, 1862-04-05
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA


UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,
STATE OREGON SIS.
County of Wasco.
To all people to whom these presents shall come or
may concern:
/, james A. Odell, Notary Public, duly commits
sioned and qualified, residing in Dalles city, Oregon,
send greeting
Know ye that on the 20th day of MAJ
eighteen hundred and sXty-two bot .z
.. B. Gibson Agent Of the Oregon o,eam Navigation
Company, and noted in due form of law before me,
the sad a Notary, his protest, and requires me to
tend the said protest. And together with the said o.
b. GIBSON comes b. .. Drew and C. ii. Johnson
All Of whom, being by me duly sworn, voluntarily
and freely and sOlemnly declare and depOse as fol
lows, that is to say: That in the month of Deeem-
Der, A. d. 1861, and previous thereto, the Oregon
SteamsNavigaton Co were engaged in carrying freight
and passengers from Portland Oregon to Walla Waia
washington Territory, by steamboats, plying on the
Columbia river wherever the same is Havigable for
steamboats, between said points that between the
Ddes Oregon, and Deschutes landing on said river,
distance of fifteen mules land portage had to be
made and that said Company kept and used at the
said Deschutes Landing good stone warehouse, in
which freight in transitu stored that in said
month Of December while large amount of freight
stored in said warehouse, in transtu for the sand
WallA Walla, the Columbia river between said ware
house and said Waa Wala became blocked and closed
by ice so that boats could no longer navigate said
river between said points, and that the said river be-
tween SAID points remained blocked and closed as
aforesaid until about the 20th day Of March, A. d.
turinO tI,o
nJ nl IS ~ i4% e. +iite ne NealHer was very coi9
nescbutes Tan1i 81, & ~ ~ & .s I iIu
teezng and the extreme cold weather but not by any
neglect or want of on the part of tt said Oregon
.e' N"Sisa.In OonlPahN' t9al tne SAID irelght
- 5 R2e'0lo' 1 . lIo,h Ine GlelehtS"S c9uld nave
j s;h ~ @ . .naO 'ne Sait warehouse il Wnlch sald
i ""s S'1.e1 % WIS goou s1ohe pullulhg N good
~ ~ ~ ,n"V ali pallages ulaI nave occurred TO
"u @ .,si' W"S soeiy ny ule iTcumSlahces hefelnbe
~ mn ei = "u, ':lno i.I ouSn' n't Oe acVlnued 10
any 'rnsunelehcg IN SAID warehouse or default of the
9'iu GIoIirPanY ~ PY or 'nelr ~ II agents III charge
AIin wy S' VI D. NlnSlh, as agent lor SAID Com
l'ang ~" figures me ule Slld NQalF TO make hl5
l'es anu Is PuoG acF 'pefe'i thal me same may
oo H" DC oI luIl Ioee ana Nalueas Gl rl@ht shall
PunS, @ H.n, ,ftl. 1.H a.a
- " leIeIpop H. me sl0 N0taIY 90 protest and by
.leSe presents 40 punicly and Soemny pr test against
llc Weatner "ha lfeeAeg, and against I'll and every
accdeht met wth as aforesaid, whereby said freight
mas SHI'alne DAMAGES or been injured for all losses,
oregon steam Navigation Company or the owners and
Shippers "I slld regh', or rany ether person or per
sons interested or coneerhed, have already or may
hereafter sustain or incur on account OF the premises
ana tat no part OF Sad expenses or losses already in
crIed Z" hereMter 10 be incurred, do fall upon the
Saiu oregon steam Navigation Company or their
AgT,nS' ..
!huS uPne ana protested at DaIes City Oregon
tIls zoli day OF March A. D. l862 lln witness where
OF as wen tne sad apQeareis' as The said Notary,
V+i JieuIiso s"oSVilo' d, @ RaNe alhNed my
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