Captain Orln S. Waud Died at Dawson
City on the 10th.
Somehow Tho Dalles has been particularly
unfortunate In tho past year or
two in the number of sad and startling
deaths and accidents which have occurred,
No sooner do wo begin to recover
from one thing than another takes
place equally an deplorable. And so
Wednesday evening when all were preparing
to enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday,
about 6 o'clock the news began to
be told throughout tho city that Mrs.
O. S. Waud had just received a telegram
announcing the death of her husband,
Captain Waud, at Dawson, at 5 o'clock
on the afternoon of tho 16th. Everyone
was shocked, for when the captain left
here in the spring he was the picture of
health and no one know he had been ill
at all. Indeed, the last letter his wife
received, written on tho 14th of October,
gavo no word of ill health; and the telegram
stated the more fact of his death.
The feelings of Mrs. Waud and her
three children may be imagined, and
comes to one of her nervous temperament
doubly hard. Friends have done everything
possible in the endeavor to assuage
her grief, but she ia inconsolable
and though she tries very hard to be
reconciled, it is well nigh impossible.
When his son returned from Dawson a
few months since, the captain went on
to El Dorado, a new mining section
about forty miles from Dawson, but
must have been at Dawson at the time
of his death.
Orin S. Waud was born on the Waud
Donation Claim, near Portland, March
22, 1854, and spent most of his life in
tho Valley. He was married to Nellie
Murphy at Astoria in December, 1878.
To them were born five children, two of
them being laid to rest in Lone Fir
cemetery in Portland, while the other
three Fred, aged 17, Hazel 13, and
Arthur 10, are with their mother here.
He also leaves three sisters, his two
brothers having drowned, one in the
Columbia and the other at Alaska.
He was a member of the Elks in this
city, and the Workmen and K. of P. in
Portland, and thus our local lodge of
Elks have a name added to tho list
whose memory they honor Sunday.
Captain Waud was one of the best
known steamboat men in Oregon, and
not alone in Oregon, but on the waters
of other states has be made himself
famous by htB master hand at the helm.
He began steamboating in the early
'70s and took charge of the Otter in 1877.
At different times he was, master of tho
Westport, Maria Wilkins, Clateop Chief,
Governor Newall, Lincoln, Manzanillo
and others. In December, 1894 he took
charge of the Regulator and brought his
family to The Dalles. Ho remained in
the employ of the D. P. &A.N. Co.
until April of 189S, when he left for
Alaskan waters, where he ran between
Lake Bennett and White Horse.
He will not only be missed as none but
such a splendid captain could be, but by
hosts of friends everywhere, whose lifelong
friendship he had won by his
happy disposition and kind manner.
As soon as possible Mrs. Waud will
make arrangements to have tho body
brought to Portland. The first steamer
out, however, is that which sails from
Seattle on the 6th.
[The Dalles Daily Chronicle, December 1, 1899]