2A — BAKER CITY HERALD
TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 2021
Wolf attack possible in death of calf
unknown wolf depredation.
The Lookout Mountain pack consists
Wolves from the Lookout Mountain
of a male and female adult wolf, and
pack in eastern Baker County consumed a two pups that were born in the spring of
recently born calf last week near Pritchard 2020, Ratliff said.
Creek, north of Durkee, but state wildlife
Both the adults have tracking collars.
biologists couldn’t determine whether the
On Tuesday, March 16, ODFW re-
wolves actually killed the animal.
ceived a signal from the GPS collar fi t-
There was no blood, hide or muscle
ted to the female adult wolf, which has
tissue, and nothing left of the calf but
black fur, showing the animal was in
the front incisors and two parts of the
the Pritchard Creek area, Ratliff said.
jawbone, which made a defi nite conclu-
ODFW notifi ed a rancher who has
sion about the cause of death impossible, cattle in the area.
said Brian Ratliff, district wildlife biologist
The rancher found the remains of the
at the Oregon Department of Fish and
calf on the evening of Wednesday, March
Wildlife’s (ODFW) Baker City offi ce.
17, Ratliff said.
There were tracks in the area from an
According to an ODFW report, the
adult cow and from multiple wolves,
rancher reported that his cattle were
and matted down vegetation indicating “stirred up” on the morning of March 16,
some sort of “altercation” took place,
and that he saw a black, radio-collared
Ratliff said.
wolf carrying a leg bone on the evening of
The incident is listed as a possible/
March 17.
By Jayson Jacoby
jjacoby@bakercityherald.com
B AKER C OUNTY C ALENDAR
TUESDAY, MARCH 23
■ Baker City Council: 7 p.m. at Baker City Hall, 1655 First
St. Council members will be attending in person. The
Council Chambers will be open for members of the press
and limited audience. A link to watch the meeting live
online is available at www.bakercity.com
T URNING B ACK THE P AGES
50 YEARS AGO
from the Democrat-Herald
March 22, 1971
PORTLAND (UPI) — The Baker Bulldogs and the Grant
Generals won fi rst round victories before 8,431 fans in low
scoring action at the opening of the Oregon Class AAA
high school tournament Tuesday night. Baker downed
South Salem 39-34 and Grant beat Parkrose 45-42.
25 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
March 22, 1996
A Wisconsin District Court jury on Thurday ordered J.I.
Case Corp. of Racine, Wisc., to pay $8.5 million in damages
to Steven Sharp, a former New Bridge resident who had
both arms severed near the elbow during a farm accident
on Aug. 22, 1992.
The jury awarded Sharp $6.5 million in compensatory
damages and $2 million in punitive damages.
10 YEARS AGO
from the Baker City Herald
March 23, 2011
Police arrested a 42-year-old Baker City man about 7:30
this morning after an overnight standoff in a south Baker
City duplex that brought about 40 offi cers from agencies
around the region.
After negotiations that stretched over more than 15
hours, members of an Oregon State Police SWAT team
entered the home at 695 Fourth St. and arrested Donald
Huff. No one was hurt in the incident, said Baker City Police
Chief Wyn Lohner.
ONE YEAR AGO
from the Baker City Herald
March 24, 2020
Matt Reidy has two checks in his hand but he’s not
quite ready to hand them to Patsy Hoelscher and spoil the
surprise.
Reidy is standing in the lobby of the Rachel Pregnancy
Center on Friday morning with Hoelscher, chairman of the
organization’s board of directors, and Hal Huntington.
Huntington and Reidy are both members of the Knights
of Columbus, the Catholic fraternal service group.
They’ve met with Hoelscher to donate the proceeds
from a recent chili contest and silent auction that took
place at St. Francis de Sales Cathedral in Baker City.
After a few minutes of conversation, Reidy decides to
end the suspense.
He turns over the fi rst check, for $2,526. That’s from
Smokin’ Joe’s Chili Contest and silent auction on Feb. 22.
But Reidy isn’t quite fi nished; there is the matter of that
second check.
That $420 donation comes from the Knights of Co-
lumbus state offi ce, which made the donation after local
members applied on behalf of the Rachel Center, Hunting-
ton said.
