This week in history: Sept. 2-9, 2026

... Dr. Yomogita is a graduate of the University of Tokio, and speaks nine different languages. The impression that he is a tramp is exactly the one he desires to convey, and it was only after he had been held up two times and relieved of his money that he decided that good clothing may be a liability, in cross-country hiking.

— The Dalles Chronicle

While camped near the Peterson Ranger Station in the Mt. Adams Country on August 14th, Mrs. Sara Perry had to kill a bear which had raided the camp ... Looking around she saw a bear six or eight feet behind her. Hoping to scare the Bruin she hollered and the bear climbed up a tree ... while she was attempting to load the gun Mr. Bear started to come down the tree ... a second shot killed the bear which weighed about 200 pounds.

Seaman Burtis, of this city, has a three-year old high grade Jersey cow that produced in June 1334 pounds of milk testing 60 pounds butterfat. In July this cow produced 1351 pounds of milk testing 64 pounds butterfat.

— White Salmon Enterprise

1946 — 80 years ago

Proponents of more dams in the Columbia, Willamette and Snake rivers today had 30 days to present writen [sic] arguments to a congressional sub-committee which yesterday heard commercial and sports fishermen declare construction of proposed dams “virtually” would destroy the $10,000,000 Columbia river salmon industry...

The fall run of chinook salmon showed a sharp increase at the Bonneville dam fish ladder for the four-day period ...

— The Dalles Chronicle

1966 — 60 years ago

Fire and huckleberries are prominent topics in this week’s recreation report from Mr. [sic] Hood National Forest. Blackberries are also important enough to merit a mention ...

Unless the trend is reversed, water level in the Jordan Street well, the city’s most economical pumping unit could decline within the next month to the point where the pump would yield nothing but air, City Manager C. Dean Smith said Monday.

The Crow Creek Dam project, a major part of the city’s water development program, would store 330 million gallons of water in a 31-acre reservoir, an engineer told the City Council Monday night.

— The Dalles Chronicle

Season football tickets are in the offing being offered this year for the first time since the 1950s.

The Columbia Gorge Horticulture society will view color slides of its sixth annual fall flower show ...

— White Salmon Enterprise

1986 — 40 years ago

A light plane carrying two Tygh Valley residents crashed Saturday afternoon near the Mt. Fir Lumber mill in Tygh Valley ... The plane tore down the power lines and then crashed into the chip dump across the river from the mill. Wasco County Deputy Howard Davison who was on the scene said that the chip pile probably saved both men from serious injury.

Condemnation of homes in the Columbia River Gorge has been excluded from the Columbia River Gorge Scenic Bill, and Senator Mark O. Hatfield abhors the type of policy that drives people from their homes. This was Hatfield’s message to businessmen and residents ...

— The Dalles Chronicle

By this time next year White Salmon residents may have a brand new post office, depending on the outcome of a preliminary study under way in Portland.

— White Salmon Enterprise