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4A COTTAGE GROVE SENTINEL October 5, 2016 O PINION Rumors of our demise... Debunking the ‘newspapers are dying’ myth BY DAVID CHAVERN For the Sentinel I magine waking up in a world without newspapers. You say, I haven’t gotten a newspaper in years. But I’m not talking about just the paper delivered by carriers or the postal service. I’m talking about the news online, the links on social media, the email newsletter, the source cited in the tele- vision broadcast and the push notifi cation on your phone. The word newspaper no longer refl ects the media industry encompassed by the word. It’s time to debunk the idea that Newspapers Are Dying. The newspaper business has changed a lot. But so what? Lots of industries go through ups-and-downs as technologies and custom- er preferences change. Name an industry — cars, airlines, energy, retail, accounting, transportation, construction and the under- lying economic drivers look a lot different than they did in the 1980s. That doesn’t mean they are dead businesses. People want and need the underlying products and ser- vices and the industries adapt to be success- ful in the new world. We are living in the age of information. Ac- cording to a University of Southern Cali- fornia study, Americans are absorbing fi ve times more information a day than in 1986. And as the demand for quality news grows, storytelling evolves. I think that we have only just begun to explore the incredible upside of new tools in telling compelling news stories. What if we could not only tell people about Syria but also put them there (virtually) to experience some aspects for themselves? All evidence shows that people of all ages want and consume more news than ever. We need to focus on new ways to address the needs of audience. Legacy newspapers are considered trusted sources of information; we must continue to keep that trust as we experiment in the digital age. Live stream- ing, social media and video are just tools for better stories as journalists fi ght to keep readers in the know. This week, we celebrate the 76th National Newspaper Week, where we celebrate news- papers as the Way to Know. It is a time to be grateful for the news carriers that trudge through the streets hours before you’ve had your fi rst cup of coffee to deliver you the news. We take this week to realize that what we know comes from hardworking editors and journalists, who decide what informa- tion to put in front of us each day. We cel- ebrate that we can count on them to go into a tragedy and bring us back hope. They make politics human and science easy to read. I don’t want to imagine a world without newspapers, do you? David Chavern is President and CEO of News Media Alliance. Offbeat Oregon History Lake County feud ended with double murder by masked assassins BY FINN J.D. JOHN For the Sentinel I n the old Linkville Cemetery in Klamath Falls, if you should fi nd yourself wandering through reading headstones, you just might stumble across one near the east entrance that features the most startling epitaph you’re ever likely to read: “LEE and JOE, Children of H.C. & M.T. LAWS,” it reads, “murdered by masked assassins. June 24, 1882; Aged 19 Years; Aged 15 Years.” The gravestone is a relic of a grim and dark time in Oregon, and the West- ern range country in general — a time of rustlers and vigilantes, of six-gun justice and lynch mobs. It all took place so long ago that documentation is of- ten scant, and what remains is usually slanted in favor of the side of the argu- ment that won (or survived). This cryptic gravestone is the only physical evidence remaining of a short but hot family feud that left four dead and several more wounded — a sort of condensed frontier Oregon version of the Hatfi eld-McCoy wars. It started with a man named Henry C. Laws, who, in the late 1870s, was the leader of an outfi t called The Bonanza Regulators — a gang, essentially, dedi- cated to keeping newcomers and out- siders from grazing their livestock on the federally owned rangeland in west- ern Lake and eastern Klamath counties, which the Regulators wanted to use ex- clusively for their own herds. But it wasn’t outsiders that Laws was destined to have trouble with; it was other locals — specifi cally, William Calavan (sometimes spelled Callaghan) and his sons. Calavan, one day, found what he thought were his own cattle in Laws’ herd and moved to take posses- sion on the spot. Laws reacted by grab- bing a club and letting Calavan have it, causing a lasting injury (although of what type I haven’t been able to learn). After that, tensions between the two families grew steadily until fi nally, one day in late winter of 1882, Laws, driving a herd of cattle up a path in the snow, met Calavan’s two sons, Frank and Jimmie, on horseback. The two lads refused to move off the path to let the horses through. Words were exchanged, then angry shouts, and, fi - nally, hot lead. It’s not clear who started the shoot- ing. Both sides, of course, blamed the other. But when the gunsmoke had cleared, Henry Laws had been shot in the calf, Jimmy’s horse had been shot out from under him, and 15-year-old Frank Calavan had taken a bullet some- where important. He made it home on his horse, where he died shortly after his brother arrived on foot. Laws was arrested, of course, and taken to Alturas, Calif., for possible prosecution. But from the very start, there was a good deal of confusion as to who had jurisdiction; the crime had happened almost right smack on the state line between Oregon and Cali- fornia, and of course neither state was eager to go to the trouble and expense of doing another state’s legal duty. California, having been handed the opportunity to make the fi rst ruling, predictably decided it had happened in Oregon, and sent the case packing northward. A month later, in March, a prelimi- nary hearing was scheduled in the town of Linkville — which today is known as Klamath Falls — to sort through this and other questions. Linkville having no dedicated Hall of Justice back in 1882, the hearing was to be held in a hotel — referred to in various sources as the Linkville Hotel, the Greenman Hotel and the Lakeside Inn. Whatever the hotel’s name was, it soon proved its inadequacy as a hold- ing facility for accused murderers. That night, a gang of about 18 masked men slipped into the lobby with cocked shotguns in their hands. Rumors of the gang’s plans had pre- ceded them, and the sheriff had put out the call for locals to defend Laws from the lynchers; the hotel was full of armed defenders. When the masked men stepped