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THE LEGEND OF CHIN-TIM-I-NI.
HOW CHIN-TIM-I-NI CAME TO BE THE ANCIENT NAME OF MARY'S PEAK.
By John B. Horner, A. M. Litt. D.
A thousand snows have fallen, and the hills have blossomed again and again since lived the Indian maiden Chintimini. This mysterious personage was one of a tribe that inhabited the tributaries of the Yaquina and hunted far south of the Alsea. The people who were tall, and lived principally by the chase, despised the low clam-diggers whose hatred they had wantonly pro- voked.
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The tribe was but a handful; so to protect themselves against their foes, the women and the men went alike to war; and it is said that the presence of woman in these conflicts fired the war- riors to such courage and deeds of dar- ing that they never lost a battle. These were the Spartans of the ancient coast nations.
After many desperate. but futile ef- forts to conquer them, the neighboring tribes, who had long been at the mercy of these heroes, formed an alliance to exterminate the little nation.
Warriors danced until the night be- came hideous, while preparations were being made for the onslaught. Chinti- mini, who knew these things, told her people; but the chiefs would not believe her. When, however, the pursuers fell upon her surprised tribe, killing many of the bravest, the maiden stood out in the midst of the battle, like Joan of Arc, and turned defeat into victory. At the close of the day, she addressed her war- riors thus: "Many of our braves have fallen. These we honor, for they were not cowards; others have only disap- peared to join us in the night when the moon shall rise. Then there will be no wonien, for we are men in battle." With one voice her people said: "O, wise Chintimini, the sun-god hath touched
thy shield. We will wait till then that we may meet the foe."
A messenger came from the greatest sachem of the opposing nations promis- ing protection to the tribe if only the beautiful Chintimini would give her hand in marriage. But his offer was spurned, for he was at heart an enemy to her people; and the messenger de- parted unmolested and unrewarded to his chieftain.
When darkness hovered over the mountain retreat, and the missing war- riors returned, Chintimini said: "I will go upon yonder mountain and direct you with a great cloud of smoke by day and with fire by night, that you may es- cape the enemy until they weary of the pursuit and return to their land down beside the sea."
The tribe obeyed the mystic wand upon the mountain height, and when the sun was hid and the moon had gone down into the waters and all was dark- ness the lone light directed them hither and thither between the enemy's lines. The alarm was given by the scouts, and both pursuing tribes coming from oppo- site directions appeared on the scene at the same time, and mistaking each other for the pursued, gave terrible battle midst the darkness of that awful night. Chiefs fell upon chiefs; and warriors yelling like demons were speared to death by their own allies, for their wea- pons had turned traitors. Thus carnage went on until the bravest of two nations lay, the dead and the wounded side by side, and many was the warrior who died and never knew the slaughter of that night.
Were Chintimini's people in the struggle? No! Just at the vital mo- ment the queen from her mountain
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height had directed them by a zig-zag route into a dense forest where they re- mained out of danger till the approach- ing dawn. Witnessing the evidences of carnage, they fell upon the vanquished; and the enemies perished in a day. The wisdom of Chintimini was the secret of victory; and the victory was such that no nation ever molested her people again.
The enemies were slain; peace was restored; and rejoicing begun; but where was Chintimini who kept her watch by day and by night from the
said she was a goddess, and that at the close of the battle they saw her spirit ride away on a white curling cloud. Then silence reigned; and the oldest chief of the tribe spoke, saying: "We can build no funeral pile that will rise like her wisdom and valor which reach the heavens; so we will name the moun- tain Chintimini to remind our children that wisdom in battle is more precious than spears and shields and arrows.
Since then the white man came and named the mountain Mary's peak, in honor of one of his own people; but so
mountain top. Warriors brave, war- riors true, sought her; but they sought in vain. Suns and moons and snows went by, but they never found the maid again. Some said her shield took wings, and that she floated down to the great waters to guard the sea banks; others, that she went into a mountain cave, tak- ing with her the deadliest weapons of her enemies; others believed she per- ished from long fatigue while sentinel for her oppressed people; while others
long as the memory of the heroine and the valor of her people have been re- cited, the sons and daughters of the primeval forest have called the moun- tain Chintimini in memory of the Indian maiden who rose grandly above her en- vironments, and, like a goddess, rescued her nation from untimely destruction.
