-interesting Historic Letter
Believed Written by Leslie
By BEN MAXWELL
A letter, undated and not signed but obviously by the hand of
Hev. David Leslie, Methodist missionary here in 1837, and a sketch
of Leslie's home as it appeared in 1856, are possessions of Lewis
Judson, Salem resident whose grandfather landed at Fort Van
couver from the Lausanne June 1, 1840.
Leslie arrived at the old mis-
gion near Wheatland September
20, 1837. He was accompanied
by h.s wife and five daughter
and was the first missionary to
brinp his wife and family to the
northwest Pacif c coast. He be
came Jason Lee's assistant su
perintendent Misfortune dogged Reverend
Leslie throughout life. First his
home and all his furnishings
were destroyed by fire, when
utensils and clothing were hard
to come by 110 years ago. In
1841 his long suffering wife
died leaving him with five
daughters to care for.
Lured Back to States
September, 1842, found Leslie
resigned from missionary serv
ice and resolved to return to the
United States if need be for the
benefit of his family.
Aboard the Chenamus, ready
for sea in Baker's bay, Corne
lius Rogers obtained the hand
of Satira Leslie in marriage. She
was then 15. Rogers and Satira
returned to the Willamette val
ley with the two younger of
Leslie's children.
In Rev. David Leslie's letter
addressed to Dr. Charles Pitt-
man, secretary to the board of
managers of the Missionary So
ciety of the Methodist Episcopal
church, Jason Lee's policies are
staunchly defended. He laments
that ill-chosen missionaries have
quitted the service and returned
east to make allegations about
wasted church funds and mis
sionary speculation. He empha
sized that the missionary
should not suffer himself to be
distanced far by the Indian
U. S. Buying No. 1
Oregon Potatoes
Portland, Nov. 6 &) The de
partment of agriculture will be
gin support price buying of No.
1 potatoes in central Oregon
and the Klamath Falls area next
week.
Department officials announ
ced they would begin buying be
cause market prices were dropping.
They said about 30 carloads
would be bought daily for the
rest of the month.
The department previously
had been buying No. 2 potatoes.
Growers will receive the f o b
support price of $2.95 a hundred
pounds for No. 1 potatoes. No
2's bring half that price.
Staytbn Art Club
Elects Officers
Stayton Monday night's
meeting of the Stayton Art club
In the high school was well at
tended with a demonstration of
textile painting presented by
Pat Woods.
Genevieve Poole was elected
president of the club for the
coming year, and Mrs. R. J.
Manley- was elected secretary
treasurer.
Work night will feature the
next meeting, December 6,
when members will work on tex
tile painting or any other art
work they desire.
trader so long as the soul of man
is of as much value as the skin
of a beaver."
He foresaw a dense and nu
merous population in the Wil
lamette valley and urged Meth
odist support for a school
"where children of white men
can be instructed in all branches
of an English education."
Birth of an institution that be
came Willamette university may
be attributed to this vision by
Reverend Leslie. Then the
white population in the Willam
ette valley was counted as 160.
Letter Not Mailed
Why Leslie did not send this
letter to Dr. Pittman may never
be known. Perhaps it was the
draft of a perfected message dis
patched by a later express.
Misfortune again struck the
family of David Leslie. A canoe
bearing Rogers, Satira and Au
relia Leslie was swept over the
falls at Oregon City drowning
all three. Another child left
to be educated in the Sandwich
islands sickened and died there.
Salem's Methodist church for
merly organized in 1841 had
Leslie as its first pastor. He was
a member of the board when
Oregon Institute was born in
1842 and contributed $500 to
ward its foundation. He con
tinued to serve after the school
became Willamette university
and laid the cornerstone for
Waller hall July 24, 1864. "Fath
er" Leslie died in Salem on
March 11, 1869. He is buried in
the Oddfellows' cemetery.
Rev. George Gary, Jason Lee's
successor, sent to Oregon to liq
uidate the mission properties in
the Willamette valley, did not
like "Father" Leslie very well.
Gary remarks in his diary:
"I never had any idea a good
man and a minister could scold
so much and be so unpleasant in
his family as he is, until we came
here to board.
