Doerr Acting Head of Rocky Mtn. Park – August 9, 1943
Estes Park, Colo., Aug. 9 – George W. Miller, acting superintendent of the Rocky Mountain National Park, said John E. Doerr, chief of the naturalist division in the interior department’s branch of natural history, was appointed acting superintendent of the park.
Crater Lake superintendent, Ernest P. Leavitt, marries – April, 1943
The wedding of Mrs. Katherine Nealon Huntress, 1926, and Ernest P. Leavitt was an event of March 6.
Finch Appointed as Chief Ranger In Glacier Park – January 24, 1943
The appointment of Breynton R. Finch, custodian of the Colorado National monument near Grand Junction, to be chief ranger of the Glacier National park in Montana, was announced in Denver today.
Captain Applegate – July 9, 1939
Go north in our State and up into Oregon and you will find that Oliver C. Applegate, pioneer, Indian fighter, keen man with eye to opportunity, has been honored in place names.
Kittredge Named As Park Director – July 15, 1937
Appointment of Frank A. Kittredge as regional director of the National Park Service, with his headquarters remaining in San Francisco, was announced today by Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes.
Honor Discoverer of Noted Oregon Lake – September 22, 1925
Citizens of Oregon today honored the memory of a man who sought gold and found, instead, one of nature’s most precious jewels – Crater lake.
Stone Woman of Crater Lake No Longer Mystery – October 24, 1923
It is not a petrified human body nor the lava filled cavity that resulted when the body of a woman enveloped in mud, distinguished, according to the ingenious theory of Samuel Hubbard, curator of archaeology in the Oakland Museum….
Interesting Crater Lake Letter – September 1, 1923
A couple of weeks ago we went to Crater Lake and had a wonderful trip. The scenery up there is the most beautiful I’v ever seen. On the way up we saw “Garden of the Gods” a sort of a canyon which has for its wall on one side peculiar shaped jutting rocks.
Begins Suit to Get Job Back: Former National Park Official Asks Mandamus Against Secretary Lane – May 2, 1915
William F. Arant, who claims to have been forcibly ousted from his position as superintendent of Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, began mandamus proceedings last week in the District Supreme Court to compel Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Department of the Interior, to reinstate him.
Romance of College Days at Berkeley: Brilliant Young Geologist and Author to Wed a Former Classmate – August 3, 1905
“BERKELEY, August 3. College folks are greatly interested in the announcement which has just been made that Miss Martha Bowen Rice and Herbert W. Furlong are to be wedded
Oregon’s Great Wonder: Lake Fills the Bowl of Extinct Volcano – June 14, 1904
Congress last year created Crater Lake National Park, in this state writes a Grant Pass correspondent of the New York Herald.
Oregon Natural Curiosities: Reproduced on Sensitive Plate – August 25, 1888
Yesterday’s overland California express carried a party of three young men bent upon an interesting mission. W. G. Steel, S. S. Nicholine and E. D. Dewert left for Josephine county, where they will explore the famous Josephine county caves and afterwards Crater Lake.
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