1925 — 100 years ago
No freight increase asked on apples; Thunder makes for early risers; People careless with own right; Many buttermakers enjoy barbecue; Child drown in irrigation ditch; A.G.A. sales reported heavy; Fall Bordeaux spray is advertised; Crop estimate shows slight gain; County School fair is on tomorrow; barbers return to the old price scale; Carr now owns Heights Garage; Concrete pipe on Smullin Ranch; Timber company wins big suit; Kiddie Camp is again opened; Emmel Recital is well received.
— Hood River News
Following the report that a large touring car had been seen going east through the city with a complete still, in full view on the running board, Deputy State Traffic Officers Blaser and Crotton late yesterday arrested Roy Murrey and Glenn Davidson who with the latter’s family, had camped in a fishing but between Seufert’s and Celilo. The two men were jailed last night on a charge of possession a still, while Mrs. Davidson. a small son, John, Mrs. Davidson’s sister and a small Mexican boy, Diego Toran remained at the auto park. Both med pleaded guilty to the charge before Justice H. G. Merideth this afternoon,m Davidson drawing a fine of $10 and a sentence of 30 days in jail and Murrey being assessed $250 and 60 days. Nearly a pint of moonshine was found by Blaser, but this charge was not pressed.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1945 — 80 years ago
One Local Theft Solves another: Some time Thursday of last week, a Union Pacific box car was broken into and six cases of ale, consigned to Claron Benson, of this city were stolen. Later three youths 16, 17 and 20 respectively were arrested as involved in the theft. But solution of this theft came through another, according to Chief Howard Hollenback. Saturday night, Wesley Walton, of Prinville, while in a drunken condition, rifled two cars on State street, stealing a number of articles, which he [removed] to his own pickup. His movements interested state officer Thonvental and City officer M. F. Campbell, who stopped the Walton pickup and found the stolen articles. They also found several bottle caps which corresponded with those of bottles in the cases stolen from the box car.
Under examination, Walton stated that a local youth, whom he described has offered to sell him one or more cases of the beer which had been stolen from the railroad box car. It was this incident which led to the arrest of the three local boys.
— Hood River News
The petroleum barge that was to have made a voyage through treacherous Five Mile rapids over the weekend is stuck again—this time wedged side-wise in the swift water just below the S. P. & S. railroad bridge. The latest accident of the series that has beset the barge since it broke from its moorings above Celilo falls in July, occurred Saturday as a crew of men from the Russell Towboat and Moorage company was attempting to ease it down the narrow channel by means of lines.
— The Dalles Chronicle
The American Red Cross thus far has expended $1,200 for the relief of disaster victims at Celilo, where 10 Indian houses below the Wishram railroad bridge burned down shortly after July 4.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1965 — 60 years ago
Firemen had trails around two large Oregon timber blazes today, and were hoping they could be brought under control despite weather conditions which have resulted in warnings of “high to extreme” fire danger.
— The Dalles Chronicle
1985 — 40 years ago
Landmark crumbled. With a small crowd of faithful fans watching, a bulldozer crunched the old Tip Top Tavern to the earth in less than an hour here Thursday. The big Caterpillar dozer hardly seemed to work up a sweat as it crunched the wood and concrete block tavern down to make way for a new one-way couplet intersection here. “
“Executioner” was Cat driver Dale Taylor, of T&M Construction in The Dalles, whose Cat shewed into the building from the frame back side, working forward to the concrete block front. One of the witnesses was Larry Fisher, owner of the Tip Top for well over a decade. Thursday’s work spelled the end to more than the much-appended former tavern it was. It had been a Saturday and Sunday morning coffee club, popular chicken spot and gathering place ... It won’t mean the long-awaited last link in a one-way couplet will soon be completed, but it’s a step in that direction.
— Hood River News
Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Monday triggered grand jury investigations when he alleged that his former hierarchy had a hand in a salmonella outbreak; several poisonings, including that of Wasco County Judge Bill Hulse, the Jefferson County District Attorney, and three Bhagwan aides; theft of Rajneesh money; and an arson fire at the Wasco County Planning Office. Wasco County District Attorney Bernie Smith said today that all allegations would be investigated and placed before a grand jury.
The Bhagwan’s allegations came during a news conference that was called after the departure of former Rajneesh Secretary Ma Anand Sheela and a group of her followers that the Bhagwan referred to as “her gang.”
— The Dalles Chronicle
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