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About Sandy post. (Sandy, Oregon) 1938-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 11, 1982)
„ ------------- -. -- -,. Thvr. Fobruocy » I. 19*2 (fee. 2) SANDY (O re., F O S T - II ‘She-Devil’ and her pack had run of area by M ICHA EL P. JONES Poet Correspondent Old-timers of the farm ing communities of Cot trell. Mayberry. Kelso and of the logging town of Bull Hun. remember this wild dog bandit and outlaw queen well For it was they who build the legends surrounding her, by telling of her marauding deeds against any man who dared to claim the land that her ancestors once used as their hunting grounds She was a large collie whose b e a u tifu l, long brown and white coat seemed almost ghostlike as she appeared and reap peared in the night with her stable of loyal followers not have much They called her ‘ She D evil.'’ a wild dog who seemed to materialize and vanish in the shadows of the oaks and maples Her howls seemed to echo in the stillness of the night air on Cottrell Hill Just when the night raids on the communities began seems to have been lost m the obscurity of time Man da Colson Stewart, 79, formerly of Cottrell (now living in Portland), said that the outlaw queen was part of the area's lore when she first arrived with her husband, Hoy Colson, in 1926 In the twenties. Cottrell was an out-of the-way far- ween nowhere and going growling and challenging somewhere.’’ according to the rest of the pack to Stewart follow her. Bluff Road was the only And follow her they did, road to Sandy then Mt until finally the people of Hood was hours away by a the area could no longer rugged gravel road pitted stand for the raids An m in u ! ! * • “ k a lf.u jn v Kat. with chuckholes and large armed search party was boulders organized to track the pack Kelso had no store, nor down even an a c tu a l road It was about the time through it Rather, there Albert Andrews and the She was the leader of the were crude trails, widened Hudson's farm fell victim pack, strong, gallant and by hand just enough that an to a raid that people decid almost mystic, as man early model car or a horse ed to join together, recalls tried to capture her in SECURITY ALARMS and buggy could pass Stewart. every conceivable way, on There was a small store No longer was the pack ly to be outwitted by her on Cottrell Road near an individual problem She- time and time again bvsirw ia t in e * '9e¿ where the cannery now Devil had now become To others, however, the stands Behind this was a everyone’s concern killing of sheep, calves and large fa rm , built and 39373 Proctor, P.O. Box The men folk armed poultry, created only anger operated by Frank Beers, themselves and by word of 668-5016 or 666-5200 and hate in their hearts To who logged the surroun mouth cam e together. these farmers and ran -------SANDY------- ding hills and opened one of Stewart’s husband, Roy, chers, she was a night CLOSED _ FR the first sawmills in the grabbed his shotgun and raider that took what did CIRCUIT T V. area. AL/ joined them, although they not belong to her, and On his land was a were just starting out and created hunger in the cookhouse and liv in g had no livestock. bellies of their fam ily quarters for his timber Some were on horseback, members, who already did crew. others on foot. Some even Even C o ttrell School used dogs for tracking The wasn’t much back in those search was long and dif days, said Stewart. ficult, but gradually the It was comprise' • one dogs were located and kill room and a h/ Ju l of ed, one by one. students. It w a u it until But when the posse years later that another thought they had finally room was built on and the dwindled their .lumbers ceiling lowered enough to down to nothing, more SUNKIST, SEEDLESS, NAVEL add an a u d ito riu m would appear. upstairs. It took until 1940 Finally the trail of She- for the school to even boast Devil and her pack led that it had students in 12 along the trestle in the Bull fall gra js . Run, where they were Isolated and sparsely vigorously pursued populated, Stewart said The dogs were ambushed that it was no wonder that and all believed to have OR JUICY LEMONS this dog queen and her been killed in a canyon. pack could maintain their However, when the posse grip on the area inspected the bodies of the Stewart said that in the pack, S h e -D e v il’s was b eg in n in g , th e lo c a l nowhere to be found. FRESH, POTTED citizenry believed that it Somehow, it is believed, was wolves or coyotes She-Devil and maybe a few AVAILABLE AT MOST responsible for the killing of her followers escaped THRIFTWAY STORES of their stock. But as the the firepower. The surviv CALIFORNIA, NEW CROP raids