![]() ![]() 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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