An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 3

Author: Interstate publishing co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: [Chicago] Interstate publishing company
Number of Pages: 1146

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932

Cadwell, Thomas. 936

Cahoon, Marcus M. 864

Calkins, Fremont L.

.802

Carey, Patrick J.

789

Carlton, Isaac F.

.879

Carothers, John H. 893

Carothers, William H

.838

Carter, William D. 875

Carver, George W. 846

Cash, John H. .919

Becker, Jacob P. 823 Belden, Leander W. 893

Benson, Charles R. 915

Blomquist, John ....

938

Boedcher, Severin C.

806

INDEX.

Wende, Henry H. 688

Wenner, Charles S. 690

Wetzel, John.

.581

Whipple, William H 612

Winsor, Frank. 710

Wolcott, Alven E.

744

PAGE

Aldrich, John G 826

xxii

INDEX.

PAGE

Falkner, James J. 930

Farrell, Thomas W .815

Farris, Samuel W ... .894

Felch, Harvey J., M. D. 792

Ferguson, Edward C 824

Fielding, Harry S. 914

Ford, George E. 828

Forsyth, George. 928

Frederick, Martin 856

Frederick, Philip .855

Gamble, Thomas L. 901

Gassman, Otto .. .906

Geddis, Oliver R .871

German, John William .887

Gilmour. John T .849

Glynn, Jerry .. .926

Goodwin, Elmer E. 896

Goodwin, John C .. 896

Goodwin, Thomas B. 895

Gordon, Martin A. 900

Graham, John .. 931

Graves, Carroll B. 793

Graves, David W. .915

Gray, Christopher A. .817

Green, John Lincoln

.858

Habermann, August. .880

Haley, Thomas

.832

Hall, Arthur M. .846

Hanlon, Joseph J.

Hanson, Benard

Hanson, John.

863

Harrison, Ralph. .903

Harrison, William. .934

Hartley, Joseph J 935

Hasse, August.

.911

Hatfield, Charles T. .897

Hayes, James T.

.869

Henseleit, W. F. 904

Heron, Edward K. 927

Hodder, Arthur W 935

Hogue, George D. .883

Holcomb, James A .879

Holland. Edward. 932

Holm, Christian. .848

Holmes, John W. 928

Houser, Tillman 813

Hubbell, Julius Caesar

801

Jackson, Frank S. 827

Jackson, Dr. Roscoe N. 923 Jacobson, Chris 869 James, George P 867

James, Oscar.

902

Jarred, Arthur.

904

Jenzer, John. .

938

Jonas, William 859

Jones, Charles W

862

Justham, Simon R.

921

Karrer, Frank X 933

Kautz, Ira A. 925 Kellicut, Lorenzo .899 Kennedy, Louis Cass 908

Kermen, Robert E. .902

Kiester, William H .812

Killmore, John S .. 882 Killmore, William D. .825 Klavon, August. 932

Knight, William H. H .912

Kohler, Karl O

.832

Lane, James

.921

Larsen, Niels

874

PAGE Lasswell, William B. .863

Leverich, William B.

.822

Liska, Adolph.

929

Livingston, Thomas.

Ludi, Frederick

841

Lyen, David H.

877

Lyen, Leander F.

890

Maddux, Alexander

862

Mason, Alanson T. 810

Mason, Eleazar B. .906

Maxey, Simeon Walker 833

Meagher, Thomas F 801

Meehan, Martin

Meek, Thomas 823

Menzies, Joseph F

Milby, William ..

Mills, James L. 907

898

Minielly, George

Moe, Erick A 874

Moffet, Charles W 872

Montague, Robert.

.925

Morgan, William P 920

Morgan, J. H .. 809

Morrison, Catherine. 876

Morrison, William. 905

Mueller, Nicholas.

844

Murray, David

.804

McCallum, Edgar 939

McCauley, John C., M. D 799

McDonald, Charles H .865

McDonald, James M. 909

McDowell, Thomas G.

.929

McLennan, Malcolm

820

Nesselhous, August .887

Newman, John M .899

Nicholas, Carter .934

Norling, Peter J.

