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ASHLAND DAILY TIDINGS
scale has succeeded in the thost startling fashion, just
across the Canadian border.
“ This congress of the United States cannot ignore
these tacts without exposing itself to the gravest dan
ger of condemnation by the people when it realizes that
Editor, the Muscle Shoals water powers have been given awav
covered with a silk high topped hat. 1 knew him well.
There have been a number of histones of Oregon
(Established in IS ? « )
Several other efforts were made by these early expon-< written, and many newspaper accounts put out. but the
ents of a road between Port Orford and Rogue River Vab histories have all embraced the whole Oregon country be-
P u b lish ed E very E ven in g E xcept Sunday by
ley,
and as I am now writing a plan is on foot to build ^¡-ginning with the overland exploration of Lewis ’ and
ASHLAND PKINTINQ CO.
road;down Rogue river and up to Port Orford, with «¡Clarke, 1803-6, which go entirely beyond the scope of this
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good prospect that jiot many more years will pass without | work Walling’s history was written to cover Southern
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the scconipiutunent of tins desirable feat.
¡Oregon, especially, and is the only »-ork that has been
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e ntered a t th e A shland, Oregon P o sto ffice as Second C lass Mall M atter'
ihe efforts which I have just narrated, stimulated; written in which continuity has been observed in giving
WILLETTE
’S
QUEER
IDEA
by the discovery of gold in the Siskivous, were more ¡the details of the Indian wars of this section. This work
Subscription P rice, D elivered In City
Willette Kershaw, an actress, is about tp sue for a potent in attracting the settlement of home builders than as 1 have before stated was published in 1884, just forty
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1.95 divorce from "her husband, a so-called poet named David
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in building highways into the mines. It was not long un-i years ago, and is now out of print. It also covered much
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’ til gold was discovered at the mouth of Rogue river and J of Oregon history not directly connected with this section,
7.50 Sturgis.
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Willette was acting in London. David threatened to the famous Gold Beach mines attracted many, through The population forty years ago, hardly justified so elabor-
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1.95
kill
her
if she would not marry him. She had him arrested whose infatuation for digging the yellow metal estab-¡ate a volume. One will occasionally meet with copies of
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3.50 and jailed. Let the rest follow in her own language:
• < lit
nslied there a market for 'the farmer and dairyman and this work among the families of the ‘‘Old Settlers” and
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x “ I got him out, and then I married him, I thought the country became rapidly settled. The home-makers 1 perhaps in many of the libraries There are however’
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that any man who would go through all that must love ^ T L re? l aiUi d 5111(1 pr°8pered lon*
gold-hunting) many people, grown up since then, or newly arrival, who
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me devotedly, and I thought he was marvelous, the way mania ceased.
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desire to possess a reliable history of the events which he
he talked of the philosophy of Christ.”
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.25
Arising irom the effort to establish cohimunication has so carefully given, but to whom his work is not avaii-
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But married life was all thorns and no roses; and between Port Orford and Rogue River Valley, the coun-l
R a tes fo r L egal and M iscellaneous A dvertising
l&ble, nor èven known. Bancroft’s work is a vakiable com
David
frequenlty thrashed his spouse.
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try between the Umpqua river and Port Orford became pendium dealing with all of the Indian tribes af the Pacific
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Willette must hgve a very peculiar conception of Jove known and explored. In these various excursions the
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if
she
believes it either to be born of a homicidal mania, value of Coos Bay as a future port of entry impressed it Coast, and the settlement of its various sections, all of
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which differed, one from the other according to the con
or to be the parent thereof.
self on tlie explorers and the character of the country was dition of things pertaining in each area dealt with. That
WHAT CONSTITUTES ADVERTISING
“All future events, where an admission ¿harge is made or a
In the early days of Christianity, men sought to make favorably advertised. The fertility of the various valleys, work was published in 1884, thirty-six years ago,’and is
eoriectlea taken is Advertising.
atonement for their sins by various methods of self-flag s’dch as the Coos river valley, the Coquelle river valley,
' No discount will bo allowed Religious or Benevolent orders.
out of print. Besides, Bancroft’s work embraces so great
ellation.
