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HISTORY OF OREGON NEWSPAPERS
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  1. This promise was carried out faithfully, it seems to one who has scanned his utterances with some care.
  2. History of the Pacific States, 339.
  3. Page 187.
  4. August 9, 1909.
  5. This phase of the subject is covered in W. C. Woodward's History of Political Parties in Oregon.
  6. The grammar here is on a par with the thought.
  7. A representative collection of these has been compiled by Alfred Powers in his History of Oregon Literature.
  8. April 12, 1851.
  9. Diary in Oregon Historical Quarterly, September, 1914.
  10. He was editor of the Burlington (Iowa) Gazette, 1845-47.—R. J. Hendricks, in 80th anniversary number of the Statesman, March 28, 1931, page 9.
  11. Article in Ladd & Bush Quarterly, Vol. 1, No. 3, April, 1915, p. 3 ff.
  12. Letter from Bush to Thurston dated Oregon City, January 17, 1851.
  13. Ladd & Bush Quarterly, April 1915, page 9.
  14. In a letter March 17, 1851.
  15. This appears to have been an error. It was the same press.
  16. Being, of course, a strong Thurston partisan, Bush could not have meant confident. Perhaps convinced was what he wanted to say.
  17. Later acquaintance with Dryer was not to alter this impression, if opinions published in the Statesman are any indication.
  18. Bush's reference to this supposed deficiency suggests criticism of the kettle by the pot. Tact was not a conspicuous characteristic of the pioneer editors.
  19. Letter dated April 17, 1851.
  20. History of Oregon, IV., 289.
  21. June 22, 1854.
  22. In History of Oregon, IV., 291.
  23. In History of Oregon, II, 147.
  24. March 28, 1931.
  25. The court had been mentioned in the headline.
  26. Eminent member of the bar, later editor of the Morning Oregonian/
  27. The Pony Express. Reference number omitted at end of first line, page 89.
  28. Ladd & Bush Quarterly, April 1934.
  29. Page 98 of this volume.
  30. In the 80th anniversary number of the Statesman, March 28, 1931.
  31. Ladd & Bush Quarterly, April 1914, page 15.
  32. Which, by the way, has just about lost hope of ever getting a copy of No. 2.
  33. In personal interview, 1937.
  34. Gaston, History of Oregon, Vol. 2, p. 46.
  35. Leaving Salem, Trevitt went to The Dalles, where he did much to develop the city. He opened an addition to the plat of the town, and it was in his building that W. H. Newell once published the Mountaineer. He held the Indians in high regard, an esteem which they reciprocated. When he died, in 1883, the red men accorded him the honor of burial on their Memaloose island in the Columbia river. He is the only white man buried in the Indians' cemetery there. The choice was his, for in life he had expressed a desire to be buried "among a class of people who, when they had given their word, would keep it."
  36. All of Deady's writings seemed to run to length.
  37. Powers, History of Oregon Literature, 715.
  38. Powers, op. cit., 714.