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‘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
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ding hills and opened one of Stewart’s husband, Roy,
chers, she was a night
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the first sawmills in the grabbed his shotgun and
raider that took what did
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area.
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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
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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
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“guesstimated " Not guns,
cruel remembrance where
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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
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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 ,
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EACH
raid, they were quickly
another time.
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haif $ | 39
PLUS DEPOSIT
replenished. As a result,
The land has now been
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they became bolder and
tamed and the outlaw wild
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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.
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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.
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O H N S T O N 5, 9
JOHNSTON'S,
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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
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Kelso and as far north as
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distance between her pack
Februory 23, 1982 and winners will be announced
the Columbia River On the
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WHS Cr«om Souc«,
and the blast of a shotgun
in our T hriftw ay od March 10, 1982.
west, Cottrell was the boun
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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
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have died shortly after
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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
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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.
She was known as one of
the greatest bandits of her
time, and the stories sur
rounding her exploits grew
as the raids in communities
neighboring Sandy con
tinued
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