Beaer
slough,
New
river
and
the
river
called
the
Sixes,
at
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This poet rliapsodist over the philosophy of bhrist tracted many settlers. The Indians were whimsical, as a number of volumes as to be beyond the reach of most
N«/dsaations to charities or otherwise will be mads in advertis-
•og or Jah printing— oar contributions will be in cgsh.
evidently thought to do penance for his offenses through will, appear from some of tlie narratives already given, people. A few sets of this work are scattered here and
there but are not attainable to the large number of read
ihe vicarious method of mortifying his own flesh by beat sometimes kind, considerate and helpful, while at other
ers who might desire it. It, too, 1ms separated the various
MORE ON THE CHILD LABOR ISSUE
ing his wife.
times exhibiting great barbarity. Like all the other In episodes of Southern Oregon history, by inserting between
When the Women’s" trade, union league and similar
dians of Southern Oregon they were thieves and in their them other historical matters which pertain to sections
organizations were fighting a few years ago for more
It is easier to be reconciled to Wall Street if you promises were not to be relied 'upon. During the years of
of the country far removed from the region we are inter
»fringent regulation of child labor by state governments, won’t try to beat it at its own game.
1851-2-3, the country became thoroughly explored adding ested in learning about. It, therefore lacks the verv desir
powerful manufacturing interests pleaded with them to
to other attractive features extensive beds of coal around able quality of continuity. . 1 find this true also,’ of the
transfer their ri^its to a campaign for federal regula
Old King Cole was a merry old soul; a merry old soul the head of the bay; extensive tracts of what has been
tion, on the ground that non-uniform legislation by states was he. He called for his moonshine liquor bowl, and named Port Orford cedar created astonishment at the “ Centemal History-of Oregon” by Joseph Gaston, which
was put out in 1912. All of tlrese works and others I have
on the subject worked a hardship on those states which called for his antidotes three.
magnificance of the trees. This timber, like tlie Sequoia not mentioned, cover an immense reach of time and coun
had the more liberal laws. These interests pledged their
seems to be approaching extinction as a species, and is try, which, lor the purpose of a comprehensive historv of
support and aid to federal regulation. Now they are op-
Correct this sentence: ‘‘Well, well,” he murmured not known to exist elsewhere t,han in the Coast range and the great Northwest, made it out of the question to ¿ive
X»osing it much more violently than they ever opposed cheerfully, ‘‘here I am drawn for jury service.”
along the coast between the Umpqua and a point not far separate attention to Southern Oregon, which, at the time,
state regulation.
below the California line. The value of this timber has was considered of secondary importance to the more pop
That is one class—the most powerful one—of the op
The surprising thing about people is that most of since the early days been fully verified and hasjurnished
ulous and rapidly growing sections, farther north. Times,
position to ratification of the federal child labor amend them have just as much sense as vou have;
to this region one of its most valuable assets. The main however, have changed all this, and the extended area
ment. It is flooding the country with prdpaganda, much
bodies of forest consisted of yellow fir and spruce, which lying between the earlier growths, both north and south,
of it masked under anonymity. The other class of opposi
has been an enriching source of revenue. In the valleys now demands more attention from the historian.
Pioneering in Southern Oregon
tion comes from people who believe that further exten
and along the streams grew in magnificent form a timber
by C. B. Watson
Again, time is required to give perspective and a bet
sion of federal powers in law enforcement is unwise. The
known, as Myrtle? It is an evergreen with great spread
ter
and
more comprehensive viewpoint, eliminating tem
motive of the first named class is wholly selfish. It is
ing
branches
and
grows
tq
large
girth,
though
not
to
a
(Continued from December 4)
porary jealousies and the aggravating differences that
interested in the commercialization of the labor of chil
great height. Its leaves and young twfgs are very arom are inevitably sources of prejudiced judgment if obtained
dren ana it does not want to lose the profits that it is • . Savages thronged the shore armed with bows and atic and yield an essential oil that is said to have large
making therefrom. The motive of those of the second arrows, loiig knives and war clubs, and were upon them medicinal value. The wood is hard and is a splendid ma immediately after the cause of differences have arisen.
named class is sincere and not to be questioned, though the moment they stepped ashore. T ’Vault afterwards de terial for ornamental work and has been found of great With a better knowledge of the country", we are able to
one may differ with their views.
