A4 The BulleTin • SaTurday, auguST 21, 2021
Treaty
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“The 1865 treaty was a terrible doc-
ument that should never have been
written. It has been a thorn in our
side,” said Louie Pitt, Warm Springs
director of government affairs and
planning. Pitt spent the better part of
the past two decades lobbying officials
to annul the treaty.
No original document could be lo-
cated, said Pitt. But a copy of the doc-
ument was burned earlier this year by
tribal members.
The ceremony at Warm Springs
Friday featured traditional drumming
performed by tribal members.
Pitt said the tribes are proud of the
treaty that was signed 10 years ear-
lier, in 1855, which established the
Warm Springs Reservation and al-
lowed tribal members to hunt and
fish elsewhere in the state, including
traditional fishing areas along the Co-
lumbia River.
“The first treaty allowed us to keep
our way of life,” said Pitt. “The creator
gave us this place for thousands of
years, and we are still here and we are
going to keep on taking care of what’s
ours, what the creator gave us.”
The 1865 treaty was largely ignored
by Warm Springs members, and the
state of Oregon did not enforce the
act in a meaningful way, but the treaty
still existed on paper until last year.
The U.S. House of Representatives
annulled the treaty in September and
former President Donald Trump for-
malized the decision with a stroke of
his pen.
The Bureau of Indian Affairs says
even though the annulment was
largely symbolic and has few re-
al-world impacts, it helps build trust
between the government and the
Tribes.
“It’s a recognition by the federal
government that it has made mistakes
in the past and it’s trying to clean
those up,” said Bryan Mercier, north-
west regional director for the Bureau
of Indian Affairs.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Merkley, D-Oregon,
who was instrumental in having the
Lovejoy
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Prosecutor Mara Houck
read his statement to Oregon
State Police to the court. The
Bend native is accused of being
drunk when he drove.
The day after the incident,
Lovejoy posted $12,000 and
was released from Deschutes
County jail.
With Lovejoy out on bail
while he awaits trial, the state
requested he wear an ankle
monitor for alcohol.
“Clearly, the general legal
prohibition against 19-year-
olds consuming alcohol did
not prevent Mr. Lovejoy from
consuming alcohol this par-
ticular day,” said Houck, who
supported the request by out-
lining the state’s case against
Lovejoy.
On Aug. 11, Rich Wolf, 61,
was cycling into town on Cas-
cade Lakes Highway, seven
miles southwest of Bend, a
half-mile from Seventh Moun-
tain Resort. Lovejoy was driv-
ing a Toyota Land Cruiser in
the same direction.
“Preliminary crash recon-
struction indicates that Mr.
Lovejoy swerved almost into
the ditch, onto the shoulder,
Prineville
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It was unoccupied at the
time of the fire.
Firefighters were able to save
some personal items, but many
burned.
“There is no damage cost es-
timate at this time,” said Crook
County Fire & Rescue Division
Chief Russell Deboodt. “But
the home was severely dam-
aged.”
The Demaris family lived
in the house between the early
‘70s and 1994.
Demaris and her husband
entered the home into the
National Register of Historic
Places in 1987.
Thomas M. Baldwin, “Old
Tom,” was the manager and
builder of Prineville’s First Na-
tional Bank when he built the
home over a century ago.
Baldwin handpicked all the
lumber and hauled over rock
from the quarry outside of
Prineville. Famed Portland
architect John V. Bennes de-
signed the home, Demaris
said.
According to the home’s
entry in the National Regis-
ter of Historic Places, it is “the
best-designed and most fine-
ly-finished Colonial Revival
house in Prineville.”
“It was an absolutely stun-
ning home inside,” Demaris
said. “Hardly a knot in any of
the wood.”
The original cost to build
the home was roughly $4,000.
Demaris bought the home for
$24,000.
After Baldwin died, the
Stearns family — well-know
Prineville pioneers — moved
in. The Stearns sisters occu-
pied the house longer than
Submitted
Rich Wolf rides a track bike.
and on his way back onto the
roadway, struck Mr. Wolf,”
Houck said.
