The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1899-12-30
tASI Day OF CONVENTION.
Teachers Association Holds Busy
Session.
INTERESTING PAPERS READ.
u. W. scott Brieny Reviews Pioneer
Oregon History--A state Course OF
study ExhaustiveIy Discussed-
Hey~ Ofacers EIected-Will Meet
next Year in OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Suffrage Resolution Adopted.

Suffrage HesoAoA
the final session OF the State Teacners
- ssociation convention was held yester-
-. y, tha first M n church and In the
who have been in attendance from ono ou so,,s
cities left for their MONIES. Aslue . ad,,A
discussion Of topics OF importance % eu os
Gators. the chief business transacted was
ina election Of Officers for the ensuing
Sesr - FOLLOWS:
President, n Dewey. j.
3en Ss,.,cv. sscratsrv a. II. tucker: treas
-. sayaVri $780, sTacutiye comnittoe,
e; 9 Hinman; members NnSrt o. co9 ~ STAFFORD.
Spo1 = pira Ai a.s;stsnt secretary. William
"a. = rans, as =
Among resolutions passed was ono a"so'
az ,norninS session the paper Of the
. A. tne nn y NJ Snntt an the early his
tory OF oregon, deferred from Thursday
was read by Prof. w. H. Morgan
us~vx Or~~ou History.
Mr.. SCOTS paper was IN part as foiows:
In pioneer days IN oregon. as e,sS
IN America, the beginning ol setueme e,1a
organization Of government This instinct
Of the race to which we peions, - 49, es
tablish civil institutions ana 70 orsamne
waA manifest here before there We're 50
many as one hundred persons OF american ga.
nativity west OF the ROCKY m NJ, prst,ss
Joint occupation of the country py BriIsn
subjects and by people from tne onlse st
n.aJ .s, eacn R1s ~ tie own country.
hassened action While the inhabitants were
yet varv Jaw
.such, however. was the vtgor and &C.
g. nrst 1ns IN end rapdy rs
forced during he years that Followed, they
regon long before the nao 81 h
s tween the United States and Great Brit
~nrv arst pasyort was NOT rooted II, this
e.:y M. ~ Jo oa,,natit,nn yet a. nre-
siminary enisode this first effort deserves
Sssoie ~ a 'av sts r,,,,g noi,t r. hrnmehf
ths es x,,,ericsns tnrather' and opened the
rav far their f,,tuse ce-operation.
s.I{,,s ,sl,, G Tat la ~ TIC f;rst rnee+
,r~ n nreron beid VIII, viaw Of attend-
IN ~ . ne,,hi,c Need and d,stv in an or
defly way. was the death Of Ewing Young;
.1ts,,ed Cai,ynrnia az early rs iSSs and in
sss4 he came 70 Oregon IN COMPANY with
Hall J. Kelley. who had long been known
roys - Keiiev ras : citiyen ~ Massaehu-
sSatts Enr yyenra hs had heen indefafira-
he IN bis sfYorts 70 AWAKEN interest in
Sctgou ,,or the rrnynntsn,, 0aa,d encoura ge-
sra1 rv ~ ~ .ttIe e tbara Fsnaiiv he Se-
CiSsA r. visit 11raron himself and see with
Sis own ewes the land about which he had
snoken ara written 40 much.
~ ~. nSr.s
The rArst ruDHc MeenB'
HE came by a circuitous route through
California, and in California he. fell In
with Ewing Young. whom he induced to
come with him to Oregon. With a party
of about sixteen persons, picked up about
Monterey and San Jose, they set out for
Oregon in the summer of 1884. Kelley soon
returned by sea to Boston, but Young re-
In 1S41, his name has conspicuous place
In the pioneer life of Oregon. He left
. considerable property, to which there
were no legal claimants or known heirs,
administration of the estate became per-
picking question. 1t was perhaps the i'm
mediate motive that led to a call for a
public meeting at the Methodist mission
on the Willamette, February. II, 1S41.
"The Methodists were Leaders in mis-
sionary enterprise in Oregon. At this first
political assembly Rev. Jason Lee was
chosen chairman, and 1t was moved that a
committee of seven be named for the
purpose OF draIting q constitution ana CODE
Co,mmhia r,var After dehata q, - w u,s
x.ofed that two more he added n tbis com
niittee and it was finally appointed with
"a view 10 recoenizjnp ali tha yario,sa rac-
tons and relieions present Alter thasa
nroceadtngs Tr Ire r. RabcocL Nos q ~
nointed s,Inreme indge with nrobata ro,,
ers. George I.a RTeton was nameS a. ..Ierk
Of 'courts and n,Ibiin recordar. W;S,ior
yabneon was u annnintad bieh sbarirr imam ana
William Mccartv xav,er T,adavant and
I,ierre -Riiinua were CHOSEN conatahiaa IT,
was resolved that nntii code ~ Ia us
be adopted nv this coromnnifv mr. Iab.
cock Ia instrI,cted 10 fniiow fba avs ~
the state of New York On the 18th Of