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THE CAPITAL JO' !.NAI Kaltra, Oregon
Wednesday, April 29, 1953
HARRY'S HUMAN
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Former President Harry S. Truman, vacationing In Hawaii,
accepts an honorary degree of Doctor of Humanities from '
the University of Hawaii in Honolulu. Congratulating him
after presentation Is Or. Gregg M. Sinclair, University
president. (UP Telephoto) -
School Election Set,
Woodburn, April 30
Woodburn A special school
election Is called for April 30,
from 2 to 8 p.m. at the Lin
coln school to authorize the
$118,870.97 portion of the levy
which exceeds the 6 per cent
limitation. The total budget
Is $174,918.23.
AU persons residing In the
Woodburn consolidated school
district who have been regis
tered voters for 30 days or
more and have lived In the
district for at least the past six
months are eligible to vote in
Thursday's election. Property
ownership Is not required.
Members of the citizen's
committee serving with the
school board In drafting the
1853-84 budget were O. L.
Withers, Elmer Wltham, H. F.
Butterfleld, Gordon Luffman
and Homer Wadsworth,
Excitement Gripped
Salem 90 Years Ago
By BEN MAXWELL
The merry month of May 90
years ago brought trie irontler
village of Salem excitement,
apprehension and amusement,
Patch-eye Byrnes surveyed
the molten bottles that contain
ed his stock of whiskey in the
Crystal saloon until Salem's
first disastrous fire struck at 3
o'clock in the morning, May
10, 1863. Then he glanced at
the smirking miners with sore
feet (frozen in the S a n t 1 a m
mines) who hung around the
scene of his disaster.
"Loafers that sat in the Crys
tal all day and never bought
a drink! Dead-beats!" Patch
eye fumed.
He had kicked them out of
the Crystal and it was they,
he guessed, who had fired his
saloon.
"The - - -I" and Patch-eye
gave them a name that Rev.
Thomas Pearne, editor of the
Pacific Christian Advocate
wanted to call Asahel Bush of
the Statesman but never quite
dared to utter.
But the fire didn't stop with
Patch-eye's place. It spread
down the street and burned out
P. D. Palmer's saloon too (that
afforded Patch-eye some small
degree of consolation), destroy
ed the Union House hotel and
a. number of other unpretenti
ous shac's on the east side of
Commercial street between
State and Ferry;
C. P. Crandall and E. M.
Waite became publishers of the
Statesman about this time and
they well may have regarded
Patch-eye's loss and Palmer's
too, as a distinct social gain.
But Dr. James H. McBride was
really a more worthy editorial
target. He was a Republican, a
minister in the Disciples church
and President Lincoln had late
ly appointed him minister to
the Sandwich Islands. They
took after Dr. McBride in their
finest "Oregon style" of vitu
perative Journalism.
"Dr. McBride passed through
Salem last week and it is re
ported that he is enroute on
horseback to Honolulu. Here he
will enter the practice of "me
dersun" and the discharge of
his duties as United States
Commissioner. He had a pair
of saddle bags supposed to con
tain a stock of pepper sauce
and lobelia sufficient to last
during Lincoln's term.' . . . A
sickly season may be looked
for among the Kanakas."
Dr. McBride had scarcely
ridden from sight before a
"greenback cuss" bought a bill
of goods from a Salem store,
deposited it in his wagon and
then drew greenbacks on the
merchant for payment. Forth
with the storekeeper rushed to
the wagon, gobbled up his
wares, returned them to his
shelves and told greenbacks to
budge.
Just then some more gen
erous merchants allowed green
backs a value of 60 cents on
a bill of goods. Others said SO
cents was enough. Anyway the
paper money was working a
veritable revolution In the re
lationship between debtor and
creditor. It used to be that
debtors dodged their creditor.
Now creditors went about
trembling and Watchful' lest on
some unlucky corner they
should encounter one who owed
them money.
During the month of May 90
years ago Thomas Frazer, the
united states assessor, naa
cause to advertise. He was re
minding the home folks that
the federal income tax was due
June 30. Everyone must pay
on net profit, less $600.
It was this less $600 exemp
tlon 'that excused most Salem
folks from payment in 1883.
Civil War Inflation prices had
not yet hit this locality. Com
mercial Market advertised
beefsteak, best quality, 8 cents
a pound; boiling beef, 3 and 4
cents; pork, 10 cents; corn beef,
6 cents.
But 49ers who wanted to try
their luck again joined the rush
to Boise river mining camps
and found conditions different
there. It cost $50 to be a saddle
train passenger between The
Dalles and Boise. In the camps
bacon was selling for six bits
a pound, flour for 30 cents,
coffee at $1.25, tobacco at $8.
Whiskey, said a contemporary
account, was not to be had for
love or money.
Another- government spon
sored advertisement called for
100 local volunteers to serve
three years in the army unless
discharged sooner. Pay for a
first sergeant was $20 a month.
a corporal got $14, a farrier
(blacksmith) $13, a private
$13.
A report had it that 1000
stand of arms had been ordered
to Oregon for home defense.
Just then a vague movement
towards establishment of a Pa
cific Republic was in the air
and the mysterious Knights of
the Golden Circle composed of
southern sympathizers were
supposed to be associated witn
It.
Local patriots were taking no
chances. In Salem an effort to
recruit volunteers for a light
artillery company was afoot
and the government promised
that if 20 young men signed up
they could have the state's can
non located here. (Does that
cannon still exist as the mounU
ed brass gun, dated 1857, now
to be seen on the curb at the
armory?)
A telegraph service of sorts
from Yreka, California, (end
of the transcontinental line)
reached Salem April 13, 1863.
What burned Crandall and
Waite up was the way news
dispatches about the Civil War
reached the Statesman. They
came in garbled, disjointed and
with nearly all names hope
lessly misspelled. So, when Mr.
Strong of the Oregon Telegraph
line was threatened by one who
would shoot him for trespasing
Crandall and Waite accepted
the item as news but with no
word of editorial sympathy.
During May of 1863 Peter
Lorillard, the tobacco manufac
turer, offered local connois
seurs a choice between eight
named varieties of brown stuff
and seven of the yellow stuff.
Glass blowers entertained spec
tators at the courthouse, the
post office moved to the rear of
the Moores and had an entrance
on State street, a new ferry
started operation a half mile
below its well established com
petitor. Prospective patrons
were assured that it could carry
40 head of cattle across the
Willamette with perfect safety
In four to six minutes. '
Then there was H. Smith and
George H. Chance, surgical and
mechanical dentists. Their of
fice was in the Kenyon building
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Actress Shelley Winters appears to like her role as f
mother as she proudly holds her baby daughter, Vittoria
dm, for the camera. Her husband, Italian actor Vlttorio .
Gassman, in Rome making a picture, hasn't seen his baby
girl yet. (UP Telephoto)
where Wiley Kenyon, Salem's
first photographer, sold books
and made portraits. And there
were some among the oldtimers
who dreaded having their like
ness struck by Photographer
Kenyon more than they feared
Dentist Chance's forceps.
There are about 800,000 ac
cidents to human eyes each
year in the United States.
SODALITY. DANCE
Mt. Angel The Sodality of
Mt. Angel will sponsor a pub
lic dance at the Mt- Angel au
ditorium Thursday night, wflh
Eddie Folks and the Mel-O.
Tones providing music for the
occasion. Theme song for the
dance is "Sweethearts." j
The original inhabitants of
Ireland are believed to have
been Scots.
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