Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-08-11
HARVEY SCOTT
is DEAD
End of Long and brilliant
Career of Great
Editor.

Baltimore, Aug. 7.-Harvey W
Scott. editor Of The Portland Oregon
ian, died in Johns Hopkin, Hospital
TODAY shortly before 6 .. m. of hear
failure. SO hours after a surgical
operation for prostatectomy.
He went off the operating table
Saturday morning in strong condi-
tion. This morning at O'Clock he
began sinking and in spite of the
best stimulants known to medical
science his heart grew steadily weaker
until the end. He was conscious
almost to the last and the end was
painless.
With him we're his wife and one of
his sons. Leslie Scott. who had ac-
companied him OH his trip to this city
for surgical relief.
In Portland Mr.. Scott leaves two
sons. John Fl. and Ambrose B., and
one daughter, Miss Judith.
Mr.. Scott began failing nearly
three months ago from an attack of
sciatica Early in June he went to
Hot Lake, Eastern Oregon. but the
baths there greatelv debilitated him.
At last convinced that only surgery
could relieve him. he started for
Johns Hopkins Hospital. from Port
land, one week ago last Thursday
morning.
In the year 1852 there toiled into
Yamhill County over the rough roads
OF early Oregon prairie schooner
drawn by oxen and driven by John
Tucker Scott. an Illinois farmer.
In the long trip across the plains,
each mile of which had been marked
by hardships. the mother of the
family. Anne Roleofson Scott, and
one Of the children. a boy Of A years,
had succumbed to the privations of
the journey.
In the family of several children
was one. stalwart boy IA years old,
Harvey W. Scott. whose name was
destined to become irrevocably at
taohed to all in Oregon that in practi-
cally half. century of time would
have bearing on Western progress,
and right living.
Coming to Oregon with empty
hands. and knowledge only of hard
work and of such books as are taught
in q district school. this youth plunged
into the work of reducing wilder
ness to a human habitation, gained
the rudiments of an education by ap-
plication in leisure hours, worked his
way through a pioneer university.
East his lot with struggling news
paper, and created an editorial stand
ard that ranked with that of the
greatest journals of the country.
In 1865 Mr.. Scott succeeded Samuel
A. Clarke as editor of The OreGonian.
which was then under the sole con- {
;rOl of Henry L. Pittock. r
Mr.. Scott gave The Oregonian his !
editorial attention until
october, 1879 when he was appointed I
Collector of Customs for the Port of
Portland. which position he retained
or five years.
During that interval there was a
partial change of ownership in The
)regonian. Mr.. Pittock had sold
interest to W. Lair Hill.
Who took editorial charge, and H. W. n
Jorbett and others. In March, 1877, z
dr. Scott bought the interest that ii
The development of all of Oregon
vas ever uppermost in the mind of
dr. Scott. To him will be given
much of the credit for the final open :.
ng of Central Oregon to railway =
rams portation. During the recent
our through the interior of the state. =
louis W. Hill, president of the Great
Northern Railroad, said in numerous "
ddresses that the attention of the :
I'LL interests had been finally attracted .
o the opportunities for railway devel- -
pment in this state by the efforts :"
f Mr.. Scott Frequent references to
he isolation of the district seen in Il
he editorial columns of The Oregon
an had first attracted the attention
James ]. Hill and these led to con- }
1ltations on the subject with Mr..
colt. President Hill gave to Mr..
colt by name large share of the
redit for the opening of Interior
reRon. O
In 1904 Mr.. Scott was elected G
resident of the Lewis and Clark Fair t.
ssOciation, but declined reelection o.
! 1905, when he was succeeded by h.
7. Goode.
Mr.. Scott was a menher of the 9.