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V 21, 1913. WELLESLEY COLLEGE GIRLS ENJOY A GREAT VARIETY OF OUTDOOR SPORTS Basketball Hcckey, Tennis, Archery and Tennis Have Many Devotees Field Day Occasion for Inter -Class Contests. 3 - '4 I .j ., ; .... , t : -W;: ? : jr:? iTiKv? V jv' ...... MM A WELLESLEY COLLEGE. Welles ley, Masa.. Dec 20. (Special.) Now that the season of oul tirrins football matches is over a little thought may be sriven to the athletic activities of the girls' colleges. In fact, probably few outsiders realise tliat the Fall is as great a climax in the year's athletics of Smith or Wellesley as it It in those of Yale or Princeton. The athletics of women's colleges could never have, of course, a universal ap peal, even if more were known about them. They afford no such drama as the Yale-Harvard game. Still an on looker of this match might not find his time wasted or himself bored were he to attend a Wellesley field day. At least he would ottain an interest ing contrast. Wellesley. secluded from the surrounding worlfl. seems more peaceful than ever in her Fall colors. If a visitor in Wellesley followed the oath alone the lake until he came to (the western extremity of the campus ne would discover the quiet scene of Wel lesley's athletics, a large plateau, over looking many of the college buildings. 1 1 . but apparently cut off from them by a heavy barrier of woods. This college "playground" is large enough to bold four basketball grounds, two fcockey fields, eight or ten tennis courts, the required space for archery, and the first lap of the relay racetrack, besides pro viding plenty of room for the onlook ers, ClrU Wear Cestasae. And here. If he were to choose the right day in the Fall, he would find the field arrayed In a variety of bright colors, in addition to those which Na ture provides. He would see the par ticipants of the day as 100 or more girls, in uniform costumes of short blue CALL OF OREGON TO EASTERNERS IS TO "OPEN" AND LIFE WORTH WHILE Land of Last Frontier Combines Scenic Wonders and Commercial Opportunities That Spell Future Greatness. "Come West, Young Man." as Good Advice as When Greely Offered It, Says Putnam. BY GEORGE PALMER Pt'TSAJf. ... . . VTjLf Often a transplanted East i lit erner. who ba, become an ITgonian, la asked that question. Of course, there are a multitude of answers, but when It come, right down to fact, the really Important things of life, like fly fishing, mountain climb ing, canoeing and the others the an swer might be something like this: "I took root here because 1 like it, and I like it principally because in the wt mit-nf-rinnrs is always on tap. Not the ma.ie-to-order kind, mind you, but the real thin mountains mat are mountains, not hills: trail, that are trails, not paths, and rivers several sizes too larce to be called brook." For no matter where you happen to live on the Pacific Coast, the "open is always ready, almost at your front door. It is simply a matter of placing a "back next week" notice on your desk and selecting the locality. Bis Coaatry Aloes; Dcschntee. In the heart of Oregon, flowing northward to the great Columbia River, Is the oeschutes. It drains a huge val ley whose chief claim to notoriety un til a couple of years ago was that ol being the "largest area in the United States without a railroad." The "rail roadlessness" has ended: towns have come to life upon the plains and Jn the timber: sagebrush has been plowed under, homesteads claimed from Uncle Sam and great stretches awakened to prosperity by the magic kiss of Irrlga- tlon- But the glorious Dig country re I mains: the railroads have simply made J it accessible. On its we5tern flank, be ll tween the Deschutes and the Cascade jnge, is m ianu ui uc.uin ji ijmi um ber, crystal lakes and mountain mea dows, bounded on one hand by snow clad peaks and on the other by broad plain, that billow eastward toward Tit ah a. la lSM-and ajaln In 1323 the first skirts and write btouses. wearing hair band1,' or necktie, of their respect , class colors, the remaining 1200 girls adding to the brilliance of the back ground. Even before the four classes march on to the Geld, one can hear their singing and the musical cheers, which grow gradually louder, until finally an army of white bursts into view. Now the added colors of red, blue, yellow and green are seen, flying one for each class, and appearing in some particular attempt at an original form. Then as the classes In order of their rank promenade around the field, the air is filled with the special songs written for the occasion, and the In creasing enthusiasm of the day is shown by the Increasing number of songs sung at the same time. Field day Is the occasion not for In tercollegiate, but for InterclasB con tests. Still It affords plentiful excite ment and a splendid outlet for enthu siasm and loyafty; for class feeling at this time runs high. The week before, the so-called preliminaries are played off. these consisting of the matches be tween the Juniors and sophomores in the