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1860<\/span><\/strong><\/span> \u2013 Oregon\u2019s population is 52,465. United States population is 31,443,321.
\n1860 \u2013 United States Civil War begins.
\n1860 \u2013 Jackonsville is incorporated with a population of 500 \u2013 600.
\n1860 \u2013 Pike\u2019s Peak gold was minted into $10 coins.
\n1860 \u2013 Quartz Mine, the Gold Hill mine, discovered in Rogue valley.
\n1861<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 A new mail route from Sacramento to Portland guarantees delivery in seven days.
\n1861-62: Major winter flooding in Oregon and Northern California. Heavy snowfall followed by warm thawing rains.
\n1861 \u2013 Oregon volunteer party makes route from Rocky Point to settlements in Rogue Valley. Capt. Lindsey Applegate and company circle Upper Klamath Lake and return to Ashland via dead Indian country.
\n1861 \u2013 November 21, recruiting poster hangs in Jacksonville for cavalry to be situated in Fort Klamath.
\n1862<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 May 10, Oregon Portage Railroad puts into operation for the first steam locomotive in the northwest.
\n1862 \u2013 Homestead law goes into effect giving 160 acres per person.
\n1863<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Colonel Drew builds a bad road, Rancheree Trail, from Jacksonville to Fort Klamath.
\n1863 \u2013 George Nurse contracted to provide hay for Fort Klamath.
\n1863 \u2013 Alexander Martin, doing business in Jacksonville under the name Glen, Drum and Company furnished supplies for the Army when the new fort site, Fort Klamath, was selected to be built in the Wood River Valley.
\n1864<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 April, B.J. Pengra promotes the Oregon Central Military Wagon Road from Eugene through present day Klamath County to Winnemucca, Neveda. This is known as \u201cOregon Branch Pacific Railroad.\u201d
\n1864 \u2013 First telegraph line to Jacksonville.
\n1864 \u2013 October 14, U.S. Government signs great Treaty of Council Grove with Klamath, Modoc and Yahooskin Band of Snake Indians. Indians cede 22 million acres of land for non-Indian settlement. Indians keep 2.7 million acres which becomes the Klamath Indian Reservation. Both Old Schonchin and Captain Jack are signatories.
\n1864 -08: Each indian man, woman and child placed on the reservation and their descendants living on or off its bounds was alloted 160 acres of potential farmland. After the allotting was 1864 \u2013 Oregon Legislature offers $250,000 to any firm to lay 100 miles of track south of Portland.
\n1864 \u2013 Elisha Steele, acting Superintendent of indian Affairs, chooses Captain Jack over John Schonchin as Chief of the Modocs. Other notes indicate Captain Jack was elected.
\n1864 \u2013 David Linn set up a sawmill on Linn (Fort) Creek.
\n1864 \u2013 Construction begun on building Fort Klamath.
\n1864 \u2013 George Nurse set up a Sutlers (?) store at Fort Klamath
\n1864 \u2013 While the old Modoc chief, Schochin, remained in the reservation, Kintupash, Captain Jack, returned to Lost River and led an abusive harassment demanding rent for the occupation of \u201ctheir land\u201d, which most settlers paid.
\n1864-66 Agent Lindsay Applegate tries, and fails, to negotiate with Captain Jack on behalf of the settlers.
\n1865<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 The US Civil War comes to an end after four years of fighting and 620,000 Union and Confederate soldiers dead.
\n1865 \u2013 Mrs. O.T. Brown and Miss Annie Gaines (namesake for Annie Creek) are the first white women to visit Crater lake and to descend from the rim.
\n1865 \u2013 Road survey from Fort Klamath to Jacksonville via a route similar to present day Highway 62.
\n1865 \u2013 August 25, Modocs complain through Elijah Steele and A. M. Rosborough about the Huntington treaty, stating their wish to remain in their own country.
\n1865 \u2013 November, Modocs disputes continue among the Modocs over the treaty. The Army offers to send troops to support Old Schonchin, who favors the treaty. Captain Jack\u2019s attitude at this time is unknown.
\n1865 \u2013 Whitehall boats used to move supplies on Upper Klamath Lake from Rocky Point to Fort Klamath.
\n1865 \u2013 Ball Mountain Road opens for packtrain travel between Yreka and present day Klamath County.
\n1866<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 O.C. Applegate names Pelican Bay.
\n1866 \u2013 First political delegate from present day Klamath County, O.A. Sterns gets a furlough from Fort Klamath to attend Republican County Convention in Jacksonville.
\n1866 \u2013 First Grain and vegetables are grown at Kowasta, a temporary Indian agency at the head of navigation on Upper Klamath Lake.
\n1866 \u2013 Lindsay Applegate brought supplies, tools and men to build log buildings near the mouth of the Wood River for Klamath Indian Agency to which he had recently appointed to head.
\n1866 \u2013 Samuel D. Whitmore is in charge of the Klamath Agency when L. Applegate returns to his home in Ashland.
\n1866 \u2013 Major Rinehart, in command at Fort Klamath, sent 80 men under the command of Captain Kelly, with one piece of artillery, across the south end of oregon to Pueblo Valley in Nevada, near present day Denio, for protection of settlers and the mail route from present day Susanville, California to Silver City, Idaho.
\n1866 \u2013 May 12, Klamath Agency begins operations on the shores of Upper Klamath Lake.
\n1866 \u2013 Samuel D. Whitmore is in charge of the new Klamath Agency when L. Applegate returned to his home.
\n1866 \u2013 Belgian Wendolyn Nus brings a herd of cattle to present day Klamath County and becomes first settler. He is killed at the beginning of the Modoc Wars.
\n1867<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 George Nurse establishes Linkville.
\n1867 \u2013 George Nurse secures permits to ferry across Link River.
\n1867 \u2013 Regular army troops from Fort Bidwell relieve the volunteers at Fort Klamath.
\n1867 \u2013 The Growler , a newspaper, starts at Fort Klamath.
\n1867 \u2013 First known Basin homestead, O.A. Sterns and Lewellyn Carter.
\n1867 \u2013 October, Superintendent Huntington leaves The Dalles with $35,000 worth of provisions promised the Indians in 1864.
\n1867 \u2013 November 16, Klamath sub-Chief Blow requests that a witness be present at the distribution of goods to report on their quality to Washington DC. The request is not honored, and shows \u201ca predisposition to be dissatisfied\u201d according to the authorities.
\n1867 \u2013 Superintendent Huntington tries, and fails, to negotiate with Captain Jack.
