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This and early signing young school ma’t her husband set up housekeeping the first school in Yamhill coun which time changeth not. A c other projects were elaborated They had one stew kettle, in ty. near where Dayton now cordingly in each contract was in a w ay as if intended to ans- which they made coflee, baked stands, by J. Q. Thornton, who inserted a clause to the t my unexpressed queries. bread and cooked meat. They with Ms Wife had shortly before that if “ party o f the Moral little boys shouldn’t be had no stove. They had three arrived in the new country, hav did not teach f certain impatient and despair o f hav batcher knives, which, with the ing lost all their possessions on time after-arriving on the their questions answered. kettle, made up the cooking uten- the w ay. And having been in the coat “ Some day we’ll understand.” her sib . A “ bed with a few feathers” the newspaper business in “ the must be refunded to the “ Settlement o f Sheridan,” was is hated, apd tw o sheets, which states” his loss was doubtless But even this the name o f a paper found re last, however, were made up into heavy. Before the first term had didn’t furnish a substitute boon cently, and naturally I took shirts when the young husband expired however he was chosen fide teacher and as the fair peda second look. The writer,-a char went off to fight indians. She judge o f the Supreme Court! gogues persisted in marry is ter resident, vouchsafed the in avers that seventy-five cents was Rather a prom pt and decided the society, whose prime objs formation thlat the tow n was all the moncyfthey had for tw o prom otion for a country school was the advancement o f educ named “ about the time General o r three years, that amount be teacher even in this fast age. tion and not the running of a Sheridan made his famous raid in g lavished on sugar. The son It was w ith much satisfaction western matrimonial burean, on the democrats at Winchester,” ot this pioneer mother is now that I found last week a copy o f suspended operations. . from which naive remark a guess postm aster o f Portland. the address delivered on behalf Oregon had one pioneer citisen, as to said writers political bias An interesting volume could be o f Oregon in Philadelphia at the M. M. McCarver, or General might be hazarded. He also an made up on the comments made Centennial Exposition in 1876. McCarver as he was called, who nounces with a cheerful bravado by the pioneers upon Dr. John It was delivered by a well known attained something o f a reputa that “ no place on the North Pa M cLoughlip which invariably re Oregonian w ho was commis tion as a founder ot cities. In cific Coast can be compared with fer to him in terms o f profound sioned for the purpose by Gover this respect he is credited with Sheridan for health,” with which The address is Burlington, Iow a, Tacoma, Sac assurance he rests his case. respect, admiration and love. nor Grover. engthy and largely descriptive, ramento, partly, and Lin atoa, He was apparently such a many A few years after Mr. Bancroft sided man that a true estimate picturing the conditions, prod Oregon! A good story "is told ucts and resources o f the state. interviewed the Oregon pioneers o f him is hard to give. Many on him after be had gone south But apart from the realization little incidents are related illu and assisted in laying out Sacra for material on Oregon history, strative ot his somewhat “ spon of the changes which the thirty mento. His family remained in he began on another line among taneous” te m p e r a m e n t. One years w rought, which came to Oregon and naturally he still Oregonians, not purely histori cal. He sent agents through the contributor says he was taking me on glancing through the thought o f Oregon as his b dinner one day with the old doc pages, the paper appealed to me But when the California Consti state getting little biographical sketches <4 citizens, ostensibly to tor. When the latter was say »articularly from its artistic tutional Convention w as ing grace, he stopped and swore standpoint. F or instance, the McCarver w as sent as a delegate be pat in his works, bat really a t his dog which made an un speaker introduced his common from Sacramento to assist in the as a bait to induce the citizen to subscribe for Bancroft’s histories. timely interruption, then turn wealth as “ Oregon, the sunset organization o f the 1 ing, resumed his act o f devotion, sister o f *the Union,” which is One day a measure was intros The agent’s business first and asking God to foigive him for certainly all that could be de duced in the Convention looking last was to take subscriptions. swearing! sired for euphemism. In feet, I tow ard the extention o f the Cali Within the past tew days I have looking through some o f A t one time however quite a imagined for a moment that I fornia line tar «enough north these little sketches, the subjects is reading from some o f the to include the mines o f strong sentiment was worked of many o f which are known to up am ong certain o f the settlers dizzy rhetoric o f a mid-winter Oregon, as it was argued that me., And what I found particu number o f some Southern Cali- Oregon was to be an agricultur again st the good doctor, which larly interesting was not the ornia daily, which editions al al state and not a mineral one, was joined in and augmented by sketches themselves, but the the irresponsible ne'er-do-wells— ways abound with this and like her % southern neighbor. In agent’s ow n comments, often similiar flights, which are re an instant McCarver was on his the kind generally ready even to moved from cold storage once __ with the impulsive words— written at the bottom ot the feet turn and snarl at a benefactor o f sheet, as a memorandum tor Mr. whom they are jealous. Judge every year to do the same o l d a dtizen o f Oregon 1 object Bancroft’s benefit. Being pri stunt. Such for instance as to the seggregation o f any o f her J . Quinn Thornton took up