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45 east. J. H. Horner of Enterprise told the compiler that the gulch was named for John Creighton, who built a corral in the gulch and rounded up his cattle there and branded them with the letters ( K, connected. Creighton served with John W. Cullen in the Bannock War.

OLALLA, Douglas County. This was formerly a post office on Lookingglass Creek, but the community is now served through other offices. For origin of the name see under OLALLIE BUTTE.

OLALLIE BUTTE, Jefferson and Marion counties. The most important geographic feature in Oregon bearing the name Olallie is Olallie Butte at the summit of the Cascade Range between Mount Hood and Mount Jefferson. The USGS gives it an elevation of 7210 feet. The name is used in a number of other places, particularly along the Cascade Range. The word is from the Chinook jargon and means berries in general, or salmon berries. Gibbs gives it as a derivative of the Chinook word klalelli, meaning berries. Its use along the Cascade Range generally meant huckleberries. The USBGN has adopted this form of spelling

OLENE, Klamath County. Steel says this name is an Indian word meaning eddy place, or place of drift, and that it was applied by Captain 0. C. Applegate in 1884. The original location of the post office was up Lost River from the present site.

OLETE, Klamath County. About 1890 Mr. and Mrs. William T. Wilson of Sacramento moved into eastern Klamath County for the purpose of developing a stock ranch. They settled in or near what was known as the Horsefly Valley. The locality was so named because of the prevalence of the insect pests. Wilson was conspicuous because of his fine red beard and to distinguish him from other Wilsons in Klamath County he was familiarly known as "Horsefly" Wilson. In due season there came to be a demand for a post office which is said to have been based to some extent on Mrs. Wilson's desire to get the home papers from Sacramento. In any event a petition was sent in and also a list of suggested post office names. Accordingly Olete post office was established March 25, 1892, with Wilson first postmaster. Wilson suggested the name Olete by coining the word from the names of his daughter, Ora Letetia Wilson. That the name Olete was selected by postal authorities where there was an office not far away in the same county with the name Olene is remarkable. The post office was about twelve miles northeast of Lorella, on the road to Vistillas. Olete post office was closed to Lorella in January, 1904.

OLEX, Gilliam County. When this post office was established it was intended to honor one Alex Smith, a local resident, but the enthusiasm of the petition writer was better than his handwriting, and the authorities at Washington misread Alex into Olex, and so it has been for many decades. The office was established October 27, 1874, with James H. Butler first postmaster.

OLNEY, Clatsop County. Cyrus Olney was a native of Ohio. He was appointed supreme justice of Oregon Territory in 1853, and resigned in 1857. He was a member of the constitutional convention of 1857. He died at Astoria December 21, 1870, aged fifty-five years. The town of Olney bears his name. See Scott's History of the Oregon Country, volume V, pages 220-21.

ONA, Lincoln County. Ona is a place on Beaver Creek about three miles east of Seal Rock. It is shown as a post office in 1890, and did not have an office in 1944 nor for some years prior. Ona may have been