![]() ![]() This spooky-looking Portland mansion was home of a 'starvation cult'Ī prominent Portland socialite led a sect called "Truth," with the motto "Pray and Be Cured," that required 40-day fasts. HOW OREGON ALMOST LOST PUBLIC ACCESS TO ITS BEACHESĪ Portland real-estate guy found a loophole in the law and claimed a patch of beach for his own, and his friends in the state Legislature tried to keep it that way. and prayed the tide would turn before they got sucked out onto the bar. They drifted downstream in heavy 24-foot boats with their nets out. ![]() When fishing was so deadly, one in 15 didn't survive the season. James Lappeus came to Portland to open a saloon and "theater." Despite his checkered past - or maybe because of it - he was named city marshal and, later, Chief of Police. ![]() Gambler, swindler, gunfighter, liquor man. It had to be the most awkward prison-break scenario in the history of the universe. Killer broke out of state prison during a conjugal visit at a nearby Motel 6 It was left there by astronaut Jim Irwin at the request of a friend from Bend - who gave him a sliver of Oregon lava to leave on the moon's surface. ![]() There's a piece of lava from central oregon in this photo, on the moon. He almost got away with this little swindle. A few recent columns you might enjoy: How the Oregon Coast almost lost the Peter Iredale to a scrap-metal sharkĪn Oregon City man claimed he'd inherited the rights from his father, and demanded to be allowed to cut it up and haul it away. ![]()
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