clared that the first thing he was conscious of was being value in the manufacture of furniture: The soil where see how early mistakes might have, been avoided, and
The federal child labor amendment will be before thè in the river fifteen yards from shore and swimming. He the myrtle grows is very rich and productive; hence much better able to do justice to all parties concerned. The im
Oregon legislature next month for adoption or rejection. glanced toward the shore and saw only a horrible con of this splendid timber has been destroyed in the course mediate eoast line of thè interior valleys are separated
There has been assumption in some quarters that it will fusion.* He heard yells of savage triumph mingled with of clearing up the land, and as the quality diminishes ifs irom each other by mountains and jungles that required
1 e ratified with little opposition. We think the assump the sounds of -blows and the jshrieks of his unfortunate commercial value is enhanced. The development of the long patient anji dangerous exploration befdte the two re
tion is not fully justified. An influential member of the companions. At the same time he saw Brush in the water coal njines, situated on the immediate shore-lines of Coos gions were brought into reasonable relations with each
state senate in a county near us is-reported as saying that not far from him and an Indian standing in a canoe Bay 'wah early a source of great value and soon occupied other. We have seen the efforts made to secure better
he will oppose it actively. Not one mqpiber of the Jack- striking him on the head with a paddle, while the water many miners and vessels to carry tlie crut-put to market. facilities to supply miners and settlers in the interior and
the tedious undertakings to reach Rogue River valley
ron county delegation has said públicly that he will sup was stained with blood.
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Many sloughs where the tide rose and fell furnished ex irom points on the eoast where supplies might he landed,
port it. So if conditions in the «Jackson county delegation
At this' juncture occurred ail incident such as is used tensive pasturage and invited operations in dairying.
are typical of conditions among legislators generally the to embellish romances, when a woman or a child in the About the bay and these inlets geese and ducks, with other hence we have discovered that Indian troubles were incur
amendment will be defeated here. It is hard to imagine midst of savagery displays those feelings of humanity fowl were, in great abundance inviting'the hunter to easy red on the coast at the same time when the most serious
Oregon, which has always been counted a progressive and common to all men. While the two men were struggling and abundance of such articles of food as they furnished, complications were arising in the interior, without the pos
a humanitarian «state, voting no on such a measure as this lor their lives in the midst of the stream a canoe shot while the "streams swarmed with great quantities of fish, sibility of co-operation by the forces in the separated dis
tricts.
one. But it may come to pass,
from
the
opposite
bank,
hi
it,
Standing
erect
was
an
In
including
the
salmon
and
salmon
trout.
The
head-lands
à
In the fall of 1851 after the discovery of gold at Rich
dian lad, who on reaching the .spot,'assisted them into along the coast yielded great quantities of mussels, rock- Gulch the rush of settlers and mind's precipitated matters
NATIONAL ELECTION FIGURES
the canoe, handed them a paddle, then springing into the oysters and edible barnacles,, while atriow tide an abun m the regions being settled and also along the coast at
The final official fabulation« of the popular vote cast water swam back to the shore. They succeeded in get dance of clams were easily procurred and sea crabs were
for president, just issued from Wàshington, shows that ting to the land, and stripping themselves crawled up the easily caught with a garden rake along thè shores of the ¡mints from which it was sought to supply the miners
Coolidge received a total of 15,718,187 votes, and a pop bank and into the thicket without once standing upright. hay. The growths of brush and shrubs was very dense gnd settlers. Tlie mouth of Rogue liver, Port Orford an’{l
the (’oquelle river, were seriously engaged with the sav
ular plurality of 7,339,827. For Davis therè were east Striking southward through the jungle tfyey struggled on and traveling through it was equal to tropical jungles.
8,378,962 votes and for La Follette 4,822,319. Thus Davis’ as rapidly as their terrible plight, permitted and at night Rhododendron, azalias and other flowers produced a gay ages simultaneously with the campaigns goiug on in
Rogue River valley and the forces employed could not
pluraality over La Follette was 3,556,643. Oregon gave for emerged on the beach, reaching Blanco the following effect to these jungles. All of these things attracted tlie
Coolidge 142,579; for Davis 67;589 and for La Follette morning, where Indians received them kindly, and after attention of .pioneers into these regions and in many eases co-operate. We have therefore to deal with each separate
ly. In the interior there seemed, at first, no regular con-
68,463. TÍrus Coolidge’s plurality in Orégon was 74,116, taking hare of them for a day conveyed them to Port Or changed the searchfor'gold to that of a longing for “ a ’cert
of action among the Indian tribes and the’ d c7 ^ d i
while La Follette received a plurality over Davis of 874? ford. T ’Vault was not severely wounded, but Brush had cottage by the s e a /’ Even gold was found on the beach - ----- -------- •
aepreda of
tions were widely separated and consisted in attacks
Notwithstanding the great victory for Coolidgp, the part oi his scalp taken off by one of the long knives. Both among the ‘‘Black Sands,” and on the river'Sixes and single
individuals, or small parties. We find that there
most impressiye thing shown by the figures—or at least were suffering from famine and bruises, and believed other streams which produced a rush, and with some re
was apparently an understanding and concert between the
the one that should be the most"impressive to the two themselves the only survivors. But in about two weeks newed the gold fever.
