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About The Dam chronicle. (Cascade Locks, Or.) 1934-1934 | View Entire Issue (June 1, 1934)
IMF I)\.M e i l k O M f l.i; PENN’S TAVERN 73 Years In Cascade Locks BY JACK MrCR\kV CA T E R IN G T O P A R T IC U L A R P E O P L E O O House-keeping apartments completely furnished with electric refrigeration. 0 0 A real plact* to live. See us for one of these. 0 0 E X C E L L E N T FOOD Blit/ Heer on Draught Dining Room and Lunch Counter Service I MilB HOOTII k. n < I .i t Auto Truck Servic* between Portland and Cascade Locks, Bonneville and Bridal Veil. [ We are now operating two trucks each way daily out of Portland into the Bonneville Dam district. It is our desire to (five prompt personal service. 1» mi \ M HI.m il ir l - r t l l r f 'o ttla m l 10 oo A M. 6 00 I*. M i l i l.taxe ( a u a d e Ijh lti P M 1 i M 4 L tx ks r M P \t I r B P M Midnight Portland O f f i c e - Ninth Avenue and Irving Street Telephone HRoadway 0441 Cascade Locks Office Across street from meat market R. J . WUNER, Agent I was I yearn old Ijrfnrr I had an «•|r|»irtunily lo go to liool. I lie schooling that I did g«•» tame in the summer ind not in winter. Father • w e i o n a plat e two mile*» east of < avadr Lotkt, or tin up|>rr ( ‘an cades, when lie tame hi re in 1861, and wi lived there two years. l ather had lieeti working in a sawmill, hut in 1 Hr, t took a job in the woods down at Bonneville, or the lower • a Made», and moved his famly down there The Indian war of IH66 was a fierce affair while it la»trd and rail ed linn h esi ilenient among the >ettl»is on Imth sides of the river. \n Indian squaw namerl I.Hen, who made her home in the village that stood by the river s edge in ( asr ade l.iaks, went among the whites, warning them Put the Indians were going on the warpath. Not all of the Indians in he village joined in the fighting, hut enough were in volved to make it dec idrdly hoi fur a few da vs. 'I he white families on thr Oregon side of thr river gath erer) m what is now Bonneville ami built a blockhouse It was seven years aftrr thr In* <lian war that father took til to thr lower Cascades I’hil Sheridan, who hail lieen a lieutenant in com mand of the regulars in the fight with tlie Indians, was hark east ami rising last in the army, anri there was plenty of excitement all along the river over the new gold fields over m Idaho ami Montana. Father took |*.sse-ston of the old block house and turned it into a tavern, lie gave travelers who came up the Columbia on steamboats their sup- |>er. a I*rd ami breakfast for six hits. The steamers would come up from Portland as (ar as the lowt-r Cas cade* ami go l*ack next day. An other steamer came down every day from I hr Dalit s. At The Dalles travelers would transfer to tlie stage ami go on up the river to Umatilla, Walla Walla, Lewiston and I2d.ihn City. Other stages ran off across the countrv to John Day. In I8r>4 a girl, Jennie Stevens, came up from down arouml Van- r ouver ami o|M-ned a school at Hu< kle creek All of us youngsters attended that school. 1 he next summer she ojx-ned a v hool across the river at Cascade, just lielow where North Bonneville now stands, ¡■»ildirrs were stationed there and they had quite a settlement. There was a store am) [xistolfice ant) a Iratk where they rated their horses. The children living on the Ore gon side of the river had to row across in a skiff, hut we never seemed to mind. Miss Stevens taught there three years. All the m hooting I ever obtained i got from her. I made the fourth grade ami after that had to hustle for knowledge wherever I could find it. 1 he Indian children did not at tend school, vi they didn t get any education except in their native manners and customs. They were pretty well Ix-haved and we user! to play with them. The other In dians had settled down and I don't rememlier that there was ever any trouble among them. There was one mean buck, hut even the Indians themselves didn't care for him ami they didn’t make any fuss when found him dangling from a limb one day. No one knew who hung him, but everybody thought it was a good thing for the country. As I grew older we went to Cas cade to dances. The Indians danced, just as thr whites did, ami the girls were pipular because there were more white men than white women in this section. My brother could fiddle and we uvd to cross the river pretty regular. T he old chief on the Washington side had as good ahousr as there was arouml in those times and we could dance there all night. The Indians liked to race their jxmies and so did the vddiers. The track was down near the river, be low what is now North Bonneville. They would have vime fast races. 1 rode one of those races in 1868. The horse had run one race for a bet of $500 and lost. The soldiers asked me to ride a second race. I agreed and they commenced to bet. The purse was $1000 and everyone was excited. I was a pretty good rider and alxtut the right weight and thr horse I was riding won. You hear people condemn the Indians, hut I always liked them. 1 ake this squaw FJIen, who warned the whites in 1866, She used to come to our house. I was nearly blind as a child and could barely see more than a few feet My folks took me to the doctors, but they didn't seem to help any and my mother felt pretty bad about it This F.llen used to ask her why she didn’t doctor me hervdf. Finally mother told her *he didn t know what to do, vi F.llen said she could cure me. Ami she did. She rubbed ami rubbed my eyes. I don’t know what she did, exc ept she u v d her be and massaged the muscles of my face lielow the ryes S i you v r I owe my eyesight to the- Indians, and here 1 am at 82 years of age and still reading with out glasses. RADIO R E P A I R I N G All Make Tubes Tor Sale TO OTH ROCK GARAGE Telephone 8 F’ 7 LESTER Auto Freight FA ST D A ILY S E R V IC E BE- T W E E N PO RTLA N D AND CASCADE LO CK S AND ALL WAY PO IN TS. Our Trucks provide a quick, convenient method of getting your hauling done promptly. No delays, no red tape. PO RTLA N D T E R M IN A L : 1001 East Water Street Telephone FlAst 7800 CASCADE LOCKS T E R M IN A L Andrews Store Telephone 121 SH IP Y O U R BY GOODS A U TO F R E I G H T < TIT .' 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