ship requirements: Citizens of white or Indian blood who were residents of the original county of Yakima prior to November 9, 1889, and their descendants; others may become associate members. Officers: David Longmire, president; James A. Beck, first vicepresident; Mrs. Jennie Shardlow, second vice-president; John H. Lynch, secretary; Mrs. Zona H. Cameron, treasurer; Mrs. A. J. Splawn, historian.

YAKIMA COLUMBIA ASSOCIATION. Yakima. A Catholic organization having for its object the care and preservation of the old St. Joseph Mission in the Ahtanum Valley. Since 1915 a caretaker has resided on the premises. Officers: John Ditter, president; R. E. Allingham, vice-president; John H. Lynch, secretary; H. A. La Berge, treasurer; Pat Jordan, general manager.

VICTOR J. Farrar.

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KELLIM LAKE, see Mason Lake.

KELLUM'S LAKE ISTHMUS, low land where Hood Canal approaches nearest to Case Inlet in Mason County. It is probably the "Wilkes Portage" of Indian Treaty by Governor Stevens. J. G. Kohl says: "It (Indian or Great Peninsula) is everywhere surrounded by water with the exception of one point, namely, at that narrow little isthmus upon which Kellum's Lake is situated and which we might call Killum's Lake Isthmus." (Pacific Railroad Reports, Volume XII., Part I., Page 287.)

KELLYVILLE, see Sedro-Woolley.

KELSO, a town in Cowlitz County. Peter W. Crawford, a surveyor, took up a donation land claim and on it platted a townsite which he named Kelso after his home town in Scotland. The original plat is dated October 1, 1884, and it was filed on the next day. (John L. Harris, in Names MSS., Letter 473.)

KEL-UP-KWA, see Port Gamble.

KENMORE, a town at the north end of Lake Washington in King County. It was named by John McMaster, dean of the shingle industry, in January, 1901, in honor of his home town, Kenmore, Ontario, Canada. (Postmaster at Kenmore, in Names MSS., Letter 461.)

KENNEBEC RIVER, see Nasel River.

KENNEWICK, a town in the southeastern part of Benton County, opposite Pasco, on the Columbia River. It was named in 1883 by H. S. Huson of the Northern Pacific Irrigation Company. The word is Indian and means "grassy place." (A. R. Gardner, editor of the Kennewick Courier-Reporter, in Names MSS., Letter 6.)

KENOVA, a town in the northern part of Whitman County. The choice of the name was "a chance selection." (H. R. Williams, Vice President of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railroad Company, in Names MSS., Letter 589.)

KENT, a town in King County, once known as Titusville because the donation land claim of James H. Titus was at that place. For a time the town was known as Yesler, an honor for Henry L. Yesler of Seattle. When hop culture was at its highest in that valley the name was changed to Kent in honor of England's hop center. (Names MSS., Letter 44.)

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KENT CREEK, a small tributary of the Pend Oreille River, near Dalkena, Pend Oreille County. It was named for Fred Kent who owned Kent Meadows where the creek rises. (Dalkena Lumber Company, in Names MSS., Letter 143.)

KERRISTON, a town in the central part of King County. It is supposed to have been named for the Kerry Mill Company, A. S. Kerry, President, when that company established the town erecting a sawmill and operating logging camps. (Postmaster, Kerriston, in Names MSS., Letter 50.)

KETRON ISLAND, in western Pierce County, near Steilacoom. It was named by the Wilkes Expedition, 1841, as an honor for William Kittson of the Hudson's Bay Company service. Old charts gave "Kittson Island" or "Kitson Island," but the incorrect spelling by the Wilkes Expedition persists on the present charts. (David Douglas, Journal 1823-1827, pages 63 and 176; Pacific Railroad Reports, Volume XII., Part I., Chapter XV.; Pacific Coast Pilot, page 623.)

KETTLE FALLS, in the Columbia River two miles below the mouth of the Kettle River, in Ferry and Stevens Counties. They were named by David Thompson "Ilthkoyape Falls" in 1811. T. C. Elliott says the word is Salish from Ilth-kape, meaning "kettle" (basket tightly woven), and Hoy-ape, meaning "net." With such kettle-nets the Salishan Indians caught fabulous quantities of fish at those falls. (David Thompson's Narrative, page 466, note.) Gabriel Franchere and other early travelers called the falls La Chaudiere because the water boiled up not unlike the water in a huge cauldron or kettle. (Franchere's Narrative in Early Western Travels, Volume VI., page 398.) Both names were early translated into Kettle Falls. John Work, of the Hudson's Bay Company service, used that name on August 31, 1825. (Washington Historical Quarterly, Volume V., page 113.) Another Indian name for the falls was reported in 1853 as Soinetkwu or Schwan-ate-koo (Pacific Railroad Reports, Volume I., pages 215 and 299.) A nearby town now bears the name of Kettle Falls.

