When Guy Esterly in the small hours of last Sunday morning intervened in a fight between women as a peace delegate, he could not have anticipated the trouble that he would shortly be in. The row started on Oak Street, and was the result of stage-whispered unpleasantries of the kind that carry an ill-conceived barb. A local woman, recently plaintiff in divorce proceedings, accepted one of the shots as directed at herself and she made it an excuse for vigorously slapping another woman. In a moment there was a slapping and hair-pulling fracas and this is where Easterly, according to his own story, came in as a peace delegate. He tried to reason with the women and was having no success when Ray Gentry intervened and, according to Easterly, entirely without provocation, struck him forcibly on the jaw. After Easterly had gone down for what would be accepted by most men as the count, he got to his feet, only to receive another heavy blow and when he went down the second time, he stayed down … — March 14, 1924, Hood River News
This political cartoon ran in The Dalles Chroncle on March 14, 1944.
Excavators Uncover Ox Yoke, In Digging Trench For Cables
A relic of early days in this section was unearthed yesterday by workmen who are digging trenches for cables to be laid by the Pacific Telephone & Telegraph company near the Elks’ building and the new telephone building, when the shovels uncovered an ox yoke staple and ring.
D. L. Butcher, who has the relic, states that it has likely been lying there for more than half a century. He intends to give it to The Dalles historical society or some organization interested in the preservation of articles of historical significance.
The staple was found embedded in the earth about six feet below the surface. — The Dalles Daily Chronicle, March 13, 1924
Pair robs local shoe store
Police in the Mid-Columbia area are still seeking two men who robbed Sharold’s Shoe store at 405 E. Second Street just after 2 p.m. Wednesday.
The robbery was reported at 2:08 p.m. when the clerk that had been on duty at the store went to a nearby business and an employee there called in the robbery report.
Police said they learned that the two men had been in the store for a while prior to the robbery. The shotgun used in the robbery had been carried into the store in a guitar case.
Their report said one of the men produced the gun and demanded money. The same man took an undetermined amount of money from the cash register and both left by the front door in an unknown direction after forcing the clerk to the floor. ... Police said the two are considered “armed and dangerous.” ... Neither the gun or the guitar case were located. — The Dalles Chronicle, March 15, 1984
Court prohibits construction
The structures already built in the city of Rajneeshpuram can be occupied and will not have to be removed, but no new construction in the 119 acres that were annexed to the city will be allowed under two rulings made today in Circuit Court for Wasco County.
Judge John Jelderks, who presided at the four-hour Friday afternoon hearing, denied a summary judgment sought by Wasco County, but granted a joint motion by the state and Wasco County for an injunction to prevent any new construction in the area annexed to the original city.
The judge said that injunction is “absolute, regardless of any prior building permits” until the suit against the city of Rajneeshpuram, the Rajneeshpuram Investment Corporation and the Neo-Sannyan Commune is settled. There is even some dispute about the boundary lines of the newly-annexed area. The commune’s church and a hotel are in the disputed area, according to the county, but both buildings are complete or near complete. ..[Carey] said the county was not asking for the tearing down of any buildings, but was asking the court to stop any further construction or occupancy of the buildings.
Ma Prem Sangreet, representing the city, countered that the city does not control the developer and has not issued any new permits since a court order preventing them last October ... She said the county did not have evidence that Rajneeshpuram was not a city when the permits were issued and the developer (Rajneesh Investment Corp.) and the occupants did not have vested rights.
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