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JOSEPH LANE
lint Territorial Governor j
Tbese threo men flxured heavily
From the. diary of Pres. James
IC Polk
Wednesday. 12th July, 18481
learn that after much discussion
today, the senate agreed to a res
olution referring the Oregon bill
and my message In relation to the
organization f territorial gov
ernment in California and New
Mexico to a select committee of
eight members . . .- The object
was to see if a proposition of com
promise upon the subject of sla
very in these territories could be
agreed upon..
Friday, 28th July, 1848 - I learn
ed in the afternoon that the house
of representatives, had, oy a ma
jority of 15 votes, laid on the ta
ble the bill, passed by the senate
on yesterday morning, to compro
mise the slavery question as it re
lates to the organization of terri
torial governments in Oregon,
California and New Mexico. I re
gard 'this vote of the house as
most unfortunate . . . The re
sult of leaving the slavery ques
tion an open one, to be agitated
by ambitious political aspirants
and eamblers and their friends,
will be to produce an organization
of parties upon geographical lines,
which must prove dangerous to
the harmony if not the existence
of the Union itself ...
Monday, 8th August, 1848 - The
cabinet met at the usual hour . . .
I informed them that from pres
ent appearances in congress no
bills would be passed establishing
territorial governments in New
Mexico and
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Wobdburn Stores
To Close, for Burial
Of War Veteran
WOODBURN,: Aug. 12 An
Woodburn stores ' and business
houses will be closed Friday from
2 to 2:30 pjn. during the funeral
, of Pfc Edward Charles Doland,
killed Sept. 3, 1944, In France.
Woodburn business men several'
months ago agreed to close up
during the funerals of Woodburn
. service - men killed overseas and
whose bodies were returned here
for buriaL
Burial win be in Belle Pass! cem
etery following services at Bingo
chapel at 2 pjn.
Animal .Crackers
. By WARREN GOODRICH
"ThA watermelon you sold
bio rtsttrdsj wts hmly id to
m ceBUIlf ago. IIW ires vmac j3. Kinwfj an auiib!
0333306 Recalls
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In the establlshlnt of Oregon as an
13, 185.
(Editor's note: A century aa today congress passed the ktn that
made Oregon a territory i of the United States. It was an occasion for
great celebration fry the settlers In the Willamette vaUey. And tomorrow
the ltoth anniversary of the date President Polk affixed his signatnre
to the hill wBl he ohserred with special ceremonies at Oregon City, the
territorial capital, and elsewhere. August 13 and 14 mark the climax of
this, Oregon' centennial year.)
By Marguerite
Staff Writer.
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Sometimes presidential campaign promises come true: Oregon
became a territory of the United
partly because a handful! of settlers in the Willamette valley took
seriously the political oratory of
The democratic platform in 1844 championed the acquisition of
Texas and Oregon to which. Polk said, the United States had "dear
and unquestionable title.") "Fifty-four Forty or Fight? was the chal
lenging slogan that helped iPolk into office but, while the United States
completed he j Texas annexation
Oregon was temporarily forgotten.
Some historians say Oregon was included in the democratic plank
mainly as a sop to northern abolitionists who figured Texas would be
a slave state and who wanted to
Then, after the election, politicians
the western country because the slavery issue was. getting warm.
Slavery Question Hampers Oregon Decision
It was, in fact, the slavery Question that divided congress more
sharply than the territorial issue
considering the Oregon question a century ago, the issue of equality
for the negro-j as now was hotter than Washington in August. It
brought on the filibuster! by southern senators against the Oregon
bill one of the south's first moves in the direction of secession.
Able congressmen like Jefferson Davis and Andrew P. Butler
were bitterly I opposed to their pro-Oregon colleagues, especially
Thomas H. Benton of Missouri
There was even talk of dueling but
content to doze in cloakrooms while Gen. Henry Foote of Missouri
talked from Saturday morning, Aug. 12, 1848, until 8 ajn. the' next
day, when the 'south yielded to a vote and Oregon became a territory.
The president signed the bill August 14; 1848.
Actually, the little communities in. the Willamette valley were
rather well off In 1847 when they began ! to agitate for territorial
status. The provisional government was satisfactory; it met the
pressing need for laws, and political organization and Gov. George
Abernethy, though unpopular among some cliques, was an able
administrator. j
Senate Inaction Causes Disappointment
The treaty with England resolving the boundary dispute had
been signed the year before and there was no longer fear of war
with the British. California was secured and buying Oregon produce.
