THE COQUILLE VALLEY SENTINEL, COQUILLE, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 4, 1932
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An apostle of gloom, going from
house to house on a solicitation cam
paign, and uttering the prediction
that half the Coquille bueiness houses
would be closed in another six months,
that the bottom was nowhere reached
yet, and that the worst is yet to come,
is not doing any good for himself, and
he arouses a feeling of resentment
on the part of those who know his
predictions have no foundation.
Coquille, like all the rest of the
country, has been going through try
ing times, but conditions are not near
ly as serious here as they are some
places, the number of idle men is not
so much greater here than it usually
is, and all in all, Coquille and its citi
zens should be thankful that the low
est point of the depression haa been
passed and that, slowly it is true, the
upward swing of the pendulum is an
indication of brighter times ahead.
Pessimism never cured anything
yet; and the gloom spreaders are un
welcome.
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The long predicted shake-up in the
state highway department has come
at last. According to announcement
from R. H. Baldock, new head of the
department, three veterans of the or
ganization are to be retired April 1.
There are W. D. Clark, northwest di
vision engineer; Lewis P. Campbell,
equipment engineer; and J. H. Scott,
market road« engineer.
Scott has
been with the department since its
creation in 1917 and Campbell and
Clark have been with the department
for more than 12 years.
In addition to the release of these
three veterans the reorganization
plans as announced by Baldock pro
vide for a consolidation of the duties
of several of the divisions, the release
of a number of minor employees and
a further cut in the salaries paid to
engineers in the higher brackets.
The post of assistant engineer, held
by Baldock for the pa«t elevon years,
will be left vacant in the new organi
zation; C- B. McCullough will bo re
tained as bridge engineer; 8. R. Pro-
bert will be retained as office en
gineer; J. N. Bishop, former mainten
ance superintendent, will continue in
that capacity in addition to which he
will take over the duties of equipment
engineer now performed by Campbell,
and E. G. Smith, former division en
gineer, will be placed in charge of
construction and surveys.
The five divisions into which the
state is now divided will be reduced
to four. William E. Chandler, now in
charge of the Grants Pass division,
will be transferred to the Salem divi
sion; E. A. Collier will be shifted from
Salem and placed in charge of the
Granta Pass division; K. D. Lytle, re
cently promoted to charge of the
Bend division, will remain there and
W. C. Williams, now resident engineer
at LaGrande, will be promoted to the
post of division engineer in charge of
the Eastern Oregon division.
Elimination of the market roads en
gineer, according to Baldock, will not
affect the department’s program with
respect to the improvement of sec
ondary highways which will hereaftei
come under the direct annervision of
the local division engineers. Baldock
declares that the economies being put
into effect in the department will re
sult in a saving of 3285,000 a year.
In recognition of his bravery in
rescuing his 19-month-old nephew
from a burning building Arthur
White, Jr., of Cams« Valley, Douglas
eounty, has been made a Junior State
Fire Marshal and presented with a
badge of honor by A. H. Averill, state
fire marshal. Arthur whose home is
in California was visiting with his
sister, Mrs. Lonnie Denn, in Camas
Valley at the time of the fire. Both
the boy and his sister were showered
with biasing nil when the kitchen stove
e
Between 20 and 25 school superin
tendents and principal* are expected
to attend a conference on junior high
schools which C. A. Howard, state su
perintendent of public instruction, has
called for Salem for Friday and Sat-
urday, this week. Twenty-one Ore-
gon cities now maintain junior high
schools, according to Howard.
Refusal of Charles Bond, Pendleton
merchant, to accept a position a« as
sistant superintendent at the boys’
training school at Woodburn lends
color to the rumor that Bond was an
applicant for the superintendency of
the school and had been led to believe
that the plum was to be his.
An
nouncement of Blond’s employment
was made last week by State Treas
urer Holman as a member of the
board of control. The announcement
had hardly had time to sink in when
Bond" countered with an announce
ment of hi« own to the effect that he
could not be happy in the job which
had been offered him and declining to
accept.
