The Beaverton enterprise., February 18, 1949, Image 2

BEAVERTON EN TER PR ISE— Friday, February 18, 1949
Death and Hardship Dogged
Migration of Elam Youngs
Grim Taxpayers
PRESENTED BY
PILGRIM
FA M ILY W ITH STO O D IN D IA N T H IE V E R Y AND A T T A C K
Accusations
flew thick
and
Plant located in Hoxvorton-TualaUa Valley Highway and Short St.
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fast. Tempers were short.
And
BUSINESS OFFICE AND PLANT
ON JO U RN EY W ESTW A RD TO ESTA BLISH CEDAR M IL L , some 25 taxpayers really took
over part of the February 7 coun­
Published Friday of each week by The Pioneer Publishing Co., at
B) Herscy S. Robinson
made
axe
handle,
and
maafactur-
C
iI m~ tin* to protMt ,tr~ t *in“
Beaverton. Oregon Entered as second-class matter at the Post Office
ed and sold butcher knives for Provem*nt a«ex»«nents for work
Beaverton. Oregon.
(Continued from last week)
a livelihood, receiving their pay d° ne over two V « » " ago- before
Of the many sturdy emigrants 1B Oregon script which the mer- many ° f thern even owned the,r
Editor and Publisher wh0 drove ,h*‘ r ox :iam* *crofc chants accepted in payment for pr0p<rty
STANLEY W NETHERTON
The improvement with which
Editor-Office Mgr l1»« continent few suffered more ? oods
MRS EDNA BLACK _______
New* Editor hardships than the family of Dr
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. . . . the main pi-otest was concerned
WALLY KAIN
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Ise Manager
\1 mnmrmr
Younr
Al-
Young, father o f John , _ . “ *X' ZT. .
. Came t0 th* stretched from 7th .free,
Ad vert Is
street t«
to Al­
LEE W ESTERN AN
_ Elam
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Tualatin
Plains, but we must
len, on Main. Work was done In
Quincy Adams Young who foun- .
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leave that story for another in-
ded the settlement at Cedar Mills stallmeat.
.
1846. after a properly prepared pe­
SUBSCRIPTION RATES—PAY.AB LE IN ADVANCE
Dr Young was a resident of
tition had been submitted to the
(Continued next week)
Washington A Multnomah counties Member: Oregon Newspaper Pub- Ohio. He had seen service and
council asking for it Since the
One Y ear
. $2.00
completion of the work, however,
lishers Association
been wounded in the War of 18X2 {•
Two Y e a r s _________________ 3 75 N A T I O N A L
there had been no assessment by
EDI TORI AL
In the *Pr,nS
184«, he assem j
Three Y e a r s _______________ 5.00
bled his family and possessions [ j
the city and the payment for the
A S S O C' i 'U ti ^ q ' n and started with them across the , *
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improvement is long overdue.
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Outside Territories
plains for Oregon.
Mayor H. H. Jeffries, in meet­
$2 an
One Year
Misfortune seemed to dog them t !
ing the delegation agreed th#t the
I all the way. They camped one I I
property owners had reason for
their short tempers But he ruled,
night beside a little creek in the | j
Indian
country suspecting
no t
this bit of unfinished business
must be taken care of.
harm, but awoke next morning j 1
to find that thieving savages had j
'.The moral obligation," the may­
Somehow the slot machine setup, which was beginning to gain driven off twenty of their oxen. ' I
or said, “belongs with those who
acceptance in city after city as a means of bringing a little revenue No amount of searching revealed j
ordered the work done and who ¡
into the coffera, backfired. With the beginning campaign started by their whereabouts and the party
were taxpayers at that time. The
Mayor Lee, in Portland, most of the state ha* fallen in line and was obliged to proceed as best
legal
obligation,
unfortunately,
they could without them.
follows the property.”
the slots are again driven back into hiding.
Exhausted
from
their
long
Charges were made that instead
Now there is a hue and cry. on one hand, to continue a strict ban
journey, with supplies nearly ex- j
of 6 inches of crushed rock, as
DO YOU W AN T TO
on the one-armed bandits while, on the other hand, arguments are
hausted. they came to the Uma- i
the petition called for, not more
advanced in behalf of legalizing the devices.
tilla
and were
met by
Dr : BLOOM IN HER HEART?
