Coquille City herald., November 16, 1886, Image 1

COQUILLE UlTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, NOV. 16, 1886.
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never drank either wine or liqu or,, the East an interest in it since 1815, fore asked
the Methodists for the subject so soon after the Lou­
except on great occusionsj to open ami he subsequently played an teachers. But their arrival tended isiana purchase— and, after four
A wasp went Imzzinn to l»i* work.
And various thin*;» did tackle—
the festivities. Jle presided and led important part in the political
ac- to weaken the political power of years of constant effort, had the
M. M. M U R P H Y , M D
II© sum ; a I h >\ mm then a dog.
the conversation, the others being ti< n which afterward resulted in the Methodists.
Where the first satisfaction of seeing his bill fpr
Then made a rooster caokie;
Physician and Surgeon.
No the admission of Oregon to
the two petitions to the United States the occupancy of the Columbia
And last apon a I’lueiux S.i e.al" l n e k . seated according to rank.
Office over Dr. Leneve s Drugstore. He s.-Llieti d<»*n tu tirili!
more time was consumed at table rank of a Territory of the United congress had been signed by river and the establishment of the
He protldi d tin re for li i!f . n 1 our.
than was convenient; tlmre were States.
The other early residents French Cauadiai s
as
well
as Territory of Oregon passed in the
COQl'ILLK Cl I V, OREGON.
And thou—h© l»r<>ke li s hill
present neither gluttony nor in- were scattered French Canadian Americans, the subsequent rnemo- House nnd sent, to the Senate.
ì he NHiieiiHuii oí' ür«‘K«»i.
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tempeiunce.
I f guests were pres- trappers and occasional remnants 1 lials were sighed by Americans Here Barbour, of Virgina, aud
Physician and Surgeon,
In the first volume of his histo- e.it, tin* chief devoted some tint*) of the Lewis and Clarke and Astor only.
Moreover, the Methodists Thomas H. Beutou were among
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ry of Oregon,
Mr. Bancioft be- to tliem; after dinner lie showed exploring expeditions.
thought that the coming of these its champions, in 1825, but their
Call«—day or ni^lu—Rroiuptly attended gins to treat of th *se events in the them the farm and stock, offered
Among these early settlers
was Catholics was at the request of efforts came to nothing, and the
L. F. L a n e .
J ohn L a n e state’s auuals which took place them liorses or guns, or perhaps Ewing Young a man who did McLoughlin, and therefore they subject was occasionally discussed
L A N K <V L A N E ,
I within the memory of living men, made up a party to escort them much to advance the interests of ' turned against him —a suspicion during the next two or three years;
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itilli ( allHSI'llTH ill I iil\
from the coming of the fust Amer whereverthey wish* d to go.
Did the United States in the new Ter-1 wliieli was strengthened by Mc- but it was not until 1838 that any­
Land Cas<?s a Speciality
*CHn 8<*Rl*'riS iu 1834, to the am wil they remain at tlie fort, there was ritory.
It was through him that Loughlin’s joining the Catholic thing of im|v»rtnnce was done.
Ofltceon M a i n s i t e C o s m o i x d i u n o f the first United States Governor, the opportunity to study a whole an authorized agent of the United Church in 1842 though this, Mr. On the 7th of February of that
A- year, Lewis l7. Linn, of Missouri,
Joseph Lane, of Indiana, a veteran pm scum of curious things from all States Government was sent out to ! Bancroft shows, was untrue.
Oregi »n
Koseburg.
of the Mexican war, in March, pnrts of the s a v a g e and civilised examine into the condition of the mong these early priests was l)e introduced a bill “ for the occupa­
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1849. I lie period of discovery and world, all kinds of weapons, dress- country and the American citizens Smot, of whose success the histori­ tion of the Columbia river; the
establishment of a Territory north
exploratiou, which was treated in , es, ornaments, mechanisms, aud there, to Bound them on their po­ an says.
S ig lin & G r a y ,
Attorneys and Counselors At Law, “The History of the Northwest art. When these were exhausted, litical feelings, and to further the De Smet was a worthy member of latitude 42 degrees and west of
Marshfield, Ctsia county. Oregon.
