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DALLAS, POLK COUNTY, OREGON, DECEMBER 18, 1903
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FROM THE MISSISSIPPI
TO THE COLUMBIA.
MD .DOWN THE -COLDSBU TO
CHAPTER V.
Our family had a strong wagon
which we called the meat wagon.
It , was heavily laden with pro
visions the bulk being flour and
bacon. It was drawn by a team of
two yoke of oxen, and was driven
by a man named George Beal, a
black-eyed and black-haired young
man. who had taught school near
our house in Missouri. About 25
years after arriving in Oregon,
Beal and a confederate named
Baker were convicted of murdering
old man Delaney, who crossed the
plains in 1843. The murder was
committed for money, and Beal
and Baker were hanged for the
crime in Salem. .
We descended a long steep hill
into Grand Ronde valley so late in
the evening that we had no view
of the country, and camped at or
near a small river. The morning
cam.e clear and quite cool, and we
found ourselves in a fine valley
probably fifteen miles long, and
wide enough to be called round,
Early in the morning, soon after
sunrise, looking in a northerly
direction several miles away we
could see a column of steam rising
from the ground like a white cloud,
This they said was from a small
lake or spring.
Some things of the crossing of
the Blue Mountains I remember
quite well. The timber had to be
cut and removed to make a way
for the wagons. The trees were
cut just near enough to the ground
to allow the wagons to pass over
the stumps, and the road through
a 1
tne torest was only cleared out wide
enough for a wagon to pass along.
At one camp in these mountains,
the men greatly admired the
abundance of fine timber. The
people of this immigration even
talked about the possibility of a
railroad being built across the
plains, and yet there were few in
the party that had actual knowledge
of what a railroad was. At this
camp they were talking on this
subject when John East, the same
man I have mentioned in connection
with the Missouri line, pointed to
a very fine grove of fir or pine
timber and remarked that when
they got to building the railroad
he wanted the contract of making
the rails, and said he "I will split
the rail3 right there in that grove."
In passing across these mountains,
we were overtaken by a snowstorm,
which made the prospect very
dismal. I remember wading through
the mud and snow and suffering
from the cold and wet. But the
camp on the Umatilla was a very
pleasant place. The Umatilla was
a sma.l stream, with sandy banks
and bottom. About the stream
were quaking-asps and black haw.
J. distinctly remember the quaking-
asp trees here for the first time,
None of the trees were large, but
they were shapely, like orchard
trees, and afforded a pleasant shade,
The fruit of the black haw was
in demand, for we had not had
any berries for a long time. They
were black and about the size of
buckshot, with a single seed, and
otherwise pleasant to the taste,
The trees were thorny, and grew to
a height of fifteen, twenty or twenty-
five feet. I expect the people ate
large quantities of this fruit. It
was told for a fact that a woman
died during the night we staid
there from the effects of a gorge on
black haws. I ate all I could get time. Let us hope that all re
my hands on, but experienced no covered from their fatigue and
bad results. lived to enjoy a long rest on the
The Indians in this country were banks of "The Oregon."
horses and cattle, but grass was
scarce. The Indians were friendly
and even sociable, and brought late
vegetables from their gardens to
trade for clothes, trinkets, BCraps of
iron, and probably ammunition,
There were pumpkins and potatoes.
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Juvenile Mem
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A. APPLEGATE
an Oregon Pio
THE SEA
neer or i43
ine Indians had no price on any
thing, but would take all they
could get and one Indian wanted
more. He had a yellow pumpkin
not larger than a man's head which
first one and then another made
bid for, until the Indian's head was
completely turned as to the value
of his fruit. After refusing a new
suit of clothes, worth $25, he went
away with the pumpkin under his
arm. Many old-timers will re
member the saying, "Like the
Indian with his pumpkin," even
unto this day.
On account of the lateness of the
season had already had a snow
storm and the scarcity of feed, we
probably did not stop at this place
more than One night. Journeying
from our camp on the Umatilla,
we passed across what seemed to
me to be a kind of Bandy desert,
with at times rocky ground, sage-
brush, greasewood, and occasionally
a few Bmall willows.
We passed Whitman's 'Mission,
(some called it a station) situated
in about such a country as last de
scribed. There was nothing cheer-
ful or inviting about the place
low and very modest looking
house or two, the Doctor in the
yard, and one or two other persons
about the premises is about all
remember of this historic place
where the slaughter was to be three
years later. We did not halt here,
but just passed along by the place,
Some years after reaching the
Willamette Valley, where t he Apple
gate families settled, I heard this
same place, Whitman's Mission,
w v a t .
called vvailatpu, (or saw it printed
Wailatpoo).