--- country j »*•«
" x mri
u y x/r.
than 3 inches had been applied.
Arguments of some logic are put forward in behalf of the legalising Marcus Whitman, who conducted I
Because taxpayers .absent from
idea. One statement to the effect that if a man will squander the
mission at Waiilatpu near the I
the meeting stoutly maintained
subsistence that should have gone to his wife and family on slot ma­ place where Walla Walla, Wash- 1
that the complete job had not
been done, the delegation on hand
chines, he is weak enough to continue to do so on horse races, dog ington is now located
Dr Young asked Whitman ab­
demanded proof of the full 6
taces, drinking or any other sort of rakish pastime.
inches application
It seems we are a nation of reformers—as long as H's the other out getting some supplies Whit­
One irate gentleman requested
fellow who Is reformed. We tried prohibition and. before its failure man told him that he wanted
to build a mill at the mission and
that the city sink comparable test
was convincing enough to spur repeal, an insidious growth of
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i needed someone to get out loes
holes at 7th and on further to­
gangsters and lawlessness plagued the nation. There have been bansland prepare them for uwf |n ^
ward
Allen to compare the gravel
on everything, hosts of blue laws have emerged from year to year buildings.
soil remaining. This would prove
and great purifying movements have put signifc&nce into the urge to
Young accepted the job and ac­
a contention that more gravel hal
he our brothers' keepers.
companied Whitman to the mis-
j been Put- closer to Allen where
Yet, so fundamental seems to be the lure of genteel vices, even *'°n After a short rest they went
|Main street, at that time, had
just been opened.
church organisations, to raise money, stage bingo games, raffles and ' n,° ’ h<> nearby hills to cut the
By motion of councilman Weiby
other functions in which there is, at least, the spirit of chance.
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' ?*a* a farrii'> outing. The
C h r is tia n S c ie n c e date
of the protest hearing was
The tendency to say one thing and do another has notable ex- cookjng ” h„ e ' ^ m e n worked
extended to February 18. at which
ample. A number of cities in the state, well aware that state law aj
cutting
time
taxpayers
who allegedly
has banned any and all devices that pay o ff In money or merchandise After
several days James Yn inc
can m eet vo tir
have the factual basis for 4he •
have nevertheless issued licenses and taxed concerns for the privilege , on of E)am nnd brother
of
claim of but three inches of gra- j
of maintaining punchboards, pin-ball
machines and slot machines John Q. A. started for the mis- !
vel will be received.
There is no question that state law bans such an action. But. by sion to take in a load of logs
needs
Reapportionment of assessment
some reasoning, city authorities reach out for revenue, legally or not. and bring hack provisions It was
on Erickson street improvement
will be
necessary, the council
Certainly If a slot machine, for instance, is a rigged device which j* n' ° day* ,riP and he should
ruled, after two property owners
impoverishes those who come under Its spell, it continues so whether a\e letutned the following day.
owning 280 front feet on Erick
Attend a free lecture
sanctioned by forces of law and order or operated behind closed .
a
*
C?!” e
on
third day. his brother Daniel was
son between Berthold and Allen
doors. And a city, openly flaunting the law of the state by issuing gent ou< {0 ](X)k for hjm
protested
that the work had
entitled
permits for operation of such machines. Is openly guilty of breaking
Short,y Danje,
Tf t mne d ^
stopped
before
reaching their
down reaped for all laws.
| dreadful news.
Before reaching
property line.
If there are some outlets for slot machine operation in the state the mission he had met an In-
As explained after investigation
there should be no restrictions, no club membership requirement, no dian who told him that Doctor
“ THE TRUTH OF
the city has no dedicated right ¡
of way on the west side of Erick­
special favor by which some might play them. If the forces of law Whitman and his wife were dead,
son from Berthold to Allen. Until
and respectability say 'Slot machines are not good for Joe Public, so were most of the men at the i CHRISTIAN SCIENCE**
this right
of way can be con­
there should be ( as of now) complete and vigorous enforcement of ^ ri' is®'on' slaughtered by the trea-
demned .the work cannot be done.
tbe «diet.
| cherous
Cayuse Indians whom
Fred Goyt, by order of the
they had befriended.
A large!
