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THE OREGON SUNDAY JOURNAL, TOHTLAND, SUNDAY MOUNING, MAY 13, 1523. ,:,IEWGES Ji'COLllGIIIIII DY SUDDEU'liiCIIES HE UPPER RIVER FR0P.1 HfS UNCLE Pioneer" Stern Wheeler Es sayecj Trips in Waters Recipient of $60,000 Will Give Away Money to Those Who Befriended Him; Hospital to Get Portion. Theretoforp . Unknown- to .- Steam Navigation. I CHURCHILL'S HIGH SCHOOL SYSTEM AT BAKER PRODUCES LARGE CLASSES 111 I . - : ; ; : , : ' l:: 1 ' 'A'' A A---' ' ' ..' . , -i - ' A A ' l " is ' i '. Special to Tb JonrMH , rcndleton, Or., 'sy 17. "The first ,; white people to behold 'the waterway which draijia tlie great Inlassj Empire were the members or the Lewis ft Clark ' expedition,' who camped at the junction ' of thft Columbia and Snake rivers Octo. ber 30, 1S05, and their primitive canoes were the first of the white man'a boats to doscend the Shoshone, or Snake river, t and the Oregon, or Columbia, to lta . . WQutV declared an Interesting paper . by Mrs. C, J. Crandall of The Dalle, which was read before the Columbia and Snake Rivera Waterways association at t Its convention here. The paper con tinned In port as follows Previous to 1869 the Columbia from f, The Dalles" upwards had been navigated ... only by Indian canoes, the Hudson's Bay company's batteaux, and for a short . time Immediately before this date, by . a few ' flat-bottomed sailing' craft freighting to Wallula, which was then r ia rort nuiia waiia.. tiucceHsful steam navigation was es- , tabllshed that, year by the building of 1 ' the "Colonel Wright," a stern-wheel 11 boatt at the mouth of the Deschutes river, by Lawrence w. Coe and R. B. ' Thompson, These men, had secured a ; government1 contract for carrying freight for Fort Walla Walla, and this --business they had handled with, the ' fiat-bottomed batteaux - or schooners propelled by sail and wind power. The pioneer steamboat was named for the distinguished colonel of the Ninth Regiment United States Infantry, In -r command at Fort Dalles, who lost his life on the Ill-fated "Brother Jonathan." n The "Colonel Wright" was com inanded by Captain Len White, an ex perienced stern-wheel steamboat man. The boat was built with a mast that carried a huge square sail which proved . ' of material advantage during the season ; of winds that are regular trades up the river..; : . The start up the river was made on April IS, with a dozen passengers, the owners of the boat and SO tons of freight. A A- The first obstacle was the John Day rapffl, a narrow, rocky passage with an Island in the center of the river dividing It in two, either side being passable for' the sailboats but for the - larger steamer, now to be teeteoY-Ths cap tain chose the right side, but the channel was too narrow. The boat buinped severely on the rock bank and he dropped back for a "softer spot;" by taking the left band channel and with the advantage of the eddies she sue 1 ( cea-Jed in surmounting the abort, sharp pitches In the stream until success was celebrated by a prolonged toot of the whistle. Indian F.apld, . Rock -. Creek Rapid. Fqi-alty Hook -and other stormy points! were steamed over aa the boat came to them, the speed being fair with a good breeze distending the sail. Darkness found the trial boat within sound of the famous Umatilla rapids, the most for midable obstacle on ,the river, where an - chcr was dropped for the night At daylight the voyage was resumed and the rocky pass surmounted without mis- v hap. - i. - ..-,..- . Voyage Is Successful. The "Colonel Wright arrived at Wal lula, at' 9 o'clock, sighting the first home of a white man since leaving Deschutes. , Two hours later the load was dis charged; the passengers embarked on the I i - : -'1 r - v i n ' vi-. A A A A A .v , . 7 X X 7,".' r - v I l -..f'7l U 11 1. l 11 11 f- .,; 7 f a ,. A k vu n v i A ': ; . A .- A I ' .'.:.:;.:X X:VnAX AA X. J ;.X '?aX SS ) MilsX sAf -'X . y f hurricane decks of cay use horses fur nlshtd by the Indians, the lines were ' cast off and- the boat was -headed down stream on the home stretch. The speed was astonishing. Uma ' tllla was run" without accident, and, r ith a full head of steam on, the cap- tain reached John Day" at dusk but V-cduld atill see threatening rocks ris - Inc- from lha hollinar watr It was nlaln sallins'to Dcschutea, which, was reached the steward was lighting the cabin . for supper, having been out on the fa mous tun.two days, inaugurating one of the greatest enterprises of the north went. :-v V ' During this year regular trips were made " between jjeschutcsu ana aiiuia and an exploring trip up to Priest's Itapids. Up to 1860 the character of - the -Snake- river was wholly unknown. - No white man since the fur traders, had passed up