Indians of Rogue river and those of Northern California,
major parties—is that nearly 5,000,000 voters of the Unit it was ascertained that others of the pgrty were living,
All of these things tended to modify the emotions and and a disturbance in one of thebe regions bad its immed
ed States recorded by their ballots their lack of confidence namely; 'Williams, Pavenpoft and Hedden ’the other five purposes WitR which these early invaders first entered iate effect in the other.
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in either of those parties. Probably there were mbre than having been murdered, their companions hardly knowing these parts and braved the hardships and dangers th&t
About the middle of May, 1851, and before the rush
5,009,000 if we count in those who voted for candidates how.
met them on all sides until they had learned to deal with ! into Rogue River vallev thrnn u iutn , ««v
i
them.
Many
clashes
were
had
with
the
saVages
before
the
.....—
wh,te
luel‘
conducting
a
other than the three named. The indication is unmistak
Bancroft says: ‘‘With this, signal disaster terminated
pack-train,
were
camped
near
where
Phoepix
now
is
in
able that they did not like the records.
the first attempt to reach Rogue River Valley from Port country was really subdued, but from what I have related
Sober judgment of the voting majority prompted a Orford; and thus fiercely did the red inhabitants of this it will be seen that there was not lacking a stimulant jus this valley. They were accompanied bv two Indians that
recoil from the dangers of unknown seas for which La region welcome their white brethren.” The difficulties tifying the venture. In other parts of this work I will were supposed to be friendly. There was but one gun in
the crowd, owned by a man hv the name of Dillv. During
Folletteïsm was haeded Nevertheless, 5,000,000 are a which grew out of this and similar encounters, will ap have something more to say about the dangers and hard
the night the Indians arose, killed‘Dilly with his,own gun
great many voters. It will be worth the while of repub-' pear in narratives of the wars of 1851-3.' The personal n a r ships of those who flocked here; the growth of cities and
Jican and democratic party leacjprs to-bend their efforts iatives»of many of the adventurers of this period of at towns; the building of great saw-milling plants and.ship and escaped, taking the, mules and packs with them. The
remaining two white men got away and'spread the news.
toward finding out why the 5,000,000 are dissatisfied and tempted settlement and exploration of ’Southern Oregon, yards; the developing of a harbor second to none between
to correct such of 4he causes^of dissatisfaction as are legi are among the most thrilling stories of adventure to be the Columbia and San Francisco, which tended to throw A company of thirty miners was raised at ‘‘Shasta Butte
timate ones. The burden of the duty is, of. course, úpon found in alkliterature, but it ¡^impossible to embody them Port Orford into tl\e shade. The building of roads'into the City,” (now Yreka) by Captain Long of Portland, bent
the party in power: If this is not done the li,000,000 may all in narratives of this kind. I find as foot-notes in*Ban- interior was'to occupy the energy, enterprise and capi on punishing the savages. These packers were packing
go on and' grow, under the La Follette banner or some croft’s works many of these thrilling taleg, and ,am in tal of thepe settlers to the limit but was destined lo suc- lor the miners of Northern California, therefore their
oonzt
„ aw
' e- a
1 .4- !
j
,
------• “vengers were proiærly from that section. This comnanv
o th e r.'
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debted largely to Bancroft for a very large part of the eeed, until nrtw we find splendid paved highways and j moved north, aud at some place not stated encounter«!
Right here in Oregon we have more than 68,000 of experiences along the coast of Southern Oregon. We must radroads inviting not only commercial relations with the' a band of Indians Which tliev attacked killing two am
these dissatisfied voters In Oregon radicals are com not forget that practically all of the coast line from the interior, hut beckoning pleasure seekers to the splendid —
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paratively few. Not many, therefore, of ¡the 68,000 who noith shore of Coos bay to the California line was, by the beaches and resort’s built upon the shore of the ‘‘Sundown capturing four, two of whom were daughters of the chief,
who were held as hostages. It is not.stated what was done
are dissatisfied in this stale are radical. Yet La Follette act of «January 12th, 1852 made a part of Jackson county. Sea.”