Young, handsome, the Rocky Mountains, to be ended
C o a ^ ” is now succeeded by the , there were the pipe and books, and interests of tlie government; and of his order.
O f f i c i —Holland building, opposite Rlanco
vïnjy ! peritxl of development, anti the the long-drawn tales of evening. it was at Young’s suggestion and intellectual, educated and energet­ the Oregon Territory; the
Hotel.
Spanish race, as an element in the ! Where were met together so many under his direction that the first ic, he was well fitted to make a fa- of a fort on the Columbia, and the
w . SINCLAIR,
history of the western part of the , men of adventurous lives -mari- move was made toward freeing the ; vorable impression upon ti e sav- occupation of the country by a
Attorney at Law,
coutinent, gives way to the Angle»- ners who had circumnavigated the settlers from tlie oppressive bond-1 ages, and to succeed in a field military force; the establishment
General Insurance and Real Estate Agent, !
i Saxon. There is a remarkable eon- i globe, leaders of trapping parties age in which the fur company kept which others had either shunned of a port of entry, and requiring
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1 trast between the methods of these through thousands of miles of ! them. The only animal food which : or abandoned.
On becoming ac- the country to be held subject to
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two races, aud the results
are not wilderness, among tribes of bos- | tlrey could obtain was tlie tlesR of
quainted with the Fatheads he tlie
was revenue laws of the United
! unflattering to the latter
people, tile savages, in heat and cold, in such animals as the hunter* and surprised at the similarity between States, with an appropriation of
Attorney and Counselor at Law,
| Proselyting was not alone
tin* ob- sunshine and storm, contending trappers
qiperi could kill.
There were their religion* practices and those £50,000 for the purposes mention­
M akmiifikld . Oou.
It was refused,
ject of the invaders, and their nietli- always
inhospitable ; twenty-seven head of cattle in Or- of his own creed, but this he ac- ed in tiie bill.”
with the
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I Oils were
accordingly different. whims of mother nature—there • egon in 1825, but these Dr. Me- ! cepted as a proof of the special and the question dragged wearily
Attorney ami Counselor at Law.
Instead of the tender care of the could he but little flagging in the Loughlin owned, and he wamld not 1 power of his religion to impress through session after session —be­
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j aborigines after they had been conversation.
»Sometimes the sto- | sell or kill them under any con- i itself at once upon the minds of ing bitterly opposed by tlie slave-
! thoroughly subjugated; which char- ry was a tragedy, sometimes a com- i sederntion even, as late as 1839, ■ the heathen. The evening of his state men — until the 14th of Au­
J..W. B E N N E T T .
acterized Spanish rule in the New edy; hut no matter what the t»cca- ! refusing them to a British man-of- first day among them was closed gust, 1848. The final passage of
Attorney at Law.
j World. and to which is in part due sion for mirth, discipline was r.l- war, which was compelled to go to in prayer and solemn chant, and the bill in the Senate is thus de­
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the present deplorable condition of ways preserved and propriety re- Yerba Ihiena for them; he was prayer was again offered in the scribed by the historian:
Mexico and C entral America, no at- garded.
1 perfectly willing to lend to the set-! morning.
On the second day he
It had been agreed that Congress
d ju . w a t s o n !
tempt was made to mix the red
However, all these gentlemen had j tiers oxen and cows, but he would i translated to them, with the aid of shonld adjourn on Monday, the
Attorney and tounseior at Law
and the white laces, and the form- taken wives from among the native j u< t allow them to be killed, as be ; an interpreter, the Lord’s Prayer, 14th. and the policy of the opposi­
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er have now almost entirely disap- won en with,.ut the formality of wanted to have them increase and (the creed, and the commandments. tion was to defeat the Oregon bill
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| peared, leaving their conquerors tin- a marriage; and ties so disgusted ! multiply as rapidly as possible. ! In a fortnight two thousand Flat- by preventing the ayes and noes
(notary i ubiic
Almost the
disputed.
It was a “ silent con- tlie only chaplain ever stationed at j This kept the settlers under con- heads knew’ the prayers.
