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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1965)
a aa — _ - . | Na Washin Med Win Top entries in the recent es-| Picture Pass, and then took conducted b the northwest direction pas the old say contest Daughters of the American Rev- Snelling place, later the Herd olution were recently selected. and now called~ the Coonrod A winning essay was selected] ranch, on to Yreka. in each of grade five throug First written record of whites eight. Writers have been award- usin the Military Pass- ed a Bronze Georg Washingt Trail is by Hudson Bay R trappers Medal. under O sc ir The four Peter From . boise. ‘The South Road Party of fif- from the Willamette men teen Valley, who laid out the Apple- gate Trail-during July, 1846 led over’ of emigrants number a the route fall. that The Gold Rush years of 1848 185 saw hundreds of overland between travelers California, T March, 1851 covered at Yreka. a became Yreka Oregon and gol dis- was over to horseback permitted to Some wanted to day and spen the lwas humorous| ridden! was ‘race war correspondents by these trying to file their stories first. long A on. baby, se-| journey of] | Rock, day in. wor-| had to move lay ahead| ward er trail. Death 0 ” jpanio was on One diary In her 14- STE WYNNE constant a com-| '16— eleven new! graves. “June 17 passe six new Afric Still Prefe Paym Fo Marri night By KEVIN J. HAMILTON |is paid almost exclusively, in and varies between » (UPI)| SALISBURY, Rhodesia reach-|__ ‘The young: African lawyer| 3 poun sterling ($5 and the eligi- ed Fort Laramie. Members of| incredulous. on $84 dependin upon of the girl. the party were disappointe in earth can you be prou of al bility and education the fort. Instead of 6 or lo woman for whom you did no With an th huts, the found 3 or 40 build- pay lobola?” he asked in famil life that has hit the ings, some of fine style frame] peccabl English warm the By June ist had Jamo counted graves| the trail later. she noted: “June made seven new graves, “June day 1965 Falls, Orego Klamath NEWS, cool. trail. th woman and then, the and the now usually followe _jaseshe Laramie, The weath- fair, with only a rain| Fort was storm and the grim spectre of winter| ‘in the mountains always re- mained at the far end of the| AND HERALD vi They rolled on past:Chimne b Scott’s Bluff, on. to- .. travel.| Sun- on Monday Feb. 22 PAGE—5 one on visited a Cheyenn village. They found these indians} friendly, and more prou and| noble, looking peopl than the| Omahas or Pawnees had been,’ emergency] dela sto Cheye |occasion, accidents, ship but the trains Few of them were experience horsemen. The Yreka Trail continued to have a great deal of use by freighters after the Modoc War| Klam-| until the railroad reached ath Falls in 1909 A semi-week- ly mail route was established) | railroad con- it. In 1883 over continued north from struction Redding In 1896 Abner Weed Weed and at built his mill pushe the railroad north until by 1900 it had reached Grass Lake. Durin 1907-0 the rail- Butte road was pushe across Valley gradually replacing a bad from indians sev t ribe and saw pany the wagon] B oth some or the burial straying and oxen ‘ae measured illness, vere death telegrap to Yreka in order their stories, Many a that the turning of k eels, &q the birth of were they Newspap correspondents beat Trail to| the Yreka over a path Skene! during the winter of 1826- then on it was in con- use by the Hudson Bay |fur trappers, among them: Al- McLeod, Roderick exander LaFram- John Work, Michel follow: top essays back Lake vice ‘were sent b horse-| the trail from Tule From Yreka} Yreka. then telegraphed. a| Ess Conte In DAR CINTHIA K, DEVORE Tb stories hig His words bring to light at|centres of Johannesburg Salis- wall 11 a which| and all other large towns least one aspec of life in high, made of adobe or, lemergent Africa prefers to re-| in southern Africa, lobol more of Spanish brick, with two brass| ja ain traditional. marriage than ever is. al in of g size inside the cannons the bridegroom’ seriousness o customs, fort. On the mornin of June} “Lobola” is a payme tradi- purpose, 3rd the saw the famous There are, o course, those in cattle,. but to Carson, who alon with Tim| tionally mad wit lo- often in cash, by an Afri- who want to do away Goodale, had brought fifty “agony” bridegroo or his parent bola. A letter to of and mules to trade| an el the parents of his prospe column of a R ‘with. the emigrants They found in thi summed up the varies| amount The wile. tojtiv celebrated the mountaineer way: with the “worth” of the girl. be a small man, well propor “I time has think the come tioned, and “with an eagl in The’ early white. settlers in to In most reason about lobola, Africa though originall the ee lobola has endanger eases lobo! payment i meant an out i The all in good| construction Tt feet two \ by enclosed was — THE OREGON TRAIL By Steven Wynne Grade 7 Roosevelt School use graves. “June — JOURNEY By 18— twenty- OF Cinthia _ 1850 DeVor K. Grade&# Al h t a new filled Twyla Ferguson Sch graves, American history is Trail. Yreka the “June 19 passe thirteen| The Birmingham Emigrating Small sections of the Yreka with great moments, great de- Compan started from Birming- ‘Trail are still in use. The re- cisions and great men, but the! graves, “Jun ten graves, ham, 20— for moment Tow April 11 185 and overnight with the rush for the mainder of the trail has grown ‘most .significan “June 22 seven arrived in Sacramento, Califor- passe new diggings Settlers of the dim and many place hav di is- Oregoni was when the deci- If we should go b the! nia, Augus 15th of ‘the’ same} Shasta Valley during that sum- appeare altogether. Howevel r,| Sion was mad to blaze the Ore- graves. would seelyear, The route followed by this Trail. camp grounds we a great deal of stock} lone lost most of the gon still trace can CLAYTON RANDELL ‘Two thousand miles was more| five times as many graves as| party covered part of the old raids who dis- route from its Applegate Trail company, y Modoc Indian families, Dragoo ‘Trail, established in health, goo spirits and the|&q purchas of the woman, many the Shee Rock fork to Yreka. It takes time and than most peopl traveled in aj YREK TRAIL over “Lobola has been a. goo cu it criticized and Buffalo stampede were an- 1846 by Nathon Boone, teams alon with! those days, but looking well, arrived at Ga to.the west. Due to the a great deal of walking bu the} lifetime in forefathers bec ase But modern anthropo tom to our CLAYTON From Boone. Daniel By RANDELL embarked eagerly on other danger. Black masses of son of |thousands a at Independenc Rock by June 10 slavery. ‘rewards are great..Who knows! gol rush supplie were is not, the durin past centuries all peopl this has shown Pa, a buffalo Bluffs swamped wag- many fo Council Altamont Jr. 25 Grade 8 High ‘The hug mass of stone made A suppl train of eriiin of the Yreka Trail this heartbreakin journey. what artifact had enoug cattle, goat and Had ‘the not, Oregonia on train, causing much damage ¢ifie Spring they followe the a grand and beautiful sigh and|* mine! In the beginnin the wild ani- mules, belongin to Augustu days you migh find with which to pay their words of in shee the one The trail led the Kan-| in| across the-Mormons route as same from the to of' land mark, might now be singing “God the} Meamb was completel stol- were mals and Indians shoes, oxen is “a kind of pay- lobola, plai to a 1847 From Pacific Spring to they could view the countr city African, Save the Queen’” as their: na- sas and Nebraska trails. After many “moons” the en b the Modoes. “But.now where all. peopl ment to th girl’ parents dur- Ri called the junction of Hudspeth’ Cut- spo on the Platte tional anthem. around them, between well trails worn were A compan of twenty men it seems par- on depen i where money comin off ai in the Fort Hall Road, England an the United States waterholes, colder as| The weather was along rivers and was formed in Yreka to punis ents are not preparing a better contesting -ownershi of from. Nebraska City joine up.| they followed Sulblet’s Cut-off. they traveled were. over:the summit, Led streams, through valleys and the b Samuel Indians. should always be| future for their daughters Soda From the North Platte River, The traveled from the Orego territory. The fact) These and Ben mountain passes. and of the Mountains over Rock with the Smith, as captain letter ended to Springs .via as_a e sign turned..Northwest from e parent trail Fort) Hall, to the came. that these Americans trails and desirable campsite Wright as guid and scout, the down with “moun-| lo came for our care more to the peopl who} plea “Let’s the City of Rocks on to Sac- many established homes Fort Laramie. this area, well known to Indian. trail of the lost stock was. fol- fever.” By the time the y have were Unusual rock formations be- ramento. is of tain This “ke her’ since she was} daughter and Jess for money. United journey and schools gave the When the first white men came lowed over the Yreka Trail and reached the Big Sand all mem-} orn.” the| great landmarks because] yn, icame me interest along. fo and claim, States legitimate the Indian willingly shared this ‘led on to an Indian village on bers of the party were agai bear| the first captain of the It is the return of the invest- still com-|? route, Today they