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with the two male prisoners. Presumably they were kill
entran Davis in Oregon. These facts indicate a problem
Notwithstanding these tragical efforts under the di
ed, for that seems to have been the custom Adopted in the
that is worthy of consideration. Indeed, it is one that rection of Capt. Tichenor, lo find a road from Port Orford
Vay of reprisal, regardless of proof? that the parties be
Chapter Eight
will demand consideration sooner or later?
to the interior, the efforts were not abandoned. Port Or
My readers ha^e now been brought, by as continuous ing disciplined had anything to do with the crime for
ford received much advertising and was declared-by many a narrative as I have been able to make, from the date of! whlch the-v were made to suffer. Casual mention is made
WILLIE GETS PEEVED
to be the best and most practical site of a great port be thaJedediah Smith(tragedy at thè mouth of the Umpqua of otller h°stile occurrances in Rogae River valley and
William Randolph Hears! fceems someAhat peeved at tween the Columbia and San Francisco. Many schemes river ip 18$, dpfrm to the discovery of gold at Rich GulchJ ”ear t,ie
affair. On .June 1st, 1851, a
this statement the other day in Washfegton before a con have been inaugurated and many surveys lmve been made (Jacksonville) and the organization of Jackson count# , ld of In<?ians attacked a party of twenty-six miners
gressional committee by Edward J. Clapp, editorial writ by the United States looking to the accomplishment of in 1853. We have Observed many tragical episodes, re-i
were driven off without casualties to the whites. On
er for the Hearst newspapers: 1
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this great object. Nor has the enthusiasm of interested lated many adventures and witnessed the most startling1 * tlle lollow,ng day four men were attacked and robbed
‘‘J have always held Senator Underwood as a man of parties waned up'to this time. I t was in these early ex settlement of this wild and extensive region. We have ,"d.lde (,n ^ leir way to the mines; their mules and packs
the highest ideals and a gentleman. I have never believed plorations discovered that a wonderfully fertile country seen the attitude of (¡he natives ahd commented upon the eill& taken away from them. On the same day and near
that he was dishonest.”
of large extent in the immediate neighborhood, along reasons therefor. We have noticed the effect of this rapid
aame place, “ Niclpls” pack train was robbed of a
The publisher must have disliked’that statement by ¡the Sixes river, New river and the Coquelle yiver beckon- settlement upon the. increased jealous activities of the / iuni^)er °f animals and packs and one man Was wounded
his editor consiaerahly, for he saw fit to reprove it in a ed the settler, the farmer, dairymen and stock ralfeers, natives, and have discovered the aggressions of inliuman J" ^ le ^eel bv a bullet Other depredations followed near
public statement.
i
when made aware of its desirability were stronglv
strongly tempt-
tempt- white men as one of the serious sources of trouble for the the same place immediately and it is reported that a pack-
Wliatever the publisher may think of t^ie editor’s ed to run all risks in hope of the ultimate reward. Cap- less vicious who desired-to live in peace
i
peace wjth
wjtli the
th native'
__ __ train lost four men.
cpinion concerning Oscar Underwood, he certainly can tain Tichenor saw it, was seduced by it and |ook up his tribes. M e have ^Jso seen thè trend of this increased rest
(To be Continued)
not dissent from the following conclusiofi to Qlapp’s tes home alongside of Battle Rock where his little four pound lessness among the Indians as thte ‘ invaders grew more
timony:
‘ '
z
Z
er played such havoc among the savages on that .memor and more numerqus and exacting. That sepous wars
Eugene -^ A ssociated Oil will
‘‘The truth is that public regulation x>f electric able occasion. Tichenor was quite a wonderful man and were close at hand all believed and we now have arrived h l? akrid^ 7 3’°x? "ien h8Te
ran i
n
^ 7 CUt'° ff : bUi,d
distribution sta-
light ratefcin this country has failed. - . \ \
was for many years a leading members of the Oregon legis at the point ‘when we must enter upon-the startling events railroad. 43 miles completed be- / tion, to employ 8 men
‘‘Public competition on a small scale has succeeded, lature. He was a man to attract attention around the hegnining in 1851 and culminating in the ‘‘Wars of 1853-
a“d ° akridgi ’ and 31
Sutherlin
Ppcal cannery em-
out
of
65
rem
ainingmHes
grad-
ploys
115
people
and will wor<
as in Omaha aud Cleveland. Public operation on a large capital or at Portland, always well clad, dignified and 1855 and 1856.”
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