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Phono 56
As Feud Launched
Oyer Range Lines
Bend's First Auto Too Large
For Grade In Cow Canyon;
, Bend s first automobile; purchased in Chicago just short
or half a century ago, shipped by express to The Dalles and
Drought here under its own power from the Columbia river
over rutted wagon roads, still operates under its own power,
It is the atcient car now owned by K. A. Smith which
only Jast summer was the transportation used in taking Mrs.
J. Alton Thompson, then queen of the Deschutes Pioneer
Association, to the crroun's an. t , ...
nual picnic, at Pioneer park.
At the rudder was Smith,
dressed in duster, gloves and
his Sunday best. :
in distant 1S0B, the Deschutes
"? A feud over a range line thtat left
two men dead under a March sun
in distant 1882 was the spark that
set off in pioneer Central Oregon
rule by vigilantes that left in its
bloody wake the hanged and bullet
tiddled bodies of many men.
' Six shooters roared in those Cen
tral Oregon nights of long ago.
Men died dangling from the limbs
of junipers, or the rails of bridges.
Some were shot in the darkness of
night, through windows. Ranch
homes were burned.
For a period of two years, the
vigilantes ruled in that part of old
Wasco countv now occunied bv
Crook, Jefferson and Deschutes.
The so-called vigilantes ruled some
8,600 square miles of rangeland
and the pioneer town of Prineville
with a bloody hand.
. This is the story of the double
murder ot 1882 that ended with
fnnr men in their craves. It is the
story of the start of the vigilante
rule that ended in 1884, later to be
followed by the "sheep war" of the
early years of the present century.
Murder 8tory Told
It was on March 15, 1882, a year
that saw spring coming early to
the pioneer Central Oregon region,
that A. H. Crooks and his son-in-law,
Stephen J. Jory, were at work
blazing the lines of some govern
ment land in the edge of the tim
ber near Grizzly butte, alongside
the ranch of Lucius Langdon.
There had been some trouble be
tween Langdon and Crooks about
property lines, but no one knew
the trouble was serious. , :
At noon on that remote March
rtav. Crooks and Jory left their
axes leaning against a big tree
near Langdon's barn, and went
home for dinner. When they came
iwir l.nnedon was waiting. He
shot and killed both the men, jump
ed on his horse and disappeared.
Thon stnrtrd the hunt for the
killer that gave rise to the vigil
antes. Before tnat nunt was ovei ,
an innocent man had been killed.
Langdon had working for him a
young man, W. H. Harrison, a de
cent, law abiding citizen with a
small son. He was in Prineville
the day of the double murder near
Grizzly, and rode out to the ranch
with men from Prineville.
Two Bodies Found
When the men . arrived at the
property line, they found the two
bodies still on the ground.
Langdon had a brother living on
Mill creek, about 17 miles from
Prineville, and a party went there
that night hunting for him. Mem
bers of tWe party said they saw
Langdon run away from his bro
ther's cabin. The posse pot Jiis
. horse and gun. A leader of the pos
se said he had seen Harrison run
ihn hniKP fl SO.
Tnhe'foliowing day .friends of
Thihc! M. H aKeiy, wlui ow.-..
CroT county's first sheriff, asked
l7 i.bnn ihn hunt for Lang-
don The posse headed over the
.,1.7 HiviHn late in the evening.
and went to Langdon's place near
where the killing of Jory and
Crooks took place. A warrant had
also been issued for Harnson. but
members of me possi; si"
had nothing to do with the douWe
murder and that they did not want
him- Man Hunt Recalled
V few years ago. Blakely. one
of -Jhrcc brother, who had served
a, Oregon sheriffs, recalled in an
article in the Oregonian:
"Jr was getting dark when
reacts the Langdon ranch. When
wo goT within about 200 yards of
Ihr. hnubf we heard a dog bark. We
saw Larson mount a white horse
n front of his house and jump he
h. over a ditch ana stari iui
?he roadWe carried rifles and
, . i. h it there was no occasion
Pnr eun Plav I r called him and
h topped? " hen rode right up to
"Mrs. Langdon v, as standing in
the doorway, screaming. We took
her husband into the house,, and
she fixed us some supper. There
were two small children.
