East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1916-09-23

| names, Mississippi the great river,
| Missouri the muddy river; Wisconsin,
the rapid river; Connecticut (Quinni-
tukq-up, the long tidal river; Min
nesota, the whitish river Kansas the
smoky river. While the same word
designating an Indian tribe has be-
come Arkansas by the addition of the
French word for bow, the pronunci-
alton being obscured by the French
spelling as in the case Of Spokane and
: Willamette, Nebraska means shallow
water, and Ohio the beautiful river
The same word in Japan signifies
, good morning, and the story is told
Of a traveller in the land Of the Mi
kado supporting that the salutation
was an inquiry as to his residence, re-
piled "No. come from Kentucky,
hich also Is an Indian word of un.
I certain meaning, although popularly
supposed TO signify the dark and
bloody ground The meanings Of
TenresseP and of Oregon are un-
/ known.
Alaska. the mainland, has the same
meaning as Maine; while Massachus-
etts was named from the blue hills of
Milton. The derivation Of Idaho from
( its snow-Clad peaks is disputed. Wyo-
ming is an Indian word for prairie
Michigan which an Englishman once
pronounced my chicken" means
fish weir, similar TO Wallowa in Ore
gon. New Mexico retains an Aztec
word which referred to a deity, and
from those same people we have
Arizona. the small springs, where sill
, yer was found in early days. and al
so Texas, which has the same signifi-
canoe, friends or allies. as Dakota.
The captain of a Mississippi steamer
is said to have given the names OF
safes to the sleeping apartments on
his boat from which the term state
room originated, and being loyal to
| his native state, named his own room
BY the pilot house Texas, which or
| iginated the expression Texas deck
and so became applicable to the
| sharp edged surface of the cayuse on
which so many Of the early pioneers
! migrated to the oregon country.
/ Alabama is an unusually pleasing
Indian word and means thicket clear
/ ings in allusion to the agricultural ef-
/ forts Of the aborigines The name of
! Indian tribes have been preserved in
| Utah; oklahoma, red people, Iowa,
sleepy ones. and Illinois, men, the two
letter having French spelling. And
d To- nc I'M a n
origin, 1t refers to that race.
other Indian place names have Civ
en- rise to a class Of words In our Ian
guage which have entirely chan
their original meaning. Hobo applied
by early New Workers to the poorer
whites who settled across the Hudson
at Hoboken, the pipe country, where
the Indians had obtained clay for
their pipes, and in similar way
Tuckahoe, a vegetable substance eat
en- by Indians became an epithet for
the poor whites Of southern Virgin
It. wabash, cleaning white was ap-
phed to the river which flowed over
limestone beds and became a synon-
YIN for cheat on account of alleged
delinquencies of some of the firs'
white settlers.
When the mineral springs known
to the Indians as Saratoga became a
fashionable resort, that name was
applied to the potato chips which
were first popular there, and also tf
the huge trunks in which the bellies o
that day transported their hoop skirts
In a similar way a fashionable Goa
was named from Tuxsdo wolf IL