But Gary was dismantling
what Leslie and others had la
bored so long and strenuously
to construct. T. T. Geer, who
as a youth knew Leslie well
admired him, as did Lewis Jud-
son's father who chose him to
be his guardian when another
man might as well have been
selected.
Sketch Shows Date
The sketch of the Leslie home
now owned by Mrs. Robert Jud
son of Cloverdale, bears the date
April, 1856, and is initialed
A. B. R. in a feminine hand. This
unknown artist says the view
was from Rattlesnake hill, as
Fry's hill was known 92 years
ago, and concludes with the
word "Kultis." This Indian
word means bad, indicating the
obscure artist of pioneer times
viewed her own limitations with
some amusement.
Stuart Bush, his great
grandson, acquired the Les
lie property in 18 6 1 and
in 1877-78 built the dwell
ing facing Mission street
now familiarly known as the
Bush house. Then the Leslie
home was moved across Mission
street to a location on the blind
school- site where it continued in
some usage after the state insti
tution was located here in 1895
Old timers recall that it was
dismantled many years ago.
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Four Corners Garden Club
- Gets Ready for Christmas
Four Corners, Nov. 6 The Rickey Garden club held Us regu
lar meeting at the community hall in charge of Mrs. Waldo Miller.
The club voted to cooperate in the charitable drives of national
importance.
Plans were made for the Christmas party for December 2.
asked to begin
Sketch of Rev. David Leslie's Home in April 1856 Un
known pioneer artist views Leslie home from Rattlesnake
hill (Fry's hill) 92 years ago and acknowledges her sketch as
"Kultis," meaning bad in Chinook jargon. This old house,
later moved across Mission street to become a part of the blind
school property, once occupied the site of Asahel Bush's home.
University Chest
Drive Open Monday
The Willamette university
chest drive will be set into mo
tion Monday when each student j
will be asked to contribute one i
dollar toward the total goal of ,
$1800.
The drive, the first of its kind
on the campus, will have-the
purpose of consolidating all of
the money raising campaigns
into one. The World Student
Service fund, YWC'A, YMCA,
Salem Community Chest, March
of Dimes and the cancer fund
will benefit under the program.
Aside from individual contri
butions a variety show will be
offered November 13, the pro
ceeds -of which will be added to
the drive.
Lumber company at North
Bend.
The unions prevented loading
of the company-owned ship, Ro
land, last September, the NLRB
complaint said.
Poland Envoy Says
U. 5. Building Bases
Paris. Nov. 6 (U.I?) Poland's
Julius Katz-Suchy charged be
fore the United Nations political
committee today that the United
States is establishing military
bases in Spain.
"We all know that the United
States is trying to build an em
pire reaching far beyond its 70 Mile Typhoon Sighted
Error Assures
Landon Victory
Albany, Nov. 6 The race be
tween Max Landon, and Earl
Mason for election to the state
legislature is not as close as was
reported Thursday, County
Clerk R. M. Russell announced
Friday.
Clerk Russell explained that
in the addition of the Lebanon
No. 6 vote to the total an error
of 600 was made in Mason's fa
vor.
As corrected the
counting of the county's 62 pre
cincts give Landon 7295 and Ma
son 6673, a majority of 622 for
Landon.
Members were
saving and collecting rummase
for the January sale. The r e -spouse
to the plant and bulb
exchange was excellent. Mrs.
A. C. Shaw of Salem Garden
club brought a large collection
of plants and flowers for ex
change. Mrs. Blanche Stuait
and Mrs. Oscar Mcllnay were
also visitors. Mrs. A. H. Mess-
man. 416U Macleay road, ano
Mrs. Harold Halfman, Macleay
road, became members. There
were 22 members present. Hos
tesses were Mrs. Jess Mcllnay,
Mrs. Waldo Miller and Mrs.
Harvey Meyer.
Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hees of
Salem have purchased the Dav
is property at 420 South Elma
avenue. The families moved last
week. Mr. and Mrs. Davis mov
ed to Shaw where they are
building a new residence.
