110 years ago
April 23, 1914
Local attorneys were notified by wire Tuesday that the Supreme Court had reversed the case of the State vs. Gaylord McDaniel and remanded it for new trial for next September.
It will be remembered that young McDaniel was convicted of murder in the second degree for the killing of Herman Poch, his stepfather, the last day of December 1912, and sentenced to life imprisonment at Salem. He has been in the state prison since about the 20th of May 1913.
The case was presented to the Supreme Court on behalf of McDaniel by Attorney N.G. Wallace, and the state was represented by District Attorney Willard H. Wirtz. McDaniel will be returned to Crook County within a few weeks and will be lodged in the local jail to await trial at the September term.
75 years ago
April 21, 1949
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Cook left Tuesday afternoon for Olympia, Washington, where Mr. Cook's brother, Harold N. Cook, was reported to have killed his wife, Gladys, and himself in what Coroner Van R. Hinkle of Olympia termed a 'triangle" involving the couple and a 23-year-old Fort Lewis soldier. The soldier, reported to have escaped death by ducking beneath some furniture when the shooting began, was held overnight in the Olympia Jail without charge and then was released to Fort Lewis authorities.
Mr. and Mrs. Harold Cook are former Prineville residents.
50 years ago
April 25, 1974
The Department of Environmental Quality today announced its recommendations on disposal of waste tires in Central Oregon.
The tires, originally from Les Schwab, Prineville, had been stored in a dry gulch on the property of Robert Woodward, Mitchell. They became a problem after a January flash flood washed thousands of them downstream for miles along a tributary of the John Day River. DEQ was notified by a state Wildlife Commission official who discovered the tires some weeks later.
On March 20, DEQ sent certified letters to both Woodward and Les Schwab, Inc., requesting preliminary action plans by April 1, outlining an interim disposal plan and, in Schwab's case, a long-range plan for disposing of waste tires generated by Schwab outlets in Oregon, Washington and Idaho.
25 years ago
April 20, 1999
The Crook County Grand Jury returned an indictment against a Bend man last week, charging him with crimes after he was arrested and accused of “casing” a West Sixth Street residence.
The accused was seen by a resident of the house walking around the yard and looking into windows. She called the Prineville Police Department. Crook County District Attorney Gary Williams said that when police officers responded, they found the defendant walking a short distance from the house. On the ground nearby was a syringe, and when the suspect was patted down, officers found a 25 cal. semiautomatic pistol.
Arrested on a charge of staking out a residence and intent to burglarize, he was taken into custody. A search of his prior criminal history turned up numerous felony convictions. Added to the charges was being a felon in possession of a firearm.
The grand jury, after hearing testimony from the police, bound the suspect over for trial on four counts of felon in possession of a firearm, criminal trespass while in possession of a firearm and first-degree attempted burglary.
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