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Che OHIGOri STATESMAN. Salem, - Oregon, Sunday Morning, April XI, ISiJ
Notes on Champbeg
Oregon9 One Time Was Larger
(This is the first ef three articles destine with "Champeer day," the centennial ef which will
be observed May 2, IMS. This first article deals with the histercLil ettin in which Oreron's pro
visional government came into existence,! tracinr as much of the region's earlier history as is per
tinent to the subject. The later articles will deal more directly with events la Oregon in 1841 and.
They will appear in the Soaday Statesman, April It and 25.)
By RALPH C. CURTIS.
The name "Oregon" meant, to
Americans of a century ago, not
merely a scattered settlement of
some .240 white persons in the
Willamette valley between Ore
gon City and Salem, nor even the
area included in the present state
of Oregon. It meant a much great
er area extending from the sum
mits of the Rockies to the Pacific
shore, and from the 42nd parallel,
then as now the Oregon-Califor
nia boundary, northward to a
line extending approximately
through Prince Rupert, Canada;
54 degrees, 40 minutes.
This definition of "Oregon'
must be kept clearly in mind if a
proper study is to be made of the
significance of "Cnaropoeg day,
the centennial of which is to be
celebrated May 2, 1943. Neces
sary also is an outline sketch of
the ' surrounding circumstances
but. for the sake of clearness, the
sketchier the outline, the better.
United States claims to this
great Oregon territory were
' based upon Robert Gray's dis
covery of the Columbia river in
1792, the overland exploration
by the Lewis and Clark expedi
tion in 1804-6 and the found
ing of Astoria in 1811 by John
Jacob Astor's Pacific Far com
pany. That last item was some
what clended by Astoria's sale
to the Canadian North West
Benefit Dance
Ticket Sale
Drive Opens
Salem's civil air patrol, approx
imately 100. strong, this weekend
join members of the Cooties, Vet
erans of Foreign Wars dance club,
as ticket salesmen for a dance
scheduled by the Cooties April 22
at VFW hall at a benefit for the
CAP.
The patrol, recruited as a civil
ian defense project and operating
under army authority as an aux
iliary to regularly enlisted air
force personnel, pays its own way,
its members buying the army type
uniform with US insignia which
they alone of all volunteer units
are privileged to wear.
Stringent training is provided
for members of the patrol and re
quired of those who retain their
standing in the organization, mem
bers pointed out Friday. Lt. Austin
Cater is commander , of the Salem
squadron, for which Capt. Lee Ey
erly is adviser..
Music for the benefit dance is
to be provided by the Oregonians.
Gates Club Reelects;
Federation to Meet
GATES The Gates Woman's
club held its annual election of
officers Thursday. ' All officers
were reelected to their respective
positions.
- Francis Clinton, home demon
stration agent, gave a talk and
demonstrated methods of mend
ing.
The Marion county federation
of Woman's clubs will meet at
Gates this year on Friday, April
80. The Mill City Woman's club
will assist with the entertaining.
Around Oregon
By The Associated Prew
The Oregon state grange shift
ed its annual meeting, set for June,
7-11, from La Grande to Eugene
. ." . The Oregon racing commis
sion granted a dog racing license
to the Multnomah Kennel club
subject to approval of the western
defense command ...
Lake county-irrigation farmers
were promised ample summer wa
ter supplies by officials attending
a snow survey and irrigation wa
ter forecast meeting at Lakeview
, The state -convention of Ore
gon Garden clubs was set for June
1 and 2 at Pendleton ...
Portland police, enforcing a 9:15
curfew ordinance, temporarily
tailed 60 juveniles ' and released
them upon parental assurances it
: would not happen again . . . Hen
ry Kaiser's Swan Island shipyard
ordered , a - seven-day week for
burners, chippers, and welders but
excluded women and helpers . .