seven different sports represented In Wellesley. Only the freshmen are denied an active part in field day, since the sport begins in the Spring nd ends In the Fall; so they must content them selves by championing their "sister class," the Juniors. The open playing of the seniors Is reserved for field day Itself, when they are matched against the different winning teams of the Junior, or sophomores. The president nf the Athletic Association, a head of each sport and a captain of each class team In earh sport and a number or coaches fram the gymnasium make up the committee which decides on the girls worthy of "We." The commit tee has three criteria by which to Judge health, skill, discipline. The train- entry of white men Into this hinterland Is recorded in the diaries of Peter Skene Osden. who. on behalf of the Hudson's Bay Company, led an expe dition from the Columbia River south ward up the leschutes and across present-day Central Oregon to the Snake River. That was nearly a century ago Today two railroads follow the first stages of Ogden's course and civilisa tion haa found a flourishing foothold upon the sage and pine-clad areas no doubt first viewed by the pioneer, as so much waste land. Today not only is that territory far from being "waste." but its attractions in other directions than the commer cial are fast coming .to be recognized. For in this sunny Central Oregon the call of the open is especially easily an swered. I. are la Tarled. Who would not be satisfied to live on the banks of a trout stream, whose varied waters. In addition to fishing reaches without number, afford 100 miles of delightful canoeing: Its fishing and its boating reinforced by the equal ly alluring offerings or nair a score 01 neighboring mountain lakes, all easily attained? And If a forest ot pine, wnn a needle-carpeted floor as natty as any park's, stretched south and west for miles and miles in endless ranks of giant copper-tinted trunks, all domd by silvery green boughs swaying against an opalescent sky. would you not think such a happy place to dwell T And always assuming that you are blessed with the love of out-of-doors tf the domes of a dosen everlastingly snow-covered mountains formed he western skyline, cool and close and in finitely Inviting would not that. too. lend xest to life and make you more than ever sorry for the folk, back East in the realms of soot and subwaysT It would. At all events. If it wouldn t . rsatrl to dwell uncom plainingly in. a, city hive, and there Is no health In you. nor u iur w" 1.V ing rules are very much the same as tho. o any Jn crew squad, . ' J, d n eating between meals. Like Merhaafeal Dolls Are They. With the first blow of the coach's whistle the players seem for the mo ment transformed into so many me chanical dolls, whose arms and legs can be extended promptly upon the Jerking of a. string. Nor is the sight of theso hundred figures of blue and white all moving rhythmically to gether and spread over the whole area of the field, one to be scorned. The exercisp last but five minutes, how ever, then the actual games are begun, ihe onlooker can now gravi tate between tennis, basketball, arch ery or hockey, championing at first one team and then another, whichever seems for the moment most worthy. Hnckev is nerhans the most graceful of the outdoor games, fqr although the constant striking of the hockey sticks suggests the opposition, the game gives as a whole little Impression of a struggle: one is pleased for the most part by the steady sweep of blue and white up and down the field, and whether this side. or that should make a goal seems to an outsider to De ae fhioflv bv fate. Th idea of there being given In ririn' colleges a "letter" denoting ath Utin honors and the obtaining of it hAinir considered an achievement. Is ometlmes ridiculed by outsiders. To h sure a "W" means no auch big defl nite honor as does the initial letter of a man's college, which usually shows that its owner has played in some im nnriini intercollegiate game. Yet 1 W" is coveted by nearly every one in Wellesley, merely because it is the sign of the highest possible athletic honor that the college gives, and the possessor of a "W" can have the grati- tying feeling that ahe has proved her- self worthy. the land of out-of-doors. And then Central Oregon will not appeal. But if you care to much pleasure awaits you in searching out the at tractions of Oregon's hinterland. South, in the heart of the Cascades, is world-famed Crater Lake, now be come a mecca for Summer autoists and campers. Northward, from the lake to the Columbia, extends a belt of concentrated campers' delight snow mountains for the climbers, high land berry wastes for the bear hunt ers, lake, and rivers for the fishers, and trails without end which wander here and there at random, now close to the snow, now delving in the ca thedral depths of the fir forests of the west flank, or winding blithely through the open pine lands of the eastern slopes. It is all attractive be yond words a great public