Crops were abundant and the health of the' colony was excellent.
But the 10,000 to 12,000 settlers were not content Earlier, in
1847, the house of representatives passed a bill creating the Oregon
territory but the senate failed to act. Oregon heard the unwelcome
news from the immigration trains that fall and the settlers' dis
appointment was keen. ,
That wasn't all that; ailed them, however. They were worried
about the tloose condition of land titles and the disposition of the
Indians. The Indian agent congress had appointed turned out to be
worse than none and the two official postmasters, one at Astoria and
one at Oregon City, were not adequate, j Specifically, the settlers
wanted recognition of the provisional government's legislative and
Judicial acts, grants of land for settlers and schools, a mail service,
a pilot boat and buoys in, the Columbia, a naval station and a; high
way between Oregon andj the States. j
Settlers Object to Secret Appointment
So, whilef other groups were talking jof sending memorials to
Washington, Governor Abernethy, on the advice of a few prominent
settlers and the Methodist mission (and with their financial backing),
dispatched; Supreme Judge J. Quinn Thornton of Salem as an un
official envoy to Washington .The Judge left secretly in October, Just
before the Whitman massacre, travelling to the nation's capital by sea,
and arrived there in May; 1848. !
Meanwhile, Jnany settlers disapproved the method whereby Aber
eethy had appointed Thornton, whom some considered a sissy because
of the fuss' he had made about hardships on the Applegate trail. They
thought their I representative should have been elected. But ! when
jolly Joseph Meek, one of their own kind, eft the Willamette valley
in January, 1848? to report the Whitman massacre and ask federal aid
in fighting Indians, the good wishes of the people rode with him.
The effect of these two men on Capitol Hill was electric Thornton,
dignified, rself-respectingj scholarly, sincere and utterly devoid of
humor, was riiqst successful working behind the scenes.
Meek Oregon's Most Effective Lobbyist ; - .
Joe Meek; on the other hand, was a trapper and mountaineer who
arrived in Washington "dirty, ragged and lousy and made the most
of it. A distant irelative of the president, Meek was. a White House
guest-and soon was as much at ease .in swallow-tail coat as in buck
skin breechesj Meek was! Oregon's best lobbyist and public relation's
man; Thornton was the legal expert and technical advisor.
The men; deserved equal recognition if or their services to the
state but Meek, seemed to get the lion's jshare.. He was appointed
U. S marshal and accompanied Gen. Joseph Lane, newly-appointed
first governor! of the territory, to Oregon City. . . i , ?
Thornton jwas said to have been promised appointment as federal
judge of the territory but reportedly refused to be party to an ex
tortion scheme between the Hudson's Bay company and President
Polk and consequently was dropped from White House favor. He. did
get a job as federal Indian sub-agent but ifailed to please Governor
Lane and died a penniless old man. In Salem CO years ago.
The provisional government which had: been set up at Champoeg
In 1843 was voluntarily laid down when Lane arrived, marking the
end of the mission influence on Oregon politics, and the beginning of
public action toward statehood.
JOSEPH MEEK
United SUtcs Marshal
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Integral part of the United States
(ureron tst UDrary pnotos.;
Centennial
Long Fight
Wittwer Wright
The Statesman
States a hundred years ago today
Candidate! James Polk.
at the cost of war with Mexico,
add a free area to keep the balance.
deemed it convenient to neglect
alone. When the legislators were
and Stephen A. Douglas of Illinois
the confident Oregon faction was
West Repels
Red Invasions
Of Berlin Zone
MOSCOW, Aug. 12.-Cf-United
States, British and French diplo
mats talked today with Soviet
Foreign Minister V. M. Molotov in
the fifth of a series of Kremlin
conferences on the . Berlin crisis
and other east-west differences.
The session lasted for two hours
and forty-five minutes. When it
was over, U. S. Ambassador Wal
ter Bedell Smith said: "We are
still without any conclusions."
Upon leaving the fortress-like
seat of the soviet government.
Smith, British special envoy Frank
Roberts and French Ambassador
Yves Chataigneau went to the
American embassy to discuss the
communications they will send to
their home capitals.
