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showing impossibilities of Mrs. S. A. Weeks of Sherwood being daughter of John Day, see the Oregonian, January 10, 1910. The fossil beds of the John Day country are among the most important in America.

JOHN HENRY LAKE, Wallowa County. This lake was named for John Henry Wilson of Wallowa, who had mining interests nearby. It is in township 3 south, range 43 east.

JOHN SMITH ISLAND, Benton County. This is an island in the Willamette River south of Corvallis. This was named for a prominent citizen of Benton County, who lived in Corvallis for many years. He owned the island and other land in the vicinity.

JOHNNY KIRK SPRING, Grant County. This spring is on John Day Highway, north of Dayville. It bears the name of an eccentric pioneer character who settled in the John Day Valley, after having been a participant in the '49 gold rush to California. He came to Oregon probably about 1870. In the winter he lived in his bachelor's cabin near the spring that now bears his name; during the summer he mined and prospected in the Blue Mountains. He was popular because of his inveterate story-telling.

JOHNSON, Lincoln County. Johnson post office was at the Parmele place about half a mile up Drift Creek from the mouth of that stream on the east side of Siletz Bay. The office was established March 11, 1899, with George S. Parmele first and only postmaster. The office was closed May 23, 1903, and what business there was was turned over to Kernville. Parmele operated a general store. The office was named in compliment to Jakie and Sissy Johnson, a local Indian couple, well and favorably known. Jakie is said to have been a Siletz Indian, but his wife was from California. The Johnsons held land by patent and part of the town of Taft is on property owned by the pair.

JOHNSON CREEK, Clackamas and Multnomah counties. U. S. land surveyors named this stream for William Johnson, a pioneer of 1846, who settled near what is now Lents, and there built a sawmill in the '50s. Scott's History of the Oregon Country gives some additional facts and also information about Johnson's sons, Jacob and Jasper W. Johnson. See also Oregon Journal, August 20, 1934, editorial page.

JOHNSON CREEK, Grant and Wheeler counties. This stream flows into John Day River about 10 miles southeast of Spray. It was named for Henry Johnson, a pioneer stock man who settled near the mouth of the stream in the '70s.

JOHNSON CREEK, Multnomah County. This stream, which formerly flowed from the neighborhood of Barnes Road across the northern part of Portland, has been partly confined to a drainage sewer and is no longer visible outside of the canyon west of Washington Park. It was named for Arthur Harrison Johnson, a leading meat dealer of Portland for many years. He arrived in Portland in 1852 and soon formed a partnership with Richard S. Perkins in the butcher business. In 1862 Perkins retired, but Johnson continued and enlarged the business. His slaughterhouses were in the neighborhood of Twentythird and Flanders streets, Portland. For information about Johnson, see Scott's History of the Oregon Country, volume II, pages 82 and 273, and for his obituary, see the Oregonian, April 30, 1902.

JOHNSON CREEK, Wallowa County. This is a small tributary of Imnaha River from the east at a point about 25 miles east of Wallowa