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Vogt accused of forcing Idaho teen
to leave, faces up to life in prison
Mt. Vernon man faces
kidnapping and rape
charges in Idaho
By Richard Hanners
Blue Mountain Eagle
Contributed photo/Grant County
Sheriff’s Office
Andy Vogt
Idaho law enforcement officials
say evidence indicates the 48-year-old
U NRAVELING A MYSTERY
Answers
sought
regarding
antique
tablecloth
Mt. Vernon man charged with kidnap-
ping a 15-year-old Idaho girl “forced
the girl to leave Eagle with him on
Oct. 26.”
Andy Alan Vogt was extradited to
Ada County, Idaho, and faces charges
of kidnapping and lewd contact. Both
are punishable by up to life in prison,
according to a Nov. 8 press release
from the Ada County Sheriff’s Office.
Grant County Sheriff Glenn Palmer
said his office received a request for
an agency assist from the Ada County
Sheriff’s Office in Boise on Oct. 29.
Deputy Brandon Hutchison responded
to Vogt’s residence on Ingle Street in
Mt. Vernon, where the girl was be-
lieved to be, and located her, Palmer
said.
Vogt was initially charged in Grant
County with first-degree rape, first-de-
gree kidnapping and first-degree sex-
ual abuse, along with a misdemeanor
charge of pointing a firearm at the girl.
In the information filed Oct. 30
by Grant County District Attorney
Jim Carpenter, Vogt was accused of
confining the girl in a place where
she couldn’t be found “with the pur-
pose of furthering the commission of
or an attempt to commit the crime of
See VOGT, Page A18
Humbolt students gobble
up turkey assignment
Embroidered signatures
date back to 1940
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
A little piece of history remains a mys-
tery for Sandra Sutton of John Day.
Dozens of brightly colored embroidered
signatures fill the approximately 3-by-3 an-
tique tablecloth, as well as where each per-
son was from and the date signed.
The tablecloth was passed down from
Myrtle Dexter Moore (1916-1990), who was
Sutton’s second cousin, to Moore’s daughter
Barbara Achziger and then to Sutton.
“Myrtle would have been about 24 when
the signatures were collected,” Sutton said.
“Her own signature is not on it, which leads
one to believe that she is the one who made
it.”
Achziger received a box with the table-
cloth inside before her mother passed away,
but Sutton said the box wasn’t opened for
“quite some time” after Moore’s death, so
information about the cloth wasn’t available.
Moore was born in Dayville to George
William Moore and Florence Sasser Moore,
and later lived on the Moore Ranch south of
Kimberly on Highway 19.
Her siblings were: Everett (1904-05);
Vernie (1905-2001), who was married
to Clayton Cork; Martha (1908-1996),
who was married to Edward Foree; James
(1910-1968), who was married to Wilma
Gates; and Georgia (1914-1997), who was
married to Rhys Humphries.
See TABLECLOTH, Page A18
Eagle photos/Angel Carpenter
Humbolt sixth-grade teacher Georgia Boethin holds up ‘turkey
in disguise’ artwork as the students try to guess who created it.
The multimedia piece by William Shaw shows a turkey persuading
people to eat pizza for Thanksgiving instead, hiding behind a
Figaro’s Pizza cardboard cutout face.
Kids each give Thanksgiving
turkey an artful disguise
By Angel Carpenter
Blue Mountain Eagle
umbolt Elementary teacher
Georgia Boethin gave her
class of 18 sixth-graders a
gobbler of a take-home art assign-
ment over Veterans Day weekend.
“The project was to disguise
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the Thanksgiving turkey, partially
prompted by something we read
that stated that the first Thanksgiv-
ing did not have turkey,” she said.
The students were asked to add
texture to their designs, and they
each came up with unique ideas.
See STUDENTS, Page A18
Sixth-grader Madelyn Bailey’s designed a
Captain America turkey outfit for her project
in Georgia Boethin’s class.
Remembering a Seneca founding father
John Saunders’
life touched all of
Grant County
By Richard Hanners
Blue Mountain Eagle
Contributed photo
John Hicks Saunders Jr. and his wife, Yvonne, were the
grand marshals of the ’62 Days Parade in 2009. Riding
with them is great-granddaughter Kynlee Pettyjohn.
Anyone who knows the
Seneca community and its
history is familiar with John
Hicks Saunders Jr.
He’s been called a found-
ing member of the city, and
his personal story touched
every part of the county for
nearly a century.
“John Saunders was an in-
tegral part of our community
both personally and profes-
sionally even before the city
was incorporated in 1970,”
Seneca City Manager Raamin
Burrell told the Eagle.
“He was Papa to all the
kids in Seneca,” his wife of 47
years Yvonne Saunders said.
Saunders was born in 1923
in Caverhill, a town that once
existed between Long Creek
and Fox. He attended high
school in Long Creek, where
the teacher warned the stu-
dents not to race their horses
home after school. Of course,
they did, Yvonne said.
After graduating in 1941,
Saunders tried to enlist in the
Army but was turned down for
bad eyesight. He worked for a
time in the Portland shipyards
Contributed photo
John Hicks Saunders Jr.
served in the Navy during
World War II.
building Liberty ships until
he was drafted in 1943. He
served with the Navy Seabees
in the Philippines and New
Guinea during World War II
See SAUNDERS, Page A18