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EDITORIAL I
•• '^■ggg^gsTrass •-■ -.-^ngssaaa
u.aska \\;> t o\sj:i;v.\tio\
V. '.. '•• -indented by J.
I I ndera... .! i ■ to the sima
lion uri-' .- fre\. \!:-sfcan policies
vouiroun:.4 |'iff •'••• i i-Iarding's ad
ministration is i • '-l' overdrawn
to a t-onsi'derab:-- •: .1—\ there is
enough i.'.-! 10' 'herein tc
make il cT Alaska.
Mr. l"i:d<M->vo"ii's asseitioa. "that
-
»n ' "
have In . i' r : . 'itreiiciied in the
l»f|iartm«-:it u. .'.iiilcul; . a"U have
i.inverted .Mr. V>'ji!;uo to their l»e
li< •' " >• u >r i l l;, justilied by
th" fai ls in hand.
One d p >rha: I' #'>!«» foundu
tioti fi r the a.--ien;i>:i is ti.e opposl
ii.it! of Mr. V.'allin to the Curry De
ve!opi::« ■ : iioar.l !; I! ...-» expressed
in a letter jo Mr. : itrry. This evi
deni I. ..s much of being convfno
it;- :.at Ir. M " is an ultra-con
s.-tvai .oiii-t of the I'inciiot type.
There are inar.y .\ia-;ans who. al
t'iot:-,li ior di:Y.r>Ut .vastuis than
those o;TMr. V.'allac©. look
with askance ar Mr. Curry's plan.
These Alaskans a.'.- not conserva
tionists a.« the ••ij ;s used by Mr.
I i;Jervvoiu! nor ha^e hey any sym
pathy with til- tuples advoi .ited
by that ila.s. :: ;i 1 ';ey do sco a
menace to t1 •• i't rritoji in the Curry
plan iltile-s :> is a i oMpanied by a
much i.tri r ii vr" • : self-govern
ment for Alaska than is now pos
sessed. Mr. Curry's plait has much
i:i it that appeals t" Alaskans hut it
i< not perl'ei t ai d Mr. Wallace's op
position to it should not brand him
as an untra-conservationist. The
people of the Territory do not look
tfitil favor on his advocacy of con
tinued go--.Tii!tient by : ur.-aus. but
twill hesitate to • >mn him as
being one who would lo the donrs
io all development un» I further
proof is at lia::d.
.Mr. I'uderwood's en- rn of the
Forest Service in so far ..> it affects
the selling of timber in Alaska has
some foundation in at least one par
ticular. The buyer of any tract of
umber which exceeds a five year's
supply fi>r the purchaser does not i
know dclinitely what he will be char-1
ged on a renewed scale of prices at
the end of the first five-year period, i
It is true that contracts for a tirn-|
ber supply for -15 years may be had.
but the initial price paid holds good'
for only live years. Individuals and
lirms dealing with the Forest Service
in connection with timber sales and
other matters djring the last few
years, however, have reported most
liberal dealin in all respects. It has |
been suKXtsT !■>• interested parties]
expecting t" • ■ • r the Alaskan field I
in the pui'i i. .I.i.niyi mat the Gov
ernment incite!.- in its contract some]
form of guarantee that purchasers
of raw material will, whenever it be
comes nivt sary to ! a revised price
scale, run. be i. : . -.•d so heavily that I
it will ma!. - it i:ni> • *>•:!»!» for them
to compete w.tii lii itijh Columbia!
manufacturers Such a guarantee1
would not be unfair to the Govern
ment nor more than is justly duo
those investing money in Alaskan
enterprises.
. Mr. Vderwood's conclusion Is grave
enough to be given serious consider
ation. Summarized, it is to the ef
fect that if the Harding administra
tion. even through its bureaus, pur
sues the policy already initiated of
granting leases oh oil lands, or coal
lands, or timber or other natural
resources in the Territory to legiti
mate investors and those investors
make reasonable profits, everything
being considered, an attack is sure
to be made oil tile administration
by the so-called conservationists
who "have money and know the pub
licity game." if such a state of af
fairs is to develop, no matter what
the outcome of it may be for the
Harding administration, it is bound
to injure the Territory. Money is
shy about entering a field in which
it cannot be reasonably protected,
and people with capital will be slow
about investing it in Alaskan enter
prises if there is any reason to con
clude that the near future will wit
ness a repetition of the muckraking
days of a decade ago.