Ne Sign of End
There is no sign that the nego
tiations with the Russians are
nearing an end. Asked by a news
man if there would be more con
ferences. Smith replied: "We
never know that, but I do think
so."
BERLIN, Aug. 12.-;P-United
States and British military police
turned back two Russian invasions
of western-occupied sectors of
Berlin today without resorting to
violence.
The incidents added to the ten
sion existing in this soviet-block
aded city.
In both the Berlin boundary In
cidents the Russian - controlled
forces claimed they crossed the
lines in pursuit of black market
operators.
Harassing Tactics
Charles C. Bond, assistant chief
of the American military govern
ment's public safety branchy said
he suspected the border forays
were "just harassing tactics.1 He
said it also was likely the Russians
were looking for deserters from
the soviet army.
The incident which brought In
tenrention from U. Srmilitary po
lice occurred in the American-oc
cupied borough of Kreuzberg. Ac
cording to American officials 30
Russian military police and 30
soviet-controlled German police
crossed the boundary to round up
Germans living in the American
sector and search houses. The
American police forced them
back across the line.
Climbers Seek
To Add 24 Feet
To Mt. Rainier
SEATTLE, Aug. 12 (JPt Four
Seattle mountain - stretchers are
scheduled to leave town today
to make Mount Rainier 24 feet
taller.
"Make our mountain the sec
ona nignest in tne country or
bust," - they said as they made
for the country's fourth highest
peak.
After California's Mount Whit
ney (14.495 feet) and two Colo
rado peaks. Rainier; at 14,408 feet
comes first. Colorado's Mount
Elbert stands 14,431 feet and
Mount- Massive looms up at 14,-
418.
Chiropractor C. i A. Mittun
plans to correct this humiliation
speedily, however. He will lead
three other climbers to the sum
mit of Mount Rainier and build
mound of rocks ; 24 feet high.
Then our mountain: win stand
one foot higher than Mount El
bert
Then the Washingtonians ser
vice club will try to get the sec
retary of the interior and the
national park service to approve
the tricky maneuver.
If they do. Rainier will offi
cially be the second highest peak
in the nation until some Colo
rado wise-guy decides Mount El
bert needs some rocks on its
head, too. :
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Oregon City Opens
Activities Jlxirking
Oregon Centennial
OREGON CITxV Aug. 12- (JPl
Oregon's Centennial celebration
opened today with tug boat races.
water tug-of-war. log rolling
contests, shows and parades.
Oregon City residents sporting
pioneer garb turned out on the
waterfront for the opening bomb
but didnt hear it. Fearful the
explosion might break windows,
Centennial president Lynn Latou-
rette carried the bomb into the
woods to explode It ;
The detonation : marked the
start of a four-day festival cele
brating the foundation of the Ore
gon territory. The queen, Ariene
Ltone of Oswego, . was crowned
tonight . ; .. . .
FamraiDy Feancfl OTmraaxedl Gw
Ambush Near
Dallas Fatal
To Fred Baley
DALLAS, Ore.. Aug. 12-(Spe-
cial to The Statesman)- A fam
ily feud over a forthcoming mar
riage led to gun-firei Violent
death and a murder charge to
day.
Dead was Fred Baley, 49, route
2, box 300 A, Dallas.
Injured and in the hospital
charged with Baley's slaying was
Amos Sooter, 40. route 2. box
222 Mt. Dallas.
As reconstructed in reports of
Deputy Sheriff Tony Neufeldt
the events appeared to be these:
Baley and his wife, Ida, were
veritably ambushed between 7
and 7: IS this morning as Jhey
drove their 1935 Chevrolet pick
up toward Dallas on the East
Pioneer loop road about four
miles northwest of the city off
the Ellendale highway.
Ten slugs from a 12-guage
shotgun tore into the pickup,
eight of them in a moon-shaped
pattern just back of Baley's
head. The pickup overturned as
Baley slumped, fatally; injured.
