The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-01-23
governor HAWLEY
REMEMBERS j. OF |.
PRESENTS HISTORIC VOLUMES
A LEAF FROM THE LIFE OF
THIS OLD PIONEER.

Hon. James H. Hawley, Idaho's be-
| loved pioneer governor, has donated
to the University of Idaho library a
reprint of j. B. Wyeth's oregon"
published in 1889 Governor Hawley' s
gift is a valuable addition to the col
lection of works on Idaho and the
Pacific Northwest now in the univer-
sity library and is a useful and al
most indispensable reference volume
for students OF western and Pacific
| Northwest history.
Governor Hawley is the author of a
history of Idaho published in 1920,
the most recent contribution to the
historical literature of the state and
is distinctive work in that it's author
was an witness, participant or
contemporary of almost all of the
events and movements narrated.
Governor Hawleys career might
we'll be described as a crOss-sectiOn of
Idaho history, since his residence
within the present state, antedates the
creation of Idaho territory by one
year. The governor, although still as
sprightly and active as boy and al
most invariably the earliest morning
worker to enter the elevator of the
Overland Building at Boise in which
his law offices are situated, is in his
seventy-fifth year. He was born on
the Iowa frontier in 1847, the year
after that commonwealth was admit
ted to statehood and while that
sparcely settled region represented
the outer edge of western settlements.
At the age of fourteen the mother
less lad, accompanied by an uncle,
joined the westward moving thrOng
bound for California. The journey to
the golden state" was made over the
picturesque Panama route. Governor
Hawley escaped, however, the hard
ships incident to ride by chance and |
on the back of a mule across the
pestilential isthmus, thanks to the
completion in 1855 of the Panama
railroad. This little railroad, with it's
48 miles of track is said to have car
ried $3.50 100000 worth of gold during
the twelve years following its COM |
pletion. The trip across Panama" .
proved dazzling adventure for the
Iowa boy. The lazy, half-clad ma
tives, the bonebOr huts, the tropical |
forests, the town of Panama with it's
houses, it's mysterious
alleys, it's gray cachedrals, its grass
grown plazas and the beautiful blue
sheet of the Pacific"-were sights
which the passing years have not OBJ
liberated from Governor Hawley's
''The tall gangly boy of fiji
teen"-to use the Governors own
words-had no sooner reached the
San Jose valley in California than Ibis
easily excited imagination" was stir
red by the report of the wonderful
Salmon river gold discoveries in the
present Idaho Answering the call
beyond the ranges" April, 1852 found /
lin in the placer camp at Florence.
Joining the rush to the Boise Basin
n the following year, young Hawley
settled at Placerville and became the
carrier and distributing agent for t
daho's second oldest newspaper, the
Boise News" in those romantic days
when California newspapers sold for
$3.50 copy. 1t was at Placerville
hat the handsome, magnetic, and i'm
nensely likable 'newsboy" began to
ay the foundations of career of
and since which has con-
inued to this day. In 1870, at the
lge of % Mr.. Hawley was elected to
he Territorial House of Representa-
ives. In 1874 he was promoted to a
eat in the Territorial Council Co