It is to be devoutly hoped that Mr.
t'nderwood is allowing resentment
or disappointment over the opposi
tion which has developed against
the Curry bill to overshadow ma
ture judgment and influence him in
to arriving at an exaggerated esti
mate of the real situation. Alaskan
can do nicely without a recurrence
of the iJallinger-Pinchot row.—
Empire.
pom: is t <>m ikmi:i>
Yesterad tho Senate in confirming
the appointment of Scott C. Bone, as
liovcrnor of Alaska took the action
that had been expected by Alaskans
for several days. No one in the Ter
ritory had expected any fight to be
made on tois appointment In the Sen
ate for the main reason that there
exists tio basis for opposition unless
possibly the fact that he is not a
resident of Alaska might be consid
ered as such. At least that has been
the view of Alaskans generally who
firs! of all desired an Alaskan for
their Chief lCxecutive, but. who fail
ing in that, accepted the nomina
tion of .Mr. Hone with good grace
if not with open enthusiasm.
The attitude of Alaskans sojourn
ing in Washington has been for the
most part that of their fellow citi
zens remaining in the Territory.
There is apparently one exception to
th's view in Washington if Jack Un
derwood lias been reliably informed.
Af'or .Mr Rone's name had been
to i tit- Senate. Mr. 1'nderwooci
in an article in ihe Seattle Times
! suiil that the appointment had re
sulted in harmonizing Alaskans at
the capital, tin the day following
Mr. Hone's nomination. Mr. Haze
let called at the White/ House and
thanked the President for his many
courtesies and assured him that he
would work whole-heartedly in sup
port of tPresident's nominee. Col.
W. T. Perkins. said Mr. Underwood,
accompanied by an "Alaskan news
paperman" who had supported him
fo: the inventorship took similar
action.
There was so;.-.e effort to create
opposition to Mr. Hone by an elem
ent hacking another "unsuccessful
candidate." according to the Seattle
[correspondent, who said:
An element that was backing
another unsuccessful candidate
for place, and which is be
lieved to lie supported by the
Canadian Pacific Steamship Com
pany, does not find Mr. Hone as
satisfactory as ts.ey could desire,
and already the word is being
whispered into the ears of prom
inent senators that Mr Hone is
the agent of alleged sinister in
which have th°ir head
quarters is Seattle and are .Plan
ning to loot Alaska. Thesj libel
lous whisperings presage in ef
fort-to defeat Mr. Hone's continu
ation by the Se-wate. but. it is not
likely to get very far a' •' 'res
ident's nominee is pe:s n ally
known to nearly every ember
of th^t body.
If such an e tor- made, it was
hopelessly tui.ie. As a rumor It
would go unnoticed and made as a
charge ii would be so rediculous as
to make its sponsors the laughing
stock of those to whom it was Made.
Mr. Bone is the personal choice
of President Harding and as such
will have the ear of the Administra
tion. With his wide and varied ex
perience gained in many years of
newspaper work, he should be able
to grasp the problems of the Terri
tory without much delay. In Ns ef
forts to solve them he will have the
aid and co-operation of all Alaskans
who desire most of all to accomplish
tho development of the Territory
—-Empire.
Philadelphia Bird Seed is the pro
per feed for your Canary. Fresh
supply, just received at Keller Bros, j
Mr. Qwmby Encyclopedia
of Early History of City
I'Yw Poisons in Oregon Have Henn
Through as Interest ing . Keperi
enccs as Resident Who Reniem
- hers Incidents Dating* Rack to
1HU12.
By ADDISON BENNETT.
In Portland today, close to his
S4tli birthday. Lot P. W.. Qulrnby
is a sort of walking encyclopedia
of the city dating hack to Washing
ton's birthday anniversary in 1SI>2.
He is not an Oregon pioneer, ns such
nomenclature is usually understood,
but a person who has resided in one
place for a period of 59 years comes
near-being a pioneer at any rate.
There are but few persons in Ore
gon who have had as interesting ex
periences as "L. P. \V„" as most of
his friends address him. By the way.
his full name is Lot Woodruff Por
ter Quimby. the christian names com
ing from antecedents of the family.
He was born in Vermont, near Lyn
don, a place that now has a popula
tion of close to 3500 people, July fi,
1S37, when Martla Van Buren, our
eighth president, had occuoied the
White House but a triile more than
I four months, succeeding Andrew
I Jackson.
We had bir. 2(5 statss in the union
then, and three territories the iat
I ter being Florida. Iowa ind Wiscon
sin. Richard V. Johnson was vice
president. Janu*s K. Polk, speaker
I of the house. :ind in 'he senatv were
such men as Henry Clay. Daniel Wsh
ster. Franklin Piorce an 1 John S.