"While the nosse euarded Lane-
don, I went over and told the
Crooks and Jory families we had
got the Killer and were taking him
to Prineville. We did not arrest
Harrison, but When we started
back, he said he wanted to go
along. Wo told him he could."
Killed By Gunmen
Langdon was placed under guard
In a Prineville hotel, with Deputy
Sheriff John Luckey among the
officers present. Suddenly, a group
of men entered the place, over
powered the guards and shot Lang
don to death. " , :
About 5 a. m. the little town of
Prineville was awakened by wild
clanging of the school bell. People
who looked from their windows
saw a horseman racing through
the streets. At the end of a rope
was a man Harrison. He was
dragged to death behind the horse,
then left dangling from the Crooked
river bridee, ,
Witnesses said that Harrison had
been in the hotel where Langdon
had been shot. After things had
quieted down, and the men were
talking about the days events, Har
rison, was quoted as having said,
referring to Langdon: "Well, he
was .always good to me." A group
of men, none of them masked,
grabbed Harrison, who begged for
his lite. :
Pleads For Life
"I got a little boy", he said. The
men put a rope around his neck
and one jumped on a horse and
raced down -the street.
That was the start.of the Crook
county vigilantes, as told by Blake
ly. Other versions of Langdon and
Harrison differed somewhat.
In five months, five men died
through vigilante action in Crook
county, and the list grew until
elected officers took over their
duties in 1884.
(Other stories of vigilante days
in Central Oregon are to appear
in another section of this paper)
Telephone Co., of which H. C. EUis
Was manager, found it difficult to
obtain horses in the area and de
cided to. buy a horseless carriage.
The car ordered from Chicago was
a Holsman, a two-cycle affair with
high wheels. This type was pur
chased because, ot high centers
In roads in the Bend. Prineville
and LaPlne areas served by the
company. Some of the high cent
ers were caused by lava rocks.
Others were stumps of trees. Only
use made of Central Oregon roads
In those days was by freight wa
gons, stage coaches and hacks or
ouggies.
Fuel Shipped In
Ellis found it impossible to get
fuel in The Dalles to bring the
new car to Bend. Finally, alter a
wait of several days, a supply
was obtained irom uoldendale,
across the Columbia river on the
Washington side. Some of this
supply was shipped up the line,
where it could be picked up in
transit The luel was In five-gallon
cans, two to a case.
The brand-new Holsman caused
considerable excitement in The
Dalles that day in 1906 when it
chugged up the Columbia to a
crossing of the Deschutes river
at Freebridge. At that time, there
was only one other car in The
Dalles a Reo owned by Dr. J. A.
Reuter. It was a one-cylinder ve-'
nlcie.
From Freebridge, the Holsman
headed for the little-known village
of Bend, moved up Rattlesnake
canyon to Moro at the pace of a
buggy team, mere was a tem
porary delay at Moro while more
canned gas was taKen aDoarcl.
Finally, the car reached Cow Can
yon at night.
. Fenders Hipped Off
The car moved slowly down the
rugged canyon, with the driver
picking the "trail" by the dim il
lumination of the primitive head
lights. As the grade narrowed,
fenders on one side of the car
were ripped and dented. And In
going through a narrow cut. fen
ders on the opposite Bide were
torn. By tne time the car reached
the bottom of the grade, its fen
ders were scraps of metal. They
were taKen on at tne pioneer
Helsler sfage- station, - on Trout
creek, and remained there as rel
ics for years. They were still in
evidence at the site of the old
station In the early 1920s.
The car was used by Judge Ellis
and members of his crew for sev
en . years, In line maintenance
work. Gas for the car was freight
ed in from Shaniko by E. A. Sath-
er, who operated a store here.
incidentally, gas In those days
cost 75 cents a gallon in Bend, and
$1.00 in Rosland,- the present La
Plne area. . m ;. . :-i
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