by ‘the U.S. gaine possessio in goo health, knowledg with them. They had the Lost River below-the Stone} iment made b African parent such names as Jail Rock, Court- pan great, great, s my 1846 the treaty already established the routes; Bridge. (Th actions of these a Rock. great. in rearing their offspring It is grandfather, Hiram was long house Rock and Chimney The trip, however, the white men had only to ask ‘men with these Indians a were for} ja mar! ‘ of respect not t just a and favorite on camp place Fort Laramie, the most fam- Barnes. and perilou for the hardy and follow directions. the cash more. was ty the in ‘majo factor in promotio of trail, born. lous was payment when the good ceremonies Hiram ‘Barnes trading post.o this breed who set out to settle The proble of taking cov-| the Modoc War.) After part of wed- for t company} eee deli eared June. Here more European- the jumping off poin fo Ohio, March 18 1818 In 183 end o lwas land. ered wagons. was not always the stolen stock was recovered, of in took vote forms) goin a complet with Lobola has taken ‘th ding hazardous over many ‘tri he move to Iowa and home- and| the ‘The trail across prairies from made and in Ha instead! Fort by cake easy and quite different way] maids of of was return eantbis insbanc honor for the th of by way fountains southeast nese steaded a farm mountains is well marked by horseback. foot or trails. on The next Creek. Cuttt, of Willow tribes. In Zambia for instance, | some cases champagne He served as a O nde Lookin westwa from Inde- the deep-ruts of passin wag: Therefore, the emigrant had to found the roads goo the tribes of the northwestern al- lieutenant Weddin dresses are all th was in the ‘Third Iowa| day In Septembe 185 one emi- markers of pendenc Rock which ons_and the grave consider. a Youte that would be water. Hills-Riddle most halfway on the journey,|¢. province giv hoes and axes.’ rage and brides-to-be are payin train, the Cavalry during the Civil War| plenty of grass and grant those who died during passag the easiest to take their wag- V- and distant could see a returned to Bir-| of twel wagons passe reaching Fort Hall they|In the souther province cattle| small fortunes for them: (pre Upo it is this: In trail, ‘shortest the reviewing and still be financed from ons and found traders dealin in horses are the split in the mountains| throug Klamath country with| importan to understand some| which was called Devil&# Rock ming and straightest. are ca: Butter|tril be such as the Bemba ‘and|Some firms jeft Birmingham cattle, and dry good leaving the Applegat of the hardships and problem diaries handed some In the many beads are the customary|the idea b y offering pay- Devil&# Ga or Hell&# Gate, and| the Lith of “Apri with 5 sold for 50 cents a poun on Trail and turning south at its that these brave pioneer had| FRANK DREW down by the emigran the In-) the installment on Ore-| gown and 80 Trail. marry trails Here Yreka Amer-gi converged the 2 the passe with wagons, on, persons, junction Travelin to face, Indians, weather, ter- dian is seldom given any cred- urban lobola In Californial areas the & today of one ican Falls, spirit were ini- settlers gon- FE TRAIL SANTA There are records of numer- rain, illness and accident, all they are mentioned a all! and Morm trav- land mark of the ©: jgold- on this the first day of travel, |natural trains: arriving at perils for these settlers. to tell of the’ difficulties ous emigra , is Drew route. the Frank used all same few Trail. By the next day bein un- cic. the fall of 185 over ‘Most wagon trains assembled! leler emigrant had when they 'y in traveled over Once through Schoo! gap they eventful as they this “Grade 6 Roosevelt ‘The company made goo pr was It in the small.town of Independ encountered them. Let. us. then| the Yreka Trail. for trains The Santa Fe Trail was one |separated Wago open prairie country where the ress due to the fact that the that had the Missouri, Others gathere these few brief words as year’s emigration use headed for Bear Valley| roads were goo and they could| the commercial! ence, well longest goo encounters with of disastrous first Kansas | City, (now the Indians| at to Westpor acknowledgemen numerous across laho lent a e average twenty miles per day. stoc which made routes in the. United: States. It} and St. Josep Missouri; go Indians Fort|! Modoc the in and their-part creeks to the Green River an B April 19th they had reached] built and used before the| ‘was ‘The were Bloody Point too well known. ‘Leavenworth, Kansas, and Coun-| then to Fort ails. of the railroads, It bega Bridger. the Des Moines River and cross- day mane to their anim: massacre} Ben Wright the ‘Also, Iowa. cil, Bluffs, ‘The Yreka Trail branched left the ed at Martin&# Ferry, the Mor- followed now ‘The trail and Stone Bridge was| at Independenc Mo., and end- ‘The saw more organized. The Snake River for 300 miles to the| mon’s were Trains from the Applegat Trail just of Modocs at ed at Santa Fe, N.M..It cov- Havin crossed at Bona) passe through more tasks of driving, scouting and west of the divide between Wil- durin this season. ered a distance of 780 miles. Orego border. Dee Parte, lower down: the river. after reaching ‘the beautiful assigne on. a were Yreka Trail was in: use| The Jow Creek and Laird’s Landing made it impossibl to From this point Captain Barnes of traders trav- guardin caravans anyons Bi rest} the in all than A’ basis. wagon) emigrant road for only eled to a town called Council democratic asan- Lower Klamath Lake—south- Cattle} went on to. Council on Bluffs to Humbol down to the water. had o west of the lake, Turning south- about ten or twelve years, due Grove, Kan., and then on to the ‘master was named as top au- died and cholera. struck many purchas grain for the com- routes coming into use| followed Willow Creek to new ward, it trains. Cimarron Crossin of the Ar-| thority. pany. as it was too early in the slews every da at unskilled ‘Those camp and four ‘miles to Willow Springs and the dangers of the Modocs kansas feed Boise Fort to Next came for’ Cimarroy enoug River near grass year teams. ler to ge grass for Traits, and there wer many, ithe Blue Mountains, final. bar-| ihe stock. After ‘the passin en route a plac later around Tule Lake. Kan. ‘Ther the trait 9th found them mov-| to learn by doing. Brimmer Van the as known rier. Those fortunate enoug to crossed at Martin Ferry, they], Augus During the Modoc War, since into two routes, One of these| had the third and last range| When the signa was survive the go- ranch. The spring were an old ‘Yreka was the depo for -sup- routes went to Bent’s Fort near| traveled about forty nine miles} ing up ‘we the the and Reaching cracked of whip Willow Indian campsite. From loverjoye to see lies to the army at the Lava campin on the Middle| Junta, Colo. given, westward moved train they found the ali| River. River. This being Sunday ‘southwe: st Wag Springs the trail ran southwest Beds the Yreka Trail saw con- with stars and strij ican of dust. Rock Valley and stant use by the military as a across Red across to the upper] in a-cloud Many remained at Fort Van-| hands were in camp and they bid the made breeze Diaries of those who com. and settled nearby in a had preachin b the preacher, floating “i couver crosse Butte Creek near the suppl route. River in Mexi- Military lew to the cold breezes historic Pacific journey contain ‘village called Portland, ‘Mr. Loury, A large number of| defiance present day Southern ‘The other trail led across} this Sierra Nevadas. the food, dirt, untold For railroad siding of Kegg. It con-| STORM DAMAGES TREES Americans, ‘this the company were church mem-| ithe pea of the This} complaints of Cimarron’ Desert. travel. The mornin of August 15th south through the Orr ‘trail brought only -death and bers and an agreement to ob- tinued trail than the oth-| death and the day’s shorter was heavi- (UPI)— ROME ‘Th first day’s travel reached disaster. south new For “Lake whenever pos- they started early and moved others, a serve the Sabbath gap, along the er route, but unfriendl Indians in two centuries slow pa ce, reaching the Shawnee Methodist Mission: start in a new land, lat a consti- of their ind| sible shores of Grass Lake. Contin- est snowstorm was an raided the part pioneer camps. be- or little damag two-| wagon trains, city of Sacrame The Oreg Trail is th Je tution, and this made 1 miles West, and each suc- uing south it intersected. the destroye the in trees thirds of the day’s travel grew long acy to us, an exploit of the r-| rout more dang After a month of travel the fore nightfall They have now Military Pass at Shee Rock, and av- ithe shorter and highest courage, animals humans, as er determination| horses were standing the trip reached the-end of their jour- us, through the Shee Rock gap: o Eternal City’ this park month, offi-/° be- to enues early read Ianded settled into the rou- safel and dedication, well but-the carried| equipm The earliest travelers grass was hardly ney, [ARR life in a their good on packhorse Altine. yet and they still had gin building a new ‘There were untold hardships them light. The were new land. William named Becknell t feed man Feb. the caused by no or little Wagon with prairie by that| trail first.used wagons on the showed that 70 trees collapsed in 1821. “After aided by - to be wood was hard| time