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. W Canyon Road
Beaverton 3031
Commerce 9963
Near Sunset
Highway Bridge
DANA
Phone ATwater 1089
"W ALT" and "V IC "
PORTER
Jew eler
IN W ALKER S
^ i u l Aule tide- ;
Ik
On Christmas 1949 we re live the
toy that comes to us across the cen
tunes May this season bring you
nothing but happiness
To One
And All
\\ e Extend <)ur
Heartiest
^ C H R IS T M A S
W E W ISH
YOUR
( Jiristmas
IS H E R E !
TO R Y O U AMD
LOVED
ONES
and
THE
\E\$ Year's
B E S T TH A T TH IS HAPPY
SEASON CAN BRING
. . .
TH Y N G 'S
BEAVERTON
L. H. COBB CO.
105 S E. FARMINGTON ROAD
(ireetingH.
BEAVERTON, OREGON
OREGON
H IG H B ES
5c - 10c - 25c
FARMINGTON
ROAD