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as Old Moses, who lived at an Indian village near what is now Oakridge. She was not well thought of by other Indians. Her name, Cupit, is reported to be an Indian word meaning last, indicating her position among Old Moses' children. It is doubtless the same as the Chinook jargon word which Gibbs gives as ko-pet, meaning stop, the end or enough. Old Moses was probably discouraged. Ko-pet is accented on the second syllable.

CUPPER CREEK, Grant County. Cupper Creek is in the northwest corner of the county and flows south into North Fork John Day River a few miles west of Monument. The name of this stream perpetuates a type of story that is full of human interest, but perhaps not romantic enough to get the attention it deserves. The history of the immigration of the Cupper family illustrates what it took to develop that part of Oregon that produces livestock. Henry Adams Cupper and his wife, Cordelia Harriet Cupper, together with three small children, left England in January, 1877, and after a stormy voyage across the Atlantic, reached the end of rail travel at Redding, California. They took stage to Linkville, now Klamath Falls, and Cupper got a job of sorts in the Poe Valley. They spent the winter in Ashland and in the spring started with wagon and team looking for a location to settle. They journeyed near what is now Lapine, and got lost, but finally reached Farewell Bend where they "loaded up with water and crossed the desert to Prineville." From Prineville they continued northward, crossing John Day River at McDonald Ferry and then turned southeast through Lone Rock to Heppner. At Heppner they undertook to freight a load of provisions into Bill Welch, Dodging the Indians, they delivered the cargo, and were so impressed with the Welch Ranch, the natural meadows and the abundance of game that they arranged to buy the squatters' right. Welch is said to have assumed that they would not stay, and he would get the place back. In the meantime the Indians had "broken out" and had attacked Long Creek, and so many settlers returned to Heppner that they swept the Cuppers along with them. The Cuppers remained at Heppner six weeks and then returned to the ranch and braved the rest of the Indian troubles. Cupper brought sheep into the cattle country, which did not endear him to his neighbors. They raised a large family and lived on the ranch until 1918. They moved to Salem and celebrated their golden wedding anniversary on October 1, 1922. Mr. Cupper died in January, 1923, and Mrs. Cupper in 1938, when she was 90 years old. Cupper Creek is still fifty miles from a railroad and some seven miles from a post office.

CURIOSITY CREEK, Wallowa County. Curiosity Creek flows into Imnaha River in section 32, township 2 north, range 48 east. It was named in 1883 by Hugh Conahar for a curious limb of an alder tree. The branch grew back into the tree like a jug handle. CurriNSVILLE, Clackamas County. This is a station on the line of the Portland Electric Power Company two miles north of Estacada. It was named for George and Hugh Currin, who were pioneer settlers in Clackamas County and took up donation land claims near this point. For editorial comment about members of the Currin family, see the Oregonian, November 19, 1943. See also editorial page Oregon Journal, September 25, 1928. A post office named Zion was established in this general locality on June 24, 1874, with William H. H. Wade first postmaster. in section Conahar fixe a jug hand