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Newspaper
Vancouver Register
Location
Vancouver, Washington, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1867
Page
2
The Walla Walla Statesman notes many Plains immigrants heading toward the lower Columbia and Willamette fronts. Clarke county’s appeal and Vancouver’s beauty drive settlement. The paper predicts rapid county growth, thriving trade, and a prosperous, contented community within twenty years.
A Vancouver editor reports substantial improvements over the year in Vancouver and Clark County. Twenty new dwellings and several brick buildings arise, with new schools and a seminary under construction. The Freedmen’s Bureau mission and charity education efforts are highlighted, along with fundraising by a joint committee to aid southern education.
Private letters report Tom London thwarting Fargo at Boise City and arrest for swindling. Fargo compromised, paid part of debt, and sent a draft for 150 dollars on a Walla Walla friend then told him not to pay it. Other details withheld due to wider implicated parties. Indiana renegades camp on the Unvetilla threaten whites, with a dreamer claiming they will reclaim land. Hostile Snake band mixed with them, cattle depredations begin, communities flee Walla Walla. calls to break the camp and punish responsible Lodians.
A rustic Oregon dispatch notes editor changes at the Oregon Sentinel with McPiernen retiring and Morgan continuing the paper. It also reports three hunters in Eugene City finding auriferous quartz nearly fifty miles from the city, yielding promising gold and a ledge near the old quartz discoveries on Lee River.
A letter from Comrebponarrcr describes the Kelly Expedition marching north from Vancouver toward Fort Klamath. The camp enforces strict discipline, amusements include a makeshift baseball club led by IT C. Mu with Capt. Kelly as president, and jokes flourish as soldiers rehearse nightly concerts. An Oregon City kindness incident shows a generous old woman sharing apples in the heat. Two soldiers are noted as desertions but not pursued by the captain.
The celebrated humorist J Ross Browne is touring the Territory to gather mining statistics under a Congress appropriation and to collect data on early settlement and territorial history for possible future use. He plans to depart for San Francisco on the next steamer.
A border paper outlines about 300000 Indians west of the Missouri and east of the Sierra Nevadas with 70000 semi civilized. It notes Red Cloud could muster 20000 mounted warriors and argues for confinement to large reservations to destroy tribal character. It predicts settlers will starve, the buffalo vanish, and violence persist unless tribes are confined and consolidated on reservations. The Indian Commission is expected to recommend two or more large reservations to group plains tribes.
The Times reports General Grant pushing cabinet changes and personnel reshuffles while noting tensions with Seward. It also covers diverse dispatches from Augusta to New York, including accidents, elections, and international notes from Venezuela, Constantinople, and London.
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