In two i from being taken.
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qu»^t, as Mr. Bancroft terms it, the fort that he returned to Eng- staut obligations to him, until, at months six hundred were admitted whole of Saturday was cousum-
: ed in debate, in which Calhoun,
been an inmate ( tlie instance of Ewing Young,
the ! to baptism.
D L. bTEELE, M. D-, ami its leading features are not land after having
found
in
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bloody
conquest
inspir­
of the fort a
year and a half.
His Willamette Cattle Company was;
Tiie Catholics, however, played Butler ;>f South Carolina, Houston,
Dentist-
ed
b\
the
thirst
for
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and
glory
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departure was hash ned by an un-| formed. This company was organ- but a small part in tiie history of Yulee, Davis nnd other eminent
Ofllr» in Li»; I hiil I bu..Uin>>, opposite and tlie hope of winning heaven’’. usual outburst of tin * doctor’s uis- ¡zed with a capital of 8 2,0(10, of th-; country; the Methodists aud ; Southerners argued the same fa­
Bunco Hotel. L.aii.i.mj,
..im i-,i«er i f, ,| ;owed up with an attempt to gust. It was the chaplain’s duty to ", l.ich McLoughlin furnished 8900, Protest ants, caring less f r souls miliar ground, with no other ob-
anfealiietic*» Hiluiiiiihtereu lor the pain
tirag thè compire i up to thè Inveì brw.irtl a written report to the ! and a paity went t<• Yerlm Buena, than for soi:, were move progress- ject than the consumption of time.
.xtracUoii of teeth.
vini
of tlnwr (Mntjuei'ors; it is a stmuly London council, which he was re- under the leaders!
1 ore numerous besides, Benton only had replied at any
•P i.f Y oung. ivo
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pressure, “trinateti hy tlu* more quinal t. place in M rLouehlin’s and purchased eight hundred and and ■ iiey
on engaged in disputes length. In the eveuiug session,
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gentle pnrposH of a<Mitig to tin* hands 1 ri'tue sending. On reading ! thirty head, of which two hundred with the British ¡oillenities at Fort after a speech by Webster, the de­
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»■iijoynmiits of »*iitii l»y commerce one o, I b.
They prepared and li it- was continued till after mid­
reports, the contents wer»» lost while being driven up Vancouver.
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and
agriculture,
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rombi
ned
with
a
so
incuised
Villi.
he doctor Unit he tie- fn»m California. Mr. Bancroft de- s* lit many memorials the first in night. w hen a motion was made to
funtSf^-Jon’r j«¡litri hs u gniti* tln* ninmlod
¡ hi
explanation
on scribes the hardships ami adven- IS”*2 to the l ni'ed States Con- adjourn, which was defeated. But­
originai iiihabitants.
V seltisli meeliiig tin- wiiter in the fort yard. ; lures of this puroh.-tsing party with gress, calling .attention to the wealth ler then moved t:> go into executive
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AND JLWlM.hK. |)»»licy, perhaps, but nations and The reverend gentleman replied: much particularity -for instance, : of tlie country and to the oppres- session, when an altercation arose
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races are not amr liable tt> the codes “ Sir, if you wish to know why a telling how they spent eight days sions, as they declared, which they as to the object of the motion at
tar Work of all deiwripuons dun© in ».hurt i i»f ethics which govern individuals. ; cow’s tail grows downward, 1 cai anil lost eighty cattle in fording —u fferodatth eh aiidsofth eau th or- that time, ami the motion being
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: After devoting a chapter to a not tell you; I can only cite the the San Joaquin liver.
But the ¡lies at Fort Vancouver.
These ruled out of order, a vote was taken
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I description of the natural features fact.”
I p went
the governor’s expedition attained its object.
It liowr ver, were for some time with- on appeal, and the Chair sustained.
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j of the region and a lief recapitu- cane, and before he was aware of fieed the settlers from tlieir de- j out any impoi taut cffecf beyond the In this manner the night was, like
GENERAL A(ihN< Y t'"- tin- - ii* <>f ( uy ( lation of the more iuqMutant events it he iiatl bestowed
a sound blow pen deuce on Fort Vancouver, and ! expediton under Lieutenant W ilkes the day, well-nigh wasted without
property, houses nnU lot^., tnm>t*r, tarius.
