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Pithy "Shorts" at Eugene City

In the Oregon State Journal, Eugene City, 1864-1870

By H. R. Kincaid

H. R. Kincaid was a classmate of Joaquin Miller in Columbia College at Eugene. In 1864 he established the Oregon State Journal, "known the whole state over", which he published for more than 45 years. He had previously had experience as a typesetter and writer on the People's Press, the State Republican and the Union Crusader, all of Eugene.

For four years he was county judge of Lane County. For 11 years, beginning in 1868, he was clerk of the United States Senate, serving while at Washington as correspondent for the Oregonian and the Bulletin of Portland and the Jacksonville Sentinel, in addition to send back editorials and letters for his own paper. He was secretary of state at Salem from 1895 to 1899. He was born in Indiana in 1836, came to Oregon as a boy of 17, and died at the age of 84. He had something of a collector's habit of preserving things, so that he was able to give the long and valuable files of the Oregon State Journal in completeness to the libraries of the Oregon Historical Society and the University of Oregon.

Significant The Review has been puffing Holbrook throughout the canvass; the people in Holbrook's own county have repudi- ated him tremendously. If you want anything killed re- markably dead, get the Review to praise it. It has talismanic power, its touch is death. June 18, 1864.

"Located at the Capital"

The cannon, which was brought here at considerable ex- pense to Lane county, was hauled off to Salem a few days ago. The Court House was not taken, but it will, perhaps, be "sent for" next, as it is understood that "all the public buildings", and everything else, must be "located at the Capital." Jerusalem is the only town in Syria. October 1, 1864. Motto for Bridegroom Vent! vidi! vici!—I've been! and gone! and done it! February 18, 1865.