persisted, and the ing p ack m e m b e rs anger among the people retreated back into the grew enough that someone thickly wooded area of the baited them and waited up Bull Run, never to return. half the night, that they She-Devil's hold on the LARGE, GOLDEN-MEATED learned the true identity of area was finally broken, the predators. and she was cast deep into Where the dogs came the winderness to escape from is only speculation, the fate of the citizens' said Stewart. Some felt angry guns CALAVO, FUERTE that they had been dumped But the pack's retreat out in the woods by so was not without reward, for meone who did not want her new territory lay in a them, or just plainly turned protected watershed where wild and answered the call neither man nor his guns of their past. were allowed. Few people had even ac Today the land around SHUR-FIAVOR ASSORTED tually seen the dogs, said C o ttr e ll has little REGULAR OR DIET Stewart. The pack was resemblance to the ter CRISP CRUST comprised mainly of collies ritory where the mystery of and shepherds (a breed S h e -D e v il g re w and which was rare for this becam e grossly e x a g part of the country at that gerated with the fading tim e.) And just how many memories of story-tellers there were actually in the and the passage of time. p ack can o n ly be No longer is it a land of 16 oz. RETURNABLE “guesstimated " Not guns, cruel remembrance where SAVE 61« EACH BOTTLES steel-jawed traps, snares, a ghostlike dog and her guard dogs or poisoned loyal followers would sud bait, could stop them d en ly a p p e a r out of FIRST FIRST TW O With the people unable to nowhere, plunder some TWO HALF GALS. FIRST TWO kill off the pack, their livestock, and vanish into 12 OZ. numbers quickly grew. If 8-PACKS the woods, only to reap some were killed during a p e a r, u n e x p e c te d ly , ADDITIONAL AT $1.39 EACH raid, they were quickly another time. CHOCOLATE, NEAPOLITAN haif $ | 39 PLUS DEPOSIT replenished. As a result, The land has now been OR STRAWBERRY.............................. gal ADDITIONAL A T ‘ 1,09 they became bolder and tamed and the outlaw wild ADDITIONAL AT ‘ 1.99 stronger each year. dogs, which roamed the She-Devil’s pack was area, are now a thing of the even joined by household past. pets who chose the life of The final days of She- SENECA the wilds over the comforts Devil are a mystery One REGULAR OR DIET and p ro te c tio n of can only speculate because domestication no one can recollec; when her death actually took “ It doesn't take too long place. for dogs to go wild," said Some claim teven in re Stewart, “when so many cent times) that they have dogs were running so TIN seen th is m ig h ty free.” leader—as strong and as She-Devil's pack con WESTERN FAMILY, WHIPPED PLUS DEPOSIT bold as ever—skirting the sisted of as many as 30 dogs G et Free Entry Blank at any T h riftw a y Store. edges of civilization at at times, said Stewart. MILLER 'HIGH LIFE' night. There is no purchases necessary and no obligation. On raiding parties, they She and her pack con You need not be present at the drawings to win. numbered about 15. J O H N S T O N 5, 9 JOHNSTON'S, » INCH Anyone (18 years of age, or older) may enter, tinue to pilfer, but this time The territory of the wild ALMADEN, M OUNTAIN striking and then moving except employees of Thriftw ay or Gerber Advertis dogs ranged as far south as Oeà Burgundy Rh» ne on and keeping a safe ing Agency. Contest ends at close o f business WhtM CHabM « 3 Kelso and as far north as *(".»•« .................................i IT distance between her pack Februory 23, 1982 and winners will be announced the Columbia River On the BIRDSEYE WHS Cr«om Souc«, and the blast of a shotgun in our T hriftw ay od March 10, 1982. west, Cottrell was the boun CELLA Stew art believes that dary, and they later even after the pack was dispers extended their domain ed, that She-Devil may eastward up into the rugg GALLO premium have died shortly after RHODES, WHEAT € Mi 1A ed area of the Bull Run (h a b h sB in rr Rh.ne wards She was now old Burgundy or Vtn watershed Fro. . and ailing, and probably (Additional But primarily they ran she moved one of her pups AVAILABLE AT MOST THRIETWAY STORES Dotaih at Store) the lower portions of the to the head of the pack—a SMUCKER'S Big Sandy River The strong, long haired brown IDAHOAN INSTANT COCKTAIL OR DRY ROAST GOLDEN GRAIN, ASST'D. primary denning area was and white collie located in the area which is She Devil retired to her now Dodge Park. den, would accompany the Stewart said that "She- rest on a few raids, and liv Devil" acted like a general, ed out the rest of her days barking out orders and in contentment. 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