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FIRE
Continued from Page 1A
He said the apparent
cause of the fi re was a
problem with a damper on
a woodstove in a separate,
smaller structure where
Gary Holland lives.
Kingsbury said it’s possible
that embers from the wood-
stove ignited the fi re, which
didn’t damage the smaller
structure where Gary lives
but did spread to the larger
home where his mother lives.
The buildings are about 75
to 80 feet apart, Kingsbury
said.
Among the potentially
dangerous items on the prop-
erty were multiple oxgyen-
acetylene tanks for cutting
torches, and several propane
tanks.
Kingsbury said none of the
tanks exploded, so far as he
can tell from examining the
property, but there were ex-
plosions inside the two-story
COUNCIL
Continued from Page 1A
The letter the Council ap-
proved on March 9, written
by Councilor Jason Spriet,
notes that Baker City’s small
businesses “have been forced
to weather this monumental
obstacle with very little assis-
tance from the state or federal
government.”
“The community is clearly
asking us to stand with them
and speak out for them as
best we can,” McQuisten said.
“I hope we can show them we
heard them by passing this
(Resolution 3881).”
Although the resolution
concedes that the city “has
no legal ability to summarily
fl out these mandates” and
“therefore cannot protect any
local business from State-
directed targeting, repercus-
sions and penalties if such
local business personally
chooses to,” the document
goes on to state that “we
do believe our citizens are
fully capable of making their
private, individual health-
care and lifestyle decisions
themselves.”
The resolution calls into
question whether the steps
Brown has taken to slow the
spread of COVID-19, includ-
ing restrictions on businesses
on a 2017 appraisal.
Volunteers from the Eagle
Valley, Pine Valley, Keating,
Medical Springs and Baker
Rural fi re departments also
responded to the fi re, Kings-
bury said.
A fi re truck from the North
Powder department was en
route but its engine broke
down, he said.
In a post on the city of
Richland’s Facebook page,
local resident and journalist
Sherrie Kvamme wrote that
Sherrie Kvamme/Contributed Photo Don Flowers bought all the
The aftermath of a Saturday, March 20 fi re that de-
pizzas from the Shorthorn
stroyed Carmelita Holland’s home in New Bridge.
restaurant in Richland, and
women from the Nazarene
home when the fi re reached longtime local historian
Church baked the pizzas for
gun ammunition and reload- who has much information
the fi refi ghters. Other local
ing supplies.
about Baker County mining residents brought drinking
He said the house was a
history. She wrote a book,
water for the volunteers.
total loss, although fi refi ght- “Stories, Legends and Some
Donations of cash and gro-
ers poured enough water into Oregon History.”
ceries for Carmelita Holland
one part of the home that
According to the Baker
are being collected at the
some papers and other items County Assessor’s Offi ce,
Hitching Post in Richland,
were salvageable after the
the 1,040-square-foot home
according to the post, and a
fi re was out.
was built in 1930 and has a GoFundMe account is being
Carmelita Holland is a
market value of $8,970 based set up.
and limits on attendance that
prompted the cancellation of
most of Baker City’s major
summer events in 2020, were
justifi ed.
“Science has shown over
the last year that COVID-19
is overwhelmingly survivable
and lockdowns do not stop its
spread,” the resolution states.
“All models and projections
used to justify initial state
emergency mandates have
been proven inaccurate over
the past year.”
The resolution contends
that the state’s restrictions,
by affecting residents’ ability
“to earn a living or pursue
other rights as outlined in our
State and U.S. Constitutions,
have resulted in an unconsti-
tutional seizure of property
without compensation.”
The resolution also refers
to “inappropriately weapon-
ized State agencies.”
The document notes that
some local businesses have
closed and that others “are
on the brink of permanent
closure, creating a fi scal
emergency and a devastated
local economy.”
The resolution also men-
tions state mandates for
wearing masks and social
distancing, claiming those
and other rules “are actively
creating division and unrest
N EWS OF R ECORD
FUNERALS PENDING
Tommy G. West: Graveside
services will be Wednesday,
March 24, at 2 p.m. at Mount
Hope Cemetery, with military
honors. Those wishing to make
memorial contributions in Tom-
my’s memory can direct them to
a charity of one’s choice through
Coles Tribute Center, 1950 Place
St., Baker City, OR 97814. To light
a candle in memory of Tommy, go
to www.colestributecenter.com.