Mrs. Baley escaped with cuts and
bruises, and went for aid to the
nearby home of Lawrence Rock
ford. Able te Drive Car
Meanwhile, Baley's killer had
turned the shotgun on himself, I.
but while suffering from
head
and scalp wounds as a .result he
still was .able to drive a 1936
Chevrolet flatbed truck from
nearby concealing bushes, and
proceeded to Dallas. The .killer,
according to investigators, was
Sooter, who was found in front
of Sheriff T. B. Hooker's office
by Miss Delores Smith, a .deputy
tax collector, and G. F. McBee,
courthouse caretaker, shortly be-
fore 7:30 ajn. K
Sooter was covered with blood
from head wounds. He was quot
ed as telling Miss Smith that
he had just shot a man - and
wanted to see the sheriff. Miss
Smith then summoned i Deputy
Neufeldt who asked her to call
an ambulance for Sooter and then
went to the scene of the tragedy
after receiving a call from Sher
iff Hooker regarding it
Followed Quarrels
The shooting followed about 10
days of violent quarreling be
tween Sooter and his wife and
the Baleys over the forthcoming
marriage of John Allen ' Sooter,
19. to Mary Louise Day; 18, fos
ter daushter of the Baleys, In
vestigators said. Sooter; objected
to the marriage, which was to
have taken place today, Accord
ing to sheriffs reports. M
Divorce papers filed ? Wednes
day by Mrs. Sooter charged that
Sooter had beaten her about the
head with a rifle about 10 days
ago. At that time, she and her
four sons . went to live s witn tne
Baleys. A week ago, Baley drove
Mrs. Sooter to the Sooter home
to eather her belongings,! and a
fight between Sooter and Baley
took place, Baley blacking Soot-
ers eyes, the sheriirs reports
state. -
Sooter te Recover i :1
Dr. EL E. White of the Dallas
city hospital said late today-that
Sooter would recover providing
no Complications set in. The fore
front of his scalp was torn away
by the shotgun blast : !
Sheriff Hooxer saia wai ne
had filed first degree muraer
charges against Sooter, and that
preliminary Hearing wouia De
held as soon as Sooter is weu
enough. ' t fJ -
Fred Baley, employ ea at we
Dallas Tannery, was born Oct.
S, 1899, at North Platte, Neb., the
son. of William and Cora . Baley.
Ke married Ida Seeley June su,
ios nt.Greelev. Neb- and they
lived in North Platte until 1937
when they moved to Dallas. He
is i survived by his widow, Ida
Baley, two sons, Fred JR. Baley,
North Platte, and Donald Baley,
San Francisco, a foster daughter,
Marr Louise Day, Dallas, ana a
brother, Thomas Baley, Dallas.
Funeral will be held at 2 P-m.
Mondav. August 18. at the Hen-
kel and Bollman lhapel in Dallas.
Canada IVIay lift
Embargo on Meat
OTTAWA. Aug. 12--An In
formed source forecast tonight that
the Canadian embargo on the ship
ment of beef cattle to tle United
States wiU toe lifted soon. -
While the move would mean
more quality beef on United States
tables, it Is believed the opposite
would, ha true in Cansfla.
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Hospital wiu rolk County Sheriff T. B. Hooker (right) who filed m
first degree nmrder charre Bcalnst Sooter followinsr fatal ahotau
, shooting of Fred Baley. Dallas
wounds were self-inflicted with
swotlen eyes (see Inset) resulted
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Deputy Sheriff Tony Neufeldt efPoDx county points to the slug-riddled
eab of Fred Baley's pickup track in which Baley and his wife, Ida,
were riding to work In Dallas Thursday morning when four shot
gun blasts from ambush killed Baley. Instantly. Mrs. Baley was un
hurt. .(Photos, by Don Dill. Statesman staff; photographer.)
Fred Baley, Dallas, route 2, who
was the victim of a ahotgvn
' blast from . ambush Thursday
morning on the east Pioneer
Loop read about fear miles
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route 2. Thursday. Sooters head
the shotgun . and his blackened.
from a fight with Baley last week.
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cloudy tals morning,- becoming partly
cloudy " la afternoon and clearing by
evenlnc. High today. SO. Low tonlsht.
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SALEM PKCCTPITATION
(Sept. o Ansmst )
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Ad additional 2,000 telephones
will be in operation by October 1
in Salem,' it was disclosed Thurs
day.! Some 1,650 of them already
have been "pre-installed" and
will be connected Into service by
September 15. They will serve
persons who have been on wait
ing lists for many months.
New and additional dial equip
ment - - part of a $500,000 expan
sion in this area's telephone serv
ice - - will go into operation at
1130 p. m. Saturday, September
, and all present four-digit tele
phone numbers will become five
digit numbers at that time, E. A.