\n1867 \u2013 November, Annuity goods are distributed. A small number of Modocs under Old Sconchin come for shares and settle on the reservation. The large number, under Captain Jack, refuse both to take goods or settle on the reservation, they remain in their old country.
\n1868<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Two farmers dig first irrigation ditch in the Upper Klamath Basin.
\n1868 \u2013 Flat bottom barge, 15 \u2013 20 tons, is used by Fort Klamath soldiers on Upper Klamath Lake.
\n1868 \u2013 Spring, Fort Klamath soldiers plant a large produce garden at the southend of Upper Klamath Lake at Bennett\u2019s Point directly across from Buck Island on the west side of the lake.
\n1868 \u2013 There were a half-dozen shacks in Linkville: soldiers, Indians, trappers and hunters made up most of the poulation.
\n1868 \u2013 Spring, temporary cabins are built at the site that would become the permanent Indian Agency in Chiloquin. A dam with a 1500 foot mill race is built nearby.
\n1868 \u2013 William S. Moore arrives at the Klamath Agency to construct a larger mill for the government.
\n1868 \u2013 First reported non-Indian born in what will become Klamath County.
\n1868 \u2013 Chief La-Lakes is placed in charge of the Williamson River Ferry in recognition for his past services.
\n1868 \u2013 The Klamath Tribes hold their first election to replace Chief La-Lakes. Allen david wins as 500-600 Indians vote on the banks of the Williamson River near the present day Indian Church.
\n1868 \u2013 George Nurse and Joe Conger built a ditch to irrigate gardens on the east side of Link River. This would become
\na part of the Steele-Ankeny Ditch.
\n1868 \u2013 Christopher Latham Sales invented the typewriter.
\n1868 \u2013 Fort Klamath soldiers harvest produce garden.
\n1868 \u2013 Mrs. Addie Clark was the first white girl to reside in Linkville and attended school with five other pupils.
\n1868 \u2013 December 25, Ernest Union Lee is the first white child born at the Klamath Agency.
\n1869<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Sam Colver takes charge of the county road from Ashland into present day Klamath County, now known as the Green Springs Highway. Colver, O.T. Brown and William Songer are appointed as\u201dviewers\u201d with J.S. Howard as surveyor
\n1869 \u2013 Indian school for Modoc children opens at the Klamath Indian Reservation. Ivan. D. Applegate trains four Indian boys at Yainax subagency. Other notes mention Snake Indians.
\n1869 \u2013 First bicycles were invented.
\n1869 \u2013 Naylor Hockenhouse erects the first privately owned sawmill in the Upper klamath Basin.
\n1869 \u2013 May 1, Alfred B. Meacham replaces Huntington as Oregon\u2019s Superintendent of Indian Affairs.
\n1869 \u2013 May 10, the Golden spike ceremony is held at Promontory, Utah connecting the first transcontinental railroad.
\n1869 \u2013 Forty-five Privates come from Crescent City to join the army at Fort Klamath.
\n1869 \u2013 A gang of white men are found in the Siskiyou Mountains and hung for robbery.
\n1869 \u2013 Captain O.C. Knapp replaces Lindsay Applegate as Indian agent for the Klamath reservation.
\n1869 \u2013 David Lynn and others from Fort Klamath build a boat to go on Crater Lake.
\n1869 \u2013 B.D. Worthington surveys a road from Butte Creek, Fish Lake, the unnamed Lake of the woods, Aspen Lake to Linkville.
\n1869 \u2013 Suez Canal is completed.
\n1869 \u2013 The present day Southern Oregon College at Ashland begins as a Methodist Institution, Ashland Academy.
\n1869 \u2013 James Sutton and david Lynn bring a canvas boat from Jacksonville and put the first boat into Crater Lake.
\n1869 \u2013 October, local settlers apparently petition General Crook to roundup up the Modoc Indians and moved them to the Klamath Reservation. Soon after Meachem and Knapp confer on how to make this happen.
\n1869 \u2013 December 13, Meachem, Knapp, Ivan Applegate and others set off to persuade Captain Jack\u2019s Modocs to come onto the Klamath reservation. A party of soldiers goes with them as far as link River.
\n1869 \u2013 December 18, The Lost River Council: Meachem and others talk with Modocs about going on the reservation. Captain Jack seems willing to consider the idea. Shaman, Curley Headed Doctor, is opposed and after the Council he proposes to kill the party. Negotiations continue for several days.
\n1869 \u2013 December 23, soldiers arrive in the early morning hours, and a number of Modoc warriors flee. Meacham placed the remaining women and children in wagons and started for the reservation. He allowed \u201cQueen Mary\u201d, Captain Jack\u2019s sister, to go meet with Captain Jack to persuade him to move to the reservation. She succeeded.
\n1869 \u2013 December 24, several days are spent sending messages to the leaders: they finally return, and the entire group is escorted to the reservation.
\n1869 \u2013 December 30, Modoc Indians arrive at Modoc Point, on the Klamath Reservation, to stay with Captain Jack.
\n1869 \u2013 December 31, a ceremony of reconciliation between the Klamath and Modoc is staged and the annuity goods are distributed to all.<\/p>\n

1870<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Oregon\u2019s population is 90,923. United States population is 38,558,371.
\n1870 \u2013 January 1, Second Great Council at the tribal reservation closes.
\n1870 \u2013 February, the Great Treaty of 1864 is proclaimed active.
\n1870 \u2013 February 14 \u2013 Modocs return to their old country on Lost River on a thirty day fishing pass. They meet Henry Miller and other new Tule Lake Basin settlers.
\n1870 \u2013 Shortly after the Modoc started building their homes, however, the Klamath, longtime rivals, began to steal the Modoc lumber. The Modoc complained, but the US Indian agent could not protect them against the Klamath.
\n1870- Mid-March, Modocs return to the reservation and their difficulties with the Klamath heighten.
\n1870 \u2013 H.E. Spencer purchased the Naylor Hockenhouse and his son R.A. Spencer ran it.
\n1870 \u2013 Several attempts were made by Captain Jack\u2019s Modocs to find a suitable location, but the Klamath continued to harass the band.
\n1870 \u2013 Captain Jack and his band of Modocs left the reservation and returned to Lost River. During the months that his band had been on the reservation, a number of settlers had taken up former Modoc land in the Lost River region.
\n1870 \u2013 A flume is built, delivering water to the Klamath Agency from \u201cthe bubbling springs of the little people.\u201d
\n1870 \u2013 Addie Clark and her father walked across the bed of Link River when it went dry, caused by a south wind that held the water back in Upper Klamath Lake.
