AY, MARCH 21, 1924
TILLAMOOK HEADLIGHT
IONEER C
By H. G. Guild
YOU SAY THAT YOU HRS'
1 Stillwell of near this city
’Old Yamhill” as his birth-
id the present site of North
is the point where he opened
as an infant and peered un-
out upon a new world, and
■/ “.T'’ L-feAU .4 rtl .*\4.'.' .**
e things he saw; and M. V.
wondering ever since, as
have. There are so many
see and understand in life,
o through it to the end of
nee, still wondering about
INNOCENT. NOW f*> YOU
THAT
WAT I» Vvztilin'
wetu, wtói
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Kl«RE WOUNO NEAg TH«
Seine
no sii ?. ive Neven
BEEN OR dnk
niy
ulFE ANO NEVER J
imerto to Be
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ThATB A OOOO WVSOcUTtON ir
i C.OULO BELIE VF V(H'
BUT
H<?6 you so SET AOAINST
QBTTINQ DRUNK. ?
IT ALWAYS MAKES ME
feel . so itaTrrs
the next
THB STOLtn
(
of his birth was in 1857—
great Civil war—and at a
n Oregon was sparsely set-
when many log cabins were
e with their big fire-places,
h hung on wooden pegs the
but muzzle-loading Ken-
e type which brought in much talk among the people of his of his time in Oregon.”
were but three families on the Ne houses of the county. Howard was a
he family meat. Mr. Still- i part of the state at that time. But
“Thomas Stillwell died in the county halem, the Deans, ----------------- and great
hunter, ard was so skillfull
11 an active man at 67. He he did go to Iowa, where he stayed of his adoption in 1871, at the ripe Scovilles.
The Scovilles came in
8 many incidents with a j until the spring of 1844, when he old age of 84 years, and I think I 1869.”
(Continued on page 7)
that might be expected of started across the Plains with ox but state the truth when I say that
“When W. D. Stillwell, my father
o had passed through those | teams with his family, arriving in he did not have an enemy in the was sheriff of the county, he had no
■ Yamhill county, six months after the world."
but yesterday,
way of sending the state tax out to
iewing him the other day, beginning of the journey. At one
“When I came to Tillamook, or Salem, so on one occasion, he told me
I don’t care so much about stage of the journey, the cattle be rather Lincoln, at that time,” resum- to get ready for a long walk. Of
(Continued from page 1)
of myself. My father was came sick from drinking alkali water, ed M. V. Stillwell, the narrator, , “ __
Kil- course, it didn’t take a Tillamook boy
n up in his time, and affer and most of them died, and the jour ches was dead, having passed away of those dajrs long to get ready. 1 good portion of the road will be grav
¡but I would like to speak ney was completed on horseback to shortly before my arrival. The Ind soon discovered that I was expected, eled or macadamized.
ularly of my grandfather, Oregon. His wife, who accompanied ian women mourned for him for some to help carry out the state tax which j The old gravel bunkers at Simmons
on the
journey, uieo
died in;
in u<,
^_^_Mti 11 wel 1, who at the age of j him
---- „..
—... long jwumey,
Ja> onu
days,
and i I went
went aow
down to the bay. we packed in sacks. These sacks creek will be torn down immediately
70 yean became a pioneer of the Yamhill in 1860, two years before he j i where
wnere they
tney were
were out
out i in canoes, teai- contained considerable silver with a and removed to a point within the
country, and who laid out came to Tillamook.”
ing their hair and uttering the most lot of gold of various denominations. forks of the Beaver creek near Hem
“The only living child of Thomas woeful lamentations. Asking one cf We walked out over the trail. This lock. Thousands of yards of good
1 townsite of the present
Stillwell, is Thomas J. Stillwell of the Indians the cause of the wailing, was in the early Seventies, and we creek gravel will be available at the
City.”
over here in 1861, and Bandon, Oregon, who is now nearly he said that “the women were mourn made the trip without special inci new site, where the old rock crusher
r "the country.
He was ninety years of age.”
ing for the big chief Kilches, who had dent. Both of us carried revolvers vzill be removed and set up, ready
“My grandfather bought the Edrick gone to the happy hunting grounds!” to protect that tax money with a for business.
h what he saw of the new
While there will not be much con
d came back to North Thomas claim of 160 acres, which ad The men apparently took no part in scrap, if necessary. , But in those
ith the news that he had joined the claim of the only other the grief expressions, but stoically ■ lays life and money were safer than struction work this summer, compar
to move over to Tilla-1 man in that vicinity, whose name I stood about on the banks and listen now.”
ed with road construction work in this
county in the past, this is one of the
didn’t take long to get have forgotten, east. The dividing ed to the cries of the females of the
“
For
a
long
time
the
county
offices
re was no road over which line between the two claims was the tribe, occasionally talking in their of this county were scattered all over projects that has been hanging fire
for a long time, and will^ppen up a
mily goods. There was a present Second avenue that is guttural native tongue, probably con
the valley. Judge St. John lived at fine dairy country, which has for
m trail that led over to now Tillamook’s main street. He al cerning their departed chieftain. The
South PFairie, with no road to his
m Yamhill, and the trip so bought the claim west of the Ed only Tillamook chief I ever knew was | house from Tillamook; Renshaw,«he many years been practically isolated
rick
Thomas
tract
of
Thomas
J.
Still
f on cayuse ponies, a hardy
Wyleta, wrho lived down on the Nes- (county clerk, had his office in his from the outside world, and the peo
ry little horses that origin- well, a son, which gave him a total tueca river near the sea, and who , home over on North Prairie. The ple of the south end have it coming
e from East of the moun- of three-quarters of a section of land.” used to come up here to settle differ sheriff, my father, had his office in to them.
as but five years of age., “When his goods arrived from Port ences among the Indians^ after which his house, down near the tide flats on
ather wrapped me up in a land by a coasting schooner, Thomas he would return to the “Nestugga the bay, our land adjoining the
at, which he fastened to Stillwell opened the first store ever illahee.” There were no whites on the Vaughn home. The treasurer had no
TILE YOUR FARM
aving ipe a chance to peek conducted in Tillamook county, in Nestucca at that time. Wyleta was safe, and kept the county money in ASK THE MAN
.
h the ever changing land- a building that stood just about where a hereditary Tillamook chief, and Kil the safest place he could find, which,
WHO HAS TILED
e wild mountain trail. I the Bungalow Cafe now stands. The ches was not. He succeeded Kilches. of course, was a place known only to
that grandfather after- store was established in 1862, and Kilches had strong personality and himself, or, possibly to his wife.”
TILLAMOOK CLAY
that we jumped just one- was a great relief to the settlers, and will, and displacing the hereditary
WORKS
“The first Masonic lodge was or
1
s on the trip. Whether j a source of satisfaction to the Indians chief,
Adam, proclaimed himself chief
ganized
at
the
home
of
Joseph
Ed
1 all the Tillamooks. Adam’s wife
~ them or gave a good as well, who soon began to buy gaudy of
unable to say; but I do calico and candy and other articles was named Eve. Both, however, had wards, one and a half miles east of
on two or three occasions, that pleased their fancies. I believe Indian names, but the whites knew this city. It later was disbanded, but
F. J. PYE & SON
when junfcing the cayuse over a log, that “schooner day” was the greatest them as Adam and Eve. I remember subsequently was re-orgaiilzed in this
city
about
1880.
The
Masonic
lodge
event
in
the
early
days
of
Tillamook.
the old ^fcreoat would somehow geti
that there was quite a large Indian
Fully equiped to draft plan for
unfastened, and off your humble ser But thesfe craft were irregular in village at Kilches Point down on the was organized a short time before any building no matter how small
we
Stillwells
came.
”
vant would go I must have fallen off their schedule, and usually they were bay, and I used frequently to go down
“The first Methodist preacher who and nothing too large. Glad to
several times; but beyond a little first sighted by the Indians, who were there and watch their dances, which
talk it over with you any time and
scare, f Wa unhurt.
Grandfather always on the lookout for the “stick-1 were of rather common occurrence. ever held services in Tillamook coun specialize in pleasing you.
»»
ty,
was
a
man
named
Samuel
Howard,
inJwould laugh, and dismount and pick | canoe,
Kilches was credited with having
“I believe that my grandfather Indian blood in his veins. As photo and he preached in the few school
gs '
up, again tie me in that old over
coat, and bway we would go—bound Built the third house in Tillamook graphers were almost unknown in
I City. It was built on the same lot those days, no picture of the old chief
(HHMBok."
mother had died before our occupied by the store. Grandfather is in existence. He has been describ
the coast, and the family laid out the first town site, and call- ed as being stocky of build, with
!W. D. Stillwell, my fath- ed it Lincoln, after the “great com- strong African features, and was
nd two brothers, accom- 1 moner*.” He later discovered that of good size. I used to talk in “jar
randfather. We camped I there was another town named Lin gon” with Adam who told me that
ts on the trip. 1 remem- ' coin in Marion County, and then the Indians at one time were “as
awake and looking up changed the name to Tillamook City. » At that time the bay was literally
“It was a common remark of my. thick as ducks on the bay.”
