DailyAstorian.com // MONDAY, APRIL 11, 2016
143RD YEAR, NO. 198
J.C. PENNEY TURNS
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IN ASTORIA
PAGE 3A
ONE DOLLAR
LADY LOGGERS
PLAY LIKE CHAMPS
SPORTS • PAGES 7A & 10A
Wolf
pack
death is
sobering
Shooting renews debate
over managing predators
By ERIC MORTENSON
Capital Press
Photos by Joshua Bessex/The Daily Astorian
Sage Nyberg, 10, grimaces as he pulls up a clam gun from the sand while digging for razor clams on Sunday morning during the
Long Beach (Wash.) Razor Clam Festival.
MOLLUSK MADNESS
SEIZES THE BEACH
Fans of razor clams clamor
for more in Long Beach
By JOSHUA BESSEX
The Daily Astorian
L
ONG BEACH, Wash. — Armed with clam guns, shov-
els, boots and buckets, hundreds of people took to the
shores of Long Beach over the weekend for the annual
Razor Clam Festival.
The festival, which had an eight-year run in the 1940s
before restarting in 2013, gave visitors a taste of Northwest
coastal life with multiple chowder competitions and the clam
fritter cook-off on Saturday.
For the do-it-yourselfers, the festival offered free clam-dig-
ging lessons each morning and clam-cleaning classes when
the digging was done.
More photos of the mollusk madness online at www.dai-
lyastorian.com.
Razor clams are shown in a net on
Sunday.
They called him OR-4, and by some
accounts he was Oregon’s biggest and bad-
dest wolf, 97 pounds of cunning in his prime
and the longtime alpha male of Wallowa
County’s inÀuential Imnaha Pack.
But OR-4 was nearly 10, old for a wolf
in the wild. And his mate limped with a bad
back leg. Accompanied by two yearlings,
they apparently separated from the rest of the
Imnaha Pack or were forced out. In March,
they attacked and devoured or injured calves
and sheep ¿ve times in private pastures.
So on March 31, Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife staff boarded a helicopter,
rose up and shot all four.
See WOLF PACK, Page 10A
Brown
rHÀHFWV
on her
¿rVW yeDr
By PARIS ACHEN
Capital Bureau
Payson Hoiseck, 10, from Toledo, Wash., shows a razor clam she dug up
in Long Beach on Sunday.
Payson Hoiseck, 10, from Toledo, Wash.,
digs for razor clams Sunday morning
along Long Beach.
Chefs prepare clam fritters during the
clam fritter cook-off at Veterans Memorial
Park on Saturday.
PORTLAND — Gov. Kate Brown used
her State of the State address Friday to claim
a series of social, eco-
nomic and environ-
mental achievements
during her ¿rst full
year in of¿ce.
Calling it “a water-
shed year for Oregon,”
she recounted to a
crowd of about 500 at
the City Club of Port-
land that the state had
Kate
passed several ¿rst-in-
Brown
the-nation laws. Those
policies ban the sale of
coal-powered electricity, automatically reg-
ister people to vote, set a tiered minimum
wage and allow the sale of birth control with-
out a prescription.
She compared the new policies to the leg-
acy of former Gov. Tom McCall, known for
his leadership in passing landmark land-use
planning laws in 1973.
See BROWN, Page 10A
Astoria native awarded millions in YouTube suit
A $3,000
investment
garners gold in
federal court
our years ago, a former
Astoria resident and his
business partner each invested
$1,500 in a Dallas, Tex-
as-based, video gaming chan-
nel on YouTube. The two were
promised a 30 percent stake
in the business and 30 percent
pro¿t.
The Videogames YouTube
channel became a hit with
more than 813 million vis-
its and millions of dollars in
F
advertising revenue. However,
the channel creator breached
the investment agreement with
Astoria native Brandon Keat-
ing, now of Chicago, and fel-
low investor David “Ty” Moss,
of North Carolina.
“This creator came to me
and asked me to invest,” Keat-
ing said. “Things went south,
and a few years later we are in
a lawsuit.”
Keating and Moss were
awarded $20.3 million last
Brandon Keating
week from a Texas federal jury
after ¿ling an investment fraud
lawsuit. The lawsuit claimed
creator Marko Princip and his
business partner Brian Martin,
of California, failed to honor
their contract and conspired
to commit fraud and tortious
interference.
The federal jury awarded
$16 million in punitive dam-
ages, $1.5 million in future
earnings and 60 percent of the
advertising revenue.
Keating, who was born in
Astoria and studied at Tongue
Point Job Corps Center
before joining the U.S. Navy,
describes himself as an inves-
tor. He has invested in 100 dif-
ferent YouTube stars, one of
whom recently signed a deal
with LionsGate.
Anyone can create a You-
Tube channel. The channels
with the most views, such
as Videogames YouTube,
have the potential to gener-
ate huge amounts of money in
advertising.
“That is what was repre-
sented,” Keating said when he
invested in Videogames.
Many of these YouTube
channels start off with hand-
shake agreements. It is import-
ant for people to sign of¿-
cial documents to help avoid
investment fraud, he said.
Keating’s lawyers esti-
mated thousands of investment
fraud cases involving YouTube
channels could be ¿led over
the next few years.
“This case demonstrates the
big business that YouTube has
become,” Dan Wyde, a lawyer
See KEATING, Page 10A