Wolf suffered “massive”
physical trauma. A chiroprac-
tor who called 911 told the op-
erator he did not feel comfort-
able performing CPR. “He did
not see the point,” Houck said.
Wolf’s bicycle and helmet
“Les Schwabs’ grandson had
his wedding there. Dean
Templeton rented a room
there once. He later ran
for President of the United
States.”
— Sandy Demaris,
Prineville resident
any resident, and, according to
Demaris, the home is known
in Prineville as the “Stea-
rns house,” not the “Baldwin
House.”
A prior owner converted the
home into a bed and breakfast,
a tradition Demaris continued.
“Les Schwabs’ grandson had
his wedding there,” Demaris
said. “Dean Templeton rented
a room there once. He later
ran for President of the United
States.”
Due to the severity of the
damage, Demaris felt doubtful
the home could be restored.
“They’ll never be able to re-
place the lumber or the crafts-
manship,” she said.
Demaris sold the home to
Lucy and Craig Woodward in
1994. The Woodwards con-
verted the home into corporate
offices.
After retiring, they moved
into the home, and they
thought about turning it into
an event center or a museum,
Demaris said.
Now, its future is uncertain.
Despite its storied history,
the home only knew some five
owners, according to Demaris.
“Not many families lived
there,” she said. “When you
moved there, you stayed there.”
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were broken and spread up to
150 feet down the road.
Police say when they located
Lovejoy, there was damage
on his Land Cruiser consis-
tent with hitting a cyclist. He
smelled strongly of alcohol,
had poor balance and was
“taking care to speak slowly
and deliberately,” Houck said.
He reportedly consented to
providing a blood sample to
test for intoxicants. The state is
awaiting those results.
Lovejoy’s attorney, Bryan
Donahue, objected to the ankle
monitor provision, saying his
client had been admitted to an
outpatient addiction treatment
center in Coburg, Serenity
treaty annulled, described the treaty
as an “alarmingly devious move un-
dertaken by the United States federal
government to undermine the rights
and sovereignty of Native tribes.”
“We have a responsibility to do ev-
erything we can to right those morally
reprehensible wrongs,” said Merkley.
“I was thrilled when this historical
travesty was finally acknowledged by
the U.S. government and we success-
fully nullified this fraud.”
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Lane, which doesn’t allow pa-
tients to wear the monitors.
Donahue disagreed his client
being under 21 was relevant to
his release conditions.
“I’m not sure why the state
think’s that’s an exceptional fact,”
he said.
In the end, Judge Raymond
Crutchley did not require the
ankle monitor, provided Love-
joy remain enrolled in the ad-
diction program. Other condi-
tions include a prohibition on
consuming alcohol and going
to bars.
Wolf’s wife attended Friday’s
hearing remotely, though she
choose not to speak.
Wolf kept a home in Bend
and one in Klamath Falls, where
he worked as a senior manager
at Jeld-Wen. He was serious
about cyclocross and track rac-
ing, and a longtime member of
Sunnyside Sports Cycling Team.
Before the pandemic, team-
mates would regularly pile into
vehicles and caravan to Portland
to compete in cyclocross events,
according to team member
Karen Kenlan.
“You get to spend a lot of
time with your teammates not
racing,” she said. “I have a lot of
good memories of Rich. A lot of
good memories.
“If you ask
anyone on our
team, they’d
all tell you
Rich was the
friendliest,
nicest, great-
Wolf
est guy in the
world.”
For a time,
Wolf was a teammate of Marika
Stone, the Bend dentist killed by
an impaired driver while riding
with friends on Dodds Road
northeast of Bend in December
2017.
“To lose two teammates
in three years is traumatic. It
shouldn’t happen to anyone,”
Kenlan said.
Kenlan is helping raise money
on a GoFundMe page to run
ads against drunk and drugged
driving in Wolf’s honor.
The woman who killed
Stone, Shantel Witt, swore at
Stone’s friends and lamented
cyclists being “all over the
road.” Witt’s callousness helped
earn her a conviction for
first-degree manslaughter.
In 2017, Jonathan Chase
Adams was hit and killed by a
FedEx driver, Trent Sage, near
downtown Bend.
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