[or-roots] More on Geographic names/Melvin Butte

[Barbara Wulf]

blm-glo lists Samuel H Dorrance with claims in Deschutes County.  1907 was
his claim.  1908 was a claim by Vida M Dorrance and John C Dorrance, minor
orphan children of Samuel H Dorrance.

This should give a clue as to a date that the murder was supposed to happen.

Barb
wulf at bendbroadband.com
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Barbara Wulf" <wulf at bendbroadband.com>
To: <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 9:26 PM
Subject: Re: [or-roots] More on Geographic names/Melvin Butte


> I had never heard the story, but will ask hubby.  He was raised in this
area
> and knows EVERYTHING.
>
> He had never heard of Melvin Butte, let alone the story.
>
> Someone at the Deschutes County Historical Society might know something.
> McArthur usually credited his source if it was not general knowledge but
> nothing noted here.
>
> Good Luck.
>
> Barb
> wulf at bendbroadband.com
> http://home.bendcable.com/wulf/Project/siteMapNoImage.htm
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
> To: "Oregon List" <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
> Sent: Saturday, June 17, 2006 8:57 PM
> Subject: [or-roots] More on Geographic names
>
>
> > This is Attention Barbara Wulf;
> >
> > Barbara;
> >
> > I am curios if you have ever run across this story;
> >
> > Melvin Butte;
> >
> > Deschutes county. This butte is in the foothills of the Cascade range
> about
> > ten miles southeast of Sisters. It was named for J.L. Melvin who took up
a
> > timber claim nearby about 1902. Melvin got into a controversey with S.
H.
> > Dorrance, which is said to have started because Dorrance put sawdust in
> > Melvin's irrigation ditch. As a result of this altercation Melvin killed
> > Dorrance on the side of the butte now known as Melvin Butte. Melvin was
> > cleared by a jury which considered that he was not to blame for the
> > difficulty.
> >
> >
> > Now that seems like an extreem reaction to m, which begs the question,
> "what
> > kind of jerk was Dorrance that a jury let Melvin go free for ridding the
> > community of him?" What I am really curious about though is whether he
is
> > family to Eugene or I??
> >
> > Les C
> >
> >
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