This legend has also been told in verse, by one of our Native Sons, and in a manner worthy of space on historic page. It is as follows:
CHIN - TIM -I - NI.
Sentinel for untold years! Silent Peak that. tow'ring, hears The mystic music of the spheres, Chintimini.
Guarding there for human weal, Lurid lightning bolts reveal Thy smile when leaping thunders peal, Chintimini.
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Sentinel, thy age-lit ken Compasses the mighty span Since God wrought universe for man, Chintim.ni.
Summited in snowy sheen, Garmented in living green -- Thy robing's craft of Hand unseen, Chintimini.
Towering to meet the stars, Helmeted in sun-made bars, You baffle Time, and scorn his scars. Chintimini.
Spartan-like, rock-girt and grand- Silent, massive, stern you stand And guard the pass, 'tween sea and land, Chintimini.
Standing, loft on mountain wall, Near to God, and watching all .-. Thou bidest time till mountains fall, Chintimini.
Watching still, hough tempest-torn, Watching still, though struggle-worn; Thou'lt watch till resurrection morn, Chintimini.
Silent let thy ward go on; Steadfast now as when begun, Thou'lt duty do till time is done, Chintimini.
Sentinel. oh would that men Might of thee one lesson gain! Then, human life were ne'er in vain, Chintimini.
WESTWARD HO!
They who crossed the trackless prairies,
· Pathways grooving, boldly proving That beyond the sunset's portals Morning's golden meadows glow, They who cared for friend and stranger, Firmly meeting every danger, Knew no mandate, save, this only, "Westward Ho!"
Titan-hearted, they were ever Fearless, hardy, never tardy When the bowstring twanged the anger Of the treacherous hidden foe: Though the sunset's gates before them. And the bright stars shining o'er them. Were their only guides, they uttered: "Westward Ho!"
Pioneers, who fought that battle Never ended, till were bended Many forms by age and toiling, Or, else laid in slumber low, Gave a country to a nation. Formed our state for its high station, By their firmness. as they answered: "Westward Ho!"
"Westward Ho!" Across the ocean, Nothing heeding, daring. speeding. Argonauts passed tides uncharted, Till they saw Multnomah flow; Pioneers, who knew each other. Tried and true, and like their brother, Who had made the plains re-echo, "Westward Ho!"
Pioneers who won that struggle, Closely banded, then demanded Government, and noble manhood Answered to the call, "Divide!" From the Northland's snows and ices, To the land of balm and spices, Ocean, plains and golden Rockies Were allied.
Seal of sheaf and chinook salmon Was the token, never broken, Worthy seal of those who framed it, Sovereigns of that country wide; "Beaver money" was their measure, Sterling worth their only treasure, And with rifle at the call they Did or died.
When the eagle spread its pinions Gently over home and rover, In its beak it caught the emblem, "With our own strong wings we fly." Freedom's children gave that token, Pioneers, whose hearts were oaken, Built for time an empire money Could not buy.
"Westward Ho!" Forgotten never. Still is gleaning, still is beaming, Like the star of evening, burning Where the golden meadows glow; Like an echo is our yearning For the loved ones unreturning. Calling from the unseen portals, "Westward Ho!" -Valentine Brown.
PIONEER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS.
The first school taught west of the Rocky mountains was begun at Vancou- ver, Washington, on January 1, 1833. John Ball, one of the Weyth expedition of 1832, being the teacher. His scholars could not undertsand him, nor each otli- er, as they were made up of Indian child- ren coming from widely separated local- ities, all speaking a different dialect. Af- ter a three months' trial Mr. Ball gave
But little was acomplished, however, un- til Cyrus Shepard, one of the missionary band, assumed charge and the education of children began in earnest. The stu- dents were, in the main, children of set- tlers by their native wives, only a few being of full-blood Indian descent.
In the interim Jason Lee went east and on the return trip the institution now known as the Willamette University, of
THE OREGON INSTITUTE.
up the undertaking, when Mr, Solomon Smith, another member of the Weyth party, was installed as teacher in his stead, beginning on the first of April of the sanie year. He had much better suc- cess than his predecessor, continuing to teach several terms during the next eigh- teen months. Upon his removal to the Willamette valley the school was discon- tinued. Soon after the arrival of Revs. Jason and Daniel Lee, who established the Methodist mission on the Willam- ette, another school was began by thiem.