Calhoun. Yes, it was a Ion? time ago
when "L. P. W." ,'ame into the world
and he will probably live to see. or
live under, other president*', perhaps
several of them, for the old Oreen
Mountain st- t-1 boys kikI girls were
of a hardy r*ico.
l ather raroieMil ■ •kseutli .
L. P. W'.'s fa' her was a farmer
blacksmith. Up resided op i small
farm in t!.e suburbs of Lyndon ar.d
bad a shop In the town. There were
five children in thi Quimby family,
tv.-o boys and th'x-o t'rls. Lo* was
next to the youngest, a sister, now
residing in Portland, Mr; 3 H. Swet
land. whose son, Lot Quimby Swo'
latul is one of tlf? proprietors of the
Perkins hotel.
There is no .-&•? telling how young
Lot passed his early years, for boys
[and girls of those days had to "earn
the Ke soon as they were old
I enough to coax the milk frori a cow
I or wield a hoe in the field In the
winters they got a little schooling
| good schooling with a plentiful ad
mixture of the birch or hickory if
they ran counter to the commands
of the teacher. And young Lot went
the way of others in his early years.
When he was 17 years old he was
allowed to shift for himself and hir
ed out to an uncle at $15 a mouth,
cracking big wages for those days,
and his duties were not considered
[arduous. He only had to carry a pack
of about 100* pounds of merchandise
from house to house and make as
many sale=. as possible thruout n 'Di
em Vermon*. and the ad lucent sec
tions of Canada.
Rv the time he was 20 he had saved
up quite a littlo fortune, und be de
cided to "go west." Yes. tie bad the
California fever und told his parents
he was going to the Golden West.
His father bade him god speed and
a five-dollar gold piece, which was
to pay postage on fre,| vnt letters
to the old home.
Youth Sljiits for West
He-journeyed to New York and took
the steamer Great Northern for Pan
ama, with 1399 other passengers. The
railroad across the Isthmus had just
been completed, that was in 1S5S,
land the passeugers went across by
i rail. On thv we.s: coast they were
transferred to tlie steamer Arizona
I Ir.r San Frar.o'sco i.nd arrived there
L'ur.e S. having made the trip from
Ne»v Y'ork in remaikahlc cime for
those times. 1" Jays. There was fhe
young Vermoi'tc:- in a strange lard
2> days less Ihasi legal age. but with
the substantia! sum of $25 in gold !u
his pockets!
He very q'licxlf got ^ job up rear
Napa on a farm, 'he -vage being f 25
a month, and reit aincd there for
three months, when ho went to the
mines near C'ohuiibin, i\ Tuolumne
county, nvhere ho paid a small sum
for an interest In a placer prospect
and panned out a few hundred dol
lars In the next three months. There
had been great trouble in the mines
there, as well as in other parts of
the state, and the gigilantes had been
organized. In the mines the thieves
were robbing sluice boxes and near
Columbia P. P. W. says he one morn
ing discovered six dead bodies hang
ing to a flume that carried water to
the sluice boxes. That, and reports
of similar episodes, got onto his
nerves and he hiked to Frisco.
"Water Works" Purchased. '
Then he went into the water busl-1
ness bought a "water route" and\the
"water works," the latter consisting j
of a decrepit horse, a rickety wagon j
and a leaky hogshead. The water to;
serve his customers he had to buy |
from the jobbers and wholesalers of
that commodity, and he disposed of
It at retail, charging a small family
$1.50 a month and some of the big
gest customers, like saloons, as mucji
as $25 a month. As he paid at the
wells, 011 Market and Jackson streets
$25 a week for his supply, it can bo
seen that he was more or less a prof
iteer!
The big mission school building
was about to be erected and he look
the contract to furnish the bricklay
ers and plasterers the water needed
for their work? He alscovered not far
away a slough that had plenty of
"second-class water"' and he put ill a
pump and a little piping and pumped
by hand, the days's supply before
breakfast, often making $25 just as
a mornin's exercise! Talk about
Yankee thrift and ingenuity!
He remained "On the water wagon"
for something like a year and quit
with a bank roll, or rather a sack of
nuggets, amounting to $2,000. Then
he bought a livery stable 011 Sunsnme
street, near the old postoili.-e. and
continued to prosper. Ho branched |
out into the restaurant business, pur-|
chasing an eating house on Market
street, at the intersection of Mont-1
gomery street, for which ho planked 1
down gold to the amount of $2,500.
and sold the livery stable plant for
the same as lie paid $2,000 lie pro!>-,
ably would never have left Califor
nia had he been able to get title to
real estate, but the old Spanish .
grants were fiilling the courts with 1
litigation and it was almost impossi
ble to get a good title to a lot in S.m
Francisco.