opening in tdb trees at
*>rhile all about was dark- grandfather's that “he had never had I covered with ducks and other water
lilderness. The nights also a lawsuit, nor had he ever been sued.”¡fowl, and by that comparison, I got
(FORMERLY THE POLLY ANI’A SHOP)
jpf strange sounds that 1 He was a member of the Baptist •a pretty good idea of the number of fa
In accustomed to; but after church, and was strictly honest, and the Indians of other days. Adam
ight, I slept the sleep of ‘ above all, big-hearted and sympath- died about 30 years ago, and his wife
■ngster, and grandfather, | etic by nature. One time grandfather followed him something like ten years
ANNOUNCING FINAL CLEANUP ON TOYS
Thiee of the daughte^ of
in old frontiersman; I sus- ! let a man and woman occupy the later.
I
upper
rooms
of
his
house,
where
in
a
Adam
and
Eve
live
in
south
Garibaldi,
Bvakened at all until dawn
beep in and light up the drawer of a bureau he was accustom and I believe that these three women
Toys are to be sacrificed to make roo.ii for other
ed to place his money. At one time represent the only pure-blood Tilla
fir and hemlock!”
merchandise. Don’t overlook this >pportun:ly
Bys after leaving Yamhill, he had about $800. and this he de mook Indians who are now alive.”’
to
buy toys they will never be so che .p again. I
“I helped to build a portion of the
t at the two houses that nosited in the drawer as usual, taking
need
the space now. New merchandise, Fancy
the settlement of the fu- the precaution to lock it. The familj first road from Tillamook City toward
Work, Baby Things, and all needed articles pre-
of Tillamook The whole knew of this, and greed overmaster Bay City. Piling was driven in the
taining to needle work.
B new, and I had much ing their consciences, they took off Wilson river by means of a hand-op
| me
The Indians were the top of bureau, and gained access erated pile driver in which a 200
|nd I soon began to pick up to the money, which they took, and pound hammer, block and ropes play
j Bay “jargon,” by which left the place soon after. Grandfather ed an important part. Most of the
whites conversed with the discovered the loss of the'money, and work was done without much actual
[made good progress, and was satisfied who took it, but let the cost to the county. L. G. Freeman
bn I find an “old timer” thieves go Scot-free, rather than continued work on this road, and the
¿UügUÜÜLiLlQmLJC lOO t K it Jtai it it m 'IMI
highway, if such it could then be call
¡talk “jargon,” I find bring them into court!”
“My grandfather was an own cou- ed, was finally finished by supervisor
¡keep up ray end of the
L "But here, let us re- sin of the famous Baptist preacher, “Pat” Smith, the well known treasure
Igaandfather, about whom Rev. Joab Powell, whose preaching hunter on Necamey mountain."
been very little written.” always filled the church where he held
“When I first came here there were
Powell lived in what was three families on Netarts bay—Tim
[Stillwell, my giandfather, forth.
• Furniture and Hardware Co.
n Garyson county, Vir- known as “The forks of the Santiam,” McCormick’s father, and two other
Inber 11, 1787, and grew up in Linn county, and while excentrii men named Griner and Hardman.
in his native state, t» 0? Speech and manner, was neverthe- Hardman lived across the bay on the
One Big Special in Floor Covering at
boverl to Ohio, and follow- less, one of the greatest revivalists big sand spit. I recollect when there
bf a frontiersman. Later
Another Big Special is Ax Handles each 35c
the war of 1812, and was
bne of the important bat-
E. R. A. ELECTRONIC DIAGNOSIS AJiD
day, when the British ard
Your chance to buy that Coat Hanger any
TREATMENT
! the American army, and
of our 25c values each at
9c
From a drop of your blood I can not only tell you whether
fed by the latter.”
you
have
a
Cancer,
Tuberculosis,
Brights
Disease,
Tumors,
Blood
f grandfather moved to
infection or other ailments, but will tell you where the disease
Now we have flower pots at........ 15c and 23c
ind took up a homestead
is located in the body and how far it has progressed and your
lent Jackson’s administra-
chance for recovery.
The Electronic Treatment destroys these disease energies and
,he lived until 1832, when
Regulation size Clothes Baskets at...... $1.30
by other drugless methods, the toxins are eliminated and the
to Laporte, Indiana, and
weakened tissues are built up.
btion in that state is
ibim. In due time, he
DR. C. W. MILLER
to Michigan, when he got
Of
1301
E.
17th
street,
Portland is giving a lecture and demon
fever. He had intended
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immigration of 1843, but
No charge.
can
save
you money. Come in and see us.
te to join that pioneer
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tains, of which there was
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