83. George H. Himes, in Oregon Historical Quarterly, Vol. 24, p. 58.
84. Oregon Historical Quarterly.
85. History of Oregon, 719.
86. Craig is further taken up, pages 135, 136, 137.
87. Himes, O. H. Q., Vol. 3, p. 356.
88. Conversation with this writer, September 1936.
89. Vol. 1, p. 626.
90. Letters in files of Oregon Historical Society.
91. Facts given in address by Mr. Pearne on the paper's 40th anniversary.
92. The word intelligence, it should be understood, was in those days commonly applied to news or information; and general intelligence signified not the I. Q., but simply general news. The name Intelligencer was used by newspapers, notably one which was soon to be started in Seattle, Washington, which, combined with a paper called the Post, has come down to the present as the Post-Intelligencer.
93. 93. September 1, 1855.
94. In the issue of February 18, 1861.
95. A new dress means a new type face or set of new faces for the body of the paper.
96. In his book, Sixty-one Years of Itinerant Church Life, page 353.
97. Ludington, The Newspapers of Oregon, 1846-1870, O. H. Q. 237.
98. Respectively, Western Star and Oregonian.
99. Statistics of Territories, Oregon, page 1011.
100. The census man doubtless meant semi-weeklies.
STATEHOOD PERIOD
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1.
The paper claimed 3,000 circulation, probably a rosy estimate, since the population of Portland in 1860 was just about 3,000.
2. George H. Himes, personal interview, 1936 (credit for story of Pittock's interview with Dryer; reference figure omitted, end of ninth paragraph, page 109).
3. In personal interview, 1936.
4. See page 148 ff.
5.
Oregon Historical Quarterly, June 1915.
6. ibid.
7. Leslie M. Scott note, Vol. 1, p. 69, in introduction to History of the Oregon Country.
8. For full consideration see Scott's History of the Oregon Country, a collection of his editorials, with exhaustive interpretative notes, amounting in themselves to a reasonably adequate history of Oregon, by Leslie M. Scott.
9. June 25, 1908.
10. Oregonian, March 8, 1908.
11. February 23, 1909.
12. December 18, 1880.
13. This observation is made by Alfred Holman in his section of the introduction to The History of the Oregon Country, made up mainly of editorials from the great editor's pen, and made also by Leslie M. Scott in his preface to his compilation of the writings of Harvey W. Scott on "Religion, Theology, and Morals."
14. Rev. E. P. Hill, First Presbyterian church, 1902.
15. In biographical article, Oregon Historical Quarterly, June, 1913.
16. Leslie M. Scott in his Index to the Contents of the Oregonian, 1865-1910.
17. O. H. Q., June 1913, Vol. 14, No. 2: 99.
18. loc. cit.