KETTLE RIVER, rising in British Columbia, it flows through the northern part of Ferry County into the Columbia River at Marcus near Kettle Falls. David Thompson called it "Ilthkoyape Rivulet." An Indian name used by Tilton, Swan and others was Ne-hei-atpitqua. (Pacific Railroad Reports, Volume I., pages 377-389.) The present name was taken from the name of Kettle Falls.

KEY CITY, a pet name for Port Townsend.

KEYPORT, a town on Liberty (Formerly Dog Fish) Bay, Kitsap County. O. A. Kuppler, H. B. Kuppler and Pete Hagen planned the first wharf. Farmers helped to haul the piles. When completed in 1896, the three named took an atlas and sought a name. They chose that of Keyport on the coast of New Jersey. (H. B. Kuppler, Port Ludlow, in Names MSS., Letter 208.)

KEYSTONE, a town in the northeastern part of Adams County. It was named in 1900 or 1901 by the first postmaster, John W. Smith, in honor of his native state of Pennsylvania. (Postmaster, Keystone, inNames MSS., Letter 351.) The New Standard Dictionary says Pennsylvania was called the Keystone "because it was the middle or seventh in geographical position of the original thirteen states."

KIKET ISLAND, at the entrance to Similk Bay, on the southern shore of Fidalgo Island, Skagit County. The name was given by the Wilkes Expedition, 1841. On Kroll's map of Skagit County it is shown as Kicket Point.

KIERMAN, a town in Clarke County, named for Daniel Kierman, owner of rock quarries there. (L. C. Gilman, in Names MSS., Letter 590.)

KILISUT HARBOR, opposite Port Townsend and connecting Port Townsend Bay with Oak Bay. Sandspits which impeded navigation have been removed. The name was given by the Wilkes Expedition, 1841.

KING COUNTY was created by the Oregon Territorial Legislature by an act dated December 22, 1852, and named in honor of William R. King, of Alabama, who had been elected Vice President of the United States. He died before being inaugurated.

KIONA, a town in the central part of Benton County. The original name was Horseshoe Bend from a fancied resemblance of the bend in the Yakima River to a huge horseshoe four miles across. W. M. Scott who has lived there twenty years says he does not know how the name was changed but he has been told that Kiona is an Indian word meaning "brown hills." (In Names MSS., Letter 586.)

KIRKLAND, a town on the eastern shore of Lake Washington, King County. It was named in honor of Peter Kirk, a millionaire. iron maker of England, who founded the town in 1886 and hoped to establish there extensive steel works. Being disappointed he retired to a farm on San Juan Island and died on May 6, 1916.

KITSAP COUNTY was created by the Washington Territorial Legislature in an act approved January 16, 1857. It was then

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named Slaughter County in honor of Lieutenant W. A. Slaughter, United States Army, who had been killed on December 4, 1855. The people of the county were given the privilege of choosing another name, if they wished, at the next general election. They chose the name of one of the hostile chiefs, whose tribe occupied part of the land in the new county. Seattle was a greater chief of the same tribe. He and most of his tribe remained friendly during the war. Kitsap, a war chief and medicine man, went over to the hostiles. When the war on Puget Sound went against the Indians, Kitsap, with Chief Leschi and others, went across the Cascades. In communications dated June 18 and October 4, 1856, Governor Stevens asked Colonel George Wright, commanding the Columbia River district, to deliver Chiefs Leschi, Nelson, Kitsap, Quiemuth and Stehi for trial by civil authorities. They had been indicted for several murders. On October 16, 1856, Colonel Wright ordered Major Garnett at Fort Simcoe to deliver the chiefs as requested. Chief Leschi was convicted and executed. Chief Kitsap was eventually acquitted. While in the guardhouse at Fort Steilacoom he had been taken ill and was given some medicine in the form of a red liquid. He got well and at once added red liquid to his equipment as a medicine man. After he had returned to his people, three of his warriors became ill. He mixed some of the red paint used for war decorations in water and gave the red medicine. The three men died and their relations were furious. They waited. On April 18, 1860, Chief Kitsap, while drunk, was enticed to a vacant cabin and shot. His body was cut to pieces. (Elwood Evans, in History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington, Volume I, pages 508-509.) Rev. Myron Eells says the word means "brave" and is accented heavily on the last syllable as if the "i" were omitted from the first syllable. (American Anthropologist, January, 1892.)

KITTSON ISLAND, see Ketron Island.

KITTITAS, the name of a county and town in the central part of the State. The county was established by the Legislature of Washington Territory on November 24, 1883. The name is an Indian. word to which have been assigned various meanings. James Mooney is authority for the statement that a small tribe called themselves "K'tatas" and the Yakima name for them was "Pshwanapum." Lewis and Clark had alluded to them as "Shanwappoms." The words meant "shoal" and "shoal people," referring to a shoal in the Yakima River at Ellensburg. (Fourteenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology, Part II., page 736.) That origin and meaning are repeated in the Handbook of American Indians, (Vol