There la many a moral lesson in the current muddle of the slot group of women and children
by
council, will attend the League of
machines.
were being held captive James j
Oregon Cities' conference of city
too was dead He had been shot I
superintendents .to be held at
from ambush as he drove up
Archibald Carey, C. S. B. Corvallis on February 24. 25 and
2«
with his load of logs, without a I
chance to defend himself.
The sudden increase o f his wa­
o f Detroit, Michigan
ter bill from $2 a month to $19
Daniel had scarcely reached the
per month, at the very tima Bea­
Freezing weathsr, in Western Oregon, has brought about a condi- ramp " h<>n ac'eral armed Cay-
Member of the Board of
verton started levying a sewer use
tlon which demands action from all levels of government, local, .
warriors rnme up on horse­
lectureship of The Mother charge based on 100'S of water
back and ordered the Youncs to
county and state This can be readily understood by anyone who go wlth them back fo fh<> ^
consumption, threw one resident
Church, The First Church
passes over secondary roads within the Tualatin Valley.
of ,he mall„ cre Th(,r(, waj noth.
of Christ, Scientist, In on 9th street for a loss. It is sur­
mised that his water meter is
Prohibiting orders have driven heavy trucks and other equipment ing to do but obey,
Boston. Massachusetts.
running backwards and it will be
from these secondary roads and In many businesses the restrictions
The man loaded the wagons and
taken apart and set to "flying
are cutting heavily into ordinary trade and Income.
started back to the station, expect- '
right” .
Logging trucks, oil trucks, freight trucks, heavy vehicles of all ' n.‘" almost anything to happen
An ordinance set the apportion­
oescriptions can no longes use the roadways in question because the
n h' ' n ,i ' ed at **** mission
ment of assessments on Washing­
MONDAY.
FEB.
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roads are breaking up and in danger of being impassable'by all cars *. **"'
V* bodies *trewn about
ton street, from Farmington to
. . taken.
7
th*
they had
unless care ia
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___. where
,
... fallen.
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First street.
8 P. M.
some scalped, other mutilated No
A letter to the council, from
in Jefferson High School
For a few days or a week, perhaps, this edict will be tolerated, attempt had been made to bury
J S. Maxwell, requested street
Auditorium
Put a look at some of the highways affected poses s serious question them.
5210 North Kerby Ave.
lights on Tucker street at 2nd
as to how long will it be before some repair can be made'’
Strangely enough the Young*
and 4th street. The city fathers
Radiocast over KWJJ
Some instances of road damage have transformed a leasonably " ,r f not harmed or mistreated,
indicated this would be
taken
1080 kc
rmooth thoroughfare Into a dead ringer for a farmer's plowed field. ,xc<
,h"t the> were shut up in
care of within 30 day*.
FOURTH
CHURCH
And the humps for surfacing that have heaved out of the roadbed. I the rooms where many of the mls-
OF CHRIST,
; sion folks had been killed Fverv <
SCIENTIST.
OF LEGISLATIVE MATTERS
too soon, will be broken up with mmiatuie foxholes remaining.
thing
, hf h o w ^
jn
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At a meeting February 16. at
The county and cities within the valley are sore beset with fin- der and blood stains marked the
Portland. Oregon
Forest Hills country club.
the
ancial problems without end. Poulations pressures, a continuing tough spot»- where the victims of the
Washington
County
Realty
Board
attitude by the atate sanitary authority and their, "do It or else” rec- massacre had been stricken down
dealt “with legislative mattara.
ommendations about sanitation and anti-pollution and sundry other The party was kept
prisoner*
All Are Cordially Invited
according
to Jack N Seabold.
demands upon the public purse t-dd up to a nice problem of dollar here for several days. They were
secretary-treasurer.
stretching
not Permitted to bury the victims
.
decently, but were able to nut
Today however, the dollars just can't seem to stretch far enough soni, of , hem
shal|()W
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to satisfy demands. And so emerges even anothr clarion call for tax- and throw a little dirt over them
Muddle of the Slots
Roods Are
LUTHERAN
(Farmington Road Near Menlo)
A SEN SA TIO N A L N EW M O V IE
THAT IS D R A M A
EX C IT IN G A N D C H R ISTIA N
m u® »® *
RER
You will like the little mon and hti daughter
whole problems are volved one by one...
your sympathy will give woy to admiration
os you realize his influence upon others.
