marriage with
Alesandra Tigano. Tigano, who led
the Italian band at the Oaks last sea
son, asked the court to annul his mar
riage with Alessandnji Tigano, on tjio
grounds that the woman was riot di
vorced from her fivst husband "when
he married her in Massachusetts sev
eral years ago. Thet suit agairst Mrs.
Tigano was dismissed on motion of her
attorneys.
BALES JURY IS DISMISSED
Damage Suit Verdict Xot Reached
After 2-4 Honrs.
The jury which heard the case
against the Portland Haiiway, Light &
Power Company, charged with the
death, last October, of W. F. Bales,
was discharged by Judge McGinn yes
terday when it was unable to reach a
verdict after being out for 2f hours.
The suit was brought by Mrs. Julia A.
A Christmas Opportunity
WW Your Table be Filled
Christmas Day ?
Will your children be clothed and fed? WU1
your house be warmed ? Will you know where
you shall find the money that will feed and
clothe and warm you and them during the
Winter days that will follow?
Yes? 1
Well, there are many who are coming to us
today, who will come Christmas day, and who
will come in the days that will follow, who are
hungry, ragged and cold the sick, the deserted,
the homeless, mothers with little children are
our wards. 1
If you have enough and just a little more,
won't you share it? Christmas will mean a
little more to you and infinitely more to them.
Portland. . . . .
.1913.
R. S. HOWARD. Treasurer.
Associated Charities.
A 1 1 Commercial Block. Portland,
or Trie Oregonian, Portland.
Enclosed please find '.Dollars
at my Christmas gift for tho cars of the poor.
Name wr- . . . . - - tM
Address . . . .... - - . a)
Tha Imperator rjJa reeert trip brought
safely across th Atlantic 4081 persons
the greatest huinf.n cargo ever carried by
any seagoing vee.sr.1. Of 2hes 3649 were pas
sengers and ISSii were crew. '
Electric Suggestions
For Christmas
Practical Christmas Gifts are finding the
greatest favor this year. Can you think of
anything more desirable than Electric Table
Lamps, Coffee Percolators, Samovars,
Grills, Irons, Toasters and hundreds more,
all of which combine utility with beauty?
Electric Table Lamps
Reduced
Our entire line of beautiful Desk and Table
Lamps reduced 20 per cent.
Simplicity Cleaner
Hundreds of housewives nave
taken advantage of the Spe
cial Simplicity Sweep-
Clean group offer.
The cleaner and
appliances all-
bear
guarantee. If you
have not secured
yours, place an or-
der early ; they are going fast. $39.00, $3.00
down and $3.00 per month.
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Christmas Trees
should only be lighted by Electric Xmas
I Tree lighting outfits. Absolutely safe,
J beautiful, and useful for other decorations
' as well. Prices .from $7.60 to $10.50
WE INVITE YOU" TO VISIT THE
ELECTRIC STORE
yPortland, Railway, Light, & Power Co.
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