or down. The Indians, when asked for information, would ex . ulalrai-"Ciav bias skookum chuck;" (very 7 stronjr water). With the new decade gold discoveries '.on the Clearwater miners were routed ' from Walla Walla overland to. the mouth of that river where it flowa into - - theSnakerTmiTTnrto thrTrold bearing district where the towns of Oro Fino and Florence sprang up like magto In those successful diggings. Etwly in the . spring . of this year the army - ouartermastcr employed the "Colonel Wright" to ascend the Snake river as far as the mouth of the Faiousft. J In June, 1861, one Seth Slater, of t Portland, wished to transport a load of tnlner's supplies to the Florence dls '". trirt and agreed with the owners of v the "Wright" to. make tha trip up the Bnake river. -j After-entering the Snake river, the captain wucusu ai an wiana wnere an , enormous tree had' lodged from a for i mer high water, and the crew and vol- unteer ; passengers were, landed with axes, kept for this purpose, to add to the supply of fuel. Upon disturbing the " trunk of the tree a nest of rattlesnakes V was also disturbed and. a vicious war enmted in which a dozen snakes were r' killed, two of tremendous size. A palouse . rapids next confronted the! boat, the rlyr being in such immense volume with the June rise that the tide of speculation rosi to high water mark ' among the passengers. Inch by Inch, , for :two hours "the gallant "Wright" ' strove for the summit, reached it, and thu first difficulty vanished. At the head of the rapids, on the right bank, was Fort Taylor, now called Grange t.'lty. a small earth embankment, with a single cabin remaining and a soldier on guard, waving his haJLas-the boat pai8ed by. : . A The rapids "above, which 1 were heard and 'feared, were .named by Captain . White "Texas Raplda.? A line was put out. the sail set and, a favorable breeee . rising In th nieTt of time, the boat forged ahead faster than the cable could be hauled In. entangling it In the wheel v Mill tb boat, propelled by both ateam and sail, nished over the crest, like a thing bewitched. A' landing- was made and an hour spent Jn .cutting the cable out of the wheel. The boat, was now in . the heart of the Blue mountains which evening was jJellcioualy warm, a typi ; t i Juno . evening, and the , raptain ' dr(TPeJ anchor, Reclining to explore a periil to Tne Jooraal.) -Baker, Orw May 17. The graduating class of th Baker high school for 1913 numbers SI, and is . the largest the local Institution has ever had, showing about the normal increase over 1112, which class numbered 43. A remarkable f ea ture of this year's class Is the fact that the majority of the graduates are young men. numbering x), the young women numbering 2, reversing the usual order. A brief glance at the records of the high school show that the number of male and female graduates runs about even since 1881, 213 young; women and 1S4 young men having received diplo mas. The total number of graduates under' the four-year course system has been 407. The present system was established by Superintendent J. A. Churchill, who la now completing his twenty-second year as bead of the local schools. He attributes the large classes of the past four -years to the fact that the courses in the local school have been made elec tive: that is, the students, In addition to three years Of English, which Is com pulsory, have been allowed to make their own choice of subjects outside the ground subject of the various four year courses. For example, a stu dent In the Latin course Is obliged to take four years of Latin, but can make up the other necessary credits for grad uation "from any of the other subjects in the curriculum, doing away entirely with the 'group" Idea, 'in force almost everywhere. This means that a student1 i V , .... . : A sv-S .;rv:-v -, I " A.V - . A :.-. (. ''' J . a a- . Ut a-, y U' e ,-A . $ "l i v A Class of 1913 of Baker High icbool. TorJ row Edith Peala, Lorlng Hyde, Hazel BuehnelL, Wlliram Spangier, llldrcd Bennett, Addison Flnkelnberg, Letha Cochran, Norrls Pouluon, Florence Hlbler. Second row Plnney Currey,.Ro8e Maxwell, Robert Donald, Mary Clausen, Lee Bostwick, Helen Ehmann, Fry Herbert, Florence Churchlllr John Jenkln. Third row Ruth Holm an, Leslie Plnph, Ethel Cunning, Burle Bramhall, Verna Foster, Harry Bachmann, Eba Jacobson, Chester Gardner, Bertha Fisher. Fourth row Glenn Shockley, Myrtle. Murray, Anthony Chaves, Mary McMurdo, HarolM Taylor, Ruth Palmer, Russell Waltz, Malvlna Humble, George Daly, Fifth row Esther Jacobson, Alfred Flnley, Luclle .Woody, Fritz M61zer, John Blsher, Ernest Slmonls, Hazel Perkins, Hal Ryder, Margaret Henderson. Sixth row Nell Morfltt, Gilbert Stuller, Adelbert Eaaterwood; Frank McColloch, Frank Bernhardt, Clarence Bragg. (Br lb Inlcrnttloml New Sartlce.) London, May 17.-A Matlock resident (William Thompson), has Just heard, under extraordinary circumstances, that 160,009 is due to. him under the will of an uncle who had died In the United I States., Thompson is a wheelwright, 66 years .of age. "My uncles," he says emigrated to the states years' ago, and seven, or sight years r go Uncle Spencer came over on a Visit to Delper. '"It now apepars that he (a dead, and that for the last 11 months lawyers have been trying o discover tofcere I ran living. All this lima I was here at Matlock,, within 10 miles of my birth place." . A. .. 7 Asked how he luear4-ohV good for-" tune, Thompson said: "I am no scholar, or I would have seen that" the papers were asking for William ' Thompson, wheelwright,' formerly of Belpcr, heir to f 60,poo..' I was walking homa the other day, when A Mr. Smith, of Wirkg rvrth, m stranger to me, said, You are William Thompson, wheelwright? I skid I was, and thought I was going to get some work. Mr. Smith then said he bad been to Bath, ana' had lived neighbor to my uncle Spencer, and that the lawyers were looking for me to give me. $60,000. "I could hardly credit the story; but, knowing my uncles were' well, off, I went to Belper to see the solicitors who were advertising. They at once assured me I was the man." ' . r Communication has now been Opened' with the representatives of the estate , In Utah.. ' " A' Asked what he would do with the for tune. Mr. Thompson replied, "I shall show great kindness of heart. I shall not change my way of living. I shall stay In the cottage for the rest of my day, but I am going to give money away, when I get it. to those who have been good to me. Y ' ' "Some years ago I should have lost my life" but for ths uerby Royal In- . flrmary. and I shall give them 115,000. I shall also give : $5000 .each to the Whltworth hospital, Matlock and the Wirksworth hospital, and $50 J to Bake- well union and $1000 each to the Belper and Ciiesterfleld unions for the jpoor folk' .. . " .7 . ; DECLARES POVERTY - " MADE HER A THIEF Paris, May 17. A young" woman named Branch Campourcy was'arrested recently In a Paris warehouse on a, charge of theft In her flat the police found goods worth over $5000. Examined by the police magistrate, the girl said she had been driven to. shoplifting by the fact that her aged grandparents and her-father and moth- -er were dependent on her. At. first she had struggled to make both ends meet with the meager salary she earned, as a typist, but had found it impossible.". who has little or no aptitude for mathe matics mar elect studies other than mathematics outside the ground worn of the chosen course. However, In the four years that the new system has been in force only three (all in this year's class) have graduated without having earned credits In mathematics. Churchill, in advancing these Ideas to state educational leaders, has earned the reputation of being somewhat radical in his , methods but his Judgment was borne out by the committee of nine ap pointed by the National Educational as sociation, at Boston, July t, 1910, to taks up the question of having ths col leges recognize as elective all subjects well' taught In the high school. This has put the Baker superintendent In position to. say, "I told you so,'! and it is his intention when he assumes the office of state superintendent to ad vance this Idea throughout ths schools of the state, so far as possible and with ths National Educational association en dorsing him, seems likely to meet With a great measure of success. Baker's superintendent, who is com pleting almost quarter of a century as head of the4 local schools, on May 23, Commencement day, will give up his work to become stats superintendent. His work in Baket has put the local schools on a very high standard, and while It is believed that he can render greater service In broader educatlonat fields, which his new position will open for Dim, still it is with the deepest re gret that his departure will be noted by the community, whero he has labored so long. His 'successor will ; be A. C. strange, for the past seven years city superintendent of the publia schools of Ths Dalles.. new river by night At daylight the boat was under way again. . lewistoa Is Yarned. When the Junction of the Clearwater was reached the boat was headed Into that stream. The boat approached the Indian agency at Lapwal, After a hard day's work - the captain concluded he could go no farther with safety, and with Slater's consent, the merchandise was landed about 25 miles above th agency. Thfr "Colonel Wright" made two mn trips v up the Clearwater in the next tnree weeks and, as the watr fn new depot had to