During the summer of 1905, Telegraph was transferred to Portland, Oregon to carry visitors arriving for the Lewis and Clark Exposition.
Olympian was dismantled in 1924, and the cabin structure and equipment was installed onto a newly-built hull, and the new boat, named Logger, was used in towing work.
[4] Telegraph was 153.7 ft (46.8 m) long, measured over the hull exclusive of the extension over the stern, called the fantail, on which the stern-wheel was mounted.
[1] Telegraph was reported to have been capable of reaching speeds of 20 miles per hour,[2][7] and was said to have been the fastest steamer on Puget Sound in 1904.
[9] The shooting was reported to have been occasioned by Robb's daughter Camelia (or Camille) Coleman having stated to her mother that she "had been wronged" by Joye.
[9] Robb was taken to jail and Joye was taken to Wayside Mission hospital, where following an operation, doctors described him as having only a very slight chance of recovery.
[9] Robb, whose maiden name was Colman, ran a lodging house in Seattle on Washington Street, near Second Avenue south.
[12] In April 1905, Captain Scott announced that he would put Telegraph on the day run between Seattle and Bellingham in the summer.
[13] In 1905, Telegraph was transferred temporarily from Seattle to Portland, Oregon to handle increased passenger traffic arising from the Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition.
[17] In that year the Puget Sound Navigation Company bought both Telegraph and City of Everett from Seattle-Everett Nav.
[5] On June 26, 1914, it was reported that a new concern, Red Ball Steamship Company, had placed Olympian on route which included Edmonds, Everett, Seattle, Tacoma, Bremerton, and Olympia, Washington.
[25] The steamer would depart Seattle from Pier 4, at the foot of Spring Street, at 9:30 a.m., and return from Olympia at 10:15 p.m.[25] Round trip tickets cost one dollar.
[25] Operations under the Red Ball company did not last long, as by November 1914, Olympian was back on this market, this time being advertised as "FOR SALE CHEAP" by an admiralty lawyer, Moncrieffe Cameron,[26] possibly meaning the vessel had been seized for debts.
[14] Coming over the Columbia Bar, a wave struck Olympian and broke all of its hogchains, but was still brought into Astoria safely.
[28] Olympian had been purchased by John C. Ayres, who had been for several years before in charge of the Hammond Lumber Company's seagoing raftings of piling at Stella, Washington.
[28] Veteran steamboat captain Sid Scammon (1875-1931),[29] who had resigned from the Regulator Line a few days previously, was to be put into command of Olympian.
[6] Olympian left Astoria at 10:00 a.m. on September 30, 1916 for Portland, Oregon, where it was planned to put the steamer in drydock to repair the damage from having been hogged coming over the Columbia river bar.
[33] Olympian made the first trip on the new route on Wednesday, May 23, 1917, departing Astoria in the morning and reaching Portland at 4:00 p.m., with Capt.
Sid Scammon in command and Captain Fritz Krause as pilot[33] Olympian departed Portland before 5:00 p.m. that day to return to Astoria.
[37] On February 10, 1920, it was reported that Northwestern Transportation Co. would, starting March 1, put the newly renovated Olympian on a regular run between Portland and The Dalles, Oregon.
[38] In the summer tourist season, Olympian would carry passengers and fast freight on a daily run to The Dalles.
[38] The company hoped to revive the days when Telephone, Bailey Gatzert, and Charles R. Spencer used to carry thousands of visitors to the scenic Columbia Gorge.
[42] At that time the river was too low to allow the deep draft Olympian to reach The Dalles, and the vessel was not capable of handling heavy freight.
[47] Riggs had commanded Olympian in 1905, when under the name Telegraph the steamer had carried passengers during the Lewis and Clark Exposition.
[22] An experiment was tried by taking on fully-loaded motor trucks on to the steamer's freight deck, carrying them upriver, and then driving them off the boat and then to the destination.
[22][49] In January 1922, Olympian, then lying at the foot of Virginia Street in Portland, was listed for sale by my T.H Adams, deputy liquidation supervisor of the Kelso State Bank.
[55] Salvage operations conducted by M. Barde and Sons, who leased Olympian from Milton Smith, for towing barges, housing men working at the scene, and providing power.
[39] In 1924 or 1925,[59] Milton Smith stripped the cabin structure and equipment off Olympian, and installed them on a newly-built wooden hull that was 156 ft (47.5 m) long.
[63] In 1940, motivated by the high price of scrap metal, and the great success of the new diesel towboats, Shaver had Logger dismantled.
[64]Logger's name board was recovered, and later displayed with those of many other steamers, at Champoeg State Park along the Willamette River.