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Wilkes, in U. S. Exploring Expedition, volume XXIII, page 335, and in accompanying atlas refers to Cathlamet Bay as Swan Bay. Carlow, Harney County. This place and several other geographic features nearby were named for John Catlow, who was born in Yorkshire in 1824, and who, after emigrating to the United States, engaged in mining and stock raising in several parts of the West. He had extensive holdings in Harney County. He died in 1901. For biography, see History of Baker, Grant, Malheur and Harney Counties, 1902, page 701.

CAVE JUNCTION, Josephine County. This is the name of a community and post office on the Redwood Highway about 30 miles southwest of Grants Pass where the branch highway goes east to the Oregon Caves. In 1935 traffic into the caves had resulted in a community developing at the junction and a post office was applied for, with the name Caves City. The name was not satisfactory to the authorities, partly because the use of the word City implied that the place was incorporated, which was not a fact. Other suggestions were made, but on May 29, 1936, the USBGN adopted the name Cave Junction, which seemed to be satisfactory to those concerned. The post office was established in 1936. Caverhill, Grant County. The post office of Caverhill was established through the efforts of W. S. Caverhill, a local resident, and it was accordingly named for him. The post office was established February 7, 1916, and Nellie Caverhill was first postmaster.

CAVINESS, Malheur County, Caviness is a locality about fifteen miles west of Brogan and about ten miles southeast of Ironside, both airline measurements, named for a prominent local family. It is in the stock country. Caviness post office was established January 24, 1908, and was closed December 15, 1910. William P. Caviness was the only postmaster.

CAVITT CREEK, Douglas County. Cavitt Creek is a tributary of Little River. It flows about 20 miles east of Roseburg. It was named for Robert L. Cavitt. a bachelor who settled on its banks. He lived there alone for many years and was found dead in his cabin. The spelling Cavatt is wrong. ČAYUSE, Umatilla County. Cayuse is a railroad station and post office about 11 miles east of Pendleton and is one of the few geographical features in the state named for the Cayuse Indians. In 1924 Professor Edwin T. Hodge of the University of Oregon applied the name Cayuse Crater to a vent in the south part of Broken Top Mountain in Deschutes County. The Cayuse Indians were a Waiilatpuan tribe, formerly living at the headwaters of Walla Walla, Umatilla and Grande Ronde rivers, and between the Blue Mountains and Deschutes River. The tribe was closely associated with the neighboring Walla Wallas and Nez Perces, but was linguistically independent. After 1855 the tribe lived at the Umatilla Reservation. Their language is practically extinct, and their members have been absorbed by other tribes. The Cayuses committed the Whitman massacre in November, 1847. Alexander Ross gives the name Cajouse in Adventures of the First Settlers on the Oregon, page 127; Townsend's Narrative gives Kayouse; Palmer gives Caaguas and Kioose in his Journal, 1847, page 53; Hale gives Cailloux in his Ethnography and Philology, page 214; Scouler gives Cayoose; Wyeth, Cayouse and Skiuse; George Wilkes, Kiuse; Farnham, Skyuse; John Work, Kyauses; Washington Irving gives Sciatogas. The Cayuses had linguistic affinities with the Molallas of western Oregon. Indian horses have come