Story of Battle Rock as
Told by J. M. Kirkpatrick
Thirty-four years ago a “Pioneer
History of Coos and Curry Counties”
was issued from the Capital Press in
Salem.
Its compiler was Orvil,
Dodge, father of the justice of the 1
peace at Myrtle Point, E. A. Dodge. '
The volume contains a great deal of I
interest to the present generation and '
from time to time the Sentinel pro
poses to reprint portions of it Our
first will be from the chapter entitled,
“The Hero of Battle Rock," which will
appear in two or three installments.
Capt. J. M. Kirkpatrick, who re
lated the story of that fight with the
Indians back in 1851, to Mr. Dodge,
was a prominent character in this sec
tion for many years, and Jos. Collier,
who lives on the river below Fat Elk,
«aid last Saturday, morning that as
a boy he never tired of listening to
Capt Kirkpatrick, whose recital of
eariy day incidents was mors fascin
ating than any fiction ever written.
The following is in the captain’s own
words:
I was working in Portland, Oregon,
at the carpenter trade along in the
latter part of May, 1851, when a
friend of mine, by the name of
Palmer, introduced me to Capt Wm.
Tichenor, who was at that time run
ning an old steam propellor called
the Sea Gull, between Portland, Ore
gon, and San Francisco, California.
Before introducing me to Capt. Tich
enor, my friend told me that the Capt
wanted eight or ten men to go down
on the steamer with him to a place
called Port Orford on the southwest
eoast of Oregon, where he intended to
make a eetttement, lay out a town
and build a road into the gold dig
gings in Southern Oregon and that
all who went down with him should
have a share in the town he and his
partners were going to build. His
partners were Mr. Hubboard, purser
on the Sea Gull, and tKe Hon. Butler
With fouT candidate«—two republi
cans and two democrat«—already filed
and two more republicans expected to
enter, the race for the congressional
plum in the first district promises to
be a lively one. C. C. Hulet, of Al
bany, and Emmett Howard, of Eu-
jene, have already filed for the re
publican nomination and James W.
Mott, present corporation commission
er, and W. C. Hawley, present con
gressman, are both expected to file
their declarations «oon. The demo
cratic race will probably be limited to
William A. Delsell of Salem and Har
vey Starkweather, of Milwaukie, both King, then chief in the custom house
of whom have already filed with the in San Francisco. After I made the
secretary of stat«.
acquaintance of Capt Tichenor he
painted the whole enterprise in such
Most of the boys committed to the glowing colors that I was really in
state training school for boys come fatuated with the prospect. He told
from small towns and country dis me that there was not a particle of
tricts rather than from the larger danger from the Indians, that he had
ritiea, records of the institution show. been ashore among them many timys
Of 50 boys received at the school over and they were perfectly friendly, ao
i four-month period 36 were from the I went to work to hunt up a party to
zountry and only 14 from the city. go down with us on the Sea Gull.
Petty larceny leads the het of crimes
I gathered together eight young
responsible for the presence of boys
men who were willing to go down on
in the institution with incorrigibility
the trip. Theifr names wefo J. IL
a close second.
There are only . 82
Eagan, John T. Slater, George
boys in the institution at the present
doubs, T. D. Palmer, Joseph Russey,
time, thanks to the parole system un
Cyrus W. Hedden, James Carigan,
der which several hundred boys have
Erastus Summers and myself, making
been placed out in good home« over
nine in alL Capt Tichenor agreed to
the state.
furnish us arms, ammunition and
supplies, and take us down on hi«
Approximately 12,250,000 of federal
steamer. He told us all to get ready
funds will be available for road work
to go as he would sail from Portland
in Oregon thia year, Senator McNary
on the 4th of June, 1851.
haa informed Governor Meier. This
We were ready and sailed from
will be only a trifle less than Uncle
Portland
on time. On the 5th we ar
Sam spent on highways in this state
rived in Astoria. I had been.selected
last year.
by the party as the captain of the ex
State officials and employee« con- pedition so I went to Capt. Tichenor
tributed nearly >20,000 ont of the I t and told him I wanted to see the arms
January pay checks toward the relief he was going to furnish us to defend
ourselves with in ease we had to fight.
of the unemployed.
“Oh,” he said, “there ia no danger
from the Indians.” We then told him
R. A. Easton’s Weekly Letter that we would go no further unless he
An editorial in the Oregonian of re furnished us with arms to defend our
cent date mentions the estate of selves. He then went ashore and
Thomas F. Ryan who died in New bought, at a junk shop, three old
York in 1928. The assessed value of flint lock muskets, one old sword that
the estate at that time was 135,164,- was half eaten with rust and a few
110. The inheritance taxes asseaeed pound« of lead and three or four
against the estate at that time and pounds of powder. We told him that
now payable are 25,055,659. At that he had certainly brought us a hard
time the stock he held wa^worth 87,- looking outfit of arms to fight Indians
084,728; now its value is 28,449,67«. with. "You will never need them,”
The editorial Mid it is probable that said he, “but having them will make
Just
the whole is not worth more than you look dangerous anyway.”
50,000,000. You who are good in sub then a young officer from Fort George
traction may learn how much there is stepped up to me and told me he had
left when twenty-five millions plus is a very good United States rifle be
taken from fifty millions.
By the would let me have at cost, viz.: 320.
time the doctor and the undertaker, I went ashore with him and bought
the lawyers and the court get their the rifle and also some ammunition.
fees there will be another subtraction It proved to be a magnificent shooting
and the estate that is left will be a gun. Our entire armament consisted
small fraction of the assessed value now of one U. S. rifle, belonging to
in *28. Thomas F. Ryan was a liber mywelf, one six «hooting rifle belong
al helper; that which he gave away, ing to Carigan, three old flint lock
he saved.
muskets, one old sword, one fine
W. C. Hawley has made an honor shooting revolver 38 cal., one pair of
able record in Congrees equalled by derringers loaned to me by a friend in
few. He is a man whose word is de Portland for the trip, about five
pendable, regardless of the clamorous pounds of rifle powder and ten pounds
whoopee of irresponsible factions.
of bar lead. This constituted our en
This primary campaign is the time tire outfit to defend ourselven with
for republicans to do their duty as when we left Astoria on the evening
those who desire honorable and intel at the «th of June, 1851.
On the
ligent service from their repreMnta- morninig of the 9th we tended on the
tives; not as followers of political beach just below Battle Rock. There
beach combers.
were a few Indians in sight who ap
When Cleveland rsn for President peared friendly, but I could see that
the first time a Long Island Sound they did not like to have us there. I
fisherman who was a republican told told Capt. Tichenor that I did not like
a fellow republican that he was not the looks of thing« at all and those
going to vote the republican ticket Indians meant mischief. There was
"I am going to rote for Cleveland.*’ one thing more that we wanted and
“Why, what is the matter with yonT” that was the old cannon Capt Tiche
“Weil, it ia just like this: for some nor had on board the Sea Gull.
He
time now the fish have not been biting laufhed at us at first for wanting it
well, my catches are small in number but when we told him we would not
and size, and I believe if we have a stay without it he studied a little bit
different president the fish will bite and then said all right he would send
better."
it ashore.
He «ent his mate with
Some folks seem to think it is one of my men, Eagan, who wm an
Hoover’s fault because the fish don’t old man-of-wars man, back to the
bite and that the groundhog saw his steamer for the gun. They soon re-
shadow,
R. A Eaaton.
turned bringing the cannon and cop-
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per magazine that contained three or
four cartridges each holding two
pounds of powder. As soon as the
cannon arrived the Captain bid us
goodbye and left for San Francsico,
saying he would return in fourteen
days and bring a better supply of
arms and more men to aid him in his
enterprise. After he left we lost no
time in making our camp on what was
to be called Battle Rock as long as
Oregon has a history. We hauled the
old cannon to the top of the rock and
placed it so as to command the nar
row ridge where the Indians would
have to crowd together before they
could get to the top of the rock where
we were camped.