867

O'Conner, J. C. .910

Olding, John G

.814

Olsen, Elling. .940

Olsen, Gust and Lasse .940

O'Neil, John H

925

Packwood, Samuel T 798

Packwood, William. 848

Pansing, Charles W. C 876

Park, Rev. William. .804

Paton, James Y.

.930

Patrick, Archibald S

Pays, Felix.

Pease, Mrs. Anna M

Pease, Burt ..

850

Pease, Edgar.

Peed, William J. .849

Piland, Martha A.

Poland, Jesse C.

Prewitt. William .881

Price, William B. .847

Priest, George S 910

Pruyn, Edward.

796

Purdin, R. Lee. 798

Rader, William H. 880

Randall, Amasa S.

.829

Randall, Thomas J.

836

PAGE

Reed, Briggs F .795

Reed, Casper E. 878

Rees, William. 926

.937

Rego, Jacob E.

.852

Rhodes, Samuel I. 940

Rice, William A .. .873

Richards, Charles M 868

Robbins, Dr. John. 830

Rollinger, Michael. 843

Roseburg, John 905

Rugg, Mary S. 882

Salladay, George W 836

Sally, Isaac M.

934

Sander, Carl A 821

Sandmeyer, Ernest T. 885

Schnebly, Frederick D 794

Schnebly, Philip H.

834

793

Schorman, Frank

843

Schormann, Frederick .890

Sheldon, William T.

875

Short, G. P. .918

Shoudy, Dexter .. .807

Shoudy, John A., Jr. .806

Shoudy, John Alden 790

Sides, George. 930

Sides, William B. 903

Simmons, Edwin L. 926

Simmons, Michael T. .886 Simonton, Allen C., M. D. 922

Simpson, Elmer E 918

Simpson, Robert . 916

Sloan, George, M. D. 921

Smallwood, Charles 908 Smithson, John H. 791

Snyder, Cary A. 857

Sorenson, Jens. .870

Southern, Braxton Duncan 900 Spier, H. H. 856 Splawn, Charles A 897

Sprague, Melvin C. 835

Spurling, William W 860 Steinman, Capt. Alfred C. 802

Stevens, Cyrenus E. 894

Stevens, W. A 851

Stoops, Charles F 868

Storey, Miles H .. 907

Straude, Even T

872

Stulfauth, A. H

818

Swann, Thomas.

861

Taylor, Edmund .910

Taylor, Frank E. .845

Thomas, Merton L 857

Thomas, Warren A 800

Thomas, W. R ... 881

Thompson, James H 847

Thorp, Milford A .898

Tjossem, Albert. 890

Tjossem. Rasmus P 838

Toner, Henry. .866

Tubbs, Emery L .912

Turner, Robert A

816

Tuttle, William W.

.903

Tweet, Torkel

938

Vanderbilt, Jerry W

805

Virden, George D.

937

Wager, Eugene E.

.816

Walsh, Richard .

911

Walters, William

866

.905

Pease, Clarence William

884

.853

.826

Peterson, Ola ..

922

.884

.913

858

854

924

Miller, Michael C.

928

Sayles, George E.

892

Mires, Austin. 852 Schober, Joseph .. 908

.854

.913

Nilson, Gustaf.

.937

Steele, Walter ..

924

INDEX.

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PAGE

Wasson, E. B. .882

Watson, James. 886 Wilson, Prof. William E. 796 Wynegar, Valentine C. .815

Weaver, George W.

.871

Wippel, Frederick.

.819

Weaver, John N ... .867 Wippel, Simon P. 818

Weaver, Dr. Roy A.

829

Willis, Edwin A.

808

Wilson, Charles Herby

.859

Wright, Alfred M

.820

Zwicker, Barthel.

.865

KITTITAS COUNTY PORTRAITS.

PAGE

Becker, Jacob P.

.823

Bowers, Jacob.

.830

Carey, Patrick J.

.790

Conant, William A.

813

Cooke, Hon. Charles P.

.813

Cooke, Mrs. Charles P.

813

Doty, Mrs. Hannah D.

790

Farrell, Thomas W.

