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When the Confederate flag flew over Oregon soil
Smithfield rebels' gesture of defiance on the main stagecoach route caused shock and outrage, but nobody was outraged enough to risk being shot over …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Lava Lake murders still officially unsolved, but ...
The evidence against Charles Kimzey was circumstantial, but police had the goods on him for an attempted murder the year before, so he was sent up th…
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Missing trapper’s mom suspected foul play
Ed Nickols hadn't wanted to spend the winter by himself at the remote cabin, because he'd made a dangerous enemy in a former coworker who turned out …
6 months, 3 weeks ago
Lawyer schemed to steal land by shanghaiing its owner
Astoria shyster L.G. Carpenter coveted Darius Norris's valuable acreage on Long Beach Peninsula. So he got the police chief to arrest Norris on bogus…
6 months, 4 weeks ago
'Oregon's Native Stepson' Hoover saved millions from starving to death
When World War I broke out, Herbert Hoover was the world's most successful mining engineer. He abandoned all that to build an organization to feed th…
7 months ago
Lonely Newburg orphan grew up to be President
He arrived in Oregon at age 9, and people called him “Poor Little Bertie.” He left Oregon for good to go to college at Stanford when he was 17. But H…
7 months ago
Mayor’s wife gave him a real election-day surprise
Laura Starcher and her friends were fed up with the halfhearted, desultory service they were getting from city government. So they got organized, ran…
7 months ago
Skunk’s pelt would be best admired from far away
Clarence the logger was running a trapline as a side hustle. One day, he decided a passing skunk would look great on his stretching rack, and impulsi…
7 months ago
‘12 Angry Men’ couldn’t have happened in Oregon
At Jake Silverman's trial, 11 jurors wanted him to hang, but couldn't convince the lone holdout to change his vote. So voters changed the law and mad…
7 months ago
The life and death of a P-town gangster and moll
It had been an accident, but small-time Portland crook Jimmy Walker had shot Rose City crime boss “Shy Frank” Kodat. Unfortunately for Jimmy, he pick…
7 months, 1 week ago