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welmen time a firemanascades in 1856 and have been named for one John Lindsey, who took up a claim near the creek afterwards known as Lindsey Creek. Lindsey is said to have taken part in the battle at Cascades in 1856 and was wounded therein. He was at one time a fireman on one of the river steamers. The stream is now well known by the name of Lindsey Creek.

LINK RIVER, Klamath County. This short stream links Upper Klamath Lake with Lake Ewauna, and is named on that account. It is within the limits of the city of Klamath Falls, formerly known as Linkville. The Klamath Indian name for this stream was Yulalona, which meant to move back and forth, referring to the fact that during strong south winds the waters of Link River were blown back above the falls, leaving the bed of the stream, including the falls, partly dry. The name Yulalona was also used to refer to the settlement of Linkville near the falls. A condensed form of the name was luauna, which white people have adopted in the name Lake Ewauna. The Indian name for the falls in Link River was Tiwishkeni, literally rush of falling waters place. See under DUWEE CANYON, and also under LAKE EWAUNA. The name Link River has been adopted by the USBGN.

LINN COUNTY. Linn County was created December 28, 1847, by the provisional legislature. It was named for Senator L. F. Linn of Missouri, who nearly a decade before had been urging the American occupation of Oregon. Linn County was the first county to be taken from the original Champooick District and comprised all of Oregon between the Willamette River and the Rocky Mountains, and between Santiam River and North Santiam River and the northern boundary of California. It was subsequently much reduced in size, but is still a large county, with a land area of 2294 square miles. Lewis Fields Linn was born near the site of the city of Louisville, Kentucky, November 5, 1795. He was the author of the donation land law, which gave free land to settlers in the West, and which was the forerunner of the homestead law. He was elected United States senator for Missouri in 1833, and served until his death. His work in the Senate was highly important to western settlement and acquisition of Oregon. His activity in the Senate, in support of his bill to occupy Oregon and granting land to actual settlers, was his last of importance, for he died October 3, 1843. Calhoun, McDuffie and Dayton led the fight against the Linn bill. They contended the bill would make a breach of faith with Great Britain, and cause international complications. The donation land act, based on Linn's idea, passed Congress September 27, 1850. For history of his work for Oregon, see the Oregonian, April 8, 1901, page 6; May 8, 1887; OHQ, volume XIX, pages 283-305, by Lester Burrell Shippee. Senator Linn was a surgeon and lived at Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. His nephew, Lt.-Commanding William Pope McArthur, U. S. N., made the first survey of the Pacific Coast for the U. S. Coast Survey, 1849-50. His grand-nephew, Lewis Linn McArthur (184397) came to Oregon in 1864 to practice law, and was at one time a member of the supreme court of the state.

LINNEMANN, Multnomah County. This station is two miles west of Gresham. It was named for Mr. and Mrs. John G. D. Linnemann, pioneers of 1852, who owned land nearby. Linnemann died in 1892, and Mrs. Linnemann November 15, 1926, at the age of 98. For information about the family see the Oregonian, November 17, 1926, page 4. The name is persistently misspelled. A. C. Giese, in a letter in the Oregonian,