playhouse, unsolled, fresh, unspoiled a gigantic park, perhaps 200 miles long and 50 miles broad. Paralleling the Cascade range, drain. Ing its eastern slope. Is the Deschutes, Central Oregon's great wonder stream, than which no river In America pos sesses more diversified cnarm. Liose by the snow banks, in the very shadow of the peaks, & dosen lesser streams unite to make the Deschutes In Crane Prairie a mountain meadow as big as a Connecticut county. Thence the stream winds northward some 250 miles. Indulging in all the caprices ever evolved by the most versatile river. For miles and miles it meanders through pine timbered parks where the big trees march down to the flower-lined water's edge. Impres sively beautiful, and offering & myriad of alluring campsites; then there are sedate sweeps through meadows lined with alders such as sheltered the swlmmin' hole of your New England short trousers days; and finally, after passing Bend, about midway on Its course, the timbered and the grass clad banks give Way to hillsides which, Three Days of Lively Price Cutting The' holiday season has been a little backward and we are still in possession of the finest holiday stock of Furniture, Novelties, etc., ever shown under any roof in Portland. We.must clos6 put.; these goods even at a great sacrifice. So come to Second and Morrison without delay and you will be astonished at the tremendous price-slashing that we have inaugurated. Jt is impossible for you to make a mistake in buying any article that we offer. for sale. These goods are useful, ornamental and will serve as remembrance of the donor for years to. come. Henry Jenhing & - . - i becoming more and more sheer, grad-J ually narrow to the grandest canyon of the Northwest, hemmed in for an almost unbroken 100 miles by minia ture mountains which 'tumble down a couple of thousand feet into the roar ing river. ' Deschutes Water, Vary. In its varied length the Deschutes boasts every kind of water. There are quiet reaches, reminiscent of the Eng lish countryside, turbulent rapids and white-watered cascades magnificent falls, swirling eddies and ebony poois it plays a complete watery repertoire with delightful impartiality. And the grand finale, be it remameu. Is more than worthy 01 us inuouuu- tion. That is where the uescouies emerges from its canyon the Columbia. The steep-waneu vi ley opens wide and the brown hills roll back'; ' the river Itself is flecked ,lth rnnlrta as it rolls its last half mile and pours out into the great Co lumbia; one bank is flanked with trees, behind them nestling fields and an or chard or-two, and behind that the in termingled sagebrush; across tne Co lumbia, rise the" hills of Washington, .0- emerald, as the season hap pens, and for all the world resembling the plush one sees .k., in hem and there with a button tight sewn In a crevice of iU own making. East and west tne Co lumbia's valley stretches wide. The air is thick with sunshine, the sky is blue as a bluebird's shoulder truth, to tell the mouth of the Deschutes Is quite the biggest, sunniest, colorful view one may encounter below the snow line. Commercial Aspect Seen. Occasionally the Deschutes takes to Itself a passing commercial aspect, as where logs choke Its surface above the mills at Bend, which are Just com mencing to scratch the thousands of forested acres. For the river lends a brief transportation to the logs on their Journey to the saws and the markets of the Sliddle West, a .pil grimage whose ultimate golden re ward will be millions of dollars re turned to the Deschutes Valley. De pressing as statistics are apt to be it is Impressive to note that In this one neglected Oregon county alone, Crook County, there are 2.024,231 acres ot pine, which, averaged at only 14.000 board feet to the acre, and the finan cial return at 12 a 1000 :eet, means that some 340.070.u00 ultimately will come from Eastern lumber yards to this timber belt alone. Further, reck oning that the cost in labor of manu f...ini7 lumber Is not less than Jo to the 1000 feet, one stumbles upon the to we . - fact that by the Ume mljled 141,69,000 lil n ave gone to i 1 i r-rnnk county aione. uiviuo it by six if you will, say that only .--i-tv, nf.it will be milled In the next decade or so, and even then do you not face another compelling phase of the tremendous answer to the prep t..ir, now making for transporta tion of labor-wanting Immigrants to the 1 acme lumi j - Settlers' Side Come, l"p. All of which, introduces the other i-ontrai Oregon, the side 01 settlers and dollars and cents, in its way doubtless more important even than that of places to be seen, streams to be fished, mountains to be climbed and all the rest of the uncommercial- ized attractions. In this field, too. Central Oregon pos sesses chapters worth recording. For it has acres fabulous acres Irriga tion, water power, timber, cattle, sheep and other livestock, and much of all of them. , , Room for newcomers? Truly, yes! For instance, take a map and a ruler and Indulge In some figuring for your self. Unless