815

PAGE

Gamble, Thomas L

.901

Haley, Thomas,

831

Houser, Tillman

813

Houser, Mrs. Tillman.

813

Hubbell, Julius Cæsar

801

Kiester, William H.

813

Maxey, Simeon Walker

.833

Olding, John G. PAGE

.813

Olding, Mrs. John G.

.813

Pansing, Charles W. C.

876

Shoudy, Hon. John Alden .790

Shoudy, Mrs. John Alden

790

Turner, Robert A.

816

Wynegar, Valentine C.

813

PAGE Wilson, John S .. 859 Wright, George .837

PAGE

Younger, Peter

909

Wold, Peter A ..

840

Wood, Martha A

.844

Zetzsche, Willis F

.889

PART I. INTRODUCTORY

CHAPTER I.

EXPLORATIONS BY WATER.

The opening of a new century is a fitting time to glance backward and reconstruct to the eye of the present the interesting and heroic events of the past, that by comparison between past and present the trend of progress may be traced and the future in a measure forecasted.

No matter what locality in the Northwest we may treat historically, we are compelled in our search for the beginnings of its story to go back to the old, misty Oregon territory, with its isola- tion, its pathos, its wild chivalry, its freedom and hospitality. Strange indeed is its earliest his- tory, when, shrouded in uncertainty and misap- prehension, it formed the ignis fatuus of the explorer, "luring him on with that indescribable fascination which seems always to have drawn men to the ever receding circle of the 'westmost west. ' "

Shortly after the time of Columbus, attempts began to be made to reach the western ocean and solve the mystery of the various passages sup- posed to lead to Asia.

In 1500 Gasper Cortereal conceived the idea of finding a northern strait, to which he gave the name "Anian," and this mythical channel re- ceived much attention from these early naviga- tors, some of whom even went so far as to claim that they had passed through it and had reached another ocean. Among the captains making this bold claim was Juan de Fuca. He is said to have been a Greek of Cephalonia whose real name was Apostolos Valerianos, and it is claimed that when he made his discovery he was in the service of the Spanish nation. Michael Lock tells his story in the following language:

"He followed his course, in that voyage, west and northwest in the South sea, all along the coast of Nova Spania and California and the Indies, now called North America (all which voyage he signified to me in a great map, and a sea card of my own, which I laid before him), until he came to the latitude of forty-seven degrees; and that, there finding that the land trended north and northwest, with a broad inlet of sea, between forty-seven and forty-eight degrees of latitude, he entered thereinto, sailing more than twenty days, and found that land still trending northwest, and northeast, and north, and also east and southeastward, and very much broader sea than it was at the said entrance, and that he passed by divers islands in that sailing; and that, at the entrance of said strait, there is, on the northwest coast thereof, a great headland or island, with an exceeding high pinnacle or spired rock, like a pillar, thereupon. Also he said that he went on land in divers places, and that he saw some people on the land clad in beasts' skins; and that the land was very fruitful and rich in gold, silver and pearls and other things, like Nova Spania. Also he said that he, being entered thus far into the said strait, and being come into the North sea already and find- ing the sea wide enough everywhere, and to be about thirty or forty leagues wide in the mouth of the straits where he entered, he thought he had now well discharged his office; and that not being armed to resist the force of savage people that might happen, he therefore set sail and turned homeward again toward Nova Spania, where he arrived at Acapulco, anno 1592, hoping

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to be rewarded by the viceroy for this service done in the said voyage."

The curious thing about this and some of the other legends is the general accuracy of the descriptions given by these old mariners. Pro- fessor W. D. Lyman thinks it is not impossible that they had either visited the Pacific coast in person or had seen other pilots who had, and that thus they gathered the material from which they fabricated their Munchausen tales.