Dr. vate, they were correspondingly M cLoughlin’s case when the lat land *of the sun-down sea,” territory,” not for the moment frank and the expression oftefi ter resorted to legal proceedings land ot the afternoon,” “ land appreciating his laughable posi unvarnished. They appealed o f the son-kissed waves,” etc., tion. Thereafter he was known t o pro tect his interests, and for strongly to a newspaper man etc., ad nauseam. But pretty so doing was rather cordially in the California convention as whose fingers have often itched 'hated by some ot his distin soon the orator swung in on a “ the member from Oregon.” to write the troth tor ju st one verse from “ Beautiful Willa guished client’s enemies. One Almost as long ago as lea n week as it appealed to him. mette,” which ihade me think day on the street in Oregon City remember when Newberg as a Here is a typical comment, some one pointed Thornton out longingly ot home and radtber. tow n wasn’t, I was accustomed t o a man. who replied: “ D----- And when I came to the moving, to the sight o f a wide, deep written o f a man well known rascal—I don’t want anything heart-lifting conclusion, then, trench, q ith dirt thrown up on over Oregon. I found it on the to do with him.” Thornton certainly nothing but “ circum each side giving the appearance back o f the sketch sent in. “ I heard him and turning to him, stances over which I have no o f hnge earthworks. Every time can’t find out any peculiarity ot said, “ I dp not know w ho you control,” and savoring very lit we jolted from home to church M r.----- . He is a conservative are, but from the manner ot your tle o f poetry, prevented me from or to «the country store or to old cuss. He is fond of history speaking to me, I take it that taking the first train home. The mill, in the big farm wagon, we and would like to have the vol you are one of our men in whose speaker labeled his poetic flight crossed this big ditch. I was umes on Oregon very much but worthless body Dr. McLoughlin as the “ reflections o f a resident, told that it was a railroad cut does not like to buy the whole has some time or other been in who when a small boy went to or grade, but I remember that I set. Has bushels o f money bnt strumental in keeping life.” And that land of the setting sun.” never could get an entirely satis, is hard as flint; made a warm And this is the wav it affected factory answer as to why the friend o f the old man however thus it proved to be. and will tackle him after be gets One day last week there turned him. “ I am here—here in this railroad didn’t come. Even from matchless land. Matchless in my limited acquaintance «with your letter in reply to this. Lay up unexpectedly in the mass o f ▼ousel! out on him.” yet unassorted material in the soil; matchless in climate; match moving dirt in the family gar In regard to another man he less in its dark and immeasur den, I realized what an immense Bancroft Library an old unbound adds: “ Not very intelligent, bnt manuscript history o f Oregon able mountain forests; matchless amount o f work had been done tries to appear literary.” And in its peerless peaks ot everlast in making way Tbr the railroad. which was turned over to my the subject of this remark didn’t care by the curator. There were ing snow; matchless in its pure, In fact it rather appalled me. live a thousand miles from New 163 loose, written sheets tied up limpid, perennial waters; match And why, when with the road less in its cool, pleasant, sweet- bed in readiness there remained berg. <X another subject he together in a handle, and the sleeping nights; matchless in its nothing to do but lay the rails, notes: “ Is kind o f an eccentric work was both undated and un life-giving breezes, born on the the matter was allowed to rest old cuss—unmarried.” Whether signed. The hand write, how bosom o f the Pacific and wafted for years, I couldn’t understand. there is meant to be any connec ever looks like that o f Mr. Ban here; matchless in all that God This was one o f the ever present tion between the tw o state croft himself, though I have and nature could bestow in fit sub-conscious mysteries o f my ments. cannot be stated. The never seen anything like it in ting it as a home for man.” follow ing, in another subject, in early boyhood. print. It gives first, an histori Hooray! cal Sketch, followed by a running A few days ago I was handling dicates that there may be. “ Is When S. R. Thurston, Oregon’s an unbound manuscript docu- an old bachelor and as ignorant description o f the state by coun ties, treating briefly the princi first delegate to Congress, start ment o f 81 pages, unsigned and as the d—— , but likes to be pal towns in each. The hotels ed home from Washington via undated. Its subject was ‘.‘ Pro called One o f the pioneers o f Ore- * o f the large places were named. Panama*, accompanying him jection, Organisation and Con. Ron.” W. C. W. Portland is given as a tow n ot were eight pretty New England struction o f the Oregon & Cali about 4,000 people. Its hotels school ma’amSi^ent out by Gov. fornia Railway C o.” Looking Berkeley, California. are—the Howard House, the Slade’s educational society in through it at first idly, I found Metropolis, the Columbian, the Vermont, organised for the pur- it took up in detail the history Marriage Licenses. Pioneer and the What Cheer. pose o f sending teachers to the ol all the early railroad projects Ada R. Thomas age 16, to Eu Portland, Salem, Oregon City West. But the vaung ladies in o f the state and among them, had La Fayette were named in question found avenues o f pro that o f the road for which my gene S. Kirkwood age 21. Irene Everest age 65, to J. A. the same sentence a s being places motion opening up before them old ditch had been made, it being Heater age 53. no less immediate and promising one of the first.' The old qnes* of particular importance! Tam HO. 23 ing to Yamhill county I found Dayton, L a Fayette and Mc Minnville exploited. 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