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. (Submitted by S. Williams)

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. (Submitted by S. Williams)

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. (Submitted by S. Williams)

March 12, 1887
Weekly Nevada State Journal, Reno Nevada

The stock losses in Grant county, Oregon, are estimated at about 50 percent of the sheep and 25 per cent of the cattle. (Submitted by S. Williams)

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. (Submitted by S. Williams)

April 21, 1895
Spokesman-Review, Spokane Washington

William Levens, who was working a claim on Tennessee gulch, has, it is thought, one of the best paying mines in southern Oregon. He was in Canyonville recently with $700 to $800 in gold dust taken out of two or three sluice boxes. (Submitted by Robyn Greenlund)

July 15, 1907
Oakland Tribune, Oakland California

Dr. J.W. Ashford and family leave today for Canyon City, Oregon. (Submitted by S. Williams)

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. (Submitted by S. Williams)

Wednesday, March 8, 1950 
The Register-Guard (Eugene, OR)

Oregon Bank Robber Dies at Alcatraz SAN FRANCISCO – (UP) – Lloyd Barkdoll, 37-year-old Oregon bank robber, one of four lifers thwarted in a daring escape plot on Alcatraz in 1941, died on “The Rock” Tuesday. Prison officials said Barkdoll was sunning himself in the yard when he complained of chest pains and collapsed. Barkdoll was sentenced to life imprisonment in 1937 for a John Day bank robbery. (Submitted by Jim Dezotell)