Iif a matt convincing mannor, you will see how God doily
reaches down into the fives of men, brings light into thoir darknt$t
and fills thnir hearts with the strength of His divino assurance.
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BEAVER
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Then, free again. Elam Young
Chief Factor of the Hudson's Bay
Company at Vancouver, and ran-
somed the captives, paying the In­
dl* n!‘ ln blankets, butcher knives
* nd ammunition.
—. r f
***“ !?',. Ela,m Toun*
one. m o ^ Vhe In'haTJ h»d’"goT
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ten away with more of his llve-
But let'« not forget the obvious fact. There are no subetitutes for **°<'l* and killed his son.
^ ■ ■ but
■ a l still
u ir i
he pressed on The first day hit
byways. Such roads are lifelines of trade and communication.
party reached Fort Walla Walla,
a Hudson's Ray post where cap,!
j liiln McBane in command at
first refused to give them shelter '
for the night but finally consent­
ed, probably under pressure from
Peter Skene Ogden himself How- i
. ever he warned them to be care­
ful what they said for "even the
walls had ears,”
C.utded by Peter Skene Ogden
who rode In the leading bateau
the party descended the Colum­
bia with no further mishap ex­
cept suffering from cold and ex­
posure for they were not clad for
I the bitter cold weather of that
IV free from
otriiln and dlwomfort. ( all n* t«da> and
season
make an appointment to have your eve* checkfd
The Youngs arrived
at Fort
"You Can't He Optimistic If You Have Misty Optica"
Vancouver on January 10 1M7
From there they went to Oregon
DR. C. A. PLUMSTEAD
City and spent the rest of the
OPTO MET HINT
t*t I. Haw line. ||lll*horn, Ore
Phone 44ft or coin,- in
v" lr
,n " one room «hick
Elam and his sons cut cordwond.
Whether the state highway commission has all the money it can
spend, in taking over rights of way and building recreational super-
highwaya might be debated But county
road departments will be
faced with a multitude of jobs which, we fear, will not all be done.
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Perhaps those mathematically-minded can devise a way of getting
ihe required road funds with the least trouble. It will require some
study and perhaps more taxation, to deal with the Improvement of
secondary roads.
Protect Your Eyes
THEATRE
Ford E n g in e e re d fo r
FASTER FARM IN G
Do m ore and better farm ing . , . with leaa
w o rk . F o rd T r a c to r h as m a n y a d v a n ­
tages 4 -sp e e d tr a n s m lis t o n . H ydraulic
T ou ch C o n tro l. G et th e m ost fo r y o a r
tractor dollar . . . aee th e F o r d T r a c to r
WALKER TRACTOR CO.
ORDER NOW to Insure
Delivery This Spring
W. Washington at Dennis Ave.
Hillsboro. Ore.
Phone 6291 ■
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f c * tu
The
government
said
i / /
Vanpor*
Buildings
MUST
AT SACRIFICE PRICES!
9 5 % OFF original cost
Yes . . . everything must be cleared! Buy a
building or part of a building. . . at just 5%
of ¡fs original cost! Buildings for your every
need . . . to build a home, barn, garage . . .
or remodel! ACT TODAY!
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OPEN A
Savings Account
Your Savings Are Insured for
Safety Up to $5,000.00
by Federal Savings & Loan Insurance Corporation,
an instrumentality of the United States Government
A safe, profitable and convenient way to
save or invest money.
2 '/4 ° 0
Current Dividend
Building
dismantle 1 Materials, Too!
NOW!
BUILD IN
.,jd e No. I
bf tt.e r'
Plywood, electrical f u ­
tures, doors, windows . ; •
at better - than - bargain
prices!
S P R IN G !
MEMBER FEDERAL HOME LOAN BANK
Washington Federal Savings
and Loah Association
HILLSBORO OREGON
HAVE A YEAR s INCOME IN A SAVINGS ACCO UN T'
Accounts Insured to S5.000
f V
Wed., Feb. 23rd - Thurs., Feb. 24th
Lifelines
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CHURCH
VANPORT
WRECKING CO.
SaW* Offk* on Vanport Site. Porttand
r h o o a TW S S t o or T W 1 8 8 «
om
0*11» a SW . 8 AM to S.M F88
A LS O .. . plumbing, pipe in ;ll sixes, toilets,
wash basins, fixtures . . . at s»crifice prices.
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