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Oregon System showed way to fight corruption
After out-of-state interests overplayed their hand and showed how little power locals had in their own state, Populists and renegade Republicans got together to do something about it. The result: The…
Published on 4 months, 3 weeks ago
For country docs, life was colorful and action-packed
Dr. E.R. Huckleberry came to Tillamook County in 1923, fresh from medical school; by the time he retired, in the 1960s, he could safely say the career he'd chosen had been neither easy nor safe ... b…
Published on 4 months, 4 weeks ago
Was Anna Schrader the victim of ‘torso murder’?
JUST BEFORE SUNSET on the evening of April 12, 1946, Milwaukie residents James and Mary Rader were strolling with their friend H.C. Foster along the river by the Wisdom Island Moorage in Oak Grove wh…
Published on 5 months ago
Dynamite murder caused by a sordid love triangle
Someone killed Oliver Kermit Smith with a massive dynamite bomb planted under his car seat ... and police soon figured out who. But did Smith's wife really put the killer up to the job, like a real-l…
Published on 5 months ago
Range-wars veteran made Oregon famous for wool
After being nearly killed in a range war, sheep baron Jack Edwards started looking for a more peaceable place to run his operation. He found it in Hay Creek Ranch, near Prineville; and soon after set…
Published on 5 months ago
Is Central Oregon’s lost crystal cave just a legend?
Is there a lost crystal cave in central Oregon somewhere, lined with thousands of quartz crystals? Or is the whole thing just a legend? If it's real, maybe it would be better if we never found out ..…
Published on 5 months ago
Linn County had a bloody holiday season in 1895
In September, deranged housewife Emma Hannah gunned down a dangerously sexy neighbor she suspected of making moves on her husband; then in November, 18-year-old Lloyd Montgomery had a temper tantrum …
Published on 5 months ago
Finn on KPNW's Wake Up Call: The Wall Street wizard and the baseball hustlers
A recording of an on-air conversation with Bill Lundun and Gerry Snyder of the Wake Up Call on Eugene's KPNW Radio AM 1120, in May of 2024. Topic: When Thomas Lawson, one of the architects of the Ana…
Published on 5 months ago
Oregon governor to U.S. President: Drop dead
IF THERE WERE a category in the Guinness Book of World Records for the state with the crankiest former governor, Oregon would surely hold the title. The state would have earned the record in 1886, wh…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago
‘Crusade’ collapsed when leaders got too preachy
The saloon owners won in court, but the temperance ladies absolutely destroyed them in the court of public opinion. Delighted, the preachers and patriarchs who fancied themselves their leaders geared…
Published on 5 months, 1 week ago