\n1870 \u2013 O.C. Applegate begins building a road from pelican bay to Ashland-Jacksonville. Applegate names lake of the woods and builds cabins on the south shore.
\n1870 \u2013 The Swampland Act brings attention to the rich pasture lands of Klamath country.
\n1871<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 John Loosely completes an irrigation ditch at Wood River for a grain and hay farm.
\n1871 \u2013 The Klamath School District organizes a three month school in Linkville.
\n1871 \u2013 June, Captain Jack shoots and kills a Modoc doctor whom he blames for his niece\u2019s death. Ivan Applegate attempts to have Captain Jack arrested.
\n1871 \u2013 July 16, Simpson Wilson and Nancy Hall are the known first marriage in Linkville.
\n1871 \u2013 Late July, G.S. Miller, a settler, gets into an argument with Modocs over hunting ducks on his lands.
\n1871 \u2013 Roundtrip from Yreka, California to Fort Klamath takes four days.
\n1871 \u2013 A 10\u2032 x 25\u2032 boat powered by two horses on a treadmill brings supplies from pelican Bay to Fort Klamath.
\n1871 \u2013 Thomas Sly brings early wagon train across cascades with supplies for Fort Klamath.
\n1871 \u2013 October 21, sending a letter from Ashland to Linkville by private express costs $2.50.
\n1871 \u2013 November 29, Captain Jack explains to Ivan Applegate and others that the Modocs do not want to live with the Klamaths or on any reservation.
\n1871 \u2013 December 11, first Post Office open in Linkville, George Nurse is postmaster.
\n1872<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Linkville\u2019s population is 40.
\n1972 \u2013 January 3, J. M. True swears out a complaint against unnamed Modocs for stealing hay. Charles Monoroe gets into an argument with Modocs over stolen hay. In mid-January settler Poe is sure Modocs stole his whip.
\n1972 \u2013 February \u2013 May, Canby, Meachem, and Meachem\u2019s future replacement, know arresting the Modoc would have dire consequences and struggle with what to do with the Modocs, who are adamant that they will not return to the reservation.
\n1972 \u2013 a former salt water sailor named Moody runs a boat on a fairly regular run from Eulalona (Head of Link River) to the Klamath Agency or Agency Lake. This was a keel-bottomed boat about I0\u2032 by 40\u2032 with a small sail. The boat was named Mary Moody, probably after his Indian wife Mary.
\n1972 \u2013 Silas Kilgore is given contract for first mail service to present day klamath County area.
\n1972 \u2013 George Thompson Baldwin arrived in Ashland from Missouri.
\n1972 \u2013 April 1, T.B. Odeneal replaces Alfred Meachem as Superintendent of indian Affairs for Oregon.
\n1972 \u2013 April 3, Major Elmer Otis held a council with Captain Jack at Lost River Gap, near what is now Olene, Oregon. At the council, Major Otis presented Captain Jack with some settlers who complained about the behavior of Jack\u2019s men. Captain Jack countered that the Modoc were abused and unjustly accused of crimes which other Indians had committed.
\n1972 \u2013 May 4, The Oregon Sentinel reports that the reported Indian troubles along the Lost River are unfounded. \u201cThe Indians are friendly and peaceful; and there has not been, nor is there now, any cause of alarm.\u201d
\n1972 \u2013 May 22, Canby orders patrols to stop in Modoc country.
\n1972 \u2013 The California and Oregon Railroad reaches Redding from the south and the Oregon and california Railroad reaches Roseburg from the north.
\n1972 \u2013 Sam Colver takes an active part in trying to help the Modocs maintain peace. He has almost succeeded when a lynching party of whites set out to kill a band of Modoc coming to the reservation.
\n1972 \u2013 First gristmill is in place at Klamath Agency.
\n1972 \u2013 June 17, Odeneal recommends arresting Modoc chiefs.
\n1972 \u2013 First July 4th celebration in Linkville.
\n1972 \u2013 July, false rumors in Lost River country say the Modocs are killing cattle in preparation for war. Many new settlers flee for \u201csafety.\u201d
\n1972 \u2013 July 6, Odeneal\u2019s recommendations are approved to remove the Modoc from the Tule Lake Basin and returned to the Klamath reservation.
\n1972 \u2013 July 17, John Green assumes command at Fort Klamath.
\n1972 \u2013 July 28, Frost destroys Yainax crops on Klamath Reservation. Old Schonchin\u2019s people depend on government handouts for subsistence.
\n1872 \u2013 John Loosely files homestead in the Wood River Valley.
\n1872 \u2013 Esther Hart, a full blood Klamath Indian born on the reservation was a cook, as a girl, for well-to-do families in Linkville. She wed Frank Silvers and they established Silver\u2019s Resort on the Williamson Rover. When frank died, leaving her with six half-grown children. she married a young German immigrant, Hans Anderson, eho worked for her.
\n1972 \u2013 September, John Green and his troops on patrol pass near the Modocs, but no conference takes place.
\n1972 \u2013 October 5, Green reports that settlers insist the Modocs were constantly making trouble but could not name specifics.
\n1972 \u2013 October 20, Canby instructs Wheaton to give Odeneal aide, if necessary, to move Modocs. He instructs a large force should be used to end any battle quickly.
\n1972 \u2013 November 11, The Lost River Battle marks the first hostilities of the Modoc War (1872 -73).
\n1972 \u2013 November 20, Odeneal leaves Salem for Modoc country to set events in motion.
\n1972 \u2013 November 28, Captain James Jackson, commanding 40 troops, left Fort Klamath and arrived in Captain Jack\u2019s camp on Lost River about a mile above Emigrant Crossing near present day Merrill on November 29.
\n1972 \u2013 November 29, Wishing to avoid conflict, Captain Jack agreed to go to the reservation, but an argument erupted. One soldier had been killed and seven wounded in the encounter; the Modoc lost two killed and three wounded.
\n1972 \u2013 November 29-30, A small band of Modoc under Hooker Jim retreated from the battlefield to the Lava Beds south of Tule Lake. In attacks on November 29 and November 30, they killed a total of 18 settlers.
\n1972 \u2013 Late November, one group of Modocs, under the leadership of Hooker Jim, proceeded east around Tule Lake, killing 14 male settlers in retaliation for the attack by troops.
\n1972 \u2013 Late November, Captain Jack and Hooker Jim\u2019s were later joined by Hooker Jim\u2019s band.
