Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1901-06-14
NORTHWEST NOMENCLATURE

graphic names has been taking liber-
ties with northwestern nomenclature.
The board has published list of all
its decisions, from its organization in
1870 down to April 4, 1900.
AS a rule it has adopted the forms
accepted by local usage, though in
many instances its decisions have
gone fatty against local spelling.
For example, in this section Pend
dOreille is the accepted spelling.
The board says it must be Pend
Oreille, and gives list of rejected
forms, including Pend Oreille, Pend
D'Oreille, Pend O'Reille, Ponds
Oreilles, Pondera, Ponderay, Pond
Orilles, Peaux d'Oreilles and Kullus-
pelm.
In the progressive town on the Co.
lumbia river, everybody writes it We
natchee. The board DEGREES that it
shall be Wenache.
A river and mining district in west
ern Montana is written by local Gus
tom, Iahk. The board says it must
be Yaak, not Yaac nor Yak.
The pretentious "city" must be
dropped from Boise and Butte.
In southern Oregon is range of
mountains whose name has puzzled
multitudes. This authority says it
goes as Calapooya.
The station on the Northern Pacific
in kittitas county is Clealum, not
Cle-Ellum, nor kle- alum nor Tlee-al-
UNI.
Cowiche, in Yakima county goes
that way-not Cowecha, Cowyche nor
Cowitchee.
The board DEGREES that the noted
lakes and river in British Columbia
shall be spelled Kootenai-not Koot-
anie, Kootienay, Kootenie nor Swan.
The board has another guess coming.
The British Columbians spell it Koot-
nay, and it is feared the board will
find difficulty in enforcing its DEGREES
across the line.
In Yakima county is a pass and
river which the board would spell
Naches-not Nathess, Natchess nor
Natchez.
On the Sound they spell it Port
Townsend. The board orders it Port
Townshend.
A stream in Clallum county is
Pysht, not Pisht nor Psyche.
Other names concerning which
there has been confusion are written
by the board as follows:
Chilkoot Malade
ClarT Fork Mohaye
Clatskauie Neah
Duwamish Okanogan
Humptulips Potlatch
1ssaquah Suoaualmie
kadiak Stilaguamish
Klondike
1t was decreed, several years ago,
that the disputed mountain in this
State should be Rainier, not Tacoma.
The board adheres to this ruling, but
Tacoma people show no sign of yield
ing.
The board gives the following inter-
esting explanation of the name Disap-
pointment, as applied to the cape at
the mouth of the Columbia river:
"On the 9th OF July, ITS, Meares,
in the ship Nootka, arrived off the
cape and found that "a prodigious
easterly swell rolled on the shore and
and he had soundings in Is fathoms
over hard, sandy bottom. After
we had rounded the promontory,
large bay, as we had imagined, opened
to our view, that bore very promis.
ing appearance and into which we
steered with every encouraging expec-
tation. AS we steered into the bay,
the water shoaled TO 8, and Z
fathoms, where breakers were seen
right ahead, and from the masthead
they were seen to extend across the
bay. We therefore hauled out Ac-
cordingly the name Disappointment
was given to the promontory."
Meares added, 1--WE can now with
safety assert, that no such river as
that of Saut Roc exists, as laid down
in the Spanish chart" A little less of
British cocksureness might have al
tered the map of the Pacific North
west. If Meares had persevered
trif1e, he would have discovered the
Columbia, that honor would not have
fallen to American Gray, and one of
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