We soon arrived at Fort Walla
Walla, on the Columbia river
another Hudson Bay post. The
fort was built mainly of sun-dried
bricks, and the plans were about
the same as those of the Hudson
Bay forts we had passed on our
journey. The train which arrived
here was a detachment of the
company which came out to Oregon
that season, and numbered 10
families and probably 20 wagons,
The entire immigration of 1843 had
been computed at about 1000 souls,
This detachment included the
Applegate families families of the
three brothers, Charles,. Lindsay
and Jesse. I call to mind also the
names of Alexander McClellan,
William Wilson, William Doak,
Robert Smith, John Y. Baker.
Benjamin Williams, Mr. Climan
Elijah Millican, Thomas Naylor,
Almoran Hill, Miles Cary and
Daniel Holman.
Besides the oxen of the teams,
there was a small herd of stock
cattle. Jesse Applegate had probably
30 head, and others had a few cows
and calves. There were also a few
horses. lnia train of wagons
corralled for the last time about 100
yards up the river from the fort,
and near where the Walla Walla
river flows into the Columbia.
A train of wagons, with their
once white, now torn, grease and
dust stained covers, parked on the
bank of the Columbia river, was a
novel spectacle such as had never
been seen before.' The faithful ox
en, now sore-necked, sore-footed
and jaded from their weary march
of week after week and month after
month, drawing the wagons with
their loads from the Missouri to
the Columbia, had done their task
and were unhitched for the last
the fort at Walla Walla, and was
kind and accommodating to the
immigrants. There were many
Indians here bucks, squaws and
papooses and they were often
visitors at our camp. Some of the
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bucks talked English fairly well,
and all were clever at sign language,
There had been mission establish
ments, both Catholic and Protestant,
and this trading post in this part
of the country for many years, and
the Indians had to some extent be
come accustomed to a modification
in their dress and manners. They
were not naked like the Indians
we had been among before.
A young Indian, whose English
name was Ellis, dressed like a
white man, had his hair shingled
or cut short, and was very civilized
in his manners. It was said he
had been sent East to school when
a boy and was well educated. I
think he was a son of the high
Chie; of the Nez Perces tribe, and
would succeed his father. He ap
peared to realize the fact that he
was an important man, and he
conversed fluently in English with
our best talkers.
The Indian tribal names were
Cayuse, Nez Perces and Walla
Walla, and we had many visitors
from all those tribes. There ap
peared to be no hostile feeling
among these people against us, but
some of the immigrants were
prejudiced against Indians of what
ever kind, and were annoved by
the familiarity assumed by them
in their intercourse with the white
people. This probably came near
leading to serious consequences
We boys were more or less tinctured
with this prejudice, and, besides
this, did not realize the fact that
to arouse a spirit of vengeance
among this horde of barbarians
who could muster a thousand
warriors in a single night, mean
certain destruction to every man
woman and child of our little
party.
During the time we remained at
Walla Walla, probably two weeks.
the men were busy sawing lumber
and building small boats. , They
called them skiffs, and one of the
average size would carry a family
of eight persons The lumber was
sawed by hand with a whip-saw
frdm lumber that had drifted to
that place when the river was high.
To carry out the plan of descend
ing the Columbia river to the
Willamette country in these small
boats, it was necessary to leave the
wagons and cattle behind. The
cattle and horses were branded
with the Hudson Bay Company's
brand H. B., and the property was
understood to be under the pro
tection of that company.
I well remember our start down
the river and how I enjoyed riding
in the boat, the movement of which
was like that of a grapevine swing,
Shoving out from the Walla Walla
canoe landing about the first of
November, our little fleet of boats
began the voyage down the "Great
River of the West."
Whirlpools looking like deep
basins in the river; the lapping,
splashing and rolling of waves,
sometimes crested with foam when
the wind was strong, alarmed me
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These attacks increased in frequency and
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(almost a week') my heart beat almost one
hundred and fifty per minute and some
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consulted with four other doctors, but all to no
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Attack
for a day or two at the start; but
soon recovered from this childish
fear, and, as I learned that the
motion of the boat became more
lively and gyratory, rocking from
side to side, leaping from wave
wave, or sliding down into a troug
and then mounting to the crest
a wave, dashing the spray into ou
faces when we were in rough water
the sound of rapids and the sight
of foam and white-caps ahead oc
casioned only pleasant anticipa
tions. Ofttimes when the curren
was strong, the men would rest on
their oars and allow the boats to be
swept along by the current.
