some mistake as to ownership three sacks of potatoes were once left on the river bank at the portage at Oregon City. There they remained three months, no one disturbing them. The following story also is told of McLoughlin and his wheat buyer: It was the custom of the agent who bought wheat to strike the measure—the wheat not being very well cleaned requiring to be settled in order to give full weight. Seeing him give the measure a number of slow, gentle taps, McLoughlin exclaimed, “Tut, tut,” and gave it one heavy blow; but to his chagrin, and the vast enjoyment of the bystanders, the doctor’s heavy stroke instead of _settling_ the grain only shook it up, and he instantly admitted that the buyer’s way was the best, and with that the farmers were all well pleased, because thereby they _sold the best weight_—which illustrates not only their simplicity, but their desire to act on the square with the great chief factor. Names of French-Canadians on French Prairie when Mr. Matthieu first went there, and who all, as he remembers, took part in the provisional government meeting—they are collected from his ledger of the business carried on by him with George Le Roque, at Butteville, beginning in 1850: XAVIER LADEROUTE ANTOINE BONANFANT ANDRE LA CHAPELL PIERRE PAPIN LOUIS B. VANDALLE JEAN B. DU CHARME FABIEN MALOIN LUC PAGNON ETIENNE GREGOIRE AMABLE ARCOUETTE PIERRE DE LORD LOUIS A. VANDALLE JOHN SANDERS PIERRE PARISEAU CHARLES RONDEAU DAVID DONPIERRE ANDRE DU BOIS PIERRE DEPOT MOYSE LOR PIERRE LE COURSE JOSEPH BERNABE BAPTISTE DEGUIRE ADOLPHE CHAMBERLAIN JEAN LINGRAS ALEXIS AUBICHON JEAN SERVANS MICHELLE LAFERTE JEAN B. DALCOURSE LOUIS OSANT JEAN B. AUBICHON ANTOINE FELICE MICHAEL LAFROMBOISE JOSEPH GERVAIS JEAN B. PANPIN OLIVIER BRISCBOIS THOMAS ROA LOUIS BOIVERS ANDRE LANGTAIN ETIENNE LUCIER ALEXIS LAPRATTE PIERRE BELAQUE. The following were Frenchmen who came to Oregon in the spring of 1842, except Matthieu, who came in the fall. They were at the meeting at Champoeg. This list has, perhaps, never been published: GEDEREAU SENCALLE THOMAS MOISON PIERRE GANTHIER AUGUSTIN REMON JOSEPH MATTE FRANCIS BERNIER F. X. MATTHIEU.