Many years passed after the age of myth before there were authentic voyages. During the seventeenth century practically nothing was done in the way of Pacific coast explorations, but in the eighteenth, as by common consent, all the nations of Europe became suddenly infatu- ated again with the thought that on the western shores of America might be found the gold and silver and gems and furs and precious woods for which they had been striving so desperately upon the eastern coast. English, French, Span- ish, Portuguese, Dutch, Russians and Americans entered their bold and hardy sailors into the race for the possession of the land of the occident. The Russians were the first in the field, that gigantic power, which the genius of Peter the Great, like one of the fabled genii, had suddenly transformed from the proportions of a grain of sand to a figure overtopping the whole earth, and which had stretched its arms from the Baltic to the Aleutian archipelago, and had looked southward across the frozen seas of Siberia to the open Pacific as offering another opportunity of expansion. Many years passed, however, before Peter's designs could be executed. It was 1728 when Vitus Behring entered upon his mar- velous life of exploration. Not until 1741, how- ever, did he thread the thousand islands of Alaska and gaze upon the glaciated summit of Mount Elias. And it was not until thirty years later that it was known that the Bay of Avatscha in Siberia was connected by open sea with China. In 1771 the first cargo of furs was taken directly from Avatscha, the chief port of eastern Siberia, to Canton. Then first Europe realized the vast- ness of the Pacific ocean. Then it understood that the same waters which frowned against the frozen bulwarks of Kamchatka washed the tropic islands of the South seas and foamed against the storm-swept rocks of Cape Horn.

Meanwhile, while Russia was thus becoming established upon the shores of Alaska, Spain was getting entire possession of California. These two great nations began to overlap each other, Russians becoming established near San Fran- cisco. To offset this movement of Russia, a group of Spanish explorers, Perez, Martinez, Heceta, Bodega and Maurelle, swarmed up the coast beyond the site of the present Sitka.

England, in alarm at the progress made by Spain and Russia, sent out the Columbus of the eighteenth century, in the person of Captain

James Cook, and he sailed up and down the coast of Alaska and of Washington, but failed to dis- cover either the Columbia river or the Straits of Fuca.

His labors, however, did more to establish true geographical notions than had the combined efforts of all the Spanish navigators who had preceded him. His voyages materially strength- ened England's claim to Oregon, and added greatly to the luster of her name. The great captain, while temporarily on shore, was killed by Indians in 1778, and the command devolved upon Captain Clark, who sailed northward, pass- ing through Behring strait to the Arctic ocean. The new commander died before the expedition had proceeded far on its return journey ; Lieuten- ant Gore, a Virginian, assumed control and sailed to Canton, China, arriving late in the year.

The main purposes of this expedition had been the discovery of a northern waterway between the two oceans and the extending of British terri- tory, but, as is so often the case in human affairs, one of the most important results of the voyage was entirely unsuspected by the navigators and practically the outcome of an accident. It so happened that the two vessels of the expedition, the Revolution and the Discovery, took with them to China a small collection of furs from the northwest coast of America. These were pur- chased by the Chinese with great avidity, the people exhibiting a willingness to barter commod- ities of much value for them and endeavoring to secure them at almost any sacrifice. The sailors were not backward in communicating their dis- coveries of a new and promising market for peltries, and the impetus imparted to the fur trade was almost immeasurable in its ultimate effects. An entirely new regime was inaugu- rated in Chinese and East Indian commerce. The northwest coast of America assumed a new importance in the eyes of Europeans, and espe- cially of the British. The "struggle for posses- sion" soon began to be foreshadowed.

One of the principal harbors resorted to by fur-trading vessels was Nootka, used as a rendez- vous and principal port of departure. This port became the scene of a clash between Spanish authorities and certain British vessels, which greatly strained the friendly relations existing between the two governments represented. In 1779, the viceroy of Mexico sent two ships, the Princess and the San Carlos, to convey Martinez and De Haro to the vicinity for the purpose of anticipating and preventing the occupancy of Nootka sound by fur traders of other nations, and that the Spanish title to the territory might be maintained and confirmed. Martinez was to base his claim upon the discovery by Perez in 1774. Courtesy was to be extended to foreign vessels, but the establishment of any claim preju- dicial to the right of the Spanish crown was to be vigorously resisted.

EXPLORATIONS BY WATER.