your mathematics are hopeless, you will discover that Massa chusetts could be dropped Into Central Oregon and no one know the differ ence unless "it were the Back Bay folks, who might find the generous di mensions of their new quarters a bit jlrativhtr. Room? Well, tninn 01 iuur ivis""-; ten counties Crook, Lake, Harney and Malheur with an average area of 872s square miles, and an average popula tion of .8 Inhabitant to the square mile. Eight-tenths of one person oc cupving each square mije of Central Oregon. Four counties each larger than the State of New Jersey, and each with an average population of about S000 Does It sound uncomfortably crowded? Tet back East they lament the imminent land famine! "Come West, young man, and get el Knur vitnm. " is as good - advice today, offered from this side of the Continent, as Greeley gave a half century ago from the other." For the Pacific North west's last frontier offers alluring op portunity both to grow up with the country and to help the country grow up. To do either may be an extremely profitable experience, and assuredly It is a fascinating one. yesterday Central Oregon was un known, buried behind her guardian mountains, isolated by her transpor tation deficiencies. Today it 1, under going a remarkable change, one that is both a picturesque and a surprising object lesson not only of how fast Father Time moves west 01 ms Rockies, but also of what unique con structive strides a new untried coun try may take under the guiaance ui far-sighted men. T3 in.tnnci.. There are a host of commercial clubs and similar organi zations In Central Oregon. Their pri mary mission is to ueveiop 10 v 7 suade people that It wiu ne won" while to settle and make two bushels of grain grow where one grew before,- or accompllsn some oiner equan ciw- cacious and - profitable agricultural miracle. . These organizations, Lite tneir fellows throughout the West, devote more attention to potatoes than to pub licity. Incidentally the four counties the most sparsely populated in the Northwest, remember set a . mighty precedent last Summer when each con tributed 1000 real dollars for agricul tural development. Then the railroad matched their gifts, and as a result the Oregon Agricultural College Installed and conducted demonstration farms which showed newcomers what could be accomplished with the lands, and old timers what should be accomplished, an equally vital matters in a territory where "farming from horseback" had long been the order of the day. Another Concern, Hog and Cow That was something of an example. But it was preceded by another, per haps less far-reaching but Just as es sentially Important. This other enter prise concerned hogs and cows. It was fathered by a. Bend bank and blazed another almost untried trail In pioneer development of an agricultural com munity. . . C. & Hudson was tne Banner wuu turned farmer. Ere tnis oiners followed in his path. He saw surround ing him in Central Oregon excellent opportunities to raise hogs and cows with profit. He likewise saw few hogs and fewer cows, and what there were of no high order of excellence. Third ly he realized to tne iuii wnai. vc. , banker and every citizen knows, that .n.n.r!iv nn the farm is the founda tion for prosperity in the store, the railroad and the bank. So the farmer banker sent to the well-stocked Middle West for carloads of hogs and cows, and these he sold at cost to farmers, and when the farmers were not able to pay cash his bank carried them on long-time notes. Only no one farmer was allowed more than a limited number of hogs or cows, the great object being not to enlarge the holdings of already affluent farmers, but to aid the little fellows to branch intn a field of proven profit and one wherein the divided risk of di versified farm resources ngures promi nently. The results have been gr ati lyjngin some cases truly remarkable so excellent, indeed, tnat oiner car loads of four-footed immigrants u been brought to Central Oregon. A compelling cry for Central Ore gon, so far as a magnet for immigrants has been concerned, is that of free lands for Homesteaders, and in this field the happenings of the last two years have been specially notable. Bend is at the terminal of the Cen tral Oregon railroads, about In the center of the Deschutes Valley, in the westerly portion of Central Oregon. Burns Is in Harney County, in South- . r-ntmi Orecron. some ' 140 miles- from Bend. Four years ago the enormous Intervening territory was exclusively occupied by Jackrabbits, attia and "fuzz tails." wander ing over fenceless plains whose bunch grass and sagebrush were innocent of other inducement to productivity than the scant 12 to 18 inches of rainfall annually bequeathed them by nature. Todav hundreds of thousands of acres of that lana navo uen hnn...t.,fipr4f there are miles fences, scores of homes, hundreds of cultivated fields, ana aireaoy a. ful of schools. r . mnrt between Bend and Burns, over which is imported from the rail th exeat bulk of all merchandise consumed by a county of 