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accurate mapping, the names of the branches of this stream have become established. South Fork Klaskanine River presents no problem. North Fork Klaskanine River heads south of Wickiup Ridge and joins the South Fork about two miles east of Youngs River, the two forks forming Klaskanine River. North Fork North Fork Klaskanine River flows into the North Fork at Klaskanine Hatchery. It heads west of Wickiup Ridge. Southeast of this branch is Middle Fork North Fork Klaskanine River which also heads west of Wickiup Ridge and flows into North Fork about five miles upstream from the hatchery.

KLAWHOP BUTTE, Deschutes County, Klawhop is the Chinook jargon word for hole, and this butte southeast of Bend presumably was named because it had a crater in the top.

KLICKITAT MOUNTAIN, Lane County. This is a prominent peak near the east end of Klickitat Ridge, in the Coast Range in the extreme north part of Lane County. It is unusual that the name of an Indian tribe, whose dwelling place was near The Dalles of the Columbia River, should be attached to a mountain so far away, and yet there is good evidence to verify the story that the Klickitat Indians traveled over a wide area. In pioneer days there was a trail near Rickreall Creek known as the Klickitat Trail, and there was a definite Klickitat camping place near the Boyle Lakes, northwest of the present community of Rickreall. J. W. Nesmith, in a letter in the Oregonian, February 7, 1877, says that in September, 1849, he and General Joseph Lane went from the Willamette Valley to the Siletz River over a trail used by Klickitat Indians at that time living in Kings Valley. For description of the origin of the name Klickitat see Meany's Origin of Washington Geographic Names. Early writers spelled the word in a var. iety of ways. General Hazard Stevens says that the word meant robber and tradition in the Willamette Valley in Oregon favors this meaning. The writer has been told by a number of Indians that the correct definition of the word was robber or marauder. General Stevens had first hand information, and the writer is inclined toward his opinion in the matter. David Douglas mentioned the tribe as Clickitats on June 20, 1825, which is as far as the writer knows the first use of the word by early explorers.

KLOAN, Wasco County. This station on the Oregon Trunk Railway was named with the Chinook jargon word for three, since it was the third station from the north end of the line up Deschutes River.

KLONDIKE, Sherman County. This post office was established early in 1899, with A. B. Potter first postmaster. At the time the office was es. tablished there was considerable disagreement over the name. Potter suggested Klondike, although there is no prospect of gold in that part of the state, unless it comes from wheat raising. Potter's idea was of course prompted by the Alaska gold rush, in high fever at the time.

KLONE BUTTE, Deschutes County. Klone Butte, in the north part of the Paulina Mountains, was named with the Chinook jargon word for three, it being the third of a series of buttes named at one time by the Forest Service. This is a variation of the spelling Kloan. See under that heading

KLOOCHMAN CREEK, Crook County. Kloochman Creek flows south from the Maury Mountains into Bear Creek. Kloochman is the Chinook jargon word for woman, and Kloochman Creek is just another way of saying Squaw Creek.