James Dwight ‘Jimmy’ He-
bert: Celebration of Jimmy’s life,
April 3 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at
Bonita’s home in North Powder.
Donations in his memory can be
made to Doernbecher Children’s
Hospital in Portland or the Wolf
Creek Grange No. 596 in North
Powder in care of Gray’s West &
Co. Pioneer Chapel, 1500 Dewey
Ave., Baker City, OR 97814. To
leave an online condolence for
Jimmy’s family, go to www.
grayswestco.com.
Arlene Mae Schoorl: Cele-
bration of her life, with a potluck,
The site where the teeth and bones
were found is north of Interstate 84 in the
Durkee Valley area, on public land adja-
cent to a large private pasture. Ratliff said
cattle are scattered on both private and
public land in the area, which is about 20
miles east of Baker City.
Ratliff said on Friday, March 19 that
based on signals from the collars, the
adult female wolf was in the area where
the teeth and bones were found at 10 p.m.
on March 16 and at 6 a.m. on March 17.
Signals later in the week showed that
the wolves have remained in the general
area, he said.
Ratliff said ranchers who have cattle in
the area are aware of the wolves’ pres-
ence, and Ratliff said he has suggested
they take precautions such as ensuring
the cattle are in groups, which can help
protect them from wolves and other
predators.
will take place on Saturday, April
24 from 10:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.
at the Unity Community Hall. To
offer online condolences, go to
www.grayswestco.com.
with the increased potential
of physical violence within
our community as those of
one opinion are encouraged
by it to impose their opinions
over the free will of those of
another in a physical way ...”
The resolution cites limits
on the number of inmates
housed at the Baker County
Jail, which has a capacity of
45 but generally has been
holding around 15 during
the pandemic. The resolu-
tion cites an “ongoing ‘cite
and release’ system that puts
criminals straight back on the
streets to further victimize
our community immediately
after arrest.”
The resolution goes on to
state that “the Governor’s
mandates result in pitting
local law enforcement against
law-abiding citizens rather
than criminals, which dam-
ages our community’s strong
relationship with our valued
local law enforcement, and
which is a dynamic no com-
munity should tolerate.”
Another clause in the
resolution states that the
“deliberate isolation of the ill
in hospitals or the elderly left
to die alone of that isolation
is the cruelest of abuses and
is not to be accepted in any
civilized society.”
The resolution concludes
with a series of actions,
which include that “the City
will communicate in writing
with the Governor’s Offi ce to
encourage the full opening of
our city and county, recat-
egorization to low-population
status, or suggesting other
means necessary to give our
citizens relief from these
mandates.”
The resolution also states
that the city “recognizes
the citizenry of Baker City
are free, sovereign individu-
als within a Constitutional,
Representative Republic, not
subjects or slaves, and will
be recognized as such as we
fi rmly stand to represent
them.”
McQuisten said she was
motivated to write the
resolution, and propose that
the City Council approve it,
because of a lack of action by
the governor.
“Counties and cities across
Oregon have been asking
Kate Brown to fully open the
state for months,” McQuisten
said. “The requests have fallen
on deaf ears, and Oregon is in
the national news in a nega-
tive way yet again — we’re
looking at permanent OSHA
distancing, masking, and vac-
cine rules that will indefi nite-
ly harm our businesses and
schools. This defi es science,
hurts our community, and
shouldn’t happen. This resolu-
tion approach is unusual. I’ll
be interested to see if other
cities and counties take it up
and run with it as well.”
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POLICE LOG
Baker City Police
Arrests, citations
FAILURE TO PERFORM
DUTIES OF A DRIVER TO AN
INJURED PERSON: Josiah Fran-
cisco Arenas, 19, Baker City, 8:08
p.m. Saturday, March 20 in the
900 block of East Street; jailed.
DRIVING UNDER THE INFLU-
ENCE OF INTOXICANTS: Shawn
James Boothby, 47, Baker City,
11:38 p.m. Saturday, March 20 in
the 2100 block of Second Street;
cited and released.
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