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in October 25,7maps. In any, in an artifl died Town Chis and" at the mouth of this stream on October 25, 26 and 27, 1805, and recorded the form Que-nett in their journals and maps. In April, 1806, they named this place "rockfort camp." Dr. William C. McKay, in an article in The Dalles Mountaineer, May 28, 1869, gives the Indian names of a great many places in the vicinity of The Dalles. Dr. McKay says that long before the white men came, the Indians called the locality of what is now the city of The Dalles Win-quatt, signifying a place encircled by rock cliffs.

THE DUNGEON, Clackamas County. This locality is on the east side of Molalla River about three miles southwest of Table Rock. The place was named by Andy Wyland and Joe Davis of Molalla, who built a rough shelter of cedar shakes there in the early '80s. Most of the structure has since disappeared, but the place is still known by its original name. The building was low and without windows and this name was quite descriptive. Joe Davis, a well-known character of Molalla, was a prospector and trapper. He died on Molalla River and was buried about 150 feet south of the original site of The Dungeon. Dee Wright of Eugene furnished these data.

THE WATCHMAN, Crater Lake National Park, Klamath County. The Watchman, elevation 8025 feet, is one of the highest points on the western rim of Crater Lake. It was named because a party of topographic engineers was placed on its summit in 1886 to take observations while the lake was being sounded. It had previously been christened Bentley Peak by Captain 0. C. Applegate in honor of A. Bentley of Toledo, Ohio, who visited Crater Lake in 1871 with Sir (then Mr.) William F. Maxwell, of Edinburgh, Scotland, and a Dr. Munson of Klamath Agency. Munson died of over-exertion and Marshall faithfully watched his body all night while Bentley went for assistance. For an account of this event, see Klamath Record, March 22, 1918, See also under GLACIER PEAK and MUNSON VALLEY.

THELAKE, Harney County. Thelake post office was in service from November 3, 1914, to March 1, 1919, with Rose G. Balcomb the only postmaster. It was at the east border of the Mann Lake Ranch, about ten miles south of the old Alberson post office. The name was intended as an allusion to Mann Lake, an intermittent feature named long ago. Mann Lake is supposed to have been named for a local settler.

THEORA, Lake County. Theora post office, situated near the middle of section 7, township 40 south, range 19 east, was established December 4, 1916, with Hubert E. Koons first and only postmaster. The office was discontinued to Lakeview on March 15, 1918. Theora office was named for Theora Swift, sister of Alvin J. Swift. Swift was secretary of the local irrigation district.

THIEF VALLEY, Union County. This little valley east of North Powder, was the place where John Wetherly was hanged in December 1864, for stealing mules from an emigrant at Boise.

THIELSEN, Polk County. This is a station on the Southern Pacific line between Salem and Dallas, and is near the farm of the late Henry B. Thielsen, who was for a number of years engaged in railroad surveying and construction work in Oregon and in Washington, and subsequently conducted a farm near the site of Thielsen station. For several years before his death Mr. Thielsen resided in Salem. He was a son of Hans Thielsen, a prominent Oregon pioneer railroad