Newberg graphic., December 06, 1917, Image 3

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A TRIBUTE TO THE LATE
G. P. SKELTON BY A FRIEND
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When the Reverend Mr. Hicks
added to the obituary of George
Paul Skelton that he was a g ood
citizen as well as a good husband
and father, he spoke more truly
than he knew, says a friend o f
Skelton’s who had known him
intimately ior the better part o f
a third of a century. “ Those
w ho have merely known o f him
as defendant in the water con­
demnation proceedings brought
by the city o f Newberg,” contin­
ued the informant, “ d o not know
that this long-drawn, uphill fight
which undermined his health,
w as made as much in bis pride
of good citizenship as to preserve
the rights, as he conceived them,
of himself and family. Let me tell
y ou .’’ And the follow ing ac­
count o f a man’s struggle for an
idepl was related for the Graphic:
George Skelton brought a m od­
est but competent fortune to
Newberg 15 years ago. He had
literally carved this fortune from
bard pioneer conditions in Pilot
Rock, Umatilla county. He be­
gan as a carpenter and w agon
maker, and made good. He had
also w on the confidence o f his
-{-neighbors, w ho had elected him
to some minor offices. All these
he gave up to accept the post­
mastership o f the tow n at the
hands of Grover Cleveland, w-hich
was just handed to him on a
plate. He established his office
in a little shack on a piece o f
rented ground, and in connection
put in a small stock o f confec-
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o u t h e r n
P
a c if ic
L
H ?“V 9 V LCC° and stationery-
His office business prospered but
bis trade far outran it, so that
in a few years he gave up the
post office to make room in his
new buildings for a large stock
of merchandise. But in the
meantime he had installed in the
office a glass-front and lock-box
equipment that even though o f
twenty years ago would still
compare favorably with those of
any tow n o f its size in Oregon.
While engaged in his store
work he built up a good herd of
cattle and developed tw o farms,
one on the mountains for sum­
mer range and a general farm in
the valley.
In the meantime he had inher­
ited a fine body of land on Che-
halem Mountain. This patri­
mony was left him and the other
heirs by a pioneer father who
had been killed in logging opera­
tions near Dayton in the early
seventies. Seeing this land and
the opportunity it offered, as he
had tired of indoor life, he turned
his attention to the Chehalem
JOHN BURNS' EARLIER DAYS
farm. After making a careful in­
vestigation of the farm, country Astonished Listeners With Statement
That He Had Taken No Food or
and Newberg, he bought out the
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other owners, sold all his busi­
ness in Eastern Oregon, and
In his “ Record of An Adventurous
brought his family and his pos­ Life,’ ’ H. M. Hyndman. the veteran
session to the land o f his new- Socialist and war patriot, tells an
home. He bought a lot in town amusing story of John Bums' earlier
and built a small home where he days.
Several Socialists and lalatr lead­
could educate his family, having
ers
had lunched at my house (writes
the modern view of the relation
Mr. Hyndman) preparatory to at­
between tow n and country life.
tending a meeting of the unemployed
But here his first losing fight on the Thames embankment. All of
began. His cattle and horses us “ did ourselves well." Burns par­
were unacclimated to Western ticularly distinguished himself, as a
Oregon winters and began to trencherman.
die. He was not only interested i Judge, then, o f our astonishment
financially hut humanely as well, when the first sentences of his speech
and to stop the loss and save at the meeting ran as follows:
“ The upper classes tell us that the
suffering he|hought lumber and
unemployed are loafers and wastrels.
erected large shelters. He like­
Now I’ll do a day's work with any­
wise bought large quantities of'i
one. Yet here I stand as unem­
hay and grain, and hired men to j
ployed and as hungry as any o f you.
help save tlfe stock. But all to 1 for neither bite nor sup has passed
little purpose, for when spring my lips” — and his powerful voice
at last caipe it found him with rang far beyond the crowd— ‘for
but a remnant o f his herds and four-and-twenty hours.’
his money.
It came like a bombshell on us all
This hardly teazed him. He (adds the author), and how Cham­
recast his plans, and by working pion, Jack Williams and the rest of
ua kept from laughter I do not know.
Four trains a day from Portland offer
ample accommodations.
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water on bis nearest and best
tract. This water was essential
to a livestock farm, but he rec-
ognized the rights of the state
and began revising his plans for
a deversified farm. This would
require large sums of money to
clear up the land, and he did not
have it. He took pencil and pa­
per and figured day and night to
find how much it would take to
pat the place back to its former
value, in the changed form. And
when he had found it he an­
nounced his readiness to settle
on that basis. He would far
rather that the water should
have been left on the place, but
was determined that if it had to
g o he would get enough to re­
store the equilibrium. Rather
than take less he would seek ref­
uge in the laws of his country,
which he fully believed would
protect him in his rights as be
understood them. But at the
end o f . the litigation he found
himself hopelessly in debt and re­
ceived less money for more land
than he bad expected.
In the meantime a more im­
placable foe than the laws of em­
inent domain had invaded his
home. His wife was stricken—
the wife of his youth, for these
tw o had married back on the
Kansas prairies when but 19
years of age—and to live at all
was forced to seek the sunny
skies and dry airs of Southern
California. His ow n health, like
his fortune, was gone. He fol­
lowed his wife to Los Angeles
and started to make the founda­
tions o f a new home—not the
fine estate for community pride
bad'‘ p¡ñn'¿rf " f ^ n V ^.
berg, but a simple home where
he and bis wife could live out the
evening o f their lives in joy and
comfort. He then returned to
patch up the broken ends o f his
fortune, and had just succeeded
in this task when his life snap­
ped. He was straining to o eag­
erly for the bright sunshine of a
home o f outdoor life with his
wife and sometimes bis children,
and bis soul was released for its
brightest, widest sphere.
He
was a good citizen and his life
was sacrificed to his ideal o f good
citizenship and big manhood.
His body rests in this land of
unfulfilled dreams. It was borne
to the grave by an array of
friends, w ho with his relatives
covered his coffin with flowers.
Kind friends o f the Christian
church performed the last rites,
and Rev. Hicks said but a com ­
monplace to them when he add­
ed to the obituary that George P.
Skelton was a good citizen.
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saw how he would still be able
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