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Told by the Pioneers Schools The first school I went to was a log school. We had a three month's term. Our teachers were well educated. My brother-in-law, James Henderson, was my first teacher. He was educated in Scotland. For games, we played marbles, blackman and ball, that is, when we had enough land cleared to play ball. The Cowlitz river at this point, close to our school, has changed its course three times. Varying three-fourths of a mile each time. Indian War At the time of the Indian scare in 1855 and 1856, before we came to Cowlitz County, the Cable House near here was made into a fort with a stockade built around it. All the neighbors were told to go there and stay until danger was past. :\Irs. Perkinson's grandfather, William Jackson, refused to go to the fort. He said he could keep the Indians off with his own shot-gun. His wife was greatly perturbed because he ,vouldn't go and tried to persuade him. He said, "why should I be afraid of Indians? I can load this gun quicker than you can run around this cabin.' , Well, here she saw her chance. He was using an old muzzle loader, all they had in those days. The powder had to be tamped in with a piece of muslin. So she got the heaviest piece of cloth she could find and gave it to him for loading his gun. "VeIl, he worked and worked and she ran round and round the cabin and finally he became convinced that they would be safest after all in the fort. There was a lot of feeling in the county over buying the old Kazana house at Kalama for a county seat at $5,000. The price they paid for the building seemed like a lot of money to taxpayers in those days. Of course as usual, those who were not taxpayers were all for it. Railroads Here is something else to think about. There is a lot of criticism of our government for making such extensive land grants to the railroads in the old days. We should all remember that we early settlers did not value the timber at all. The pioneers were tickled to death to have the railroads come into the country and gave them all the land they needed because the land had no value whatsoever. Let us always re- • member that the presence of the railroad was what made the land valnable. Our only good market in those days was British Columbia, because that was the only place to which we had good transportation facilities. Nigger Dick was a Kalama man. I've seen him many times. He was real black and married an Indian wife. His name was Dick Sanders. 45
Told by the Pioneers Here is something good for people to think about now-a-days. There were no relief agencies and neighbors looked after neighbors when ever possible. In rare cases the county commissioners were called on for help. I recall once the commissioners gave a widow the lump sum of one hundred dollars. She went out and bought herself a very nice dress, nicer than any other woman in that commuity had and she paid five dollars for a hat, an unheard of price then. All the ladies in the neighborhood criticized her extravagance. But say, do yon know that was the best investment the county ever made, for in just a few months she married a fine man and went to live in ('lark County. In my opinion, that woman used good judgment. FAMUX IlISTORr OF MA['DE B['RR BASSE Thurston County - My grandfather, Capt. Nathaniel Crosby, J L, arrived in Portland, Oregon, in 1847, on the brig O. C. Raymond, which he owned. He was sent out by the government with a cargo of supplies for emigrant:; who were making their way across the continent in covered wagons. He took a small boat and sounded over the Columbia Rinr bar and up the river and his vessel followed. He took his crew ashore, had them fall trees, and built a log cabin in which to cache the supplies. This building was at First and ~Iorrison Streets and ,,-as used for man~' years as post office. He was a senior partner of the firm of Crosby & Smith, between First and Second Streets. At the time he arrived in Portland, there were only a few log cabins there. Capt. Crosby remained on the coast for three years, trading between San Francisco, Portland and the Sandwich Islands and he made at least one trip to China with a cargo of spars. He finally went into a general trading business at Portland, Oregon. His store was on Morrison Street between First and Second Streets. He built the second frame house in Portland on the cornel' of Second and Morrison Streets. It was a quaint structure one and one-half stories in height, with a wide veranda across the front and hard finish inside, which was unusual in those early days. It was stilI standing away in the suburbs of Portland a few years ago and was used as a Chinese laundry. (I believe now, though, in 1937, it has been torn down.) Capt. Crosby had tried for some time to have his family, living ill Wiscasset, Maine, join him. He finally sent to his brother, Capt. Clanrick Crosby, alld together they purchased a small brig, 274 tons, called the Grecian. They sailed in September, 1849, from the East Binr, , ., .,-J
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Told by the Pioneers HUGH ELDRIDGE
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Logging in Mason County Told by the
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INDEX Benton, 149 Benton, Maine, 16
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INDEX Cold Spring Canyon, 13 Colfax
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INDEX Engle, A. W., Mrs., 51 Engle,
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INDEX Hays, Logan, 82 Hearn, Lamber
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INDEX Ketchikan, Alaska, 127 Kimbal
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INDEX Montgomery, William (Bill), 1
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'SDEX Polk, 1 'i 5 Polk County, Ore
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INDEX Second National Bank, Colfax,
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INDEX Touchet Valley, 134, 135, 150
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INDEX Yakima River, 15 Yakima Valle
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