\n1972 \u2013 December 3, Jump Off Joe and his militia reached the outskirts of the Stronghold. While reconnoitering the area around a dry creek bed, they were attacked. They attempted to take shelter in the creek bed, but were quickly overcome; and the Modoc killed all 23 men.
\n1972 \u2013 December, another band of Modoc, the Hot Creeks, joined Captain Jack after they had been tricked by settlers into thinking that they were all going to be hanged for being Modoc.
\n1972 \u2013 December 21, a Modoc party scouting from the Stronghold attacked an ammunition wagon at Land\u2019s Ranch.
\n1972 \u2013 By January 15, 1873, the U. S. Army had 400 troops in the field near the Lava Beds.
\n1873<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 January 16, troops from Land\u2019s ranch, commanded by Col. R. F. Bernard, skirmished with the Modoc near Hospital Rock.
\n1873 \u2013 January 17, Army\u2019s disastrous attack on Captain Jack\u2019s Stronghold. In the attack, the U.S. Army lost 35 men killed, and 5 officers and 20 enlisted men wounded. 52 Modoc warriors suffered no casualties in the fighting, as they had the advantage of terrain and local knowledge over the militia.
\n1873 \u2013 January 25, Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior, appointed a Peace Commission to negotiate with Captain Jack. The Commission consisted of Alfred B. Meacham, the former superintendent for Oregon as chairman; Jesse Applegate, and Samuel Case. General Edward Canby, commander in the Pacific Northwest, was appointed to serve the Commission as counselor. Frank and Toby Riddle were appointed as interpreters.
\n1873 \u2013 February 19, the Peace Commission held its first meeting at Fairchild\u2019s ranch, west of the lava beds.
\n1873 \u2013 March 14, Emma Evalyn Wilson is the first known white girl born in the region, in Langell Valley.
\n1873 \u2013 April, Gillem\u2019s Camp was established at the edge of the lava beds, two and one-half miles west of the Stronghold. Col. Alvan C. Gillem was placed in command of all troops, including those at Hospital Rock commanded by Col. E. C. Mason.
\n1873 \u2013 The federal government opens a land office in Linkville.
\n1873 \u2013 Topsy Grade is built between Linkville and Keno to connect with Yreka, an important freight road.
\n1873 \u2013 April 12, rev. james Dickerson Bonner ran a stage station on the Pioneer route over Sugar Hill. As an Elder, he conducted church mettings of five valley residents.
\n1873 \u2013 April 2, the commission and Captain Jack met in the lava beds midway between the Stronghold and Gillem\u2019s Camp. After much discussion, the meeting broke up with no resolution.
\n1873 \u2013 April 5, Captain Jack requested a meeting with Meacham. Accompanied by John Fairchild and Judge Roseborough, with Frank and Toby Riddle serving as interpreters. The meeting ended with no agreement. After Meacham returned to camp, he sent a message to Captain Jack, asking that he meet the commission at the peace tent on April 8. While delivering this message, the Modoc interpreter Tobey Riddle learned of the Modoc plan to kill the peace commissioners. On her return, she warned the commissioners.
\n1873 \u2013 April 8, just as the commissioners were starting for the peace tent, the signal tower on the bluff above Gillem\u2019s Camp received a message; it said that the lookout had seen five Modoc warriors at the peace tent and about 20 armed Modoc hiding among the rocks nearby. The commissioners realized that the Modoc were planning an attack and decided to stay at Gillem\u2019s.
\n1873 \u2013 April 10, the commission sent a message asking Captain Jack to meet with them at the peace tent on the following morning.
\n1873 \u2013 April 11, General Canby, Alfred B. Meacham, Rev. E. Thomas, and L. S. Dyar, with Frank and Toby Riddle as interpreters, met with Captain Jack, Boston Charley, Bogus Charley, Schonchin John, Black Jim, and Hooker Jim. General Canby and Reverend Thomas were murdered. Dyer and Frank Riddle escaped by running. Meacham fell seriously wounded. US efforts for peace ended when the Modoc killed the commissioners.
\n1873 \u2013 April 15, U.S. Army attacks Stronghold, fighting continued throughout the day, the troops remaining in position during the night.
\n1873 \u2013 April 16, each advance of troops was under heavy fire from the Modoc positions. That night the troops succeeded in cutting the Modoc off from their water supply at the shore of Tule Lake.
\n1873 \u2013 April 17, everything was in readiness for the final attack on the Stronghold. When the order was given to advance, the troops charged into the Stronghold but Modocs escaped through an unguarded crevice after heavy bombardment from US Army snubnosed Coehorn mortars. US casualties included one officer and six enlisted men killed, and thirteen enlisted men wounded between April 15-17. Modoc casualties were two boys, reported to have been killed when they tried to open a cannonball and it exploded. Several Modoc women were reported to have died from sickness.
\n1873 \u2013 April 26, Captain Evan Thomas commanding five officers, sixty-six troops and fourteen Warm Spring Scouts were attacked by 22 Modoc led by Scarfaced Charley. Some of the troops fled in disorder. Those who remained to fight were either killed or wounded. US casualties included four officers killed and two wounded, one dying within a few days, and 13 enlisted men killed and 16 wounded.
\n1873 \u2013 May 2, Bvt. Brigadier General Jefferson C. Davis, the new commander of the Department of the Columbia, reported to relieve Gillem of command, and assume control of the army in the field.
\n1873 \u2013 May 10, Battle of Dry Lake, at first light, the Modoc attacked an Army encampment at Dry Lake. The troops charged, routing the Modoc. Casualties among the Army included five men killed, two of whom were Warm Spring Scouts, and twelve men wounded. The Modoc reported five warriors killed.
\n1873 \u2013 June 1, As troops headed west expecting to locate Captain Jack, they found Hooker Jim and his followers, who surrendered. Hooker Jim and three other Modoc offered to track down Captain Jack who surrendered at Willow Creek on June 1 and the Modoc War comes to an end.
\n1873 \u2013 June 4, Captain Jack, his wife, and little girl were captured by Army scouts,\u2019Captain\u2019 William F. Drannan and George Jones in Langell\u2019s valley. (This account disagrees with previous account).
\n1873 \u2013 July 4, General Davis prepared to execute Captain Jack and his leaders, but the War Department ordered the Modoc to be held for trial. The Army took Captain Jack and his band as prisoners of war to Fort Klamath, where they arrived.