: Mrs. Caleb Simpson, Bend, died
in Portland from injuries suffered
last October when a gate fell on
bar head v . . The forest service
, announced at Portland that a six-
week training course- will begin
Tuesday for ISO volunteers who
will spend their vacations in anti
fire work , - ;-s
; The trial of Johnny Jennings
Lewis, charged with negligent
homicide in the traffic death two
weeks-agd"bf Pvt. Carl Niedzia
kk of the Pendleton air base, was
set to open Monday in La Grande
J. The Coos county republican
executive committee suggested
that Gov. Earl Snell name a suc
cessor for County Judge KJL. Pet
erson, who is retiring to become
director of the state department
cf agriculture - . Sheriff Allen
Clrch of Tillamook county recov
ered the horns to his automobile
Vilhthe arrest cf three men found
.j.ith a large assortment of car
rrts. -
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company at the time 'of the war
; Of. Mlt.):;.; J
In the peace 1 settlement after
the war the. United States want
ed the boundary 'established at
the 49th parallel as it eventu
ally was but the British would
not agree.; At most times, if not
at all , times until the settlement
finally was' made, Great Britain
was willing to make j the Colum
bia river the boundary; and thus
it is claimed by persons who
think of "Oregon" in present-day
terms, that the events of 1843 had
no bearing on the territory's
eventual ' allegiance. But they did
affect the settlement of the "Ore
gon Question." ' j
, In 1818 the matter Was tempor
aruy settled or more acurate-
ly, left unsettled by; a treaty of
joint occupation, whereby the
United States and Great Britain
agreed to leave the region "west
ward of the Great Stony moun
tains" neutral, equally open to
citizens of each nation until a
boundary should be established.
This continued, in so far as the
two governments were concerned,
to be the territory's status until
1846, three years after the first
"Champoeg day."
Meanwhile in Oregon, the
North West company held a fur
trading j monopoly until It was
merged! with the Hudson's Bay
company . in 182L John Mc
Loughlin appeared on the scene
In 1824 and built Fort Vancou
ver. His men explored much of
what now is Oregon; he be
came in fact if not in name its
governor, a sort of benign dic
tator. It was his duty to repre
sent the interests of Hudson's
Bay company, and those inter
ests were linked with Great
Britain's territorial claims. To
day we know though most
Americans a century ago
thought otherwise that he was
much too human and humanl-
Officer Wounds
: I
Shooting Suspect
KLAMATH FALLS, April 10.
-if)-James E. Echer 35, was se
riously wounded by Assistant Po
lice Chief Orville Hamilton Sat
urday. - Deputy District Attorney Clar
ence Humble said Echer was shot
in the abdomen when he drop
ped his hands after the officer
told him to keep them up. Ham
ilton, who sought j to question
Echer about the Wounding of
Woodruff L. Hubbard in the leg,
thought Echer was reaching for a
gun, Humble said, j
The district attorney said wit
nesses told him Hubbard was shot
after an altercation! Two shots
were fired at police j who pursued
the assailant.
Franciscan Father
Dies in California
SANTA BARBARA Calif., April
lO-f-The Very Reverend Father
Martin Knauff, 56,1 provincial of
Franciscan fathers in Santa Bar
bara province which includes Cal
ifornia, Oregon, Washington, Ari
zona, Utah and partj of New Mex
ico, died in St. Francis hospital
Saturday following a long Illness.
'" I . .
Your Country Gives
I Yon A Prescription
5 Keep Well!
I Your country means it, too, . .
when it says that sound health has
become a patriotic duty the first
contribution of a citizen who seeks
to further the program of national
preparedness.
i j That's logical, isn't it? No na- I
i tion, ailing and low-spirited, ever'
put up an effective defense. What
we need now is energy and op
j timism resulting from sound
health-and physical fitness, r l ?
j ; So, may we suggest that you go
i ! "and see your Doctor without fur
; th1 delay. And, of course, we are
. ; ; well prepared to expertly com-""
----- ..1 pound his prescription.
