East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1905-11-09
Basket" Brown, AIgernOn White-and
Moral.

Summerv in Union county, Just the Blue mountains from
Pondeon.
was just night for surprises and Brown did agger
me shock 1t 1t of those crisp keen mornings that prepare
for higher cndeao when Brown found the boy he went to
feed his a + o'clock.
Old Dan hardy fronersman given much sentiment
carried the big basket baby and blankets the house and them
down before Mrs Brown who rubbing her and yawnng in
Mrs Brown didn't faint Women didn't faint back in the sixties
in Oregon That is later production of medical science
She raised her hands her head and then let them fall
upon her knees with loud slap and looked proachfuy at Dan
her glasses
tan Of being bur he WINGED when his wife looked him
without speaking on this occasion
y - y y
The Umaa Boise stage coaches their hone going and
coming eastward and westward the night carrying their motley
trains of whtewged egrant wagons passed the house daily wind
ing the mountains the famed and beautiful Wala Wala
La Grand village of 400 Pendeon had population of 800
Wala Waa city of considerable SIZE and there
settlements all over Eastern Oregon
And the they wondered the deeper the mystery became
they quit wondering about and decided keep and claim and
await developments
1t was then and there clristened Basket Brown
!.
Perhaps emgran whose substance had been
to azze in the long march the plains had left his heir
at this seemingly happy and comfortable home rather than risk the
long journey down the Columbia to The Dales.
Perhaps depairing from Waa Wala, Pendeton,
or La Grande had her helpless offspring the stage give
have the of understanding its forbddng surround
ings
Anyway this the beginning of Basket Brown His genoa
ogc record woefuy crtaled and it might be said that
far records concerned he the founder of in
Grand Ronde
we'll the tender care Mother Brown
The Browns had children of their and proud be
yOnd expression of this lqsy yOmgster.
He grew be bright clever eachabe boy honest industrious
and loved by all He the first district school started in that
wild country He and learned and became manly and well bal
nce and finally when he young entering his wen
Old Dan and Mother Brown both died and left the waif handsome
fortune
WE'LL and married and brought home his wife the very
threshold where he had been found helpless pabe waf %
before.
His wife knew all about and did think whit the less of
her Taant new husband He was man in every sense of the word
genealogical record than '3a.kct' Brown
Just land from the Browns lived Mike White and
ge whose first born son came year after Basket Brown was
humble Browns, whom she declared had no history"
When her boy named Agernon shortly after his BIRTH Mrs
White told the neghor that uncle of this promising boy had been
corporal in Illinois regiment in the civil and that its
grandfather its mothers side had been coary sergeant the
revolutionary record that might be proud Of
As sort of comparison between her boy and Basket she sad
families back, and should not associate with this waf
SO the boys Just the lane from each other bu
worlds apart in association and companionship.
Algy the White boy be called be sent "east
be educated he old enough Grand Ronde valley
was not large enough for e hi@. g !.
So the two boys maturity side by side but fathome
Ally went east to be educated but Mike White did not thrive
well and when the boy half way through his called
home 10 help the farm.
lie was and thoroughly worthless His expert
IN the eastern school had soured him work and he burer
on his proud mother and hardworking father
But all the time Basket advancing and growing bol
financially and mentally although he had not "eas"
Last year "Base Brown mentioned for the legislature
and will be elected year if he will take the office
His friends know of his humble respect him tn
progress he has made in spite Of il.
The last Of Al White flor this is what Agenon
ed) last July when he Snake Idaho escape
sheriff who pursuing him for cattle stealing.
The hearess sheriff did not know perhaps that the uncle
this promising corporal in the civil ha
his grandfather had served commssay sergeant the
luton.
The moral is this: II don't make difference who
if we do the best wherever with the talents that