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office called Tule Lake at various locations in Klamath County, but it was not in service in 1945. In 1944 there was a Tulelake post office just over the line in California, serving among others, a Japanese relocation center frequently in the news. Gatschet, in Dictionary of the Klamath Language, gives a number of Klamath and other Indian names for this lake. One was Mayaltko E-ush, meaning the lake overgrown with rushes or tule-grass. Moatak and Moatokni E-ush were words used by the Klamaths in referring to this lake, indicating that it was in the neighborhood of the Modoc Indians. The Pit River Indians, according to Gatschet, used the word Lutuami when speaking of this lake.

TULLEY CREEK, Wallowa County. Tulley Creek drains into Imnaha River in township 3 north, range 48 east. It was named for James Tulley, who, with Aaron Wade, drove cattle to the mouth of the stream in 1880 or 1881 for winter range.

TUMALO, Deschutes County. The original name of the community of Tumalo was Laidlaw. It was named in 1904 for W. A. Laidlaw, one of the promoters of the place, and Laidlaw post office was established about 1905. At the time the state was active in the development of the Tumalo irrigation enterprise a post office named Tumalo was established near the construction camps. After the work was finished and the camps abandoned the name Tumalo was transferred to Laidlaw. For the origin of the name Tumalo, see under TUMALO CREEK. For editorial about the early history of Bend, Laidlaw and Tumalo, see Bend Bulletin, December 8, 1936.

TUMALO CREEK, Deschutes County. Satisfactory information about the origin of Tumalo has not been forthcoming, but the compiler inclines to the belief that it is from the Klamath Indian word temolo, meaning wild plum. This shrub was once quite plentiful in south central Oregon. The Klamaths had another word temola meaning ground fog, which may have been used to describe the vicinity of Tumalo Creek, but this is conjectural. Robert B. Gould of Bend informed the compiler that an old settler told him the original name was Tumallowa, and meant icy water. Any one of the above explanations might fit the facts, so there you are.

TUMALT CREEK, Multnomah County. This stream in the eastern part of the county was formerly called Devil Creek and Devil Slide Creek, but at the instigation of the Mazamas in 1915 the name Tumalt was adopted by the government to commemorate an Indian who was killed by Sheridan's command during the Cascade engagement in 1856.

TUMIA, Umatilla County. In 1928 the Union Pacific Railroad established a new station just west of Gibbon and called it Tumia. The word is an abbreviation of the Indian name Toom-hi-ya. The accent is on the middle syllable. Toom-hi-ya was an Indian woman living near the siding, the wife of Charles Shaplish.

TUMTUM CREEK, Benton and Lincoln counties. Tumtum is a Chinook jargon word, meaning heart and Tumtum Creek was so named because it was considered to be the heart of the valley through which it flowed. Mrs. H. G. Downing, of Burnt Woods, wrote the compiler in 1927 that, when a post office was proposed, an effort was made to have the place called Tumtum, but the post office department selected the name Burnt Woods because of the forest fires that had swept over that part of the country many years ago.