Newspaper clippings - Cities and Towns of the Pacific Northwest - transcript.

Abstract

"The first meeting of citizens for the purpose of forming a government for the village [The Dalles] was held Sept. 15, 1855. This was during a troublesome times and one resolution passed at the meeting was that no 'mail or femail--Indian shall be allowed to camp within one-half mile of the village and nightly there was a guard placed on the outskirts, one man to watch until 12 o'clock midnight and the other until 6 a.m.'"