The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1881-07-13

Cal, and had persuaded him TO come
to Oregon. He was married to Q native
California woman and had q son. Joa-
quin, whom be deserted SdRs ceren0ais.
The Spanish Governor of California,
learning that the party had gone north
to Oregon. wrote to DR. John Nc
Laughhn denouncing them as horse
thieves. On their arrival at Fort Van
couver, where the charge had preceded
them. DR. Mclaughlin refused to have
any communication with them. Young
strenuously denied his guilt, but ad-
mitted that there were guilty ones in
the party. DIR Mclaughlin would
never have intercourse with him
Young. who was popular with his
countrymen, always asserted his limo
cense. He insisted that the Doctor
used this charge to his prejudice. and
his party credited him. He settled in
Yam Hill, and died in March. IS41
Judge Deadly, among the most reliable
and accurate of the oracles of early
Oregon history, in 1867, thus wrote of
Ewing Young: He left no relations in
the country, aor in the world, 50 far as
was then known. He died intestate,
and left what was then considered q
large estate. This circumstance and
the necessity of providing for the dis
position OF this property, led to the first
attempt to form a provisional govern
ment in Oregon. A committee. chosen
at Young's funeral, called q mass meet.
ing of the inhabitants of Oregon south
OF the Columbia river to be held at the
Methodist Mission in the Wallamet
Valley, on the 18th and 18th of Fsbru-
airy, 184l, to take steps for the govern
ment of the community and to provide
for the disposition of the estate of
Ewing Young
The meeting was held pursuant to
the call and comprised nearly ell of the
male adults south of the Columbia. 1t
was fifty called The Primary Meeting
of the People of Oregon The Rev
David Leslie acted as Chairman. The
meeting after electing officers adjourn
ed to meet on Thursday. June IL. lS4l.
The Provisional authorities took pos
session of the Young estate. In the
message of the Executive Committee
to the Legislative Committee, dated
Wallamet Falls. (now Oregon City,
December l6. 1874. and signed Osborne
Russell and P G Stewart, it is stated
that the estate had been settled, and
that he net proceeds amounted to the
sum of $3734 26, which sum had been
loaned to various individuals. On De-
cember "a, 1874. the Legislative Com
mittee passed an act directing the funds
OF the estate to be collected and paid
into the Treasury of the Provisional
Government. pledging the faith of the
government that the same should be
refunded whenever claimed by the
heirs or creditors of Young. By the
same act $500 of the funds of the es-
tate were appropriated to the building
of Jail at Oregon City. The Jail was
duly erected, but after some years was
destroyed by fire. This was probably
the first Jail west OF the Missouri. So
1t may be said that the early Provis
ional Government in Oregon grew out
of the death of Ewing Young, and that
its Treasury was first filled from the
funds OF his estate.
How and when the money was re-
paid to Joaquin Young. is too long a
story now to tell. Suffice it to say.
that the son appeared in Oregon in
1S43, and claimed his long delayed in
heritance. After three special acts of
the Legislature aud two actions prose-
cuted to the Supreme Court. the money
was grudgingly refunded in 1868 -22
years after it was appropriated
For Hall j Kelly, who arrived at
Fort Vancouver in 1885. with Ewing
Young. much merit has been claimed
for his services in inviting American
attention to the colonization of Oregon.
He was born in Gilmanton, New Hamp
shire, in 1889. In 1917 he had become
teacher of public school in Boston.
At this time he had become zealously
interested In the subject of American
occupancy of the territory west of the
Rocky Mountains. He addressed q
memorial to the Congress of the Uni>
ted States urging "the founding of
new Republic OF civil and religious
freedom on the shores of the Pacific
ocean, and extending the blessings of
Christianity 10 the Indian tribes"
Until 1928 9 his eolonizing efforts
were confined to lecturing, memorial
izing State Legislatures and Congress.
and addressing the people through the
public journals. He had made
abortive efforts tc organize q COLI
ony to proceed overland to the ter
ritory. From 1929 to 1881 he de-
voted his attention to procuring q char
ter from the Massachusetts, Legislature.
In this be succeeded ct the session of
lS30-3l. by the incorporation of "The
Society for encouraging the settlement
OF the Oregon territory" Under its
auspices large number enrolled to 90
to Oregon. No party started, and of
those enrolled by Keller, two only.
John Ball and James Tibbetts, who &C.
companied Capt Nathaniel j Wyeth.
OF Cambridge. Mass, on his first over
land expedition of 1882. ever reached
Oregon.
Kelly then made an Intellectual effort
to send party by sea to Puget Sound.
He afterwards with q small party went
to the city of Mexico via Vera Cruz.
and thence to California, his party
having abandoned him in Mexico.
With single companion he overlook
a part Of the trapping party of the
Hudson Bay Co.. about 200 miles from
San Francisco. on TIE return from Fort
Vancouver. Joining them. in n faw