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About The Beaverton enterprise. (Beaverton, Or.) 1927-1951 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1949)
BEAVERTON ENTERPRISE— Friday, December 23, 1949 Dr. John M. G est Wishes to announce the Opening of His New Office at 168 N. THIRD AVE. American Red Cross Bldg , Hillsboro, Ore Or. John M. tietit For The Practice of Optometry Phone Hillsboro 2161 Hours by Appointment OUR SINCEREST WISHES FOR A BRIGHT AND MERRY CHRISTMAS GO OUT TO ALL OF YOU. GRIFFITH & MEEKE Corner Hiway and Wheeler ALOHA, OREGON , Oregon. This takes us back to had met travelers, explorers, seien- | their associations and experiences I tists, missionaries and agents of in the upper Co'umbia country the government, traveling with the ' during the preceding six years fur trading companies for conven When the Rocky Mountain Fur j ience and safety and leal ned much | company withdrew from the field from their Intercourse with them in 1834, Newell, Meek, Wilkins and j . . . , „ ,, . „ . RULING CLIQUE BACKED DOWN ON BOYCOTT SET .. , ’ , Meek and Newell had begun TO MAINTAIN IRONCLAD GOVERNMENT CONTROLS others * c<*ul“ !d the 8lalus of i,e ' their trapping career under Smith trappers, owning their own equ.^ Jackson \ nd Sublette. Jedediah By Hervey S. Robinson first victory over dictatorship was ment' working wherever they chose g|nith head Qf thig fi|m was a (Continued from last week) won. In 1836 Young organized a anJ ®e,linK their furs to the hi* h‘ I brave resourceful leader and. un- The coming of the Rocky Mnun- party o f settlers and sailed with h*4dei But for the most of the like most q ( hjg craft was a piOUSi tain men to the Tualatin Plains, in 1 Slacum to California where cattle time theY were associated with r e a j ; n g profanity-hating 1840-49, marks a turning point in ! ‘'ould t>e bought for $3 a head, and the company headed by James. £ brjgtjan pje became Joe’s hero Oregon history. Mrs. F. F. Victoi returned the next summet overland j Bridger. ; and ull. :inj tll. never forgot his claims that they were Oregon's first i driving a herd of 600 cattle and Bridger’s men were an excep- teachings although he seldom lived real emigrants who came neither i bringing more settlers to reinforce tional group, with an exceptional up to them. as fur traders or missionaries but |his independent faction. This was 1 leader. Some, like Osborn Russell, On arriving at the Nez Perce vil were true frontiersmen — border- another victory, breaking the fu r'h ed been well educated in the lage in the fork of the Salmon men, who came to make permanent j company’s monopoly in cattle. I States. Others like Meek were of river, in the fall of 1838, Meek homes and become law abiding, i And so it came about that, in Sood families, had little schooling found the old chief Kow-e-so-te law-making ard law- enforcing cit- j 1840, our little band of mountain but were endowed with a high much interested in stories that degree of intelligence and native izens. This is substantially true all men repelled by the missionaries were coming to him of the wonder- .. . . . . . . , . except that troublesome word ’first” as undesirables, turned their faces ability. Congragated around the fire in their leaders spacious lodge over which many historians have toward the Chehalem Valley where by the missionaries. Mr. and Mrs. stumbled. their old comrade Ewing Young at their winter quarters during the H. H. Spalding, at Lapwai on the long winter evenings these un- Newell, Meek. Wilkins and their was established, the richest inde Clearwater river and anxious to companions of 1840-41 were not pendent M ttlti in O n goa nnd U m “ ****• “ • » dUcussi i sm-ii topic- hear Christian preaching. the first of their class to defy the recognized leader of the independ government science, education and Joe. who had studied Smith’s exclusive alliance between Dr. M e -jent element. 'religion in educational debate and Loughlin of the Hudson's Bay com- Two other Rocky Mountain as- lealned to arKue and remain gen- Bible and talked to missionaries at the r e n d e z v o u s since 1834. pany and the Methodist Mission, I sociates, Courtn. y Walker and ; ia1, a mark of true culture, Here in their “ Rocky Mountain thought he knew enough of the by which they had divided the Caleb Wilkins had already gone to government of the country between that area and another, William College by sharing with one an Bible and religious doctrine to give themselves and figuratively hung ; Doughty, on a previous visit had other, these men whose true char religious instructions to the vil out a sign "No Admittance Apply acquired a log cabin at the foot of acter out weighed their crude man lagers and after some little show ners fitted themselves for later o f modesty, and being strongly at the Office.” Chehalem Mountain. careers of political leadership. urged by the chieftain he consent That distinction belongs to Ewing We have related. In a former Osborn Russell became a judge; ed to do so, after a conference Young himself an ex-trapper and ; article in this seties, how Newell Joe Meek received a commission with his fellow trappers in which a party of independent settlers, and Meek with their families, on as major of a volunteer army; they promised not to interfere with | most of them from the same class Christmas day, 1840, were camped Newell served the Provisional Gov him in this new role so foreign to who came from California with ¡n tbe co|d and rain near Doughty’s ernment as legislator and in many his customary manner of living. Hall J. Kelly in the fall of 1834. cabin, close to the area on the Tu- other ways. Similar positions of And so another mission was es Ewing Young refused to accept a]atin Plains which they had se- honor and trust came to Gale. tablished that winter in the Indian the decree of banishment passed Iected for their homes and named Doughty, Wilkins and others of the village at the fork o f the Salmon. upon him by the McLoughlin-Lee j "Rocky Mountain Retreat.” trapper group. (Next week Joe Meek, Missionary: alliance, denied the false charge of W e are concerned here with the At the summer rendezvous they An Aristocratic Wedding. horse stealing, given as an excuse ideas of American democracy, ed for refusing to have any dealings ucation and religion which they ,'with him and defied the boycott had acquired in the Rocky Moun intended to drive him out of the tains and brought with them to country. He and his associates took land in the Yamhill basin across the Willamette from the mission, ig nored Dr. McLoughlins ordeis and laughed at his threat when they were refused supplies at Fort Van couver and the mission. They lived o ff the country as they had done in the mountains until Young, by a bit of strategy brought his op ponents to terms. He and Lawrence Carmicheal who had come with him from California set up a still and began making whiskey to sell to the Indians. In alarm the missionaries and Dr. McLoughlin appealed to W il liam A. Slacum. a special agent of OUR WARM AND SIN- the United States, who was then In Oregon to help them prevent CEREST GREETINGS GO such a disaster. A subscription was OUT TO YOU AT THIS taken to buy the still and Young was approached upon the subject. HAPPIEST SEASON OF He said: THE YEAR. ’’Keep your money, I don't want it. I will destroy the still only on | condition that you lift the boycott against us.” His terms were accepted and the I Illicit Still Broke Down Barrier For Independents C A L L TO C H O W A ‘ Gut-Hammer” is the gong used to call loggers to meals. The most delicate, the most sen sible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasure of others. Bruyeie A « ( V A A A A A « a a a SEASONS »1ST A truly Merry Christmas to our good friends and neig bors. STRICKLAND'S SHELL SERVICE 4 Phone 4671 Beaverton, Oregon A £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ £ M w May the |0ys of the season be completely and all V A LLEY TAXI SER V ICE PHONES; 19 4 We wish you well this season. 6802 S. 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