Miscellaneous newspaper articles about Grant County
August 19, 1870
New York Herald, New York New York
Canyon City, Oregon was destroyed by fire on the 13th instant, only one house remaining. The loss is $250,000.
November 3, 1883
The Helena Independent, Helena Montana
F. Theodore Jacobi, who has just arrived at Bozeman from Canyon City, Oregon, drove a team through the entire distance, 900 miles, in twenty days.
February 9, 1887
Decatur Daily Republican, Decatur Illinois
Henry Davis, of Canyon City, Ore., recently had removed from his ear a watermelon seed that had been in his head for forty years. It is perfectly sound, and he proposes to plant it next spring.
December 4, 1887
Daily Nevada State Journal, Reno Nevada
Colonel Hardin has gone to Canyon City, Oregon, where he has been appointed one of the appraisers of the estate of the Overfelt Co., in which Miller & Lux and N.H.A. Mason are interested and which is supposed to amount to over $500,000.
July 15, 1907
Oakland Tribune, Oakland California
Dr. J.W. Ashford and family leave today for Canyon City, Oregon.
December 28, 1909
The Sheboygan Daily Press, Sheboygan Wisconsin
OREGON MOB LYNCHES PRISONER
Canyon City, Ore., Dec. 28-Orville Snyder, who killed
Arthur Green near Junction bar in a row on December 24 and had given himself up
to the authorities, was taken from Deputy Sheriff Casady while on his way to the
county jail, by five masked men who shot him to death.
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