\n1873 \u2013 July 8. Captain Jack, Schonchin John, Black Jim, Boston Charley, Brancho (Barncho) and Slolux were tried by a military court for the murders of Canby and Thomas, and attacks on Meacham and others. The six Modoc were convicted, and sentenced to death.
\n1873 \u2013 Pre-stamped penny postcards were presented.
\n1873 \u2013 August 18, Robert Spink was born near Atlanta, Georgia, son of james W, Spink, a Kentucky native.
\n1873 \u2013 September 10, President Ulysses S. Grant approved the death sentence for Captain Jack, Schonchin John, Black Jim and Boston Charley; Brancho and Slolux were committed to life imprisonment on Alcatraz. Grant ordered that the remainder of Captain Jack\u2019s band be held as prisoners of war.
\n1873 \u2013 November 3, Captain Jack, along with three others, are hung and buried in Fort Klamath for the murder of General Canby.
\n1873 \u2013 November 16, 153 Modoc men, women and children arrived in Baxter Springs, Kansas ubder federal custody.
\n1873 \u2013 November 30, The Modocs arrived by wagon at the Quapaw Agency at Seneca Springs, Ottawa County, Oklahoma. Five Modoc children attended school on their alloted 1600 acres. Modocs will not be allowed to return until after the turn of the century.
\n1874<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 February 1, Klamath Agency Boarding School opens with 15 pupils
\n1874 \u2013 Peter Britt takes the first known photos of Linkville and Crater Lake.
\n1874 \u2013 Daniel Gordon built the second privately owned mill near Keno. He sold it to his son-in-law Newton W. Pratt three years later.
\n1874 \u2013 According to an official report the Modocs had made more progress with less land than any of the other Indians under jurisdiction of the Quapaw.
\n1874 \u2013 Topsy Grade connects Linkville and Yreka.
\n1874 \u2013 July 15, First school district for permanent yearly attendance established in Linkville.
\n1874 \u2013 October 24, lake County is created out of Jackson County. Linkville is named the county seat.
\n1875<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 April, George Fiok buys the first state land parcel in Linkville.
\n1875 \u2013 Scarfaced Charlie was deposed as Chief of the Oklamoma band of Modocs and Bogus Charley, 25, was appointed Chief.
\n1875 \u2013 George Baldwin came to Linkville and established a small tin shop near the Link River Bridge.
\n1876<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 First wagon bridge spanning the Rogue River at Gold Hill was a tollgate built by Thomas Chavner.
\n1876 \u2013 First mail route from Yreka is established via Topsy Grade.
\n1876 \u2013 Ashland prints its first newspaper, The Tidings
\n1876 \u2013 The French create an international company, La Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 internationale du Canal interoc\u00e9anique, was created to undertake dig what would become the Panama canal
\n1877<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Fall, Albert S. Gatschet is the first ethnographer to visit Klamath Indian country.
\n1877 \u2013 First community Christmas tree in Linkville.
\n1877 \u2013 W.S Moore and Rufus Moore dig a ditch to power his sawmill at the south end of Upper Klamath Lake. The ditch also supplied water to a log f1ume, 1,000 feet long, to transport logs from Upper Klamath Lake.
\n1877 \u2013 Over 150,000 Chinese emigrants are on the west coast under labor contract.
\n1878<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 J. Frank Adams started ranching on Tule Lake Basin land northeast of Lost River. He supported the Van Brimmers with their irrigation canal project and started to build another six-mile canal system that tied into the Van Brimmers\u2019
\ncanal and provided water for the east side of Lost River. To the south was the shores of Tule lake. Over the years Adams would expand his canal system to cover most of the land north of Tule Lake and east of the Lost River. Irrigated agriculture in the Tule Lake Basin was proven feasible.
\n1878 \u2013 Linkville platted in a forty acre plan.
\n1878 \u2013 First log cabin built in Lakeview, Oregon.
\n1878 \u2013 Linkville Water Ditch Company built a canal from Link River to irrigate town lots in Klamath Falls. Known as the Ankeny-Henley Canal, it was extended to Klamath Valley, and divided, one branch paralleling Lost River on the west side, the other passing through Olene Gap into Poe Valley.
\n1879<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 January 6, Fort Klamath post office is established at the fort.
\n1879 \u2013 H,M. Thatcher and Sykes Worden build the steamboat General Howard. It is 12\u2032 by 65\u2032 at a cost of $8,000. The boss carpenter for the project had designed the Merrimac of Civil War fame.<\/p>\n

1880<\/span><\/strong> \u2013 Oregon\u2019s population is 174,768. Linkville\u2019s population is 250. United States population is 50,189,209.
\n1880 \u2013 George Loosley and George Nurse but the steamboat General Howard.
\n1880 \u2013 Hood Railroad survey passes north near Aspen Lake and west of Upper Klamath Lake to Fort Klamath.
\n1880 \u2013 Newton Pratt sold his mill to Charles Withrow.
\n1880 \u2013 H.J. O\u2019Brien homesteaded in what would become Klamath County. He drove a herd of cattle in with Mr. Hanley.
\n1880 \u2013 George Eastman developed his first Kodak camera.
\n1880 \u2013 September 7, Wood River school is established at old Fort Klamath.
\n1880 \u2013 January 1, the French begin construction of the Panama Canal.
\n1880 \u2013 Klamath wheat takes first place at national exhibitions in New Orleans, Sacramento and Omaha.
\n1881 \u2013 Bogus Charley and Snacknasty Jim died in Oklahoma.
\n1881- General Howard becomes the first steamboat to move lumber on Upper Klamath Lake \u2013 for W.S. Moore Lumber Mill.
\n1882 \u2013 The Van Brimmer brothers began digging a canal in 1882 from the Lower Klamath Basin to Tule Lake Basin. In 1886 their irrigation project began supplying 4,000 acres with water. They recouped construction and expenses by charging grateful users $1 per acre on the west and south side of the Lost River.
\n1882 \u2013 Farmers begin irrigating in the Klamath Basin. The Linkville Water Ditch Company is incorporated and a shallow canal is dug connecting Linkville (Klamath Falls) town lots to Link River above present day Klamath Falls.
\n1882 \u2013 U.S. Geological Service started topographical mapping of the United States.
\n1882 \u2013 U.S. Government telegraph line is completed from Fort Klamath to Fort Bidwell, 150 miles, and from Fort Klamath to Ashland, 99 miles.
\n1882 \u2013 October 17, Klamath County is created out of Lake County.