Salem, was conceived. On October 25. 1839. while the ship Lusanne was plow- ing its way through the Atlantic with re- inforcements for the mission, the ques- tion came up as to how they would cele- brate the centennial of the Methodist church, which occurred on that date, when Jason Lee said: "We will have our centenary on ship-board and apply the funds raised towards the starting of a school in Willamette valley.' The fund subscribed on that memorable date amounted to $650.00. The contributors
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to the fund were Rev. Jason Lee and wife. Rev. A. F. Waller and wife, Rev. Gustavus Hines and wife, Rev. L. H. Judson and wife, James Alley and wife, Rev. Wm. W. Cone and wife, Rev. Jo- siah L. Parrish and wife, Ira L. Babcock, M. D .. and wife, Hamilton Campbell and wife. W. W. Raymond and wife, Rev. J. P. Richmond M. D., and wife, Rev. Joseph H. Frost and wife, H. B. Brewer and wife, George Abernethy, David Car- ter, Miss Chloe A. Clark (afterwards Mrs. W. H. Willson), Miss Elmira Phelps (afterwards Mrs. W. W. Ray- mond), Miss Almira Phelps (afterwards Mrs. Joseph Holman), Miss Maria T. Wan (afterwards Mrs. Daniel Lee), and Miss Orpha Lankton (Afterwards Mrs. Carter, and subsequently Mrs. McKin- ley).
At this time no definite location had been selected for the new institute, but it was expected that the work begun at the mission then established should go for- ward, gradually merging it into a school for white children, as was expected by the contributors to the fund. The mis- sion school ran until 1844, when it was transferred to the trustees of the Oregon Institute, an association formed to per-
fect the plans born on the high seas in the pears previously. At this time the old mission was abandoned and a new location selected for the furtherance of effort further up the river, the spot being now the present site of Salem. Soon the school building was erected and its doors opened for the reception and in- struction of children. This was in Oc- tober, 1844.
Upon one of our pioneer mothers de- volved the honor of opening this insti- tution and conducting the first school taught therein. This honor was reserved for Mrs. W. H. Willson, who came here as Miss Chloe A. Clark, on the Lusanne. She was also the first woman to teach school north of the Columbia river, hav- ing taught a school at Nisqually a few years previously.
At this time Portland was an unbrok- en wilderness. Seattle, Tacoma, Olym- pia, Spokane, Albany, Eugene and all of the rest of the beautiful cities of the Pa- cific Northwest, did not exist. The im- portant places were Vancouver, Nisqual- ly, Astoria, Oregon City, Champoeg and Butteville. On January 12, 1853. the Oregon Institute was merged into the
WILLAMETTE UNIVERSITY.
With the following well-known leading pioneers as incorporators: Rev. David Leslie, Rev. Wm. Roberts, Governor Geo. Abernethy, Hon. A. Bush, Rev. J. H. Wilbur, W. H. Willson, Alanson Beers, Thos. H. Pearne, F. S. Hoyt. C. S. Kingsley, John Flinn, E. M. Barnum, Governor L. F. Grover. Hon. B. F. Harding, Sam'l Burch, Francis Fletcher, Jeremiah Ralston, J. D. Boon. Joseplı Holman J. R. Robb, Cyrus Olney and Saml Parker.
Since such time several buildings have been erected, all of which were builded with an eye to futurity, expecting that Oregon would grow and thrive as it has, and to meet the progress made, action was taken acordingly.
The university building occupies the
center of the campus. It is a brick struc- ture, four stories in height above the basement. The first and second floors are used as recitation rooms, and on the third one of the finest libraries and most complete laboratories can be found. The fourth floor is devoted to museum pur- poses.
In the southwest corner of the campus stands the Woman's College, which is also four stories in height. This is one of the most imposing buildings in the capital city, and every convenience known to modern times is embraced in its furnishing.
The Medical College is located near the others and its good work in the line of its purposes attest its worth and pros- perity.
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The number of educators who have had charge of or embraced the faculty of the university and its branches has been quite large, and among their number can be noted the very best in the United States.
What Willamette University has done for the education of those attending it can be done again. Go where you will upon this coast, and when you find the brainiest and best educated people you will find many who attended this histor- ical and leading seat of learning.
PACIFIC UNIVERSITY.
Pacific University stands as a monu- ment to the faith and missionary spirit of the earliest immigrants to the Willam- ette valley. It represents the will and perseverance of a class of persons who dared to cross a continent to conquer a wilderness. Its origin is unique among the educational institutions of the North- west.