9933 square miles twice as large as Connecticut- there operates an automoDiie trucn 11 ..u tn hn the longest gasoline- driven freight service in the United sti' an every day the nomesteaaera, ! n.rhiiM' 100 miles from town. and even further from a railroad, rub shoulders with civilization at least n it irasoline as the modern "prairie schooners" rumble past. Story of Town Interesting. tk. ntnrv of the towns is interest ing too For instance. Bend is some thing of an example of a particularly healthy municipal mushroom. A couple of years ago the nearest that a loco motive ventured was onaumu. u 100 miles distant, and over the inter vening road all the freight and passen gers Jolted. The Summer dust, the Winter mud and the year-around rocks of the old Shanlko route are now mat ters of remote and unmourned history, for that was close to S6 months ago, which is equivalent to half as many years back in the mature East, so far as growth and change is concerned. The other-day. for example, a 5.000 municipal sewer system was completed In Bend. Brick and stone buildings have risen, there are churches with stained glass windows, homes with One Year The Home rr u ninnnix and hardwood floors. public library, electricity. tennis courts, in short, the necessities and the luxuries of near-metropolitan exist ence. In other words, in the midst of a region that a decade ago was unpop ulated, has come into being a commu nity rich In the blessings and accom plishments of dynamic American life, typical enough of a score of similar far Western developments. Be that a. It may. In a few years Sons! HOW LATE DR. PLUMMER AIDED UNION IS TOLD Bev. C. E. Cline in Funeral Address Gives Narrative of Events of Saving of Arms in Arsenal at St. Louis in 1861. BY REV. C. E. CLINE. I Address Read at the Funeral Services or Dr. O. Jr. . nummer. HEN the Civil War came In 1861 the United States Government had had an arsenal in the south ern part of St. Louis, on the Mississippi River. . It contained about 30,000 Har per's Ferry muskets, 1000 rifles, some cannon of little value and a large amount of ammunition and other army stores. It was the policy of the se ceding states to seize the arsenals everywhere, with all their contents. The struggle, therefore, for the arsenal at St Louis began early. Each side saw that whoever held the arsenal would hold the city, and whoever neia the city would hold Missouri. Not only so, but the United States Subtreasury was in St. Louis and contained $400,000 in gold, a . big amount of money at that time. The city was tossed and torn with fear and doubt. That the disloyal were making a mighty effort to get control of the arsenal, custom-house, postoffice and subtreasury was plain. After the firing on Fort Sumpter April 12, 1861, the Btruggle In this direction was Intensified. The secessionists, embrazened by the tall of Fort Sump ter, openly declared: "Come what may, we'll take the arsenal!" The other side said: "We'll defend it." Captain Nathaniel Lyon, in com mand of the arsenal without adequate force for Its defense, was cool and clear-headed. He saw Intuitively the dangers by which he and his little command were beset. April 16 he sent a messenger to Governor Dick Tates, of Illinois, that it might be a good plan for him to make a requisition on the arsenal for a big supply of arms to equip troops then gathering in Springfield under Mr. Lincoln's first call for 75,000 three months' volun teers. Governor Yates (God bless his n.mnrvl miicker than a flash caught on and made the requisition without waiting for the red-tape formalities ot the War Department at Washington authorizing the same. Getting the arms out of the arsenal was the next problem, a problem both difficult and dangerous. Secession spies were swarming about the arsenal with a battery planted by them on the hin ahove it. As the arsenal could not be defended by the force i it no time was to be lost in getting tne guns, ammunition and other stores Governor Yates summoned to his aid a man named Stokes, who had been a captain in the Regular Army. Stokes was the right man' in the right place. To accomplish his purpose Stokes dropped down to Alton, 25 miles on the river above St. Louis, where he first investigated the telegraph op erator, through whose hands messages between Stokes and Governor Yate must pass. In putting, some decoy secession question to the young op erator he (Stokes) came near being ejected from the office. The young fellow would not stand for it. After satisfying himself that the operator was all right Stokes proceeded o char ter a big river steamer lying at the dock known as The City ot Alton, In structing the captain to wait with steam up for a visit from the tele graph operator of the place. He then arranged with the latter to deliver in person auch word as he might trans mit from the arsenal at St. Louis to Captain Mitchell. v In plain clothes Stokes then dropped down to the arsenal 25 miles below, which he found surrounded with a per fect Jam of sullen, resolute secession ists. For some