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ranches etc. ofuce in liemid building, j necessary to refresh the mind of upon 1 he shoulders of the impu- where two bund red dollars had whico was described in a former coming to a vote on the Oregon
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lie reader, Mr. Bancroft gives us dent divine.
But his better na- before been refused for a cow, one j volume. In January, 1841, after bill. Toward morning, Foote, wiio
PraucuN. Sc»ow»5 and O imikiuk i \ n . . a graphic and interesting picture ture asserted himself soon after, could now be bought for eight considerable discussion, the Gov-
had already spoken several times,
bpcciai «ttwuK.n (¿ot-n to «1 h . h .* ■« -t »» -m 0f
life led at bort Vancouver and he apologized.
dolhns.
Young had had a bad re- ' eminent decided that,sa the United rose again, when he was called to
dit«MHc. Casevof obstetrics $10; teeth ex- i Iro,n f«g-4-o to loot». 1 In* nstao-
But while these gentlemen were . putation jiniong the residents b e - ; States made pretensions to the
order.
The friends o f the bill,
f or°] thluiu at* i k in ai ut* e u r a* k iai! > th e in eu - ^8*,u,e,d 'VH=» uud**i t ie absolute leading (his Arcadian existence, | fore t his. H e had come to Oregon territory lying between the Rocky thinking the best way to bring mat­
iuated vapor bat h.
rule of I Jr. John McLoughlin, au and incidentally making money for with an indefinite idea of becom- Mountains and the Pacific Ocean, ters to a conclusion was to humor
UiKce at rcnideace in (kMjaill© City.
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i a i L sninau ot gihtil onili, who liad the company, American trappers , mg a ruler over the country, and they might venture to send a sub-In­ the Mississippian, entreated that
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studied medicine in Paris, but had were becoming troblesoine; and, when the illusion was dispelled he dian agent into the cornitiy, to look he might he allowed to proceed;
M o r n in g S t a r LocLg0
thrown up the profession to enter worse than that, tiiei compatriots had won unenviable notoriety by after the intercourse between the and he, declaring his ability to
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the service ” o * f the
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Com- in New England were interesting erecting a distillery.
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But this natives an«l citizens of tlie United speak until Monday night, com­
•Term»*.RViVitinlri?ieiVbcrsloTttns\mi»^m Pan.v> a,u* " ’holiad remained in its themselves in the spiritual welfare achievement won for him the grat- States. But the President was not menced at the his.orv of the crea-
good atandiuK, ur© ourdiaily iuvited.
i employ after its absorption by the ! of the benighted heathen who oc- I itude of the people and placed him prepared to commission a civil tii u, as given in the book o f Moses,
Hudson Bay Company. H e was a copied the fertile valleys of the among the most important worker? magistrate or governor, though the nnd talked on in a rambling strain
man of strong individuality and of Willamette and Umatilla, aud were in laying the foundatipn of their settlers could, if they wished, re­ uutil after niue o’clock Sunday,
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noble character.
Invested wfith sending ont missionaries.
Four present prosperity. Thu precedent gard the agent as a magistrate when it may be assumed that his
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M m U at Coqaillb City every Saturday ©ven autocratic powers, he ruled as Flathead Indians from the head- then established was soon followed among them without definite au­ spirits began to fla*jr, and he ?.•»*(
iag. Visiting brethren, in good standing, much by love as by fear, and won i waters of the Columbia river, who J by the Hudson Bay Company, w ho, thority from the United States. down. J»en‘ n t * mi ? •- i
••rdially invited.