\n1882- John Colwell is the first recorded child born in Klamath County, Merrill, after it is separated from lake County.
\n1882 \u2013 The first Klamath County officials are appointed by Governor Moody. W.S. Moore(County Judge), Stephen Stukel and O.T. Brown (County Commissioners), W.C. Hale (Clerk), Charles Putnam (Sheriff), E.R. Reames (Treasurer), S.C. Summer (Coroner) and C.H. Dyar (School Superintendent).
\n1882 \u2013 First meeting of Klamath County Commissioners.
\n1882 \u2013 Wagons haul supplies across a frozen Upper Klamath Lake.
\n1882 \u2013 January, First cattle brand recorded in Klamath County is C for S.B. Cranston.
\n1882 \u2013 June 17, Central Pacific Railroad begins track up the Sacramento River Canyon.
\n1883 \u2013 George Nurse moved to Yreka.
\n1883 \u2013 Brown trout introduced to America from Europe and Asia.
\n1883 \u2013 December 24, first train from Portland reaches Grant Pass.
\n1884 \u2013 February 27, Reverend Robert Mclean organizes Linkville\u2019s first church, Presbyterian.
\n1884 \u2013 Steamboat General Howard is converted to City of Klamath to haul supplies up Wood River to Fort Klamath.
\n1884 \u2013 April 19, first train headed south reaches Ashland.
\n1884- A.L. Leavitt arrives in Linkville on the Summer\u2019s wagon trail.
\n1884 \u2013 April 10, Joseph A. Bowdoin publishes first Klamath area newspaper. The Linkville Weekly Star. A man named Curtis was also involved.
\n1884 \u2013 Seldon Kirk is born at the Klamath agency. He will become a leader for preserving the Klamath Reservation.
\n1884 \u2013 E.H. Harriman buys up a small New York Railroad, repairs and sells it. This begins his railroad career.
\n1884 \u2013 First Klamath County election ballots are printed.
\n1884 \u2013 June, first Klamath County officials to be elected; George Smith (Judge), Matt Obenchain and R. Tutchinson ( Commissioners), J.O. Allen (Surveyor), M.C. Childers (Assessor), C.R. Delap (School superintendent) and other officers are elected.
\n1884 \u2013 Thomas Martin used Moore ditch for flour mill. Martin Mill, 1884-1908.
\n1884 \u2013 Congress fails to appropriate funds to improve and
\ndeepen Wood River for navigation.
\n1884 \u2013 Joe Short was the first person to plant more than ten acres of potatoes.
\n1880\u2019s \u2013 During the early days, Klamath County homesteaders near Bonanza begin using native fish called suckers for fertilizer and oil. They attempt to get laws passed to prevent American Indians, who have fished for suckers for centuries, from catching them.
\n1885 \u2013 Ankeny Canal, the area\u2019s first irrigation canal, is completed.
\n1885 \u2013 C.C. Low opens Linkville\u2019s first restaurant.
\n1885 \u2013 Gladstone Steel lobbies to make Crater Lake a National Park.
\n1885 \u2013 April 1, Central Pacific\u2019s railroad interests are transferred to the Souther Pacific Company.
\n1885 \u2013 Steamboat Frank, a minister of Society of Friends Church in Oklahoma, died.
\n1885 \u2013 The spring at Klamath Agency was known as \u201cBeatles Rest.\u201d Modoc ridge was known as \u201cPlum Hills.\u201d
\n1885 \u2013 Louis Gerber filed on a homestead fifty miles east of Linkville.
\n1885 \u2013 October 6, Solon Shattuck purchases 51 acres in Wood River Valley.
\n1886 \u2013 October 13, Railway north reaches McCloud.
\n1886 \u2013 Linkville spends $35,800 for building improvements for the year.
\n1887 \u2013 January 25, John Loosely and Robert Paul seek permission from the War Department to build a school at Fort Klamath.
\n1887 \u2013 Josiah Doten plattes Keno. It was originally called Doten.
\n1887 \u2013 April 9, railway north reaches Ager which remains Klamath County\u2019s shipping point until 1903.
\n1887 \u2013 May 15,
\n1887 \u2013 July 1, Southern pacific Company takes over Oregon and California Railroad.
\n1887 \u2013 E.H. Harriman secures control of the Iowa Central.
\n1887 \u2013 Van Brimmer irrigation ditch in Merrill is completed.
\n1887 \u2013 White Lake was so low that the
\nirrigation canal became dry.
\n1887 \u2013 A.M. Peterman built a planner and cabinet shop in Linkville.
\n1887 \u2013 Second Topsy Grade is completed.
\n1887 \u2013 Last stage coach through Barron\u2019s Station on Siskiyou Mountains.
\n1887 \u2013 A bill to seek municipal government in Linkville fails.
\n1887 \u2013 December 17, Golden Spike ceremony in Ashland joining Oregon and California by railway.
\n1887 \u2013 December, first train from California reaches Grants Pass.
\n1888 \u2013 February 2, City charter granted to Linkville.
\n1888 \u2013 A cut was made into Lower Klamath Lake to help irrigation supply water to Tule Lake Basin farmers.
\n1888 \u2013 R.E. Dusenberry bought Withrow\u2019s Mill.
\n1888 \u2013 A new company, Klamath Falls
\nIrrigation Company, enlarged the Ankeny Canal to 50 cubic feet per second.
\n1888 \u2013 May 15, The French Panama Canal Poject declared bankruptcy. After eight years, the work was about two-fifths completed, and some $234,795,000 had been spent.
\n1888 \u2013 4,000 acres were set aside for the Modocs in Oklahoma.
\n1888 \u2013 California State court rules Klamath River Reservation abandoned, opening the lower river to non-Indian commercial fishing overseen by The state of California.
\n1888 \u2013 First women\u2019s club is formed in Linkville. A group of ten women present a flag to the County court.
\n1888 \u2013 William Gladstone Steele carries 600 Rogue River rainbow trout fingerlings to Crater lake. 37 survive and swim away. In 1940, the rainbow population in Crater Lake grew to 200,000.
\n1888 \u2013 Mayflower, a steamboat, is the first to travel on the Klamath River south of Linkville.
\n1888 \u2013 A stage drawn by four horses connects Ager CA with linkville. This also connects portland and san Francisco train passengers to Linkville. The stagecoach departs Ager at 2:30 p.m. and arrives in Linkville at 5 a.m. ( 14 hours) at a cost of $7 one way.
\n1888 July 2, first Linkville courthouse built.