A hunting party composed of
Jess Mcllnay, Waldo Miller, Wil
lard Pederson, Donald Meyer,
Harvey Meyer and their father,
Oscar Meyer, of Silverton, bag
ged three deer and three rat
tle snakes. It is unusual to see
rattle snakes remain out so late
in the season.
Visitors in the Chester Paul
sen home were Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Eastham, Judy, Tommy
and Nancy, of Toledo and Mr.
and Mrs. E. Mills of Lebanon.
Mrs. Mildren Corning, 290
Mahrt avenue, will spend the
winter visiting relatives in Bill
ings, Mont., Minneapolis, Minn.,
and Blunt, S. Dak.
Rickey school will hold open
unofficial house Monday night from 7:30
to 9 o'clock. Parents and friends
are invited to come and see the
work the children are doing and
meet the teachers.
Capital Journal. Salem, Ore., Saturday, November (I, 191 S
Battle Looms
On Senate Post
Portland, Nov. 6 The bat
tle for house leadership appar
ently wag over, but a four-iua i
race for state senate presidency
continued here today.
Rep. Frank J Van Dyke, Med
ford republican, left for home,
claiming pledges from 40 of 'lie
60 house members to elect him
speaker.
Those In the sernte rac smII
here trying to corral votes Wt re
Republicans William K. Walh,
Coos Bay; Carl Engdahl. ppun'e
ton; Rex Ellis, Pendleton, and
Angus Gibson, Junction City.
Confusing the situation was a
move by the ten democrats n
the new senate to vote as a bloc.
PTA Board Meets
Hubbard The executive
board of the Parent-Teachers as
sociation will meet Monday at 4
o'clock In Miss Ruby Kennedy's
room. Plan are being made
for 'Men'i Night' at which time
the men will be in charge.
and Mr. James Drury and son
John. Prof. Drury is on sabbat
icall leave from the University
of New York. They are spending
the winter in Beverly Hills,
Calif., where their sons are in
school. The Drurys maintain a
residence in Salem and were
called here at this time by a fire
which completely razed a new
house just completed and fur
nished. At the close of school
in the spring they plan to re
turn to Salem.
Mrs. Robert Milts and Mrs.
Glen Woodry were co-hostesses
at the latter's home Thursday
evening to the One Dozen Roses
club. Mrs. Russell Millet, Mrs.
Magdalena Sutter and Mrs. Leo
Childs were reported ill. Mrs.
F. A. Boyington was able to at
tend again after three months
absence. Next meeting will be
with Miss Etta Sutter.
Homer Bales and his son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs.
William Bales, left Saturday
for a week's trip to Los Angeles.
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Three CIO Unions
Face NLRA Charges
Portland, Nov. 6 Pi Charges
of violating the national labor
relations act were filed against
three CIO Coos Bay maritime
unions here yesterday.
The national labor relations
board asked an injunction in
federal court against the unions
the Longshoremen and Ware
housemen's union, -the Marine
Cooks and Stewards and the Ma
rine Firemen, Oilers, Waterten-
ders and "Wipers association.
They were accused of pei-
suading employes of the Coos
Bay Booming company and oth
er transportation firms to boy
cott products of the Irwin-Lyons
borders," Katz-Suchy said. "It is
using what Senator (Robert A.)
Taft calls 'dollar diplomacy.'
"We know that bases are be
ing established in the United
Kingdom, Spain, North Africa
and the Pacific.
"We know how the United
States, despite protests, has re
fused to evacuate bases on
Greenland."
Manila, Nov. 6 M The wea
ther bureau said today a typhoon
with winds at the center of 70
miles an hour would be 285
House guests of Mrs. Ross
Wood for ten days were Prof.
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Roll Developed
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35c
storm is moving slowly toward
the Philippines.
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DANCE!
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SATURDAY NIGHT
WAYNE STRACHAN
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Newell Is Manager
Silverton Leslie G. Newell
of Seattle, Wash., assumed the
business managership of the lo
cal Sprouse-Reitz store in Silver
ton this week, succeeding Ben W.
Chamberlain who tendered his
resignation from the local estab
lishment. Newell is unmarried
and is making his temporary
home at the Silverton hotel.
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