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190 DOGHOUSE GULCH, Grant County. Doghouse Gulch, which drains into South Fork John Day River about 15 miles south of Dayville, got its name as a result of a sarcastic reference to a shanty occupied by a sheepherder. The structure apparently was short of some of the modern conveniences.

Dogwood CREEK, Clatsop County. This stream is about 18 miles east of Astoria. It was at one time known as Hall Creek, after an early settler, but the name did not persist. There are few trees of the forest that are held in such affectionate esteem as the dogwood, and yet the name of the tree is almost never used for a geographic feature. At least that is the situation in Oregon, where hundreds of place-names have been applied for firs, cedars, pines, oaks, willows and cottonwoods. The Pacific dogwood, Cornus nuttallii, is a lovely tree and should not be neglected.

DOLLAR LAKE, Hood River County. This lake is near the north end of Barrett Spur, north of Mount Hood. The name is descriptive. Richard J. Grace of Portland wrote the compiler: "Dollar Lake is apt, as the lake is very small for a permanent one and is almost perfectly round."

DOLLAR LAKE, Wallowa County. Dollar Lake is in the Wallowa Mountains in township 4 south, range 45 east, and was named by J. Fred McClain because it was so nearly circular.

DOLPH, Tillamook County. This community was named for Joseph N. Dolph, who came to Portland in 1862. He served as city attorney and as United States attorney and also in the state legislature. He served as United States senator from Oregon in 1883-95, and had large influence in the Senate and was a close friend of President Harrison. He was born in New York in 1835 and died in Portland in 1897, See the Oregonian for March 1l and March 19, 1897. Dolph was named for him while he was in the Senate. It was for a time a post office,

DOMINIC, Marion County. This was a station northeast of Mount Angel. It was named for Father P. Dominic, O. S. B., for many years a moving spirit in the activities of Mount Angel College.

Donaca LAKE, Linn County. Donaca Lake is south of Detroit, and drains through Donaca Creek into Middle Santiam River. W. B. Donaca came to Oregon in 1852 and settled in Linn County in 1861. For a good many years he was a merchant in Lebanon. This lake and the creek were named for him or for some member of his family.

DONALD, Marion County. Donald is a station on the Oregon Electric Railway, on French Prairie, northwest of Woodburn, and was named for the late R. L. Donald, of Portland, who was an official of the construction company that built the railway.

DONNER UND BLITZEN RIVER, Harney County. This stream was named during the Snake War of 1864, when troops under the command of Colonel George B. Currey crossed it during a thunder storm, and gave it the German name for thunder and lightning. The river is frequently called simply Blitzen.

DONNYBROOK, Jefferson County. This name is now applied to a school in the east end of the county, but some years ago Donnybrook referred to the whole community, Phil Brogan, in the Bend Bulletin, April 20, 1943, discusses the name with sympathetic understanding as follows: "It was in the community's range epoch that a group of Celts, celebrating some undetermined occasion at a sheep cabin in Calf gulch, just over the ridge from Axhandle, did the thing in true Donnybrook