Upon the arrival of Martinez in the harbor, it was discovered that the American vessel, Columbia, and the Iphigenia, a British vessel, under a Portuguese flag, were lying in the har- bor. Martinez at once demanded the papers of both vessels and an explanation of their presence, vigorously asserting the claim of Spain that the port and contiguous territory were hers. The captain of the Iphigenia pleaded stress of weather. On finding that the vessel's papers commanded the capture, under certain condi- tions, of Russian, Spanish or English vessels, Martinez seized the ship, but on being advised that the orders relating to captures were intended only to apply to the defense of the vessel, the Spaniard released the Iphigenia and her cargo. The Northwest America, another vessel of the same expedition, was, however, seized by Mar- tinez a little later.

It should be remembered that these British vessels had, in the inception of the enterprise, divested themselves of their true national charac- ter and donned the insignia of Portugal, their reasons being : First, to defraud the Chinese government, which made special harbor rates to the Portuguese, and, second, to defraud the East India Company, to whom had been granted the right of trading in furs in northwest America to the exclusion of all other British subjects, except such as should obtain the permission of the com- pany. To maintain their Portuguese nationality they had placed the expedition nominally under the control of Juan Cavalho, a Portuguese trader. Prior to the time of the trouble in Nootka, how- ever, Cavalho had become a bankrupt and new arrangements had become necessary. The English traders were compelled to unite their interests with those of King George's Sound Company, a mercantile association operating under license from the South Sea and East India companies, the Portuguese colors had been laid aside, and the true national character of the expedition assumed. Captain Colnutt was placed in command of the enterprise as consti- tuted under the new regime, with instructions, among other things, "to establish a factory to be called Fort Pitt, for the purpose of permanent set- tlement and as a center of trade around which other stations may be established."

One vessel of the expedition, the Princess Royal, entered Nootka harbor without molesta- tion, but when the Argonaut, under command of Captain Colnutt, arrived, it was thought best by the master not to attempt an entrance to the bay, lest his vessel should meet the same fate which had befallen the Iphigenia and the North- west America. Later Colnutt called on Martinez and informed the Spanish governor of his inten- tion to take possession of the country in the name of Great Britain and to erect a fort. The governor replied that possession had already been taken in the name of His Catholic Majesty

and that such acts as he (Colnutt) contemplated could not be allowed. An altercation followed and the next day the Argonaut was seized and her captain and crew placed under arrest. The Princess Royal was also seized, though the Anierican vessels in the harbor were in no way molested.

After an extended and at times heated con- troversy between Spain and Great Britain touch- ing these seizures, the former government con- sented to make reparation and offered a suitable apology for the indignity to the honor of the flag. The feature of this correspondence of greatest import in the future history of the ter- ritory affected is, that throughout the entire con- troversy and in all the royal messages and debates in parliament no word was spoken asserting a claim of Great Britain to any terri- torial rights or denying the claim of sovereignty so positively and persistently avowed by Spain, neither was Spanish sovereignty denied nor in any way alienated by the treaty which followed. Certain real property was restored to British sub- jects, but a transfer of realty under the circum- stances could not be considered a transfer of sovereignty.

We pass over the voyage of the illustrious French navigator, La Perouse, as of more importance from a scientific than from a polit- ical view-point; neither can we'dwell upon the explorations of Captain Berkley, to whom belongs the honor of having ascertained the existence of the strait afterwards denominated Juan de Fuca. Of somewhat greater moment in the later history of the Northwest are the voyages of Meares, who entered and described the above mentioned strait, and who, in 1788, explored the coast at the point where the great Columbia mingles its crystal current with the waters of the sea. In the diplomatic battle of later days it was even claimed that he was the discoverer of that great "River of the West." Howbeit, nothing can be surer than that the existence of such a river was utterly unknown to him at the time. Indeed, his conviction of its non-existence was thus stated in his own account of the voyage: "We can now with safety assert that there is no such river as the St. Roc (of the Spaniard, Heceta) exists as laid down on the Spanish charts," and he gave a further unequiv- ocal expression of his opinion by naming the bay in that vicinity Deception bay and the promon- tory north of it Cape Disappointment. "Disap- pointed and deceived," remarks Evans face- tiously, "he continued his cruise southward to latitude forty-five degrees north."