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Than It Is Note
tarian for a dictator's role. ' ;
At this time in Washington, DC,
and throughout the nation it was
taken for granted that! Oregon
belonged to the United States, but
the territory's value was ; not
greatly appreciated. Agitation of
the "Oregon Question" was begun
by Representative John Floyd of
Virginia. His bills proposing oc
cupation of Oregon and political
organization of the territory re
peatedly failed. Finally one was
passed by the house but failed in
the senate.
American challenge to the Hud
son Bay company's monopoly be
gan about 1824 with the gradual
encroachment of such fur traders
as Jim Bridger and Jedediah
Smith. Actual resumption of Am
erican occupation occurred in
1932 when Nathaniel Wyeth and
fiis New Englanders came to Ore
gon. Wyeth's fur trading, salmon
fishing, farming and colonization
scheme eventually failed, but on
his second expedition in 1834 he
was accomDanied by Jason Lee
and his Methodist missionary par
ty who had only limited success
in converting the Indians, but
did actually create the first Am
erican colony here.
But other Americans were on
the way. Wyeth had been asso
ciated prior to his first trip with
Hall Jackson Kelley, Bostonian
who organised 'the American
Society for Encouraging the
Settlement of Oregon Territory.
Kelley didn't get much of a
movement started but in 1833
he did come to Oregon falling
in with some Tennessee adven
turers including Ewtng Young,
of whom more will be said In
later articles. Kelley didn't stay
but Young and some of the oth
ers did.
Jason Lee's missionary party
was augmented in iojs ana ine
"great reenforcement" came in
1840 and founded Salem. But in
1841 when the provisional gov
ernment was begun or attempt
ed, take your choice French-
Canadian settlers owing some loy
alty to the Hudson's Bay com
pany outnumbered the American
settlers: and the population of
the Hudson's Bay establishment
at Fort Vancouver outnumbered
all the settlers about three to one.
Meanwhile the "Oregon Ques
tion" was being agitated again in
congress by Senators Lewis F.
Linn and Thomas H. Benton, and
the "Fifty Four-Forty or Fight
slogan was heard throughout the
nation. "Oregon" was still under
the joint occupation treaty of
1818, extended in 1828 after new
efforts at settlement had failed,
Thus m . 1843 "Or e g o n ' re
mained to be won or lost, and
people in more civilized portions
of the world were beginning to
appreciate its value. The little
settlement in the Willamette val
ley was the center of an interna
tional contest which threatened
to develop into a war. What hap
pened in that settlement was
bound to have some bearing on
the contest's outcome. Several
things did happen here in 1843;
outstanding among them the cre
ation of a provisional govern
ment avowing allegiance to the
United States, and the arrival of
a large number of additonal Am
erican settlers.
Sociological Society Sets
Wartime Session at WU :
Willamette university will be
host to- the northern division of
the Pacific Sociological society
Friday. Dr. S. B. Laughlin, Wil
lamette prof essor of sociology and
chairman of the local committee
lined wartime ' sesskmjr ; . '.
The meeting will begin at noon
with a luncheon at the state hos
pital where Governor Earl Snell,
State Treasurer Leslie M. Scott
and Secretary of State Robert S.
Farrell will be present with mem
bers of the board of control, the
parole board, heads of girls and
boy's state training schools, su
perintendent of the Fairview
home and. the state warden.
Topics to be discussed at the
public meeting at 2:30 p. m. In
Collins hall on the campus will
center around "American Correc
tional Institutions in Wartime"
and "The Sociology of War."
Chairmen of these discussion
groups are David Lockwood of
the -Washington state department
of finance, budget and business
and Dr. Gorman S. Hayner, from
University of Washington, a for
mer Willamette student
Speaking on "Washington State
Correctional Institutions in War
time," will be Richard A. McGee,
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Tractor Mishap
Injures One
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SILVERTON " Jacob Hubert
ML Angel, was brought to the Sil-a
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Juries and lacerations sustained
when he was crushed; between a
tractor and a tree. Severity of his
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night although he was said to bej
resting more easily. : . j
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