The first name we reach in our his- torical research is that of a woman, Mrs. Tabitha Moffatt Brown, or "Grandma" Brown, as she was familiarly called. Early in the year 1848 she opened a school in a log house on the plat of ground now occupied by Dr. D. W. Ward's handsome residence. Rev. Har- vey Clark, an independent missionary from Vermont, settled upon the land constituting the present site of Forest Grove. His generous donation of 200 acres as a foundation fund, to which was afterwards added another large tract, the proceeds of the sale of which were to go to the payment of teachers, dates the beginning of Tualatin Academy and Pacific University.
Rev. Geo. H. Atkinson, with his wife, arriving from New England in June, 1848, improved the first opportunity, in September, at an association of minis- ters, to foster higher education. The result was a series of resolutions looking to the establishment of an academy. To him belongs the credit of securing the first president of Pacific University, Sid- ney Harper Marsh, a teacher by inheri- tance, and environment, and careful training.
The history of this school reads as a romance. For 25 years President Marsh
stood faithfully at his post, often in severest trials, encouraged by a host of noble souls, among them Deacon Hatch, one of the first trustees; Deacons T. G. Naylor, Alvin T. Smith, Henry Buxton, Hon. A. Hinman ,and many others. In 1859 we find him in the East, where $20,000 was secured as a permanent en- dowment fund; six years later he added an equal amount, and again in 1870, while East looking after the general en- dowment, thoughtful friends provided an endowment of $20,000 for the presi- dential chair. During this time 5,000 volumes were secured, to which many others have since been added, making this easily the peer of any university library in the Northwest.
Among its teachers we have space for the mention of but a few. "Grandma" Brown, whose work was a "labor of love," Mrs. Elizabeth Miller Wilson, a teacher of 1851; Hon. E. D. Shattuck, now one of Oregon's wisest jurists, and not least, Rev: Cushing Eels and wife, pioneer missionaries of 1838, are among those whose courageous and self-sacri- ficing work left a deep impress upon the work of this pioneer institution. No sketch would be complete without the mention of Rev. Elkanot Walker and wife, devoted missionaries, who settled at Forest Grove after the Whitman mas- sacre and in many ways assisted in pro- moting the welfare of the school. Prof. Marsh remained as president for 25 years, closing his heroic labors with his death, after an interim of one year.
Rev. John R. Herrick succeeded to the presidency, retiring three years later. Prof. Jacob F. Ellis was the third presi-
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dent, from 1883 to 1891, when Rev. Thos. McClelland, D.D., of Mt. Tabor College, Iowa, was chosen to guide the further destiny of this growing scion of the Pacific: Under his able manage- ment the present buildings have been erected, the permanent endowment fund has gone forward with leaps and bounds, and the standing of the university has become more fixed and permanent.
Many changes have taken place in the university since its foundation. The lit- tle log church, standing near the west side of the campus, long ago disappear- ed, more substantial buildings succeed- ing it: its site is marked now by a pet- rified stump, placed there as a monu- ment by the class of 1867, while today, the type of the more prosperous present.
early days of this school has many mod- ern features and conveniences for the student.
Pacific University is particularly for- tunate in its location. No town of its size can compare with Forest Grove for natural beauty and picturesque situation, and also for the intelligence and high moral tone of its citizens.
Forest Grove, set in one of the most favored spots in the Willamette valley, with the college campus of thirty acres in the very heart of the village, adorned with giant oaks and tall firs of wondrous beauty, is an ideal spot for the student, for the scholar. for the quiet, tender con- tact with those more enchanting revela- tions of the scenes with which the Cre- ator has enriched the great West. From
OLD LOG CHURCH AND SCHOOL HOUSE.
the main building. Marsh's Hall, named in honor of the first president of the in- stitution, is a stately and commodious structure, unsurpassed in the state for beauty and utility.
Herrick Hall, the young ladies' dornii- tory, is a large four-story building, con- veniently arranged for the accommoda- tion of ladies who desire the comforts of a home in the immediate precincts and atmosphere of a college. It has all the latest conveniences, heated by a furnace and lighted throughout by electricity.
Science Hall was completed in 1890. and while preserving the memories of the
these precincts are beheld the snow- clad peaks of St. Helens, Adams, Hood. while near at hand, with gentle slope. rise the green ridges of the Coast range, and directly to the east is shown the break in the Cascades through which pours the waters of the Columbia, and along which, in ever-increasing volume will pour the wealth and culture and do- minion of a people, whose forefathers. with rare wisdom and prudence, planted in this west land such educational cen- ters as Forest Grove. The university, with its wealth of history, its charm of natural surroundings, its acquired ad-
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vantage in appropriate buildings, its am- ple and increasing endowment, and its wide-awake and able faculty, stands eas- ily among the first in the advantages of- fered the student for a complete course of training and the acquirement of a thorough education.
The graduates of Pacific University
are an honor to the institution and to the state. In 1862 Hon H. W. Scott, editor of the Oregonian, received the first degree conferred, and it is just to say that many more like brainy men will be sent forth to fill the various profes- sions and callings of life as the years go. by.
MCMINNVILLE COLLEGE.
The history of McMinnville College covers a period of more than forty years. It ranks fourth in age among the insti- tutions of higher learning on the Pacific coast, Willamette and Pacific Universi- sities in Oregon, and The University of the Pacific, in California, antedating its organization. McMinnville College is the oldest institution on the coast which was incorporated under the designation "college" and continuously known as such. That is, McMinnville College is the oldest "college" on the Pacific coast, the older institutions, as mentioned above, being all "universities." Whit- man College, at Walla Walla, Wash., was one year later than McMinnville in organization. Furthermore, McMinn- ville College is the oldest Baptist college west of Missouri.
McMinnville College was not the earliest undertaking, educationally, of the Baptists on the coast. Their first attempt at founding a college was that made at Oregon City, Oregon. There Oregon City College was established in 1849, the prime movers in the enterprise being the pioneer Baptist missionaries, · Rev. Hezekiah Johnson and Rev. Ezra Fisher. This school maintained a strug- gling existence for some five or six years. Ultimately it suspended, its prop- erty was sold and the money acquired was paid into the funds of McMinnville College. The attempt at Oregon City seems to have escaped the notice of Ban- croft, who states in his History of Ore- gon that "the first Baptist school at- tempted was Corvallis Institute, which seems not to have had any history be- yond the act of incorporation in 1856-7."
Bancroft refers to another act, "passed the following year, establishing a Bap- tist school under the name of West Union Institute, in Washington county, with David T. Lenox, Ed. H. Lenox, Henry Sewall, William Mauzy, John S. White and George C. Chandler as trus- tees." This school seems also to liave had no history. It was at the same ses- sion of the legislature, that of 1857-8, that McMinnville College was first in- corporated. The historian above re- ferred to is so full and explicit in his ac- count of the beginnings of McMinnville College, that it is deemed best to repro- duce his account entire: It is as follows :
"At the same session (1857-8) a char- ter was granted to the Baptist college at McMinnville, a school already founded by the Disciples or Christian church, and turned over to the Baptists with the belongings. six acres of ground and a school building, as a free gift upon con- dition that they should keep up a colle- giate school."
The origin of McMinnville and its college was as follows: In 1852-3 W. T. Newby cut a ditch from Baker creek, a branch of the Yamhill river, to Cozine creek, upon his land, where he erected a grist mill. In 1854 S. C. Adams, who lived on his donation claim four miles north, took a grist to mill, and in the course of conversation with Newby re- marked upon the favorable location for a town which his land presented, upon which Newby replied that if he, Adams, would start a town, he should have half a block of lots and select his own loca- tion, from which the survey should com- mence. In the spring of 1855 Adams
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deposited his lumber for his house on the spot selected, about 200 yards from the mill, and proceeded to erect his house where, as soon as it was completed, he went to reside. Immediately after he began to agitate the subject of a high school as a nucleus for a settlement, and, as he and most of the leading men in Yamhill county were members of the Christian church, it naturally became a Christian school. Dr. James McBride, William Dawson, W. T. Newby and S. C. Adams worked up the matter, bearing
founding the West Union Institute. To this they made no objection as they only wished to have a school and were not sectarian in feeling. Accordingly, Ad- ams proposed the gift to the Baptists and it was accepted, only one condition being imposed and agreed to in writing. to employ at least one professor in the college department continuously. It was incorporated in January. 1858, as The Baptist College at McMinnville, by Henry Warren, James M. Fulkerson. Ephriam Ford, Reuben C. Hill. J. S.
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