It is not without sentiments of patriotic pride that we now turn our attention to a period of discovery in which the vessels of our own nation played a prominent part. The northern mys- tery, which had been partially resolved by the Spanish, English, French and Portuguese

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explorations, was now to be completely robbed of its mystic charm; speculation and myth must now give place to exact knowledge; the game of discovery must hereafter be played principally between the two branches of the Anglo-Saxon race, and Anglo-Saxon energy, thoroughness and zeal are henceforth to characterize opera- tions on the shores of the Pacific Northwest. The United States had but recently won their independence from the British crown and their energies were finding a fit field of activity in the titanic task of national organization. Before the constitution had become the supreme law of the land, however, the alert mind of the American had begun projecting voyages of discovery and trade to the Northwest, and in September, 1788, two vessels with the stars and stripes at their mastheads arrived at Nootka sound. Their pres- ence in the harbor while the events culminating in the Nootka treaty were transpiring has already been alluded to. The vessels were the ship Columbia, Captain John Kendrick, and the sloop Washington, Captain Robert Gray, and the honor of having sent them to our shores belongs to one Joseph Barrel, a prominent merchant of Boston, and a man of high social standing and great influ- ence. While one of the impelling motives of this enterprise had been the desire of commercial profit, the element of patriotism was not wholly lacking, and the' vessels were instructed to make whatever explorations and discoveries they might.

After remaining a time on the coast, Captain Kendrick transferred the ship's property to the Washington, with the intention of taking a cruise in that vessel. He placed Captain Gray in com- mand of the Columbia with instructions to return to Boston by way of the Sandwich islands and China. This commission was successfully car- ried out. The vessel arrived in Boston in Sep- tember, 1790, was received with great eclat, refitted by her owners and again despatched to the shores of the Pacific with Captain Gray in command. In July, 1791, the Columbia, from Boston, and the Washington, from China, met not far from the spot where they had separated nearly two years before. They were not to remain long in company, for Captain Gray soon started on a cruise southward. On April 29, 1792, Gray met Vancouver just below Cape Flat- tery and an interesting colloquy took place. Vancouver communicated to the American skip- per the fact that he had not yet made any impor- tant discoveries, and Gray, with equal frankness, gave the eminent British explorer an account of his past discoveries, "including," says Bancroft, "the fact that he had not sailed through Fuca

strait in the Lady Washington, as had been sup- posed from Meares' narrative and map." He also informed Captain Vancouver that he had been "off the mouth of a river in latitude forty- six degrees, ten minutes, where the outset, or reflux, was so strong as to prevent his entrance for nine days."

The important information conveyed by Gray seems to have greatly disturbed the equipoise of Vancouver's mind. The entries in his log show that he did not entirely credit the statement of the American, but that he was considerably per- turbed is evinced by the fact that he tried to con- vince himself by argument that Gray's statement could not have been correct. The latitude assigned by the American is that of Cape Disappointment, and the existence of a river mouth there, though affirmed by Heceta, had been denied by Meares; Captain Cook had also failed to find it; besides, had he not himself passed that point two days before and had he not observed that "if any inlet or river should be found it must be a very intricate one and inaccessible to vessels of our burden, owing to the reefs and broken water which then appeared in its neighborhood." With such reasoning, he dismissed the matter from his mind for the time being. He continued his jour- ney northward, passed through the strait of Fuca, and engaged in a thorough and minute explora- tion of that mighty inland sea, to a portion of which he gave the name of Puget sound.

Meanwhile Gray was proceeding southward "in the track of destiny and glory." On May 7th he entered the harbor which now" bears his name, and four days later he passed through the breakers and over the bar, and his vessel's prow plowed the waters of that famous "River of the West," whose existence had been so long sus- pected. The storied "Oregon" for the first time heard other sound than "its own dashing."

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An illustrated history of Klickitat, Yakima and Kittitas counties; with an outline of the early history of the state of Washington, Part 3

Author: Interstate publishing co., Chicago, pub Publication date: 1904 Publisher: [Chicago] Interstate publishing company Number of Pages: 1146

Author: Interstate publishing co., Chicago, pub
Publication date: 1904
Publisher: [Chicago] Interstate publishing company
Number of Pages: 1146