Children left to 'themselves, and
not alarmed by those to whom they
look for protection, do not anticipate
danger. As a rule, they do not
borrow trouble. "Sufficient unto
the day is the evil thereof," is thei
motto, and" so, when not goaded by
hunger, yanked up by colic, or
tortured by a stone-bruise orsore toe
a boy who had been traveling a
Summer barefoot through the desert
sands, sagebrush, greasewood and
cactus and peradventure had been
broken of his rest by being torturei
by prickly pears between his toes
now haply being rocked as in
cradle at his mother's knee, might
be overcome with drowsiness and
while dreaming of unromantic
things, (butter and bread, for
instance), pass in total ignorance
of its presence all that grand pano
rama-like scenery along the river,
Which so many clever tourists have
admitted they are not able to de
scribe. i
But I did see some ugly cliffs of
rock, black and forbidding in ap
pearance, along the banks of the
river, some high, some rough barren
and precipitous, while others were
thickly set with timber and brush
Neither did the grown-up people
seem to be delighted with the
scenery along the rj.?erat.. least,
never heard any expressions of ad
miration. A jaded immigrant, how
ever, might gaze upon the face of a
precipice a thousand feet high, with
a crack in it extending from top to
bottom, without being struck dumb
with awe and admiration, or pass
by a lousy Indian and never realize
that he had met one of Fennimore
Cooper's noble red men.
( Continued Next Week )
MRS. MARY J. KUNSMAN
Died at Her Daughter's Home in
Sherman County, Oregon, After
Long Illness.
The many friends of Mrs. Mary
Kunsman will be pained to learn
of her death, which occurred in
Sherman county, Oregon, December
6, 1903. Mrs. Kunsman was
daughter of Mrs. Mary Thorne, of
Falls City; a sister of Mrs. Fred
Raymond, of Nampa, Idaho; Mrs.
Belle Elwood, of Oak Point, Wash
Mrs. Galen Burke, of Edon, Ohio,
and Mrs. Ira Mehrling, of Falls
City, Oregon. Thefollowing obitu
ary notice is taken from the Sher
man County Observer:
"Mrs. Mary Jane Kunsman, aged
42 years, a kind and loving mother,
who had suffered the pains of ill
ness uncomplainingly for many
months, died at the home of her
daughter Mrs. L. Barnum,in Moro,
on the 6th, at 9:30 a. m the 23d
anniversary of her marriage.
"Mrs. Kunsman was very highly
respected by all who knew her, and
the attendance at the funeral
which was held in the Moro M. E.
Church, Monday forenoon, attested
her worth. Rev. Elder delivered a
well-worded sermon on the occasion,
and the music was very appropriate
to the sad event.
"Deceased leaves seven children,
four sons and three daughters, two
of the latter being married. The
sorrowing family wish to thank
the many friends and neighbors,
who so attentively rendered assist
ance through the sickness, and at
the death of their beloved mother.
Peace to her ashes."
Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Kirkpalrick
went to Portland Monday for a
visit.
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ESTIMATE HAS BEEN MADE
Proposed Sidewalk to Odd Fellows'
Cemetery Will Cost $225.
The committees appointed by
the several fraternal orders of the
city to raise funds for the con
struction of a sidewalk to the Odd
Fellows' cemetery met in the" Fire
men's Hall, Monday evening, and
heard the report of the sub-committee
appointed to measure the
distance and estimate the cost of
the proposed improvement. The
committee reported that the distance
from the West end of Ash street to
the cemetery gate is 3610 feet, and
that the walk will cost $212. They
recommended that the sum of $225
be raised, as there will doubtless
be some small items of expense in
addition to the amount of the
estimate.
The report contemplates the
building of a 3-foot sidewalk, or,
rather, two 12-inch boards laid
lengthwise, with one foot of space I
between them. The boards are to
be two inches thick and laid upon
substantial cross-pieces, and se
curely spiked down with 20-penny
nails. The walk will be of a sub
stantial character, and will last for
many years to come.
ine committee hopes to raise
about $125 from the lodges of the
city, and the remaining $100 by
private subscriptions. As Boon as
t is known how much the lodges
will donate, a subscription paper
for the balance will be circulated
among the business men and
citizens generally.
No difficulty is anticipated in
raising the funds needed to carry
out this worthy move, and it is be
ieved that the money can be
secured and the work begun by the
first of the coming year. Everyone
seems interested in the construction
of a walk to the cemetery,,, and
already the committee has received
assurance of generous aid from
many business men and citizens.
Mr. and Mrs. T. D. Hollowell, of
Falls City, passed through town
Saturday on their way to Southern
California, where they will spend
the winter.