\n1888 \u2013 First Rocky point post office opens as Pelican with Charles Stidham the first of five postmasters.
\n1888 \u2013 First conversion of marsh to farmland at McCormack Point.
\n1888 \u2013 September 5, first jail in Linkville.
\n1888 \u2013 September 6, Fire in Linkville burns business district, Bunch Town.
\n1889 \u2013 W.E. Bowdain took over the Linkville Weekly Star and lost it all in a fire several months later.<\/p>\n

1890 \u2013 Oregon\u2019s population is 317,704, Klamath County is 2,444. Linkville\u2019s population is 364. United States population is 62,979,766.
\n1890 \u2013 Major flooding in Northern California and Oregon.
\n1890-91: Thirty foot drifts of snow recorded at the head of Agency Lake. Very hard winter with extraordinary high waters on the lake.
\n1890 \u2013 First County Teacher Institute.
\n1890 \u2013 Bob Emmitt constructs the third and present day Topsy Grade.
\n1890 \u2013 Eugene and Frank H. McCornack begin purchasing land in the Klamath Falls area.
\n1890 \u2013 Bowdain sold part interest in the rebuilt Linkville Weekly Star to \u201cPeter the Poet\u201d Connolly.
\n1890 \u2013 Lincoln sells his Rocky Point original homestead to Kendall would build a lodge, later known as Pelican Bay Lodge, for tourism.
\n1890 \u2013 Loosley family in Wood River Valley build the first klamath county creamery.
\n1890 \u2013 Warren Mills built his house at 123 High Street.
\n1890 \u2013 Fort Klamath is abandoned by military. John Loosely is appointed caretaker.
\n1890 \u2013 Scarfaced Charlie died in Oklahoma.
\n1890 \u2013 Several small boats, mostly barges equipped with steam engines and stern wheels, haul freight and do towing on Upper klamath Lake. These were operated by Buddy richardson, Louis Dennis, Bert Wilson, D.W. Griffith and others. Oregon, Hobson, Alma, Mud Hen, Hornet, Hooligan, North Star and Eagle were some of the boats.
\n1891 \u2013 May 6, Annie Creek Ditch Company incorporates in Wood River Valley.
\n1891 \u2013 Rancher Nathan S. Merrill bought 152 acres for $3,000 from J. Frank Adams. Adams had bought the land from the Van Brimmers two years earlier.
\n1891 \u2013 J.W. Malone and John Young name Crystal Springs.
\n1891 \u2013 The Rogue River Valley Railroad, known as the \u201cJacksonville Cannonball\u201d was built to connect Medford and jacksonville and was in operation for 35 years.
\n1891 \u2013 D.G. Brown arrives in Rocky Point inspect Lake and Runyan property in which his father-in-law, Francis Dodge, has an interest. Brown buys 5000 acres between Malone Springs and Crystal springs from Runyan and Lake. Brown homesteads on an adjacent site.
\n1891 \u2013 Pacific and Eastern Railroad is incorporated with the backing of James J. Hill.
\n1891 \u2013 West Side Canal-, Thomas Martin and Charles and Rufus Moore Company.
\n1891 \u2013 Indian agent Sam Culver, 77, drowns while crossing ice on Upper Klamath Lake. Indian find his body in the Spring.
\n1891 \u2013 Nathan S. Merrill bought 152 acres for $3,000 from J. Frank Adams.
\n1891-92: Harsh winter with lots of snow.
\n1892 \u2013 April 28, Klamath Fall\u2019s newspaper Weekly Express is started by David B. Worthington.
\n1892 \u2013 George Biehn organizes fishing trips for wealthy Southern California businessmen to fish local streams and rivers around Upper Klamath Lake ( from 1892 to 1900).
\n1892 \u2013 April, a traveling Lumbertown is in operation in pokegama.
\n1892 \u2013 First log school is built at Odessa, near the site of the future Pioneer Guest Ranch.
\n1892 \u2013 First railroad subsidy subscriptions. Southern Pacific asked for $100,000.
\n1892 \u2013 December 10, Theodocia Shattuck becomes first postmaster of the new Fort Klamath settlement.
\n1892 \u2013 harsh winter with lots of snow.
\n1893 \u2013 February 7, Linkville renamed Klamath Falls.
\n1893 \u2013 Union Pacific Railroad goes into receivership.
\n1893 \u2013 A.L. Levitt is president of the Klamath Falls City Council.
\n1893 \u2013 Cascade Range Forest Preserve is established.
\n1893 \u2013 D.G. Brown and Ben Peterman builds school at Crystal.
\n1893 \u2013 families living in Rocky point area include Mr. welsh on the north side of varney Creek, Ira Hanson on what becomes th Fred McTimmonds homestead, Grays, Torreys and Spence. Familes living in the Crystal area include Louis Plantz on Cherry Creek, Jack Adkins near Jack\u2019s Spings, Mr. hicks and Bob Dobson at the head of Crystal Creek, Huge Silvers and his son Charles homesteading south of Crystal. George Malone and his father-in-law Mr. young homesteading near Malone Springs. B. Saint George Bishop near Lookout Point (presently The Cedars) and Dennis Crowley who ran a logging camp south of Lookout Point.
\n1893 \u2013 Early deed to what will become Point Comfort belongs to Marion Cassius Kasson, surveyor, school teacher and speculator. Left in 1900 for a visit to the Paris Exposition and never returns.
\n1893 \u2013 \u201cLogger\u201d Jones operates around Howard Bay and brings the first high logging wheels to Upper Klamath Lake.
\n1893 \u2013 Privately printed penny postcards were put on the market.
\n1894 \u2013 Lawrentz family, early settlers in Rocky Point, open a post office named Lawrentz, open until 4\/17 1895. Rocky Point was first named Leavitt\u2019s Point after A.L. Leavitt.
\n1894 \u2013 Weekly Express sold by David B. Worthington to J. Scott Taylor.
\n1894 \u2013 Peter Connolly bought Bowdain Cut.
\n1894 \u2013 J.V. Houston and wife Margaret arrived in Linkville.
\n1894 \u2013 Klamath Falls light and water Company provides the first electric lights for Klamath Kalls. H.B. gates owns 51% of the company, The remainders was divided among E.R Reames, Charles Moore and Rufus Moore.
\n1894 \u2013 Post office opens at Crystal.
\n1894 \u2013 Fire wipes out east end of Klamath Falls.