.Next Move
So he decided to go up to Oregon,
to Portland, and sold out most of his |
holdings, save about 1000 barrels of I
flour which he had stored in a ware-,
house on speculation. lie had to wait |
six weeks to get a boat and early 111 j
February took passage on the Broth-j
er Jonathan, with about 1000' other
passengers. Almost every resident of
Oregon and California will recall that
ill-fated vessel? which afterwards j
went down near Present City, on her 1
run from Sail Francisco. Portland ^
I bound, with a loss of 200 lives. That
was in July 1SC5. It was the most
sanguinary happening on the Pacific I
coast until 10 years later, when the]
steamer Pacific was wrecked.
Ou the trip to Portland, when UP. |
\V. came on the Brother Jonathan,
the passage was not a gentle one.
[Coming in over the bar at the mouth J
of the Columbia the passengers were j
all kept below the deck and the cap
tain was lashed to the rigging. It
was bitterly cold and the bay inside
the bar was covered with drifting
ice. After reaching Astoria and com
ing up' the Columbia the crew fre- j
quently hall to go overboard and cut
away the ice around the vessel.
On February 22 tlie vessel reached!
Portland. That was in 1SU2 and L.P. I
W. began his long residence in this
city. Most of the passengers arriv
ing with him were bound for the Ida
ho mines and ho concluded to make
a trip there. So he bought a pack
train and took a "cargo" of provis |
ions for the Boise basin. Among his
merchandise he had a case of pickles
The miners were afflicted with scur
vy and is such demand were his cu
cumber pickles that they went like
the proverbial "hot cakes" at a low
price of one ounce gold per small
bottle! He sold out shortly, very
shortly, then sold his pack train and
came back to' Portland, with Quite
a snug fortune in his jeans, aside
(rom the $5000 worth of flour stor
ed in San Francisco.
Business Started Here.
His first business venture in Port
land was the purchase of an interest
in W. II. Bennett's livery stable, at
the northwest corner of Fourth and
Morrison streets. Bennett was the
first United States marshal in Ore
gon. He did a general livery, truck
ing, forwarding and storage busi
ness. He had hauled several loads I
of provisions from Portland to Salem
on the ice on the Willamette river.
L. P. \V. paid $7000 'for half of the
business and took the management.
One of his first moves was to install
the first platform street scales in
Oregon, which came from the Fair
banks establishment at St. Johns-1
bury, Vt., near L. P. W.'s old home. I
Soon Bennett sold his interest jn
the business to John White and the
new firm of Quiraby & White bought
the livery business of Sherlock & Ba
con, who owned the block where the
Chamber of Commerce building now
stands—that is on its south half.
"In home emergencies, first aid
means'Mother aid.' At such times
it is good to know that bandages
and remedies are handy."
A feeling of confidence, both in
Mother and in her first aid outfit, is
a feeling the whole family enjoys. /
Promptness in Emergencies
comes first, but cleanliness and
quality must not be sacrificed.'
We havo a full supply of bandages, oint
ments, disinfectants, medicated cotton and
adhesive plaster in family size packages.
Your hands will be the first to touch these
carefully prepared materials. We can supply
hot'water bottles, syringes and other rubber
goods of the best manufacture. When
emergency finds you lacking any needed
article, a call will find us prompt to respond.
for I I
Home First aid Ounm
Keller Bros., Skagway, Alaska
in 1SG5 lie closed out his livery
business and bought the biggest ho
tel in the city, the Western, ut Sec
ond and Morrison streets, the north
west corner. He purchased it from
Muck-a-Muck Smith, wiio.se heirs
si ill own the lota. lie ran the busi
ness for a year and sold hack to
Muck-a-Muck. This hotel was later
and for many years called the Occi
dental.
L. P. W. then took the Lincoln ho
tel, at the corner of First and Wash
ington streets, a very fine house for
those clays and large for tlie town
having 175 rooms. Ilo ran that estab
lishment for 12 years and wilh suc
cess.
Mr. QtiimliJ- Marries.
1 will now go back to lSG.'i and tell
of the marriage between L. P. W.
and Amelia West, daughter of C'ol.
West, who established the Wells Far
go business between San Francisco
and Portland. The wedding cere
mony was performed by a IJaptist
clergyman, lie v. Mr. Atkins, at the
West home, on Morrison street, be
tween Fourth and Fifth.