time ne was uiii i get through the throng: but by good nature and patience he succeeded in elbowing his way through, handing Captain Lyon a confidential note. from Governor Yates. He then wired the young operator at Alton to have the boat proceed silently down to the asenal by midnight. This was done, and the big steamer pushed her nose into the bank at the arsenal at 11 P Every available man in and about the arsenal, aiding the boat's crew, quickly began moving the boxes of musketSi sendins first some old Mex Ahead of Competitors of Good Furniture Corner Second and Morrison more the final paragraphs of Central Oregon's opening chapter will have been written, at least as far as the word "frontier" can be included. And in the meantime, those who come West for homes by way of the railroads and by way of Panama, and those who come merely for sights-to-be-seen, will do well to step somewhat from the beaten paths and glimpse the possi- . bilitles and the pleasures of Oregon', hinterland. ican War flint-locks up the bank, as If things were being moved that way. These worthless old uns were seized by the secessionists, who made the air ring with their shouts. A few sus picious characters, however, remained, watching the steamer at the bank. These Captain Lyon arrested and locked up. In an Incredibly short time 20,000 .. muskets, 500, new carbines, 100,000 musket cartridges, with a vast amount , of army equipment were on board the : . steamer. When they attempted to push off her prow was fast in the mud.. "Move the boxes aft," said the cap- ' tain of the steamer. This was done . and she floated out on deep water. "Which way?" called the captain. "Up the river to Alton," said Stokes. , ,,( "What if the rebel battery on the . shore fires on -us?" "Get away if you can, and if you y-. can't escape run her out to the deepest ,.. place and sink her!" Til do it," said Mitchell, "to a dot. If I go down with her." The big steamer plowed through the water, past the rebel battery, with , everybody seemingly sound asleep on shore. At 5 o'clock In the morning the steamer reached Alton dock, where Stokes was met by the young tele graph operator, the two running to the market-house, where the fire bell was rung ferociously, causing the people to pour out by hundreds, some of them half dressed, to see what was up. "There Is no fire," said Stokes, "but at the landing is that steamboat you all know, loaded with arms we are getting from the arsenal at St. Loum to Springfield, and we are afraid the secessionists from St. Louis will follow and be on us before we get her un- loaded. We want every one of you to help us." With a shout, men, women, and even the children, laid hold with a will, the enthusiasm running higher and higher, and by 1 o'clock two brief hours that immense steamer load of arms and '; war material was safely locked in the cars of the Chicago & Alton Railroad. The bell rang, the Whistle sounded, the engine coughed and tugged up the steep grade out of Alton, and the train ' was off for Springfield. In the meantime the wires had been -kept hot all the night by the operator in Alton, receiving from the arsenal and transmitting to Springfield infor mation of events as they transpired. Time works wonderful changes. It "" was in this same Alton where Lovejoy. fighting against human slavery and for the freedom of the press, poured out his blood, and on the very same spot where the eager citizens that morning with a cheer and shout hur- , ried forward the arms to be used in abolishing slavery in the awful conflict into which we were rapidly drifting. And out of that lot of arms my regi ment, the first that went from Illinois, was speedily equipped. That night's work decided the destiny of the Government arsenal, the City of St Louis and the State of Missouri, and one of the men whose intelligent and -capabilities contributed to that Na tional result was the young telegraph operator at Alton O. P. S. Plummer. Two days after the events just de scribed, the Seventh Illinois Volunteer ; Infantry, to which I belonged, dropped v down from Springfield, going into camp at Alton, where we were visited by Mr. Plummer, an aristocratic, dressy-looking fellow, with a characteristic grin ' on his face, as he shook hands with us all around. The regiment gave three ' rousing cheers to the operator who helped to secure the arms we carried. "' and which were later used at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg. ,,'' ' On account of his loyalty and skill, Mr. Plummer was transferred to Cairo, 111., at the juncture of e Mississippi and Ohio rivers, and the end of the Illinois Central Railroad, at the time the most important military point of operations in the West. From this .'. point he transmitted reports of the en- gagements alluded to above, and down the river. These historic facts coil- : cerning our late honored citizen, Dr. O. P. S. Plummer, Hon. Levi W. Myers, my old friend, who was associated with r Mr Plummer at Cairo, but now resld- . Ins in Portland, can confirm. ... ? .
