So why is his name celebrated on a monument to Wallowa County Pioneers? Probably because they didn't know. Here's the story.Ī monument in honor of a horse thief and mass murderer?īruce "Blue" Evans led the gang that slaughtered over 30 innocent Chinese miners in 1887. It vanished after its leader starved herself to death during a 110-day fast. This spooky-looking Portland mansion was home of a 'starvation cult'Ī prominent Portland socialite led a sect called "Truth," with the motto "Pray and Be Cured," that required 40-day fasts. HOW OREGON ALMOST LOST PUBLIC ACCESS TO ITS BEACHESĪ Portland real-estate guy found a loophole in the law and claimed a patch of beach for his own, and his friends in the state Legislature tried to keep it that way. and prayed the tide would turn before they got sucked out onto the bar. They drifted downstream in heavy 24-foot boats with their nets out. When fishing was so deadly, one in 15 didn't survive the season. James Lappeus came to Portland to open a saloon and "theater." Despite his checkered past - or maybe because of it - he was named city marshal and, later, Chief of Police.
Gambler, swindler, gunfighter, liquor man. It had to be the most awkward prison-break scenario in the history of the universe. Killer broke out of state prison during a conjugal visit at a nearby Motel 6 It was left there by astronaut Jim Irwin at the request of a friend from Bend - who gave him a sliver of Oregon lava to leave on the moon's surface. There's a piece of lava from central oregon in this photo, on the moon. He almost got away with this little swindle. A few recent columns you might enjoy: How the Oregon Coast almost lost the Peter Iredale to a scrap-metal sharkĪn Oregon City man claimed he'd inherited the rights from his father, and demanded to be allowed to cut it up and haul it away. 6435's book for free on the Internet Archive at. In this part, 6435 finishes out his work with a collection of short tales of bustings-out and attempted bustings-out as well as some short poems written by prisoners.
6435.' This is part 2 of a 2-part reading of this slim little book we started it last Tuesday with 6435's account of the Tracy-Merrill prison breakout. Today it's an excerpt from a short book, first printed in 1922, titled 'Sensational Escapes from the Oregon State Penitentiary,' by an inmate in the Oregon State Prison who identifies himself only as 'Prisoner No. Sometimes it's a historical tidbit that wasn't quite beefy enough to make a full column out of other times, an especially interesting old newspaper article frequently it's a short story from one of the frontier literary magazines that thrived in Oregon at the end of the 19th century. This is an episode in our weekly series titled 'Primary Source Tuesday.' Each Tuesday we have a reading from a particularly interesting historical item.
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