be located. The tongue Of land between the Rnnir. Clearwater rivers at their junction was selected aa a terminus and as a uitWa place for a town to grow up as a dis tributing point for mining and military supplies. j The name of Lewiston was bestowed I upon the new tent-city by Viotor Tre vltt, who was at the landing one week later where S0O people were awaiting transportation.' In "response to a de mand for a name at the upper end of the route for thff-ljilllnr of goods Tre vitt said: "Call the place Lewiston for me rirst white man who set foot on the spot." , . The boat's trip down wfcs fast. The trip from Deschutest to Slatervllle con sumed three and a half days, the re turn down stream was accomplished In 18 hours. Coe and Thompson's freiarht chars-es from Deschutes to Wallula by batteaux were $105 per ton. With ths suocess of the "Wright" the charges were reduced to $80 per ton and the batteaux had to go out of commission. Wood for fuel, cost $J0 per cord. Captain White's wages were $500 per month. Cos and Thompson added other boats to the service and In 1862. when the Oregon. Steam Navigation company was incorporated, a merger was formed, the owners of the upperjriver boats becom ing heavy stockholders in ths -new com pany. A . Football Gambling Expensive, . London. May 17, At - the annual meeting of the Chief ronitiMu' Jtlns '."of Lonrfon. i, M. Hogge. M. P.. speaking on "Betting and Gambling and Their Keiatlon to Crime. , With Pnectal bltng," Ktld that the motint-of nionev wanted in this particular yl'-e apprbHChes i,vwv,uw or Iooooq.ooo-a year. 1 i Steps Taken to Preserve Music of Native American Indians By Herbert Corey. Washington, May i7.The American Indian Is to be given a square deal In music. Geoffrey O'Hara is to deal It for him. Now, this is a perfectly low-brow dis cussion of a toplo that belongs to peo ple who wear their foreheads where the Psyche knot ought to be. Therefore, neither Mr. O'Hara nor the department of the Interior is to be held responsible for It. I've seen good, kind, true-heart ed instructors patiently drllllnglmma- tur. redskins in the singing x camp meeting hymns. Worse still, I've heard em. Ho that, as one Item of the great American people I am screaming a per sonal protest I am. willing to concede that no Indian on earth can sing "Shall We Gather at the River" In a fashion which wouldX coax, me to gather any where near water. I am also aware that Indians can sing their own songs in most Impressive fashion nd that their songs are worth preserving for musical and other reasons. ' This con cludes my portion of the entertainment I know nothing- whatever of counter point, chain-stitch, or close harmony. Neither do the Indians. Ws are linked In defense against Moody and Sankey tunes. O'Hara has been named by Secretary of the Interior Franklin K. Lane as In structor, in native Jndlan music. Ills Job Is to "encourage the Indians to sing their own ; songs' in preference to ;the hymns of the whits man. Then he will catch - those aongs on ths phonograph, make master records, and transcribe those records so the songs of one tribe may b sung to the members of another trlbe-lf only for their edification and preserve them for the Instruction of posterity. : That's Just part of his work. Perhaps an equally Important part is to coax the Indian to turn himself loose musically. r For years past he has felt that for some mysterious reason his songs have been fanned. The while man -either stundii "around ttnd-mills'a lip "wt)eirtiesing"reinTbr elue wants to make hiiii give a aong --nyet whenever a bunch or. girls na over from the nearest fort The Indian resents being interior to recognize that ths Indian has either choked or circused. Es doesn't ondetaoT",,,.T r Indian Musical try JTatnre. Mr. O'Hara says: - "The Indian 3 naturally musical. He expresses his emotion in song. If he Is Impressed by a sunrise, a battle, a good hunting ground, a tragedy, he sings his sentiment The Indian lover woos the maiden In song. (The mother croons over ths grave of her first born. He has a song for the acts of daily life for the drawing of water and the hewing of wood, and the pitching of his tents In lush meadows. - Most of these song are Individual and ephemeral. The Irving Berlin of the Chippewas may sing a song to his love -which tickles that young woman into , grave hysterics. But It may not catch ths popular fancy. On the other hand, It may 'go big,' as they say on Broadway. It is a 'knock out.' Gener ationa afterward that song may bs sung in his tribe. Other songe--expresslvs ( th'e graver emotions, tapping that deen well of sentiment which underlies the deceptively stolid Indian surface- are added to the store or intertribal tradition."'',-:.''