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Aug. 31, 1916
Grant County Journal
100 years ago
Blue Mountain Eagle
File photo
From the Aug. 30, 2006, edition of the Blue Mountain
Eagle: A dump truck supplied by the County Road
Department empties a load of mature marijuana
plants into a burn pit the morning of Aug. 26. Sheriff’s
deputies seized 3,302 plants in this most recent
bust, valued between $9-12 million. While there are
fewer plants in this crop than the one seized Aug. 19,
most of them were mature and budding with viable
marijuana. Inset: the plants ablaze.
Aug. 29, 1941
Blue Mountain Eagle
75 years ago
Rabid Deer in Murderous
Assault
Last Saturday evening a
big, strong, rabid buck made a
murderous attack upon Arthur
Rohrer, as he was walking along
Beech Creek highway a short
distance out of Mt. Vernon.
Without warning, the buck
appeared and jumped on him,
knocking him down, much af-
ter the manner of attack upon
a rattlesnake, jumping on and
off and cutting with their hoofs.
Rohrer had his face badly cut
and also cuts and bruises all
over his body and his clothing
cut to ribbons. He got the deer
by the neck and rose, hoping
to twist its neck but it was too
strong for him.
The animal was frenzied
with rabies; foaming at the
mouth and saliva dripping into
the open wounds of Rohrer.
With him down and trampled,
the deer left. Rohrer came to
and made his way along the
highway toward Beech Creek
where he is employed with the
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in the morning, some women
driving a car saw a man stagger-
ing along, tattered and torn, and
they turned around and made a
retreat. They drove to the Justice
place where help was secured
and they brought the injured
man to Long Creek. Dr. Fell,
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and he put him under the Pasteur
treatment for rabies. The case
was caught in time. However,
he will be treated and watched
closely by Dr. Fell.
Sept. 1, 1966
Blue Mountain Eagle
50 years ago
Tailings and Slash
Denny Cook, we hear,
caught a monstrous Chinook
salmon over on the coast, but
we weren’t able to take a pic-
ture of it. Probably just as well
— anything compared to Den-
ny is bound to be small.
Lots of people getting ready
for deer season. D-e-e-r, not
d-e-a-r. We won’t go into the
“hunting bear” bit right now.
Gail Dieker says his wife is
good at bird imitations — she
watches him like a hawk.
Grant County
Your Rural Fa mily Health Clinic
HEALTH
Department
528 E. Main, St. E,
John Day
Monday - Friday
8am - 5pm
Services Provided:
Karen Triplett, FNP
• Primary Care
• Acute Care
• Women’s Health
Exams
• Men and
Children Exams
• Immunizations
• Family Planning
• Contraception
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An eager crowd watches planes taxi during a
previous Grant County Fly-in. This year’s event
is set for Saturday, Sept. 10, at the Grant County
Regional Airport in John Day.
SATURDAY, SEPT. 10
Grant County Fly-in
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er permit, sponsored by Grant County Air Search. Other at-
tractions include a Star Spangled Banner flyover, aircraft on
display, a Forest Service facility tour, candy drop and more.
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Half acre of Olive Lake
closed to boating, swimming
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Over in Logan Valley there
is about a township of as good
farm land as there is in the
John Day Valley, and there
are enough people in this sec-
tion who want to locate on it
and make their home there to
take every acre of it. In addi-
tion to these, there are people
from other parts of the sate
who have looked it over, and
declare that they would take
up a piece of it in a minute if
Uncle Sam would allow them
to do so.
But Uncle Sam says that
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live. He sends a soil expert
in, and this gentleman reports
that it is impossible, despite
the fact that Ralph Fisk is al-
ready there and has demon-
strated the fact that the land
is excellent, and the climatic
conditions such that fair crops
can be produced. What is the
explanation?
There is little timber on the
land, and it cannot be classi-
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land. If it is opened to entry,
no wonderfully valuable piece
of property is withdrawn from
the public domain. But quite
a number of families will be
given homes and a chance in
the world.
When the land is settled
then it will have a value.
Now it is merely a township
of grazing land — then it will
furnish homes for close to one
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What would be the result
if all of the people who desire
to make their home in Logan
Valley went there and located
on the land of their choice, and
the whole valley was taken up
in this manner? If the people
built cabins and fences, put
in gardens and demonstrated
the fact that the government
and its experts are not giving
the would be settlers a fair
shake? Could this land still be
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and valuable only for grazing
purposes?
It does not seem reason-
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and everyone who knows the
country will testify to that
fact. It is hard to explain the
fact that the applications for
homesteading it have been
rejected, and it appears likely
that the attempts to open Lo-
gan Valley for settlement will
be continued until the efforts
of the people who want to
make homes on the land are
successful.
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R obbins Farm Equipment
3850 10th St.
Baker City
10218 Wallowa Lake Hwy.
La Grande
1160 S Egan
Burns
86812 Christmas Valley Hwy.
Christmas Valley
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A small portion of Ol-
ive Lake near Granite is
now closed to boating and
swimming due to a me-
chanical failure in the water
release gate located at the
bottom of the dam struc-
ture, District Ranger Ian
Reid announced Thursday,
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The area closed to pub-
lic entry is approximately
one-half acre and will be
signed, fenced and defined
by a string of buoys ex-
tending from the dam into
the water about 200 feet to
notify swimmers and boat-
ers of the safety hazard and
area to avoid.
The area is located on
the northeast side of Olive
Lake.
The campground and
hiking trail around the
lake remain open, and
boating and swimming are
still allowed outside the
restricted area. Current-
ly less than one percent of
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area will be affected by the
closure.
For more information
about the closure area or
permitted recreation activi-
ties on Olive Lake, contact
the North Fork John Day
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Charity adds Iree]er to raIÀ e Zinnings
also have a place to store it.
Tickets for the Sept. 30
Greater Smiles, a local drawing can be purchased at
charity, has added a Frigid- local merchants in Grant and
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Tickets are $10 each,
fundraiser.
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by the Voigt Ranch and cut,
The freezer will be on
de-boned and wrapped by display at Chester’s Thrift-
Russell’s Custom Meats in way in John Day from Aug.
John Day, the winner will WR6HSWDQGDW(ULFN
Blue Mountain Eagle
son’s Thriftway in Burns
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Greater Smiles is a
project of Christian Com-
munication and Ministry, a
public charity based in John
Day. Greater Smiles aims to
provide assistance to veter-
ans, domestic abuse victims
and those who are work-
ing but can’t afford dental
care.
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