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Articles from the November 18, 2013 edition


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  • Outlaw Bill Miner’s first train robbery was a fiasco

    Nov 18, 2013

    Great train robbery By Finn J.D. John It had been a good 20 years, but Bill Miner was back and once again, as he liked to say, “on the rob.” Specifically, he was lurking with his partner behind a pile of baggage on an eastbound express train, a dozen or so miles out of Portland, waiting for his chance. It was September of 1903, and Bill was about to rob his very first railroad train. Or, rather, try to. The obsolete outlaw Bill Miner Bill “The Gray Fox” Miner was already a well-known outlaw by this time, a specialist in the frontier art of...

  • Remembering old headlines

    Nov 18, 2013

    Blade Manure story A look back at July of 1981 - Deputy responds to reports of man acting erratically and directing traffic. Front page McKenzie River Reflections...

  • Looking into the NewsArk

    Nov 18, 2013

    McKenzie River Reflections...