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INDEX

Political drift of. 634.

Politics, morals and economics, 632.

Polk, President, loi ; his treason to Oregon,

143-

Portland, its great future foretold, 13; its commanding position, 620.

Portland Academy, 397.

Port of Portland Commission, 341.

Post Office, work of, in, 1910, 257, 346; re- ceipts of, in, 1910, 617.

Plummer, Dr. O. P. S., history of telegraph in Oregon, 253.

Preachers, groups of great, 428; pioneer preachers, 428.

Presbyterians, churches of, 418, 425, 426, 439.

Printing Press, the first on the Pacific Coast in Oregon, 481.

Prohibition of alcoholic liquors, 124.

Provisional Government, steps to form, 107- 108; organization and laws of, 107-133; common schools for, 122; temperance prin- ciples of, 124; finances of, 128; names of the men who organized it. 112.

Quinn's, Mrs., twenty thousand dollar for- tune made in cutting up salmon, 251.

Railroad in Oregon, started, 245 ; first ef- forts at, 280; first subscribers of money for, 281 ; first company to construct in- corporated, 285 ; Californians' schemes to control, 287-289; commencement of con- struction work, 288; Ben Holladay buys the Oregon Legislature to steal the landgrant, 289; "East Side" or Salem R. R. Co. a fraud, 290; the first Oregon Central Co. gets a second landgrant, 293 ; Portland men start railroad construction work — names of subscribers to stock, 288; W. W. Chap- man's railroad work, 295 ; Henry Villard's work, 294-297 ; lands granted to Oregon railroad, 298; William Reid's railroad work, 299; Joseph Gaston builds first nar- row gauge railroad in Oregon, 298; the railroad work of Richard Koehler. 300; the work of George W. Hunt, 301 ; the work of James J. Hill, 301 ; work of E. H. Harriman, 302; work of Maj. Alfred H. Sears, 307; work now in progress, 302; Electric Roads, 304; railroad mileage tribu- tary to Portland, 305 ; the cable street rail- road, 307 ; Portland's first street railroad, 306; the great traction company, mileage and business of in 1910, 308.

Ray, Charles, first to carry U. S. mail out of Portland, 257.

Reed, Cyrus A., a pioneer lumberman, 333.

Reed, Simeon G., leaves fortune to found a college, 402.

Reed, Amanda, wife of S. G. Reed, provides for Reed Institute by last will, 402.

Republican party organized in Oregon by efforts of W. L. Adams and D. W. Craig, 667.

River Traffic, increase of, 309, 667.

Rivals to Portland, 193.

Rose Festival, 626 ; proposed by E. W. Rowe, 627; made great success by George L. Hutchin, 627 ; and general manager of, Ralph W. Hoyt, 627.

Rose City, so named by Frank E. Beach, 627 ;

made a "Rose City" by labors of Frederick

V. Holman, 627. Russia, recognized right of United States up

to Alaska, in old treaty, 140.

Sabin, Miss Ella, Supt. of City Schools, 384; photo of, 403.

Sacajawea, the Indian guide to the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 58.

Sail vessel, first built in Oregon, 261.

Salmon packing commenced, 249, 328.

Salvation Army, 476.

Samuel, L., started first illustrated paper on the Pacific Coast at Portland, 508 ; founder of Oregon Life Ins. Co., 532.

Shannon, George, with Lewis and Clark, 60.

Slavery, prohibited by Provisional govern- ment, 116.

Swallow-tail coats. Gov. Pennoyer's, 372 ; Fred Bickel's, 373.

Shattuck, Erasmus D., a great judge, 554.

Stage, The, 608.

Seal of Territor}', 233.

Sears, Maj., his railroad work, 307; predicts Northern Pacific railroad will be forced to come to Portland, 620.

Ship channel to the sea, 341.

Simpson, Samuel L., poet, 599.

Sitton, Mrs. L. W., President of Board of Education, 386.

Smith, Solomon, teaches school for Dr. John McLoughlin. 46.

Swift & Co.. meat packing plant, 363.

Sheep and Wool, 349. 327, 350; first sheep brought to Oregon by Jacob P. Lease, 349 ; the first from Eastern States by Shaw, 349 ; the first well bred sheep brought across the continent from Ohio, 2,500 miles, walking all the way, 349.

Settlemier, George, brought fruit trees from California, 1850, 352.

Spain, seizes British ships as pirates, 138; France refuses aid in quarrel, 138; dis- covery of Oregon, 22; title to Old Oregon,

138, 139- Spectator, The, 485. Steel, W. G., mountain explorer, 626. Street Cleaning, 340. Scott, H. W.. memorial of, 9; his account of

condition of the country in 1856, 227; made

Editor of the Oregonian, 502. Scott, Thomas Fielding, Bishop of Oregon,

436.

Schools in Old Oregon, the first, 46, 346; first mission school, 366; the first school in Portland, 367; first school organization, 369, 371 : Harrison street school, history of, 374; high school organized in 1869, 375; night school organized in 1873. 376. 479: school directors, Hsts of, 377; salaries of teachers 1878. 377; teachers list of, 379; schools in 1910, 385; Catholic schools in city, 391, 393; private schools, 395-399; State Reform school (now called Oregon Training school), 403; church schools, founding of, 427.

Social Life of City, 623.

Skookum, Charley, his hearse, carriage and family at the Circus, 624.

Steamboat Development, 258-263.