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From: "M&J" <>
Subject: Re: [Klamath,Or] Questions (and a possible favor)
Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 09:16:19 -0600
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Sandy,
Thank you very much for the transcriptions. We found them very interesting.
It had stated on her birth certificate that she was born there and this is
the first "other" evidence of Keno in any records we have located to date.
We really appreciate your consideration.
Mike
----- Original Message -----
From: "Sandy Owsley" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, 29 January, 2004 23:59
Subject: Re: [Klamath,Or] Questions (and a possible favor)
| Mike,
| I have vol. 5 & 7 :
| Vol 5, p 53; "Klamath Falls Only Bank Robbery, [reprinted from the
Klamath
| Republican of January 21, 1909]
| In Part......Two men, John Hall and Riley Previer were arrested for
robbery
| of Klamath County Bank. Previer's attorney, F.H. Mills, stated that
| before sentence was pronounced, he wished to submit certain evidence as to
| the previous character of the prisoner and also have him tell his own
story
| of the whole affair.
| Chas. Woodard stated that he had known Previer for three months, and
that
| he had seen him and known him for nearly two years. That the young man
had
| worked for him two months steady and at odd times since; that he had
worked
| for him Friday afternoon, the day before the robbery, and that he had
always
| believed him straight.
| Riley Previer was then allowed to tell his own story. He recited how
his
| home was at Lebanon, Oregon; how he had left there about six years ago
and
| gone to Prineville where he worked for a while; from there he came to
| Klamath Falls and went to Dorris and worked in a blacksmith shop; he then
| had worked for the McIntire Company, the Telephone Company and Mr.
Woodard.
| He had been sick considerable while working for Woodard and had become
| acquainted with Hall at the Klamath House. Hall had been good to him and
| loaned him money. During the last two weeks Hall had talked to him about
| holding up the bank. He still owed Hall money and was afraid of him.
| =================================================
| Vol. 7, p 9, "Before Merrill" VII. A Battle of Wits. Immediately
| following the expressed disire of Nate Merrill to secure a nearby flour
mill
| in order that he might derive some profit from a banner crop of wheat,
Frank
| Adams went to work to get a mill.
| There was a mill at Keno, run by Charlie Woodard. Why a mill had been
| established there no one seems to recall. The old-timers remember
there
| was little or no wheat grown within many miles. The mill that was doing
| all the business was located at Klamath Falls. It was owned by Thomas
| Martin, father of Martin Brothers, who manage the present flour mill and
are
| prominent in other enterprises.
| Adams wanted to get the Keno mill moved down into his section of the
| country. News, although it travelled by buckboard or horseback,
seemed
| to travel fast enough. Tom Martin heard of the designs on the Keno mill.
| It was good business for him to defeat any such move. He purchased the
| Keno mill for a song from Woodard before Woodard learned there was about
to
| be some activity in the flour mill market.
| [ Frank Adams secured money from neighbors]
| Adams was no flour mill man. He and everyone else knew it. So to
lend
| atmosphere to his enterprise and perhaps to assure himself, as well as his
| friends, that he really meant business, Adams got Woodard to come down to
| his place to live. Adams let Woodard ride around with him, but he
wouldn't
| let the miller have a word to say. Too much conversation would have
ruined
| things. Woodard was satisfied with promises of a job as miller. And
all
| Adams wanted was to have a dusty miller about.
| Eventually Martin promised to build the mill for them without it
costing
| them a cent........ The farmers were ready to fight, and all of them
wished
| they had not signed with Adams.
| A mass meeting was held....... All those in favor of the Martin-Merrill
| plan were to take their places on one side of the room, and the Adams plan
| were to take the other side.
| There was a shuffling of many boots and Adams found himself standing at
| one wall with his neighbors glaring at him from across the
room.........they
| tried to drag Adams over forcibly, but he stood his ground.
| Be it known that Woodard, the miller, did stick by Adams. There was
| nothing else for him to do. "Then I made a mistake," admitted Adams in
| relating the story.
| It seemed the dogged faithfulness of Woodard, out of all the crowd,
| touched a weak spot.
| "We have obligated ourselves, gentlemen," he told them. "Whatever we
do
| about the mill we owe Woodard here for his time."
| "You know, it was downright foolishness of me to have mentioned that we
| owed Woodard any money," reminisced Adams. "He wouldn't have thought of
it
| himself."
| "I had been feeding him and keeping him around and hadn't charged him a
| cent, and besides I had gotten some money for him. Woodard sent me a
bill
| for my share and threatened suit to collect. Served me right for
| mentioning the matter."
| =============================================================
| pg 55; Keno..........[reprinted from the History of Klamath County,
| 1941,pp.133-34] "In the days when all freight for Klamath and Lake
counties
| came by team from Ashland, Ager, or some other point on the Southern
Pacific
| Railroad west or south of our mountains, Keno was a busy place and often
the
| streets would be filled with freight wagons so that only room would be
left
| for the stage to pass." Among the first business houses were a livery
| stable, wagon shop, blacksmith shop, and two hotels. To this period
| belongs to advent of Capt. E. Deskin and his stern wheeler Mayflower, as
| well as of a small gristmill built and operated for a time by Charles
| Woodard on the Klamath River a mile from Keno.
| ==============================================
| pg 66; Sawmills of Keno vicinity......... [old Klamath Republican files]
| June 21, 1900----Charles Woodard, of Keno, who has a woodwork and
blacksmith
| shop at that place, has just built and completed a set of 10-foot wheels
for
| Thomas McCormick, the saw-mill man. It is the first set of wheels of
that
| large size that has ever been built in the state.
| ============================================
| I don't have Vol. 16. Keno was first called Whittle's Ferry, after my
| gg-grandfather, Robert Whittle. He settled there in about 1868 and
lived
| out his life there, dying in 1883.
| Sandy Owsley
|
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "M&J" <>
| To: <>
| Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 10:05 AM
| Subject: [Klamath,Or] Questions (and a possible favor)
|
|
| > I've been going through the Klamath Echoes Index in the USGENWEB
archives
| > and have found the following regarding my wife's ggrandfather:
| >
| > Woodard, Charles, Vol.5, pg 53; Vol. 7, pgs 9, 55, 66; Vol. 16, pg 47.
| >
| > Now my questions: How do I find these papers? Are they available
online?
| > Are there alternatives? Would someone local be able to do a look-up and
| > provide copies? I would gladly reimburse costs of copies and postage.
| >
| >
| > Mike Maher
| > Sunrise Beach, MO
| >
| >
| >
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