DEATH OF CAPTAIN LANE ~ Well-Known River Man Succumbs to Pneumonia
News was received in Portland last night of the death of Captain Nat H. Lane, in Spokane, after a brief illness, of pneumonia, Captain Lane, who was one of the strongest and most robust men, left Portland a few weeks ago in his usual perfect health, and the first intimation of his illness came yesterday afternoon, when his brother, Dr. Harry Lane, was notified by telephone that he was very low, and that it would probably be impossible to reach Spokane in time to see him alive. Last night, at 9 o'clock, the doctor received a telegram announcing his brother's death.
Captain Lane was a grandson of General Joseph Lane, one of the most prominent founders of the state, and a son of a well-known pioneer resident of the East Side. He was born in Corvallis 48 years ago, and when a very young man became a river pilot, running steamers on the Willamette with Captain Eph Baughman, in the early ‘70s. He soon gained the name of being one of the beat pilots on the river, having excellent judgment and being absolutely without fear. When the first Alaska gold excitement began, he went to the Stickeen river, and at once rose to the first rank among the swift water pilots who navigated that hazardous river. He returned to Portland when the excitement abated, and was for some years captain of the Stark-street ferry. When Thomas Magee started the steamers Gamecock and Staghound for the Yukon, he engaged Captain lane to be commodore of the fleet he intended to float on that river, but the early fate of the two steamers brought Captain Lane back to Portland, where he has since spent most of his time.
Captain Lane was a man without a bad habit, and was of a cheery, warm-hearted disposition, which made him friends where-ever he went. There are few men in the Portland whose loss would be so deeply mourned by those who know them best as his will be. He wife, who was formerly Miss Minnie Lee, of East Portland, has been at his bedside since he fell ill.
No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral. The body will be sent to Portland, and will be interred here.
Published in The Sunday Oregonian, Jan 21, 1900
***FROM THE STICKEEN.- Capt. Nat. Lane, son of the late N.H. Lane, returned to this city Wednesday evening from the Stickeen country. He left here last April and for several months had command of the steamer Beaver which ran between the mouth of the Stickeen river and the head of navigation. Capt. Nat. looks as rugged as a mountaineer. He comes back to remain.
Published in Morning Oregonian, Aug 23, 1878.
News was received in Portland last night of the death of Captain Nat H. Lane, in Spokane, after a brief illness, of pneumonia, Captain Lane, who was one of the strongest and most robust men, left Portland a few weeks ago in his usual perfect health, and the first intimation of his illness came yesterday afternoon, when his brother, Dr. Harry Lane, was notified by telephone that he was very low, and that it would probably be impossible to reach Spokane in time to see him alive. Last night, at 9 o'clock, the doctor received a telegram announcing his brother's death.
Captain Lane was a grandson of General Joseph Lane, one of the most prominent founders of the state, and a son of a well-known pioneer resident of the East Side. He was born in Corvallis 48 years ago, and when a very young man became a river pilot, running steamers on the Willamette with Captain Eph Baughman, in the early ‘70s. He soon gained the name of being one of the beat pilots on the river, having excellent judgment and being absolutely without fear. When the first Alaska gold excitement began, he went to the Stickeen river, and at once rose to the first rank among the swift water pilots who navigated that hazardous river. He returned to Portland when the excitement abated, and was for some years captain of the Stark-street ferry. When Thomas Magee started the steamers Gamecock and Staghound for the Yukon, he engaged Captain lane to be commodore of the fleet he intended to float on that river, but the early fate of the two steamers brought Captain Lane back to Portland, where he has since spent most of his time.
Captain Lane was a man without a bad habit, and was of a cheery, warm-hearted disposition, which made him friends where-ever he went. There are few men in the Portland whose loss would be so deeply mourned by those who know them best as his will be. He wife, who was formerly Miss Minnie Lee, of East Portland, has been at his bedside since he fell ill.
No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral. The body will be sent to Portland, and will be interred here.
Published in The Sunday Oregonian, Jan 21, 1900
***FROM THE STICKEEN.- Capt. Nat. Lane, son of the late N.H. Lane, returned to this city Wednesday evening from the Stickeen country. He left here last April and for several months had command of the steamer Beaver which ran between the mouth of the Stickeen river and the head of navigation. Capt. Nat. looks as rugged as a mountaineer. He comes back to remain.
Published in Morning Oregonian, Aug 23, 1878.
