INDEX TO VOLUME XVI
Baptist church, _first in Oregon, 75-6. eecher, M of, 2760.
Beecher, Mrs. Harriet Foster, obituary
n, 75- , obiti
Block house at Cascades attacked, 12. Bolon, A. J., Indian Agent, mission of
inquiry among Yakima Indians results
in death, 6-7.
California gold, influence of, in Illinois in 1850, 62.
CELILO CANAL, early plans for getting boats around Tumwater falls and rapids below, 1874-1893, 109-10; the project of a boat railway, 1895, 109- 110; The Dalles-Celilo canal recom- mended and actual construction begun in 1905, no; State of Oregon and Open River Association completes portage railway, 115; Open River Transportation Company supplements, 1 1 6-2 1 ; move for continuing contract for work on canal, 119-20; what an open Columbia means, 122-4, 130-1; construction of canal, 123, 127-8; cost of canal, 126-7.
Celilo, origin of name, 135.
CELILO PORTAGE RAILWAY, motive in building, 113; legislative appropriation for, supplemented by work of Open River Association in securing right of way, 113-4; celebration of comple- tion of, 114, 127; purposes served by railway, 15, 21.
Chinookan family of Indians, 135.
COLUMBIA, THE, AMERICA'S GREATEST HIGHWAY THROUGH THE CASCADE MOUNTAINS TO THE SEA, 377-8.
Columbia River, The, described, 133; obstructions in the lower, removed, 134; Indian tribes along course, 135-6; Lewis and Clark expedition traverses lower, 137; occupation of upper region of, by missionaries, 147-9.
COLUMBIA RIVER, THE, STORY OF THE, 181-203; discovery of, 181-2; explor- ation by Lewis and Clark, 182; fur trading era on, 182-4; era of mis- sions on, 184-6; use of, by gold hunters, 186-7; Idaho settlements, 188- 92; meaning of opened river, 192-5.
COLUMBIA, THE, OPEN, celebration of the, 107-8.
Cram ? Captain Thomas Jefferson, me- moir of, reflects on the character of
the people and country of the Pa- cific Nortl
lorthwest, 19-2*.
DALLES-CELILO CANAL CELEBRATION, AD- DRESS OF WELCOME at Wallula May 4, r 9i5 175-80.
DALLES-CELILO PORTAGE, THE ITS HIS- TORY AND INFLUENCE, 133-74; Lewis and Clark party make first portage on the north side, 1805, 137; Darid Thompson makes first portage on south side, 1811, 137; first shipment of freight across by Astor party pro- ceeding toward interior post, 1811, 138; "Express" annually crosses in March beginning in 1813, 139; the annual passage to and fro by the "brigades" of fur traders, 140; Mrs. Narcissa Whitman's description of passage, 140-1; descriptions of port- ages made by Drayton of the Wilkes' expedition, by Sir George Simpson and by Nathaniel J. Wyeth, 142-7; David Douglas' experience at, 147; passing of it by the pioneers, 149-50; Governor Stevens outlines methods of transportation to serve campaigns against Indians, 150-3; use of portage by settlers and gold hunters, 153-7; construction of the Dalles-Celilo Port- age railroad, 157-8; control of portage by the Oregon Steam Navigation Com- pany, 158-70; with building of rail- road, 1882, use of portage for a time ceases, 170-2; building of the Portage Railroad by the State of Oregon with the aid of the Open River Association,
Dalles City occupied as town site, 1852,
26; incorporated, 26. Deady, Matthew P., decisions of, quoted
on the Methodist mission claims to
The Dalles town site, 26-32; Wm. H.
Packwood's recollections of, 44-5. Denny, Miss Margaret Lenora, obituary
of, 2760-0.
Fisher, Reverend Ezra, lineage of, 67; early environment of, 67-8; education of, 68; work at Indianapolis, 70-1; work at Davenport, 72-3; starts for Oregon, 1845, 73-4; privations and discouragements of, during first year in Oregon, 77-8; missionary work on Clatsop Plains, 1848-9, 79-80; goes to mines in California, 80; in charge of Baptist school and church at Oregon City, 1849-51, 81-2; exploring agent for Home Mission Society, 1851-5, 82-5; Mrs. Fisher dies, 1852, 83; per- sonal characteristics of Reverend
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