and f traders|brakes that, under the weight of the snow) burned the ‘to find. manufactured good to| ropes on stee inclines. Rivers: 882-5553 b Dalto 6200 So. 6th and 250,0 out of a total of of an old feed wagon which! Santa Fe by wagon to exchang and creeks had to be forded or! leave, to ferried, often-times at the cost the were goin for mules, furs, gol and silver, Ore- cook their evening meal: by. WASHINGTON (UPI) In the 23 years of trading be- of animals, equipme and lives, Democratic ‘Let us fell you how you can| The next few weeks the repre-| Indians, too, presente prob- gon’ three tween 182 and 1844 the annual 4 $1,000 life in- a Dem sentatives joine with made goo time because the value of the merchandise car-|lem: IS policy. Srronee from 1 prairie roads is recounted when} cratic ‘house members were ‘ incident very goo trail ried the over averaged Once your’application is ap- } the} the and in trav- states some- to refused let western protesting Water was a problem the policy $130,00 About 80 wagons and| Pawnees a pr coved y os ca two far of the as the build a bridge across times they traveled as propose remodelin 150 men used the Santa F Traillelers est your I River, A brave older House office buildings. each year. An extension of ‘the Red. Vermillion twenty five miles to have water) ‘on No one will you. And Game was Du to in camp. use Reps Al Ullman, Robert trail, known as the “Old Spa emigrant named Zeiber, armed there is no obligati and Edith Green joine in plentifu and their huntin par-| ish Trail,” ran from Santa Fe only with a map and a this ad and mail it Dalton knows our careful Sanitone Teor out N.M., to Lo Angeles Calif., in} ‘went among the savages and ‘draftin a letter to the House ‘t was able to kee the travel- of convinced them that the Great Office Buildin Commission pro- ers supplie with fresh deer and a ‘exclusive Soft-Set® fabric finish restores /ife by the of buffalo meat and a few wild|or in Father expenditure the Green andj Washingto testin ng’ , and color while retaining orlginal shap an Utah, the Col-|hi ad give him authority.;to es- “many millions of dollars’’ for geese Virgin Dept ‘Try our Sanitone drycleaning for your the project, orado River, and By th end of May the com- across safely t th elcort the their ments today! country. ‘Mojav Desert in California. With all the danger an djand the train: crossed the river. growin to Immediately, boom of town, considerable jot — size — m re e Pos Capt . a ‘Tob » . pione Dog . ‘cai ai “ob Ae f Stetm Sa bat rea emia fa aferw T pa b i Or { tl at ee valvay satf hank be rione pre e aoe divi i Dyob Mal lost Remon th compa sant ti at i Rat Pa are 25- i gre pos pignee atoong| stee hor i t o oe fow Birmin Fe n ee R mou “A fla ceva t Pruning Tree Remodelin NURS BAKE rest Protested plat ees ie a &q“tna ie PEOPL recommend 50 to 80 — ‘our isu th drycleani proces M cal sem rou ae trou Pe method increased| hardships settlers Many uniqu ‘th populatio of the towns and used to measure It& that face you Jet the ‘Finance of year time at F can fa ‘No matter how bravely upset the family budget. Why ot e tax payments, will e Hal rs A loan Finance @aying make ‘won&# taxes pleasant, but it will mak it a loteasier, the ‘To e a 74 amounts ‘Other ‘Aska! bout ‘group Sam af (€Poxifc Where the servic is ® t, Otte 121 South 9th at Indra Leone s0 good d-out of Street — a de- new exietamers say, Phon 884-8128... ea 1 “A friend sent ma.& family received be demoliti from ‘and eae Kla be com jot in the office Falls, Oregon Klamath 10, 1965, persons aa salvage, Falls, a com: meni by June ee the loter sa before April 30, 1965- 15, dimension and in- timber roof trusses. site, except the The must the conerete furnish be left in place floor may the City performance bend. MONDAY THRU SATURDAY by en fg Nenon Con of Heir Education Stylists. Keller, —— Dry Office an aan BEAU COLL re 407 Main St. Next to Pacific Ph. Power “982- 882-6645 M sees NE METH Gold Bond 1453 Esplanad purc Recorder And than Dem oth span CASC Op Post City et, and nation service PERMAN with Shampoo Set and Haircut ced | Rosie Jim Johnson, Mar. of not firms the buil or a COMPLET brick, 60x100 feet, singl story, vi ‘of used ed brick, dimensio fumber, (P FINANCE A member of the Transamerica Ma sing b ‘me. PACIFIC ce up to $2,500 or Mle insurenee foane, cra ap ju c say, al emi- ft. edie “3 ti Another Fo Sal and then pay in easy back “Uncle coun h Loans Pacific man oe th Orego One long a told of steps. Later, a Mormon grant was credited with 7,000| ai were Paci o with pay your Ha one again, tax- ee it, to up man by 184 "t were’ distances. cities alon the San it Fe Trail, ‘ma for instance, used in ak wa Be i ‘an Saniton Sta Ph