Berglund. Salem manager for the
Pacific ; Telephone and Telegraph
company, told The Statesman.
The company is now advising
customers affected regarding their
Soviet Woman
GriticiillyHiir
In U.S. Hands
NEW YORK, Aug. 12U
A - Russian woman teacher
film herself from a third
floor window of the Russian
consulate today and tonight
told a friend from her hospi
tal bed, "I had to get out.f Jl
The teacher, Mrs. Oksansj
Stepnovna Kosenkina, 82, lay c?W
tically injured in Roosevelt hoptt
tal. Her dramatic mid nftomw
leap climaxed an amazln mAr-e
with International ramlflcatiots.
-oiice at tn nospiUl said she
told them she Jumped deliberately.
Later she asked that a White
Russian (anti - communixtl frikrf !
Vladimir Zenzinov. bo hmiM:.
her bedside. ' . -'ij
Police took him to the hospiUlJ
Mrs. Kosenkina lumped into ihm
consulate court yard at 3:20 p. jm.!
ux. one tanaea enmeshed in
wires of a fence. k
Police on suard outside lea
the fence to help her. They reach
ed her Just as consulate employes
picked her ud and carried iw
insiae. orty minutes later
was taken to the hospi'. ?
Took Her to Camp i
4he
Zenzinov. a iournalist.
himself last Saturday as the man
wno spirited the teacher awfay
from New York and to uhii
Russian camp at Valley Cotj?e,
N.Y, 30 miles north of the dtL I
Soviet officials took her rem
there Saturday. Their set de
scribed "rescue" of her brought te
ugnt her story. . ? hi
Embraced Jenmaliat ' Mi
A witness to the meetintf uAA
she embraced the Journalijt, and
nai zenzinov told her "the police
andhe UJS. government were he-!
hind her and that nothing
Asked if he believed Mrs. Ko-I
senkina' had been held at the cin,
sulate against her wilL which tho
Soviets have denied viffonbusilv.
Zenzinov replied with a shrug: ,
-What do you think if a ur.m.
an has to Jump out a window to
get away." . )
Zot L Chepurnykh. Soviet cm
consul who went to the hoepiHil;
to try to see Mrs. Kosenkina, wss
asked about her statement that K. i
nad jumped. He replied: . I I
wnat else could it be" she was
very nervous and kept complain,
lng about the crowds In front cf
the building since her return."! I
He said she left several letters
"but only to her relatives in'Riis.
The police refused to permit
Chepurnykh . to see her. t
Earlier at the hospital Deputy
Chief Police Inspector Edward
Mullins said the teacher told him:
-I did Jump." 1 ,
Police Guard Koom; ; ill
A 24-hour guard has been plact-d
around her, Mullins added, j
, Other events of the day IriclUd
ed: . -j .
A second Russian teacher! Mi
chael IvanoYitch Samarin. Was
questioned by the house committee
on un-American activities, prtjbt
lng charges that A red spy network ;
reached high into UJS. officialdom 1
in wartime. The, committee Hid
he gave no Information pertinent i
to the Inquiry. He read a publitt
statement afterward saying ho
wants to tell about the Russian
people's condition under the Sor:
viet dictatorship." He said he and
ma wue zacea aeata or uxe sen!
tences in a concentration camp! If
returned home. . v I i
Soviet Foreign Minister Moloiov
demanded the "Immediate release
of Samarin and punishment of jail
persons involved hi the "kidnap!
lng of Samarin and Mrs. Kostn
kina. There was no comment from
the state department, but Secretary
of State Marshall had said the tfJSJ
would protect all law-abiding -wit
nesses before the house committee.'
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new numbers, and these will sp-j
pear In the new telephone direc
tory for Salem ana vicinity wwe rt
will be distributed by Septem
ber 4. i
Berglund said there perhaps
will continue to be a waiting Jis-t;
because of shortages In outside
cable and wires in certain tec-i
tions of the Salem exchange, but
that we are doing everything
possible to see that everyone who
wants telephone service can get
it promptly." He said Salem had
experienced a "phenomenal" tel
ephone growth some COCO sine
V-J day, counting the 2.CC0. to be
placed in service In September; i !
Total telephones served by the
Salem exchange by October 1 wil
be more than 17,000 Berglund Mi
niated.
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