into the lobby with drawn guns, they got the drop on everyone in the room; but the presence of so many men with guns in the lobby seems to have unnerved the lynching party con- siderably. “Where is Laws? Someone show us Laws,” barked the leader of the gang, according to the recollections of Linkville resident Rufus Moore, one of the defenders, 40 years later. Turn- ing to a young boy, he repeated his de- mand: “Take this candle and show us to Laws.” But the boy stood petrifi ed with fear, apparently unable to move. So the leader took the candle in one hand and his gun in the other and started up the stairs. And that’s when someone opened fi re on him from the top of the stairs, obviously aiming at the candle. “The leader backed away from the doorway and said, ‘Stand your ground, boys,’” Moore recalled. “But his men all stampeded and several shots rang out in the room. The concussion extin- guished all the lights. I heard a man cry, ‘Oh!’ followed by a sound like running water. It was blood, we later learned.” It was indeed blood. The gunshots had been accidental discharges; when the panicked lynch-mob members had broken and run, many of them had forgotten the cocked heaters dangling from their trigger fi ngers. Several of them actually dropped their weapons in their panic, and the impact when it hit the fl oor set off at least one shotgun — it was found on the fl oor with one barrel fi red and the other at full cock. And apparently its full load of shot had, by sheer bad luck, hit Deputy Sheriff J.F. Lewis in the leg. The close-range blast had torn away Lewis’s femoral artery. In seconds his body had drained itself of blood and left him dead on the fl oor. Now in full panic-stricken retreat, the would-be lynch mob members were racing for their horses, their shotguns lying forgotten on the fl oor of the hotel behind them or dangling forgotten (but still cocked) from their hands. Several more accidental discharges resulted, including one that removed a hat and a shock of red hair from one of the mob members and another that slightly wounded the local justice of the peace, William A. Wright. But no one ever fi g- ured out who any of the masked men were. The next day the hearing was held, as scheduled. But because young Frank Calavan had been shot in a gunfi ght, it Please see OFFBEAT, Page 10A Eat plant protein to live longer BY JOEL FUHRMAN, MD For the Sentinel P rotein from meat, eggs and dairy products (ani- mal protein) is different than protein from vegetables, seeds, nuts, beans and whole grains (plant protein). The protein it- self is different: animal protein is higher in essen- tial amino acids than plant pro- tein; animal protein and plant pro- tein both provide us $ PUUBHF ( SPWF 4 FOUJOFM 116 N. Sixth Street · P.O. Box 35 · Cottage Grove, OR 97424 ADMINISTRATION: JOHN BARTLETT, Regional Publisher.............................. 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Copyright Notice: Entire contents ©2015 Cottage Grove Sentinel. with adequate amounts of all of the amino acids, but because an- imal protein is more concentrat- ed and higher in essential amino acids, it increases the body’s production of a hormone called IGF-1, which is associated with aging and an increased risk of several cancers. Also, the pack- aging that protein comes in is different; the nutritional compo- sition of animal foods compared to plant foods. Animal foods are calorie-dense and contain pro- infl ammatory and pro-oxidant substances, whereas plant foods are rich in fi ber, vitamins, min- erals and phytochemicals. A recently published article in JAMA Internal Medicine in- vestigated the relationship be- tween (animal vs. plant) protein sources and mortality risk based on almost 30 years of follow-up from the Nurses’ Health Study and Health Professionals Fol- low-up Study, which together included over 170,000 partici- pants. Interesting fi ndings came out of one particular question the researchers asked: What would happen if the participants re- placed some of their animal pro- tein with plant protein? They analyzed the data to es- timate how participants’ risk of death from all causes over the follow-up period would change if some of the animal protein sources (equivalent to 3 percent of total daily calories) were re- placed with plant protein sourc- es: Replace processed red meat: 34 percent decrease in risk Replace unprocessed red meat: 12 percent decrease in risk Replace poultry: 6 percent decrease in risk Replace fi sh: 6 percent de- crease in risk Replace eggs: 19 percent de- crease in risk Replace dairy: 8 percent de- crease in risk What’s wrong with animal protein sources? In addition to elevating IGF-1, which is linked to increased cancer risk, car- nitine and choline from meat and eggs are converted by gut bacteria to a pro-infl ammatory compound called TMAO that promotes cardiovascular dis- ease. Meat, especially red meat, is a rich source of heme iron, which in excess is an oxidant that contributes to cardiovas- cular disease and Alzheimer’s disease. Animal products are also high in arachidonic acid, a fat that promotes infl amma- tion, and may increase can- cer risk. Certain carcinogenic compounds are also commonly found in animal foods, such as heterocyclic amines, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, and N- nitroso compounds. Higher animal protein intake also promotes weight gain. In fact, a recent study compared meat availability, sugar avail- ability and obesity rates in dif- ferent countries and found that sugar and meat had similar cor- relations to obesity rates. This result suggests that availability of meat contributes to obesity just as much as availability of sugar. This is the latest of many studies to link greater meat con- sumption to a greater risk of death. In contrast, plant protein sources are associated with bet- ter health: for example, seeds and nuts reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease and are linked to longevity, and micro- nutrient and fi ber-rich beans are linked to improved blood pres- sure, LDL cholesterol, body weight, insulin sensitivity and enhanced lifespan. Dr. Fuhrman is a #1 New York Times best-selling author and a board certifi ed family physician specializing in lifestyle and nu- tritional medicine. The Eat To Live Cookbook offers over 200 unique disease-fi ghting deli- cious recipes and his newest book, The End of Heart Disease, offers a detailed plan to prevent and reverse heart disease using a nutrient-dense, plant-rich eat- ing style. Visit his informative website at DrFuhrman.com. 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