The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, April 17, 1937, Page 15

» | SMITMANS EFFORTS STIMULATED NATIONAWIDE INTERE ST IN OREGON . RETURNING TO ST LOUIS, HE FOUND 1000 EMIGRANTS, WITH A BIG WAGON TRAIN AND 3000 HEAD OF CATTLE, READY TO STAQT FOR THE COLUMBIA. JOYFULLY, DR WHITMAN LED THEM ™E PaciFiC COAsT. : SOUTH TO THE COLUMBIA, Wi EXTREME AMERICAN “Exe DEMANDED THE WHOLE PaciFIC COAST NORTH TO 54° 40, THE SOUTHERN BORDER OF ALASKA | THEN KNOWN AS RUSSIAN AMERICA. . HIGHLIGHTS of HISTORY By JCarRow MansFiELD, R40. US Pareny Orrice e @1vinG IN WASHINGTON AFTER HiS DRAMATIC RIDE ACROSS THE CONTINENT ON HORSEBACK (1843-44), DR.MaRcus WHITMAN VISITED PRESI- DENT TYLER AND BEGGED HIM TO TAKE STEPS TO SPEED AMERICAN WHILE THIf CONTROVERSY WASGOING ON, AMERICAN SETTLERS IN OREGON SET UP A PROVISIONAL GOVERNMENT. SETTLERS TO THE OREGON COUNTRY. [FuT SOON ARTERWARY MARCUS WHITMAN MET A TRAGIC FATE ATV I IN 1847 THE SELF-SACRIFICING YOUNG MISSIONARY, WITH HIS WIFE AND A DOZEN OTHER WHITES, WAS TREACHERQMSLY MURDERED BY THE INDIANS HE HAD SERVED SO NOBLY. 3 £ " BriTISH ¢ ; - Cotumsia 197 Pamayiec = e PRESENT BOUNDARY FULFILLING HIS CAMPAIGN PLEDPGE, PoOLK TOOK A STRONG STAND ON OREGON, ASKING CONGRESS TOGIVE NOTICE TERMINATING JOINT OCCU- PATION OF THE OREGON COUNTRY AND TO ERELT FORTS IN THE DISPUTE TERRITORY - CONSEQVATIVE STATESM - — @-c acQuisiTion OF OreGoN WAS ONE OF THE LEADING POLITICAL ISSUES N THE AMERICAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1844 . THE EXPANSIONISTS TRIUMPHED, AND THEIR CANDIDATE, JAMES PoLK, , ENTERED THE WHITE HOUSE-. & WOULD You BELIEVE IT @ = MYSTERY OF THE S GIGANTIC FOOTPRINTS - - How PATAGONIA GOT ITS™ WHEN THE EXPLORER MAGELLAN LANDED ON THE SOUTHERN SHORE OF - SOUTH AMERICA ,HE AND ¢ /7 HIS MEN CAME UPON HUGE, - FOOTPRINTS IN THE JAND = AND FEARED THAT THE LANP _# WAS INHABITED BYARACE- Az = OF DREADFUL GIANTS -/ % L4 " @€ FinsT PUPP SHOW WAS A IN THE LIFE OF JESUS - Y 1T WAS CALLED “PONTIUS AND JUDAS FROM THE TWO VILLAINS “ OF THE PLAY, PoNTIUS PILATE AND JUPAS 1SCARIOT. | ONG AFTER THE OLD MIRACLE PLAY HAD BEEN FORGOTTEN AND PUPPET SHOWS HAD BECOME MERRY COMEDY THE NAME F S AND JUDAS "IN TIME CORRUPTED INTO AND JUDY, CLUNG TO THIS FORM OF ENTERTAINMENT. QUAILED, FEARING SUCH A BOLD STEP WOULPD LEAD TO WaR.. Ve a5 N sl (dufiog,wd l A HAPPILY, AN OPEN BREAK WITH GREAT BRITAIN WAS AVERTED AND A COMPROMISE TREATY WAS SIGNED (1846) BY WHICH THE UNITED STATES CAME INTO POSSESSION OFALL THE OREGON COUNTRY SOUTH OF 49 ©. MAGELLAN NAME THE REGION PATA- " PATAGON g o LATER, MUCH TO 2 H!S RELIEF, THE ONLY, OF AVERAGE SIZE,AND THAT WERE MADE BY ! ~ _ _™HE BIG, - FLOPPY SANDALS /THEY WORE-. S AMP CLOCK OF THE MIDDLE- AGES -+~ AS THE OIL SANK IN THE GLASS RESERVOIR. AT A RATE OF SO MUCH AN HOUR IT INDICATED THE TIME ON A DIAL. ey — @ e "PELICAN’ FRENCH WARSHIP OF THE LATE- 1J™ CENTURY AND FLAGSHIP OF THE FAMOUS 1BERVILLE IN 1697 THIS INTREPID FRENCH-CANADIAN ABOARD *LE PELICAN, THE ONLY SHIP OF HIS LITTLE SQUADRON THAT SUCCEEDED 1N GETTING THROUGH THE ICE FLOES, MADE A DARING RAIP UPON THE ENGLISH SLOTILLA. AND SHORE POSTS IN HUDSON'S BAY, CAPTURING FORT NELSON AND SINKING THE FRIGATE l""Hm;sz' P ——————— IN A THRILLING DUEL oo