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VOL XX.
NEWBEEG, YAMHILL 00
, THUB8DAY, I f AHOH 26.1908.
than Supreme Judge
tions came back, and here, after
the country school
so many years in a musty old
the Early D ai« in
found.
One
of
them
document,
was the answer!
Old O ncoa
had also heard vaguely in my
Governor Gaines, another
Under the title o f “ Women Pio
youth of the projected greatness
Wilson and others thus
neering in Oregon,” a “ ‘pioneer-
ot Dundee Junction—o f f . mysti
limit their sphere o f
cm ,” w ho crossed the plains as a
cal railroad to ran across from
But tfie educational
girl o f thirteen years and was
which sent them out w otted o somewhere in M arion county
married at the age o f fifteen, tells
and conneet at the new hub o
the ways o f ambitious and
In December, 1848, w as opened
o f the ontfiit with which she anc
railroad activity. 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. The latter
was described as “ a pleasant,
quiet little village of about 200
inhabitants.” H ow hard it is
for a tow n to break aw ay froth
its early traditions!
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