\n1894 \u2013 First noted potato crop in Klamath County
\n1894 \u2013 May 28, Nathan and Nancy Merrill \u201cdedicated the streets and avenues of Merrill for use of the public forever,\u201d as recorded at the Klamath County Court House. The original townsite was 80 acres. Antone Castel, hired by the Merrills, created plans for a town with two business thoroughfares, residential streets along with school and park sites.
\n1894 \u2013 August, a flour mill opened in Merrill that was built by Thomas Martin and financed by Merrill.
\n1894 \u2013 large fish die off of mainly suckers and chubs on Upper Klamath Lake.
\n1894 \u2013 October 30, Shattuck deeds one acre to George Pan who builds the first Fort klamath general store.
\n1895 \u2013 June, Fort Klamath Creamery sends butter to San Francisco.
\n1895 \u2013 June, Joseph G. Pierce and George Farnsworth bought the Weekly Express.
\n1895 \u2013 O.B. gates installs the first electric lighting system.
\n1895 \u2013 Robert Spink arrives at the Klamath Agency to take a commissary clerk\u2019s position.
\n1895 \u2013 Merrill Oregon has its own 20\u2032 x 40\u2032 school house.
\n1895 \u2013 Dr. Hemenway was a doctor in Bonanza, He had married a local woman who died young. He remarried through a Lonely Heart Agency but it didn\u2019t work out. the new wife lived in one-half of the house and he lived in the other half. She was the fourth of five wives.
\n1895 \u2013 November 1, first electric lights were made operable by a small plant on the east side of Link River.
\n1895 \u2013 November, a holdup of the stage on Topsy Grade attempted by A.C. Frick who had just escaped from the Klamath County jail.
\n1895 \u2013 November 26, George Nurse died after being injured by horses.
\n1896 \u2013 Miss Jessie P. Rose comes to Crystal to teach.
\n1896 \u2013 A Merrill, Oregon post office was established in 1896.
\n1896 \u2013 April, Bowdain began another Klamath Falls newspaper, The Republican.
\n1896 \u2013 Botanist Frederick B. Coville inventories the plants used by Klamath Indians and studies the processing of the yellow water lilly (wocus) for food.
\n1896 \u2013 Herbert Fleishhacker begins making highly successful investments in electric power in Oregon as well as California, 1896 \u2013 09. Fleishhaker will become a major financial power in Klamath Falls and a major land owner in Rocky Point.
\n1896 \u2013 3,800 acres of Wocus marsh converted to farmland.
\n1896 \u2013 John Goeller became sole owner of Klamath Falls Planing Mills built up by Peterman.
\n1896 \u2013 Rev. Jesse Kirk, Henry Blow, Allen David, Jack palmer and David Hill were some of the Klamath Tribal dignitaries.
\n1896 \u2013 William T. Shive builds a store, home and rooms for occassional overnighters. This the start to the Fort klamath Hotel.
\n1897 \u2013 February 15, Robert Spink and Alice Leona Eveland wed at Klamath agency by Major Joseph Emory, and ordained Minister and Superintendent of the Klamath Reservation.
\n1897-89: New policy initiated at Klamath Agency discontinued issuing of rations and the Indians were to receive small payments from timber sales, leases, and cash settlements for relinquished land. the Indians were to be issued cattle, farm machinery, seed and lumber and taught how to use them.
\n1897 \u2013 The Houston Opera House, built by J.V. Houston, opens in Klamath Falls to provide stage entertainment.
\n1897 \u2013 June 4, the Pokegama post office name was changed to Klamathon.
\n1897 \u2013 E. H. Harriman raises $100,000,000 through a loan from the Illinois Central, forms a syndicate and takes over the Union Pacific Railroad.
\n1897 \u2013 Alice Spink, as school teacher at Klamath Agency received $ 30 -40 a month. Robert Spink received less than $75 a month as financial clerk in the klamath agency administrative department.
\n1897 \u2013 Claudia Spink Lorenz, historian, was born in Atlanta, Georgia while her mother Alice was visiting her husband\u2019s parents.
\n1897 \u2013 A.L. Leavitt becomes the area\u2019s first circuit judge.
\n1897 \u2013 Robert Spink was transferred to the Navaho and Hopi reservation in Arizona and new Mexico where he was Assistant Chief Clerk at Keams Canyon Agency. He was in charge of financial and office records. He was 24.
\n1897 \u2013 December 18, George L. Herchberger, the original homesteader, sells Odessa to Louis Dennis.
\n1897-98 \u2013 Temperatures at Fort Klamath reach -42F.
\n1898 \u2013 Southern pacific begins publication of Sunset Magazine as part of a campaign to bring settlers to the west.
\n1898 \u2013 United States goes to war with Spain.
\n1898 \u2013 Robert Spink is commissioned by the Smithsonian to collect Indian blankets, pottery, tools, baskets and artifacts for study.
\n1898 \u2013 August 15, big fires in timber between Pelican Bay and Lake of the Woods.
\n1898 \u2013 The precarious Topsy Grade was in continuous use along the Klamath River.
\n1898 \u2013 Oliver C. Applegate, son of Lindsey, is appointed the tenth Superintendent of the Klamath Agency.
\n1899 \u2013 July, the steamboat Oregon makes four trips weekly between Klamath Falls and Pelican Bay and other stops.
\n1899 \u2013 \u201cProfessor\u201d Godfrey puts on the first air circus, he makes a balloon ascension and parachute jump.
\n1899 \u2013 Glacier on Mt. McLoughlin disappears.
\n1899 \u2013 August 31, first mention to a motion picture was made in the Klamath Republican.
\n1899 \u2013 Topsy Grade is rebuilt.
\n1899 \u2013 G. Grant Crary is proprietor of a resort on Pelican Bay.
\n1899 \u2013 E.H. Harriman reacquires the Oregon Shortline and gains control of the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company.
\n1899 \u2013 June 1, The Klamath County Bank is the first Klamath Falls bank.
\n1899 \u2013 July 6, half the town of Pokegama was destroyed by fire starting in the kitchen of Parshall Store.
\n1899 \u2013 Spink returned to Klamath agency from the southwest after being offered the same position that he held there, Assistant Chief Clerk.
\n1899 \u2013 The U.S. created the Isthmian Canal Commission to examine the possibilities of a Central American canal and to recommend a route.
\n1899 \u2013 Chitwood Drug Store opens the first soda fountain in Klamath Falls.
\n1899 \u2013 December, Chitwood Drug Store opens the first theater in Klamath Falls.
\n1899 \u2013 December 20, snow is five feet deep in Wood River Valley.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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