DEATH OF CAPTAIN LANE ~ Well-Known River Man Succumbs to Pneumonia
News was received in Portland last night of the death of Captain Nat H. Lane, in Spokane, after a brief illness, of pneumonia, Captain Lane, who was one of the strongest and most robust men, left Portland a few weeks ago in his usual perfect health, and the first intimation of his illness came yesterday afternoon, when his brother, Dr. Harry Lane, was notified by telephone that he was very low, and that it would probably be impossible to reach Spokane in time to see him alive. Last night, at 9 o'clock, the doctor received a telegram announcing his brother's death.
Captain Lane was a grandson of General Joseph Lane, one of the most prominent founders of the state, and a son of a well-known pioneer resident of the East Side. He was born in Corvallis 48 years ago, and when a very young man became a river pilot, running steamers on the Willamette with Captain Eph Baughman, in the early ‘70s. He soon gained the name of being one of the beat pilots on the river, having excellent judgment and being absolutely without fear. When the first Alaska gold excitement began, he went to the Stickeen river, and at once rose to the first rank among the swift water pilots who navigated that hazardous river. He returned to Portland when the excitement abated, and was for some years captain of the Stark-street ferry. When Thomas Magee started the steamers Gamecock and Staghound for the Yukon, he engaged Captain lane to be commodore of the fleet he intended to float on that river, but the early fate of the two steamers brought Captain Lane back to Portland, where he has since spent most of his time.
Captain Lane was a man without a bad habit, and was of a cheery, warm-hearted disposition, which made him friends where-ever he went. There are few men in the Portland whose loss would be so deeply mourned by those who know them best as his will be. He wife, who was formerly Miss Minnie Lee, of East Portland, has been at his bedside since he fell ill.
No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral. The body will be sent to Portland, and will be interred here.
Published in The Sunday Oregonian, Jan 21, 1900
***FROM THE STICKEEN.- Capt. Nat. Lane, son of the late N.H. Lane, returned to this city Wednesday evening from the Stickeen country. He left here last April and for several months had command of the steamer Beaver which ran between the mouth of the Stickeen river and the head of navigation. Capt. Nat. looks as rugged as a mountaineer. He comes back to remain.
Published in Morning Oregonian, Aug 23, 1878.
News was received in Portland last night of the death of Captain Nat H. Lane, in Spokane, after a brief illness, of pneumonia, Captain Lane, who was one of the strongest and most robust men, left Portland a few weeks ago in his usual perfect health, and the first intimation of his illness came yesterday afternoon, when his brother, Dr. Harry Lane, was notified by telephone that he was very low, and that it would probably be impossible to reach Spokane in time to see him alive. Last night, at 9 o'clock, the doctor received a telegram announcing his brother's death.
Captain Lane was a grandson of General Joseph Lane, one of the most prominent founders of the state, and a son of a well-known pioneer resident of the East Side. He was born in Corvallis 48 years ago, and when a very young man became a river pilot, running steamers on the Willamette with Captain Eph Baughman, in the early ‘70s. He soon gained the name of being one of the beat pilots on the river, having excellent judgment and being absolutely without fear. When the first Alaska gold excitement began, he went to the Stickeen river, and at once rose to the first rank among the swift water pilots who navigated that hazardous river. He returned to Portland when the excitement abated, and was for some years captain of the Stark-street ferry. When Thomas Magee started the steamers Gamecock and Staghound for the Yukon, he engaged Captain lane to be commodore of the fleet he intended to float on that river, but the early fate of the two steamers brought Captain Lane back to Portland, where he has since spent most of his time.
Captain Lane was a man without a bad habit, and was of a cheery, warm-hearted disposition, which made him friends where-ever he went. There are few men in the Portland whose loss would be so deeply mourned by those who know them best as his will be. He wife, who was formerly Miss Minnie Lee, of East Portland, has been at his bedside since he fell ill.
No arrangements have yet been made for the funeral. The body will be sent to Portland, and will be interred here.
Published in The Sunday Oregonian, Jan 21, 1900
***FROM THE STICKEEN.- Capt. Nat. Lane, son of the late N.H. Lane, returned to this city Wednesday evening from the Stickeen country. He left here last April and for several months had command of the steamer Beaver which ran between the mouth of the Stickeen river and the head of navigation. Capt. Nat. looks as rugged as a mountaineer. He comes back to remain.
Published in Morning Oregonian, Aug 23, 1878.
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