John W. Fulton, secretary of the
American Goat Breeders' Associa
tion, writes to friends in Dallas
that he will attend the Fifth
Annual Goat Show and Sale for
Oregon, to be held here January
4-15.
PIMaDlFIJT
The matter of feed is of
tremendous importance to the
armer. Wrong feeding: is
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The up-to-date farmer knows
what to feed his cows to get
the most milk, his pigs to get
the most pork, his hens to
get the most eggs. Science.
But how about the children ?
Are they fed according to
science, a bone tood it bones
are sott and undeveloped, a
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DATE HAS BEEN SET
Dallas Water Cases Will
In Supreme Court
Tuesday.
Be Heard
Next
The cases of the City of Dallas
respondent, vs. R. P. Boise, E. A
Boise and J. A. Coovert, appellants
and the City of Dallas, respondent
vs. Mary E. Hallock and W. W
Bird, appellants, appeals from Polk
county, have been set for hearing
in the Supreme Court, Tuesday
December 22, at 12 M.
These are the actions brought by
the City of Dallas against Judge
Boise and Mrs. Hallock to condemn
a right-of-way and water rights for
the system of water-works now be
ing constructed for the city. The
cases were tried before Judge Bur
nett at the May term of Circuit
Court for Polk county, and verdicts
were rendered by the jury in each
action. The defendants refused to
accept the amount of damages
awarded thm, and appealed their
cases to the Supreme Court.
ine supreme Uourt is well up
with its work, and, as decisions
are usually handed down within
few weeks' after cases are argued, it
is altogether probable that the re
sult of these appeals will be known
early in the coming year.
W. H. Holmes, N. L. Butler and
J. E. Sibley are attorneys for the
appellants, and W. T. Muir, of
Portland, appears for the city.
OBSERVATIONS.
E. H. Harrison, the railway
magnate, passed through this city
on a special train, Tuesday.
Jefferson Review. Such is fame I
ine money which Uallas was
forced to spend in securing a right-of-way
for the water-works system
would have purchased a rock
crusher and an engine to run it.
And the people will not soon forget
the fact that all of this needless ex
pense was caused by the stubborn
ness of three or four individuals.
Some day Dallas will have good
streets constructed of crushed rock.
That will be when the water-works
are completed and the business
blocks of the city are sewered.
"What is nicer than a cozy
home, a loving husband and mother,
sweet children who are growing up
to be manly men and women?"
asks the, editor of the Daily
Astorian. Can anyone answer?
At this moment, we cannot for the
life of us think of anything more
interesting than a sweet child who
is growing up to be a "manly
woman."
In the 64-page Industrial Edition
of the Portland Evening Telegram,
we read with astonishment that
"Dallas is a prosperous town in
Yamhill county, second only in
importance to McMinnville." And
all these years a lot of us had been
fondly hugging the delusion that
Dallas was the county seat of Polk
county and one of the best adver
tised towns in Western Oregon.
All the newspaper talk that is
going the rounds to the effect that
Ex-Governor Geer has purchased
the Salem Statesman in order to be
in a position to reward his political
friends and punish his political
enemies is in bad taste and uncalled
for. Mr. Geer has not written a
line that would justify such a con
clusion. He is not built on that
plan. Whatever else may be
charged against him, the Ex-
Governor is not a man who harbors
petty spites and grievances against
tboee who do not happen to believe
as he does. He is a dignified and
forceful writer, and is making the
Statesman what it should be an
ably edited paper. The ranks of
Oregon newspaper men received a
valuable addition when Mr. Geer
took up the pen.
If the members of the Oregon
Legislature desire to make a hit
with the people, they can do it by
winding up the business of the
special session in about two days.
No longer time is needed in which
to transact the business for which
they are called together.
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In our last issue we published a
report from the Massachusetts Mo
hair Plush Company on samples
of mohair sent them by U.S.Grant,
of Dallas, Oregon. Mr. Grant sent
samples of hair from the same
bucks to S. B. Hollings, the well
known mohair expert of Bradford,
England. As will be seen by his
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with the American manufacturers
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"Your two samples of mohair
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samples, but form a standard to go
by: both samples are wholly free
from kemp.
"S. B. HOLLINGS."
In order that Mr. Hollings might
see that the samples were not from
specially picked animals, upon re
ceipt of the above letter Mr. Grant
sent him samples of hair from each
of the fifteen bucks he had remaining
on hand. ,
Mrs, U. S. Grant, who has been
undergoing medical treatment in a
Portland sanitarium, returned home
Saturday, greatly improved in
health.
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