Compiled by Don Hoiness from archived copies of The Bulletin at Deschutes County Historical Society.

100 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

March 10, 1918

Suffrage leader is candidate for seat in Congress

Being arrested for picketing the White House didn’t prevent Miss Anne Martin, prominent suffragist, from today announcing her candidacy for a seat in Congress. Miss Martin will run for senator from Nevada. She advocates protection for farm labor to be transported by the government to sections where needed.

Bend trapper holds record in January

The government employed animal hunter in Oregon taking the largest catch during the month of January was W.C. Snyder, who works out of Bend, according to the report of Predatory Animal Inspector G. Jewett. Mr. Snyder captured 17 coyotes and three bobcats in that period.

County Agricultural Agent R.A. Ward recently accompanied Mr. Jewett on a trip to the trappers in the north half of Crook and Deschutes counties and received this information from him at the time. Fifty coyotes and six bobcats were the catch for the month.

Just at this time it is particularly important that predatory animals be killed off, on account of the number of stock which were bitten and died from rabies. Three head were lost on the Ochoco and others at Tumalo last week. One cougar in the Sisters country has also been killing cattle. A reward of $175 has been offered for its head.

Sheriff takes two I.W.W. in custody

Even though admitting that he had been kicked in the head by a mule before he joined the I.W.W., Mike Kitzie, arrested last night by Sheriff S.E. Roberts, is ready to spread the propaganda of the organization wherever possible. With Raymond Martin he was deported from Prineville where it is supposed the men were trying to influence workmen on the Ochoco irrigation project.

Martin, who is considered a dangerous man, will be sent to Portland in order to check his operations in this district. The baggage of both is being held until the men are disposed of. Martin will probably go to the city tonight to appear before the federal authorities.

Both men have their cards and buttons and have expressed a desire to work around the lumber camps. They appear to be agitators of the variety that is spreading discontent to the timber industry.

Editor’s note: The Industrial Workers of the World or “Wobblies,” founded in 1905 and crushed for its opposition to WWI in 1917-18, was the most active and most actively opposed revolutionary union of its time. In Oregon, the IWW was rooted in the lumber camps.

75 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

March 10, 1943

Tojo decides 1943 is year to win war

Tokyo radio indicated today that official Japan believes its war must be won this year or be lost.

Prime Minister General Hideki Tojo said “1943 is the year in which the issue of the world must be decided.”

Until now, before the destruction of the Japanese convoy in Bismarck Sea this week, Tojo has assured his people — and the world — that Japan can fight for 100 years if necessary.

Sliced bread ban will be lifted

The agriculture department decided today to lift the ban against bakers’ slicing bread that is sold for home consumption.

The department prepared an order, expected to be issued later today relaxing the no-slicing order that has been in effect since Jan. 18.

Officials said the decision to lift the ban was made after the assurances from the war production board that the paper and wax supply situation “looks O.K.” for the next few months.

The no-slicing order was issued primarily on the grounds that waxed paper could be saved, since sliced bread requires considerable more protection than unsliced to keep it from drying.

Many grocers and housewives had appealed to the department to lift the ban.

Patriots of France revolt as Nazis seek slave legions

More than 200 German soldiers have been killed in the last 72 hours by French patriots revolting against a Nazi-Vichy attempt to round up 400,000 French men for Adolf Hitler’s slave legions in Germany, a Fighting French spokesman said today.

More than 600 Germans, including parachutists and veterans of the Russian campaign, were taken prisoner, radio Algiers said.

Street fighting between patriot guerrilla bands on one side and German troops and Gestapo agents on the other has blazed in Paris and several other French cities, the spokesman said.

He credited the patriots with killing at least 60 German soldiers every 24 hours, including at least one in every department (county) of France.

50 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

March 10, 1968

Professors say evidence points to huge eruption

Two University of Washington geology professors report that they have found abundant evidence of a prehistoric eruption of enormous magnitude in the Pacific Northwest.

Bend, they say, is largely built on soil covered lavas from the ancient eruptions. Prineville’s picturesque rimrocks, overlooking Crooked River provide further evidence of the terrific eruption, the professors add. The eruption left its traces, they say, on thousands of square miles in Central Oregon, as well as in adjacent states.

The discovery of the eruption by Drs. Harry E. Wheeler and Howard A. Coombs was reported in the “Bulletin Volcanologique,” published in Rome.

The report has aroused wide discussion in the field of geology, and has received considerable critical comment, despite the fact that both Drs. Wheeler and Coombs are recognized as reputable geologists — tops in their profession and widely known for their careful research work.

Lava from a single volcanic event has been identified laterally for a distance of 450 miles and extending over a total area of at least 100,000 square miles. It is widely distributed from the Portland area south to the vicinities of Redding, Mt. Lassen and Susanville in northern California, and southeast from Portland to near Boise and Winnemucca.

This is five times larger than the most extensive previously identified single basalt lava flow, the two geologists said, adding: “The discovery should offer new insight into such questions as the nature and intensity and timing of the formation of the Cascade Mountains and other ranges of the West,” the geologists said.

Dr. Wheeler told The Bulletin that “Bend is built almost entirely on this flow.”

The vast lava field of ancient times is called mesa basalt. Scientists estimate that the catastrophic eruption occurred about 3 million years ago, either shortly before or very early in the Ice Age when the Cascades were sheathed with heavy glaciers.

Erosion has reduced the original lava sheet to innumerable local remnants, Drs. Wheeler and Coombs said. Remnants occur today as butte and mesa cappings and plateau surfaces with their characteristic rimrock margins.

The report on the mesa basalt is illustrated with a number of Central Oregon pictures. One picture is of the lava at the top of the Tumalo grade. Another pictures the Prineville rim country and a third shows mesa basalt exposed in the Hole-in-the Ground near Fort Rock.

25 YEARS AGO

For the week ending

March 10, 1993

State pulling out stops for celebration

Local and state officials see a cloud of dust stirring on the horizon and they couldn’t be happier about it. All of the commotion has to do with the Oregon Trail, that 2,000 mile path to the Promised Land that everyone first read about back in the fourth grade.

With the trail’s 150th anniversary set to be celebrated this year with activities ranging from the lavish to the quaint, Oregon’s tourist appeal should reach a new plateau.

Some tourist trails will lead to Central Oregon which played a smaller role in immigrant history as the crux of a cutoff route from Fort Boise near the Snake River.

In Bend, the High Desert Museum plans to showcase the story of the lost Meek wagon train in a long running exhibit. A full-scale diorama will feature a trail-weary woman preparing a meal for her family in the regions dusty sagebrush desert. The bleak scene is a dose of reality about an era too often romanticized according to Robert Boyd, the museum’s western heritage curator.

“We wanted to take a little of the glamour away from it,” Boyd explained.