-'-':: 77,::.i But ths Indian knows' good, music. Mr. O'Hara told this Incident to lllus- tmta It: '' . "A trader, said he, "played over 100 phonograph records 7to an Indian en campment not long ago, - Most of them were of Broadway songs. Two days afterward a party of Indians rode 25 miles to hear one particular record over againA It was that, of". Schumann's 'Traumerel'' - He goes direct to the- Hopl Indians, in Arlsona. with whom he will stay at least six months. His first duty will be to get acquainted, of course. It Is his boos that ho may preserve to future ages the songs, of this tribe perhaps the richest of all In tradition, and the peer ot any trine ; intellectually by means of the phonograph. From this lis. iriU.go.ta. other .Jjribea An .effort! will be made to encourage the Indians to sing own songt. It is part -Of the new policy of the department of the A racial and Intellectual history that should b preserved. His needs go be yond bull beef and blue Jeans. Ths ef fort to fit the Indian for the increas ingly complex existence of today is to be continued,;, as a matter of oourse. But he will be encouraged to remember with pride that he Is an Indian and that his songs and dances and traditions are. as lnerraceably a portion of Amer ican history as ths landing on the Pil grim Rock, . , , INFANT PRODIGIES GET THEIR S,HARE IN ART (By the IntratlonI Kewt Borvlve.) Paris, May 17. Futurists and cubists are not to have a monopoly of art Infant prodigies are also getting their share. A professor at ths Lycee of Doual. M. G. X Liiquet is exhibiting the art products or his little daughter. be tween the age of S und 10. During that period this Industrious little girl made 1,700 drawings,, which- ths proud father is publishing in a bound volume. They serve at the same time as ths subject of a psychological study -.of small chil dren.. . M. Luquet Is professor of philosophy at Doual, and his observations therefore are quits natural. He has discovered that children habitually direct all their attention to the present and miss all .connecting lines between one subject and another. The drawings of his little oaugnter are an evidence of this habit She drew only according to the im pression of ths moment and there is a remarkable absence of connection be tween one mood -and another in her work. Psychio continuity we must as sume, begins to-manifest itself, only at the age of 10. This at least ws learn from the little prodigy that begins life with 1,700 works to her credit MRS. POTTER PALMER IS POPULAR PARIS HOSTESS (By the tnternatlntul New grrle.Ti ' Paris. May 17 Mr Pntta Palmerr one ;of i America's foremost bostesses, is repeating In .Paris ber successes in Chicago. She1 has. been giving soma social A functions" and .suaaess .. whtoh sttowds besn ijrovo h?r to b in the first rankof noaicsnes regardless or nationality. Even If ws have ho court the fashion and wealth of the world still corns (o Paris, and It Is with ths representa tives of such from every lanO( that Mrs. Potter Palmer successfully' rneasures ner social strength. Her fine houso. No 6 Rue Falbert affords her a good stage whereon -to show her social talents. Hr soft white- hair. Ik the nvy of Frenoh women. -Thr would give anything if iicjr wum una or coirreur mrhn nn furnish hem the shads which nature has provided for Mrs. Potter Palmer. Her soft speech soothes anj reassures her guests. tint srue8t" waB th In fanta Bulella, aunt of the ' king, of Spain. " ':, ', i; , . : , , ;. Of those Who frenun ... Madams Tlttonl, wife of the Italian am bassadors Count Louis d Lasteyrle, of the Lafayette family; ths American ini bassador and Mrs. Myron T. Herriok Princs CharlesTd, la Tour d'AWergne Marquise de Lasteyrle, wife of 'the grandson of General Lafayette! Countess Garrison; Mrs, John Lawrence, nee La IWJ' Mr. Charles Car roll of Maryland, and Pincess Poggio- BUDDING AUTHOR DID NOT HAVE NAME A , (Br the iaterastkmal News oVVlce.) ' I t Paris, May 17. M. Georae d. Vert Riche, the well knowii dramatist, ortce in ' nis araent youth, befors he had won his spurs as a writer, was dining at Naples in ths same restaurant as Benahv As happens so easily and so happily when fellow-countrymen are around, a chancs incident brought the great man and ths neophyte into conversation. Renan was struck with the enthusiasm and int.m. gence of his young compatriot,; end as tney departed asked mm hit name. M. de Porto-Riche, aware of. the identity of his questioner, stammered and blushed. Thsn, proudly modest 'Sir," he an- spwer, "I have as yet no name." . "Presg Cost Denounced. Paris, May 17. Feminisms Intesrrai. ths new French suffragette ora-anv la conducting a, campaign against women's fashions. 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