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‘Hold-up session’ featured big drunken house party

The fix was in -- all the legislators who needed to be bribed had been paid off -- so John Mitchell felt comfortable 'fessing up to his plans to double-cross Jonathan Bourne and his "Friends of Silver." But Bourne had a plan to turn that around ... (Salem, Marion County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1906d.hold-up-session-1897-553.html)

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  Heppner's devastation brought out heroism in face of watery death (2 of 2)

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  Worst natural flash flood in U.S. history struck here (Part 1 of 2)

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  Mount Angel Abbey owes grandeur to colorful monk

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  ‘Unwritten Law’ no help for man who murdered his wife's brother

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  Frontier murder was even darker than it appeared

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  Pixieland and Oregon's midcentury culture

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  ‘Daredevil Al’ Fossett was Evel Knievel of the ’20s

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  West’s first female lawyer: A legal Mother Teresa?

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  Pioneering “lady lawyer” deserved a better legacy

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  Acquitted murder suspect became first ‘lady lawyer’

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  Fiery explosive shipwreck gave Boiler Bay its name

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  Bob Straub stopped plan to put highway on the beach

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  Shanghaied in Astoria: A once-perilous port city

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  Secretary imposed martial law on rowdy town

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  Legislators shut down Salem with a raging party

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  Wolf Creek Tavern was a refuge for Hollywood stars