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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 2017
AT THE ASTORIA LIBRARY, A RECORD FIND
Police notice spike in thefts from cars
Territorial court journals
rediscovered in basement
Astoria, and will also make
copies available to historians
and scholars in Salem. The
originals will be preserved in
the l aw l ibrary’s collection of
historical legal references.
Pearson is glad to have
found a home for the journals.
As he and his staff, along with
local historic preservation-
ist John Goodenberger, sort
through the items in the base-
ment, attempting to prepare the
space for upcoming renovation
work, they are constantly try-
ing to fi gure out where things
should go.
With each item they uncover,
Pearson works through a list of
questions: What do we have?
How can we best preserve it?
How can it best be accessed
by the public? And, what is the
proper location?
For the court journals,
he was able to answer all of
those questions when Mayor
LaMear presented them to the
Supreme Court justice.
“For me, I think knowing
what they are and how valu-
able they are to informing the
territorial court history for the
state, it just felt like the right
place for them to be, ” he said.
By KATIE
FRANKOWICZ
The Daily Astorian
Two 168-year-old pieces of
Oregon’s judicial history have
found a home in Salem after
being rediscovered by chance
in the basement of the Astoria
Library.
On Tuesday, Mayor Arline
LaMear and others from the
city presented two original
journals from the Territorial
Court of Clatsop County to
Oregon Supreme Court Chief
Justice Thomas Balmer. The
volumes, dating from 1849 to
1853 , will now become part
of the State of Oregon Law
Library’s special collection.
It is likely they are the only
copies of the court’s proceed-
ings from that time, said Asto-
ria Library Director Jimmy
Pearson.
“We are delighted to give
these journals to the Oregon
Supreme Court for its legal
collection, where we know
they will be treasured and pre-
served as part of Oregon’s
legal legacy,” LaMear said in
a statement.
LaMear, Pearson, City
Manager Brett Estes and City
Councilor Cindy Price trav-
eled to Salem to present the
journals.
Balmer thanked the mayor
and citizens of Astoria “for
this wonderful gift,” which he
called a “remarkable piece of
history.”
The journals are the court’s
offi cial record of cases from
before Oregon became a
state, when the region was
known as the Oregon Terri-
tory. They record a variety of
cases, including a family law
case appointing a guardian for
a “lad.” The t erritorial judge
at the time was Orville C.
Pratt, later known for presid-
ing over Oregon’s fi rst death
penalty case and for being
the sole dissenter of an Ore-
gon Supreme Court decision
to locate the t erritorial capi-
tal in Salem rather than Ore-
gon City.
City of Astoria
The journals recorded
court proceedings from be-
fore Oregon was a state.
The journals were redis-
covered when Pearson took
then newly-elected c ity coun-
cilors Bruce Jones and Tom
Brownson on a tour of the
basement last November and
Jones happened to spot the
journals. Over the decades, the
basement has become a stor-
age facility of sorts for a vari-
ety of documents, books, fur-
niture and other historic items.
The state’s l aw l ibrary plans
to make electronic and bound
copies of the court journals for
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The Daily Astorian
Police have noticed a rise
in thefts from parked cars in
recent weeks.
Dispatch logs the have
refl ected a spike in people
entering unlocked vehicles
throughout Clatsop C ounty.
Groups of people sometimes
stop in rural areas, where
residents often feel more
comfortable leaving cars
unlocked, to take advantage
of theft opportunities, War-
renton Police Chief Mathew
Workman said.
“This stuff just goes in
spurts,” Workman said. “It’s
not just unlocked vehicles,
it’s unlocked vehicles with
decently priced items in
there.”
Warrenton p olice have
increased patrols to search
for suspicious activity. An
offi cer located a man early
Tuesday morning who may
have been searching through
cars. But after establishing
a perimeter near Warren-
ton City Park and searching
the area for nearly an hour,
police were unable to locate
him.
Workman advised res-
idents to lock car doors,
remove valuable items from
cars or, at least, keep them
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