took to get to Tlatskani, and not as the name of the streams for Indians were not in the habit of naming streams. White men carelessly applied the name to the streams. Clatskanie River in Columbia County, and Klaskanine River in Clatsop County were thus named, and Clatskanie, a town, developed near the point where the former joined the Columbia River. Clatskanie is the spelling adopted by the U. S. Geographic Board for the features in Columbia County.
Clatsop County. Clatsop District was created by the Provisional Legislature by an act passed June 22, 1844, and comprised parts of the northern and western portions of Twality District. F. V. Holman's article on the history of Oregon Counties gives detailed information about the formation and boundaries of the county in the Oregon Historical Society Quarterly, volume XI, page 24. Clatsop is the name of an Indian tribe; mentioned in Lewis and Clark Journals and Gass' Journals. For description of Clatsop County in 1855, see The Oregonian, June 16,1855. For history of Clatsop County, by Preston W. Gillette, ibid., November 20, December 12, 1895; January 18, 1896. For narrative of the Clatsop Indians, by Preston W. Gillette, ibid., October 23, 1899, page 6; his narrative of Mrs. Michel, last of the Clatsops, ibid., March 10, 1903, page 3; his narrative of pioneers of Clatsop County, ibid., November 20, 1895, page 6; January 18,1896; description of Clatsop County in 1881, by Alfred Holman, ibid., September 9,1887; biography and portrait of Mrs. Michel February 26, 1905, page 22. Clatsop is given as Tlahsops by Silas B. Smith, in the Oregon Historical Society Quarterly, volume I, page 320. Townsend's Narrative gives Klatsop. Hale, in U. S. Exploring Expedition (1841) volume VI, page 215, gives Tlatsap. In Transactions of Oregon Pioneer Association (1887), page 85, the name is Tschlahtsoptchs. Hunter, "Captivity" (1823), gives Calt-sops. Dart, in Indian affairs
