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COMMUNITY THURSDAY, JULY 30, 2020 BAKER CITY HERALD — 3A Family’s stolen dog still missing Huntington man By Chris Collins ccollins@bakercityherald.com A Baker City man accused of taking a family’s pet dog from a Foothill Drive yard has been charged with fi rst-degree theft, criminal trespassing and animal abandonment after allegedly failing to return the dog to his owners. Clayton Carver Hickman, 18, of Baker City is accused of taking Kobe, an 8-month-old Chihuahua/wirehaired terrier mix, from the fenced yard of Stephanie and Luke Beard the morning of July 19. The case has been referred to the District Attorney’s offi ce and will go before a grand jury or proceed to a preliminary hearing to fi nalize charges, a Sheriff’s Department press release stated. Stephanie Beard said Kobe disappeared between 7:30 and 7:45 the morning of July 19 when she took her daugh- ter, Emma, 16, to work. Her 14-year-old son, Michael, was in the shower at the time. Her husband, Luke, was away from the home working in Alaska. Beard said when she re- turned to her house she soon discovered that Kobe was not VOTING Continued from Page 1A Historical fi gures featured in the theater are: Lucretia Mott, Lucy Stone, Susan B. Anthony, Abigail Scott Duniway, Amelia Bloomer, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sarah Grimke, Lucy Burns, Carrie Chapman Catt, Alice Paul and Sojourner Truth. The readers theater script features excerpts of these women’s writings and speeches. Dave Hunsaker is the narrator. He sets the stage by introducing the featured women. “What you will hear in this Suffrage Movement of Amer- ica is a barebones rendering of a 72-year-long struggle. ... Our hope is to educate and entertain, and perhaps to pique the interest of the audi- ence to learn more. “Of greatest importance is that we not forget nor take for granted what has been won. The right to vote for all America’s citizens must be safeguarded, encouraged, and employed.” Joyce Hunsaker is the fi rst to take the microphone and bring Sarah Grimke to life. “For my 11th birthday my father gave me an 11-year- old Negro slave girl. I tried to give her back, but that was against the rules, so I had to keep her. In secret I started to teach her to read, but when my father found out, he threatened to whip her, so I stopped.” Grimke went on to speak out against slavery and in support of women’s rights. In 1848 a group of fi ve women, including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott, gathered in New York Beard said she also has learned that Hickman stated he took Kobe to the area of Ebell Creek, about 6 miles southeast of Baker City off Highway 30. Beard said her family is offering a reward of at least $500 for information that leads to helping them fi nd Kobe. In addition to searching for their pet, they have distrib- uted fl iers and have provided Submitted photo updates of their efforts on Kobe, an 8-month-old Chihuahua/wirehaired terrier mix. Facebook. Beard said she took last outside with the family’s other acquaintance of the family week off from her job with dogs. who had attended school with the county to search the Ebell She and her son began look- her daughter. Hickman had Creek area. ing for Kobe, thinking he had stayed in an outbuilding on “We still search, and con- bypassed the fence, although their property for a short time, tinue to pray for a miracle that Kobe typically did not try to but she had not seen him our sweet Kobe made it to a get out, she said. recently. passing car, or someone who is When her neighbor heard Baker City Police Chief not aware of social media, but Beard and her son looking for Ray Duman said the case unfortunately after details we the dog he reported that he’d was turned over to the Baker fear this may not be the case,” seen a young adult male drive County Sheriff’s Offi ce be- she wrote in an email to the to the house in a dark-colored cause of a confl ict of interest Herald. SUV. The neighbor reported with his department and be- “Therefore we feel it still that the man got out of the cause Hickman had preferred incredibly important for any vehicle and went into the yard to talk to a Sheriff’s Depart- tips or sightings to be reported and took the dog. ment offi cer. to help law enforcement piece Beard said she called Baker Hickman told authorities together what happened.” City Police to report the theft. he had picked Kobe up to take Anyone with information Investigators identi- him for a ride. He said the dog about Kobe’s disappearance fi ed Hickman as a suspect. jumped out of his vehicle near is asked to call the Sheriff’s Beard said Hickman is an Quail Ridge Golf Course. Offi ce at 541-523-6415. arrested on drug, assault charges HUNTINGTON — A 33-year-old Huntington man was arrested Tuesday and charged with fourth-degree assault after allegedly hurting a relative during an argument. Nicholas Richard Watson is also charged with possession of methamphet- amine. The fourth-degree assault charge Watson constitutes domestic violence and took place in the presence of a minor, who is Watson’s child, according to a press release from the Baker County Sheriff’s Offi ce. Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to a home in Huntington about 3:50 p.m. Tuesday after a woman called and said Watson had hurt her hand by slam- ming it in a door during an argument. Watson’s relative told police that he had been acting strangely, was paranoid and had almost set her cur- tains on fi re, according to a court document. City asks for water conservation Baker City’s public works department is asking residents and businesses to reduce their water usage. During recent hot weather, peak hourly demand has exceeded a rate equal to a daily use of 8.5 million gallons. A typi- cal summer day’s usage is about 4.5 million gallons, according to the city. In addition to asking for a voluntary reduc- tion, the city is reducing irrigation at parks, Mount Hope Cemetery and Quail Ridge Golf Course to 70% of normal. “What you will hear in this Suffrage Movement of America is a barebones rendering of a 72-year-long struggle ... Our hope is to educate and entertain, and perhaps even to pique the interest of the audience to learn more.” — Except from narration for ‘Breaking Through Barriers’ to plan the Seneca Falls Con- vention, which was advertised as “a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious con- dition and rights of women.” Amelia Bloomer was also in attendance, raising attention by wearing pants instead of a skirt (this is where the term “bloomers” emerged). Stanton (portrayed by Ginger Savage) reads the convention’s Declaration of Sentiments, which was signed by 68 women and 32 men. The suffragist movement was born. Two years after that con- vention, Stanton met Susan B. Anthony. They became close friends and worked together for women’s rights. Anthony began teaching in 1839 and soon learned the unbalanced approach for men and women — she earned $8 per month, while her male counterparts earned $30 per month. She was arrested in 1872 for voting and received a guilty verdict. “The judge fi ned me $100 but I told him I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty — and I didn’t!” Anthony and Stanton were soon joined by Lucy Stone, who in 1847 became the fi rst woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. During the Civil War, efforts turned toward the abolitionist movement. The 14th and 15th amendments provided voting rights for freed male slaves and equal rights without regard to color. Women were still not al- lowed to vote. Out West, Abigail Scott Duniway took up the fi ght. She came to Oregon from Il- linois in 1852. On the trip, she fi rst lost her mother, and then her little brother died near Lisa Britton / For the Baker City Herald present-day Durkee. A group of Baker County women will give a performance chronicling the history of After her husband was the women’s suffragette movement Aug. 15 and 21 at Geiser-Pollman Park. permanently disabled in an accident, Duniway supported their family by running a boarding school, then later a millinery shop. In 1871 she founded the weekly news- paper “The New Northwest” in Portland — and soon met Susan B. Anthony. Duniway remained active in the suffrage movement throughout her life. In 1912, Oregon passed the women’s suffrage amendment. She was the fi rst woman to register to vote in Multnomah County. The original suffragettes had died by 1915, but more women took up the cause. One was Lucy Burns, who was arrested six times for her protests in support of women’s right to vote. The 19th Amendment to the United States Consti- tution passed on Aug. 26, 1920. 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