About half way up to the top of the
rock there was a bench of nearly
level ground about thirty feet wide,
from that to the top of the ridge was
quite narrow. After getting the gun
in place Eagan and I went to work
to load it and get ready for the fight
that I felt was coming. We put in a
two pound sack of powder and on 'top
of that about half of an old cotton
shirt and then on top of that as
much bar lead cut up in piece« of
from one to two inches in length as
I could hold in my two hands, then a
couple of old newspapers on top.
We then primed the gun with some
fine rifle powder and trained it so as
to rake the narrow ridge in front of
the muzzle and the gun was ready for
business. We cleaned up all our
other arms and loaded them ready for
use. Just as soon as the Indians saw
the steamer going away without us
they appeared very cross and ordered
us away making signa to us that they
would kill us all if we did not go.
Then they left for their camps down
the beach.- On the morning of the
10th they were back again in larger
numbers and shooting arrows at M
from too great a distance to do us any
damage.
About 9 o’clock a large
canoe, containing twelve
warrior«,
came up the coast from the direction
of Rogue River. Among them was
one tall fellow wearing a red ehirt
who seemed to be their leader. As
soon as the canoe touched the sand
they all jumped out and carried it out
on the beach. The follow in the red
shirt drew a long knife, waved it over
his head, gave a terrible yell and,
with at least one hundred of his
braves, started for us with a rush. I
stood by the gun holding a piece of
tarred rope with one end in the fire
ready, as soon as the Indian crowded
on the narrow ridge in front of the
cannon, to let them have the contents
when it would do the most execution.
The air was full of arrow* coming
from at least a hundred bows. James
Carigan had picked up a pine board
about 15 inches wide, 8 feet long and
1.3 inches in thickness.
He stood
right behind me and held the board in
front of us both. Thirty-seven ar
rows hit the board and at lent half
of them showed the points through it.
Two ef my men were disabled. Palm
er was «hot through the neck and was
bleeding badly; Ridoubt was shot in
the brent, the arrow sticking into
the breast bone and making a painful
wound, and Slater ran and laid down
in a hole behind the tent. Thia left
six of us to fight it out with the In
dian« who still kept coming. When
they were crowded on the narrow
ridge, the red shirted fellow in the
lead and not more than eight feet
from the muzzle of the gun, I applied
the fiery end of the rope to the prim
ing. The execution was fearful, at
least twelve or thirteen men were
killed outright and such a tumbling
of scared Indians I never saw before
or since. Th« gun was upest by the
recoil; but we never 1 «topped for that
but rushed out to I them and soon
cleared the rock of «11 the live war
riors. We counted seventeen dead
Indians on the rock and this was the
bloody baptism that gave the name
of Battle Rock to our old camp at
Port Orford on the 10th day of June,
1851.
Some incidents that occurred dur
ing the battle are worth relating.
There were two warriors who passed
the crowd and were not hit by any
of the slugs of lead fired from the
cannon. One of these, a big strong
looking Indian, made up his mind that
he wanted my scalp; as soon as the
cannon was fired he rushed to me
with a big knife. Carigan shot him
in the shoulder and Summers shot
him through the bowels and still he
came on. He made a lick at me with
his knife, which I knocked out of his
hand with my left, when he grabbed
for his knife I pulled one of the der
ringers from my pocket and shot him
in the head, the ball going in at one
temple and out at the other.
He
turned then and ran twenty feet and
fell dead among the Indians that were
killed by the cannon. The other In
dian went for Eagan whose musket
missed fire, as the Indian was in the
act of fixing an arrow in his bow,
when Eagan hit him over the head
with the barrel of hie musket bending
it more than six inches.
The blow
stunned the Indian and as quick as
lightning Eagan jumped at him and
took has bow away, he then jumped
back and turned his musket and gave
him three or four blows with the butt
knocking him entirely off the roock
into the ocean.
(To be continued)
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