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J. 0. Laird, N. G. the respect and admiration o f all j had heard something of the Christ-1 f hree years later, drove up two Elijah White w*as the man so ap­ recede ir».iu
who came in contact with him. J ian religion from the Lew is and j thousand head of horned cattle and pointed, and he t<x>k a considera­ which I»« hud offered, but which
A. F. and A. M.
Chadwick Lodge, No-68. Around him were gathered a num- j Clarke explorers, visited the East, j four thousand sheep from Cal- ble body of emigrants to the new the House had refused to accede to;
l»er of men o f education and re- nnd asked the Missionary Board of ifornia.
country. No government had ex- and the bill, restored to its precise
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Meetd at Conuill© City on Saturday even i
ing on or befor© the full moon in eacb tinenient, all ofotchincn and En- the Methodist Episcopal Church to
Immigration for half a dozen isted previous to this time— other form as it passed the House, was
mnnth.
glislimon, w hom hard fortune or send missionaries to instruct them | years was constant, almost all the ! than McLoughin’s which was disre- finally passed by the Senate, the
John Goodman,
love of adventure had brought to in the Christian religion; and in ! settlers coming from the United garded by the» Americans— though long and trying ordeal was over,
W. M.
this far-ofi land.
I he historian response to their request such an! States. Mr. Bancroft gives many an attempt was made to form one and Oregon was a Territory of the
G. Ar R.
tho? describes their early life:
j expedition "a ssen t out early in interesting details of the various ex- in 1841, when it was discovered, by United States on her own terms.
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As nearly as possible McLough- i 1834 under the leadership >f Jason | peditions, but they are far too tiu- the death of Ewing Young, that The rule disallowing bills to be
Mo*tn at Coquill© City, on every hrnt i
Wednettday
vistnu; comrade, in K**»d I
mtt*nta*ne<^
^Dsbions of iim. and Daniel Lee.
These men with ! merous to be even briefly summar- there were no laws under w hich a presented for signature ou the last
standing, oordially invited.
nor life in Lnglaud, (he hospitali- their half-dozen companions, were ; ized here. They were chiefly from dead man’s property could be ad- day of the session wras suspended,
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Wright, Commander, i ty, the courtesy, the riding, hunt- the first Americans who veutured | the Methodist and Protestant or- administered: and other attempts and this one was signed on the
G 0 Q H ill6 C i t y C o m m a n d » i iug’ Rlld t*onv« r8Mti<)P*.
^ dinner into the new Canaan with the in - 1 ganizutions of the New England succeeded his installations,but they 14th of August, the President re­
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to rt \ ancouver was a dignified tention o f settling permanently, and Central States; and it is am us- were futile until 1843, when a gov- turning it to the House with a
Ma«ta in thin »lace every lirat and third
a flair, not lacking either but Mr. Bancroft ascribes an equal ing to note the more sedate para- eminent was established which was message, in which he reviewed . the
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Tuesday in each month. All intieberH in in creature comforts or table-talk,
share in the founding of the future phrase of the famous “ Pike’s Peak modeled on the civil and political question of free and slave territory
ood teandig ar© oordially invited.
As early as 183fi
there was good j state to Hall J. Kelley, a Boston ; or Bust” employed by one of thesn code of Iowa.
at some length, deprecating tfie
A. T. Lillie, Connhander.
lining at this post; plenty of cattle, school-master, a religious fanatic ! companies which started from Pe-
In his fourteenth chapter, Mr. agitation arising from it, and pre­
sheep, swine, salmon, game, nnd an and an enthusiast in the matter of ! oria, “ Oregon or the Grave,” Ttie Bancroft gives an exhaustive re- dicting that it would, if not check­
aiuple garden.
The table was set j emigration to Oregon: lie had been ! Catholics, tptY,.were not idle, and in sume “ Oregon before Congress.” ed, dismember the Union.
The passage o f the bill had been
Par* bred Rr»»wu Leghorn and Plynumth off with^a display of fine English collecting information regardiog | 1839 established themselves farther Floyd, of V irgina, first introduced
Boek Ponltry for aale Ly Derward B. Cart- glass and’ruddy wines. No liquors the country of tlie Columbia, and in the interior, among the Flat- the Oregon question in December long »h layed by a fe ;r <>t complb
TeneotlH. T>mi«laa County,
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Mcljoughlin : keeping alive among the people o f
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heads, whose envoys had long b e - 1— it was certainly early lu O luudxa
Orejrwn* were furnished.
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BLOODED
FOWLS.
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