Six children were the result of this
union, three boys and tlH-eo girls,
two of whom are dead. The living
are Daisy (Mrs. L. Q. Swetbindi Lot
tie X. (Mrs. Harvey Taylor), Polly
(Mrs. Frank Webster) and Daniel W.
The latter lives in Dremerton, Wash,
the Wehsters live in Skagway, Alas
ka. and the others in Portland. Mrs.
L. P. W. QuiinbV died in this city in
1912. There are but two grandchil
dren living.
In the fall of 1S7S L. P. W. went
into eastern Oregon and established
a ranch for breeding line horses, lie
purchased SO acres in Grant county,
now Wheeler county, the SO now be
ing the site of Fossil, county seat of
Wheeler county. Ilere ho had about
173 head of grade PercheroiT mares
and several stallions. He never was
a "scrub" horseman. He has always
had as great a love for a good horse
as any Keutuckian that ever lived.
In 1SS2 L. P. W. got back into tli«
hotel business. Dr. Wilson erecting
for him a hotel that soon became
famous, the Quimby house, occupy
ing the block bounded by Fourth,'
Fifth, Couch and Davis streets. Tbisj
hotel had the first passenger elevator i
installed in Oregon and was a cara
vansary of which Portlanders were
proud. It had 175 guest rooms. He
ran it with success for about seven
years and tlien retired from active I
business. And, by the way, tha
Quimby house is still doing business, i
Trotter Drought West.
In 1S77 L. P. W. went to Janesville |
White Pass & Yukon Route
TIME TAIU.H XO. 4:
Ilaily except Sunday
1, N. Bound
1st Chiss.
HO a. m. Leavt
SKAGWAY
WHITE l'ASS
BEXXETT
CARCROSS
WHITEIIORSE
Passengers fnust be at the depot in time to liavo Baggage in
spected, and checked. Inspection is stopped thirty mlautes before
leaving time of trains.
150 pounds of Baggage will be checked free with each full fare
ticket, and 75 pounds with each half fare ticket, j
1:55 a.m.
1:30 p. m.
3:05 u, m.
5:25 p. m.
Arrives
So. 2, S. Board
1st. Class
Arrives 4:30 p. m.
Leaves 3:00 p.m.
" 1:45 p. m.
" 11:50 a. m.
" 9:20 a. m.
Wis., . iid purchased for $2000 a cele
brated Clydesdale stallion, Lie well
ing and six registered Clydesdale
wares. (This ought to have been
mentioned iii connection with his
Grunt county ranch.) And while
there he arranged with a friendly
horseman to purchase a trotter, for
Van De Lashmntt and others had
fast horses and L. P. W. wanted
some fun. His friend later tele
graphed !i:m that he knew of a geld
ing, of the Hambletonian strain, that
was a wonder and had no mark. He
asked, by wire, how much was two
words, "Buy him." So soon cama
to Oregon hly the fastest trot
ter ever in ttu> state, the wonderful
Hambletonian gelding. Bailey.
Remember, this horse upon his ar
rival here had no record and could
therefore be entered in any trotting
race. Those were the days of the
old l.rgn-'.v'.-ivled sulkvs, some four
or five seconds slower than the ball
bearii . i : '»!■> r-tirod low-wheeled af
fairs of today; but with a high
wheeler behind him Bailey had beat
en, in private, of course, 2:10. What
a lind! For two years L. P. W. went
the circuit, but with such good judg
ment that ho never let Bailey go
anything I:e his speed, awaiting the
day when ;:e could take him to the
"big circii. s" back east and make a
killing. And in those two years
Bailey never a race!
lint, alas. Bailey, on a trip to Cal
ifornia, took cold and died, which
event L. P. W. tells with tears in his
eyes. And he has never taken to a
second lovor He thinks he is too old
to "ride the circuit," but ho looks
like a man of 50. Oh, but those Green
.Mountain lads were born of a hardy
people in a laud that nourished them
well, and longevity does not begin
until a man is approaching his cen
tennial. So we are likely to have
L. P. W. sitting and chatting to his
friends in the "amen corner" of the
Perkins hotel for many, many years
to come. Which we all fervently
hope.
Ti.e above article which appeared
in the Orgonian a few days ago will
be of interest to many Alaskans as
iho Websters are well known thru
out the north.
.Airs. Harry Taylor, anothed daugh
ter was a resident of Alaska and Yu
kon for many years where Harry
Taylor conducted hotels.
At one time the Taylors were pro
prietors of the Fifth Avenue Hotel,
of Skagwav.
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