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REMAINS OF PRE-HISTORIC DEAD ON MEMALOOSE ISLAND, 1888.

Memaloose Island is a Point of Interest to travelers along the Columbia River either by boat or rail, and being nearer the Oregon shore than that of the state of Washington is easily seen from the trains of the Oregon-Washington Railroad Company. Victor Trevitt, a pioneer of 1851, whose home was in The Dalles, was a special friend of the Indians, and when he died several years ago was buried on Memaloose Island under the terms of a provision in his will. He set aside a sufficient sum to bear the expense and named a personal friend in Portland to see that it was complied with, remarking that he "had met many crooked white men but no Indian had ever failed to keep a promise with him when once made." Mr. Trevitt was a state senator from Wasco County in 1868 and in 1870. A granite monument on Memaloose Island, plainly seen from either bank of the Columbia River, marks his last resting place. He died in San Francisco on January 24, 1883, and, on the fourth of the following month was buried on the isle that was "sacred to his aboriginal friends."

Chair of Agriculture Established in Oregon. In 1873. the following two-year course in agriculture was offered by Corvallis College, which the Oregon Legislature in 1868 had selected for the teaching of the subject: