Dr. White's report.--Seizure and destruction of a distillery.--Homicide of Joel Turnham.--State of the Territory.--Trials of Dr. White.--The liquor law.--Revenue act.--Case of the negro Saul.--The Indians kill an ox.--Other Indian difficulties.--Indian expedition to California.--Death of the Indian Elijah.--State of the Territory.--Claim of the Hudson's Bay Company on the north bank of the Columbia.-- Letter of Peter H. Burnett.--The Nez Percés and Cayuses.--Extract from the report of the United States Senate. Page 387 CHAPTER LI. 1845.--Public meetings to elect delegates to convention.-- Candidates for governor.--Members elected to the Legislative Committee.--Oath of office.--Mr. Applegate's announcement.-- Dr. McLaughlin's amphibiousness.--Description of the members of the Legislative Committee.--Business of the session.-- Ermatinger's election contested.--Mr. Garrison's resolutions.--Anti-slavery resolution.--Organic law revised.--Improvements and condition of the country. Page 421 CHAPTER LII. 1845.--Second session of the Legislative Committee.--Mr. McCarver removed from the office of Speaker.--Mr. Applegate's resolutions.--Protest of Gray, Foisy, and Straight.--A legislative incident.--Law against dueling.--Dr. White addresses the Legislature.--Resolutions.--Dr. White denies the right of the settlers to organize a provisional government.--McCarver signs documents without authority.-- Resolutions by the house on the subject.--Impertinent letter from Dr. White to the house.--White cornered by President Polk.--Incidents in White's temperance movements.--Proposition to repeal all laws for the collection of debts.--The Currency act.--Adjournment of the Legislature in August.--Meets again in December.--Proposal to locate the capital. Page 428 CHAPTER LIII. The liquor law.--Amended act of 1845.--Message of the governor on the same.--Repeal of the prohibitory and passage of the license law.--Letter of James Douglas.--Reply of Mr. Samuel Parker.--Dr. Tolmie's resolution on the judiciary.-- The governor's veto of the license law.--Immigration for Oregon and California in 1846.--Arrival of the brig _Henry_.--The Oregon Printing Association.--The _Spectator_, the first newspaper in Oregon.--W. G. T. Vault, first editor.--H. A. G. Lee, second editor.--G. L. Curry, third editor.--Judge Wait, fourth editor. Page 440 CHAPTER LIV.