This morning I gave permission for the Federal Government to go on my ancestral land and remove the Bundyites. Hours later, there was a shootout on Highway 395 just outside the city of John Day, and the ghost town, Canyon City, where Joaquin Miller lived. Miller was a Judge in this tiny town that caught fire when John Day burned. Did he write letters here, to the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood in England? Inside John Day was a famous Chinatown called, Tiger Town. There were arrests. Ammon Bundy was put in cuffs and is now in jail. One cowboy lie dead in a morgue.
A hundred years ago, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, and countless Western authors would be heading for Tiger Town to write the definitive story, and give them New Yorkers a big thrill. My grandfather, Royal Rosamond, would have written a story. I am now authoring a book on the Bundyites – and a movie script!
The Wild West has come alive and is heading for the Labyrinth Walk! The world is coming unwound. There is an hour glass, a ticking clock. Boots are being planted on yonder hill!
Where’s Tarp Man? This ain’t no country for old men!
Jon Presco
Copyright 2016
Jan 26 (Reuters) – The leader of an armed occupation at a federal wildlife refuge in Oregon was arrested on Tuesday during a confrontation in which one person was killed and another was wounded, the FBI said.
Protesters were still occupying the remote Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in eastern Oregon after leader Ammon Bundy’s arrest and the Federal Bureau of Investigation was setting up a perimeter, a law enforcement official told Reuters.
The takeover at Malheur that started Jan. 2 is the latest flare-up in the so-called Sagebrush Rebellion, a decades-old conflict over the U.S. government’s control of millions acres of land in the West.
Four other people were taken into custody along with Bundy following the confrontation along Highway 395 in northeast Oregon, according to the FBI. A fifth individual was arrested by the Oregon State Police in a separate incident in Burns, Oregon.
All of those arrested face federal charges of conspiracy to use force, intimidation or threats to impede federal officers from discharging their duties, the FBI said.
The Oregonian newspaper reported that Bundy had been en route to a community meeting in John Day, Oregon, with several other members of the occupation, where he was scheduled to be a guest speaker, when authorities stopped his vehicle.
Canyon City has murals that portray the areas history and mining stories that took place in the 1800’s. Joaquin Miller known as an American Poet lived in several areas within Oregon. Joaquin’s given name was Cincinnatus Heine Miller. Joaquin’s old cabin is still standing and located in Canyon City. He had a very colorful life and job history. Joaquin Miller was elected in 1864 as the third Judge of Grant County. He even ran for a seat on the Oregon Supreme Court. The jail from the city of Greenhorn is now located in Canyon City at the Grant County Museum. During the history of Canyon City, the St. Thomas Episcopal Church built in the 1870’s survived the three fires that destroyed Canyon City each time.
Canyon City has a great history during the gold rush years. Canyon City can be found on Hwy 395 south of John Day in Grant County. This city was established in June of 1862 and incorporated in 1891. It has a very colorful history of fire and many gold rush stories.
Grant County Historical Museum is located here in Canyon City. With exhibits of: Northwest Native American’s, Logging, Cowboys and Ranching, Gold Mining, Settlers of many cultures along with period clothing.
The first post office at “John Day City” was established in 1865, but was discontinued in 1871. It was reestablished in 1879 with the name John Day.[6] In April 1900, a local committee was elected, and the Oregon Legislature approved an Act incorporating the city of John Day on February 23, 1901.[7] The largest part of early John Day was composed of the Chinese community, commonly called Tiger Town
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Day,_Oregon
The first homestead staked in Grant County (what was then Wasco County), in 1862 by B. C. Trowbridge, was within the limits of the present city of John Day. The Eastern Oregon community was not as quick to grow as neighboring Canyon City, which was the county seat and center of the bustling mining industry in the area. Incrementally, local merchants and residents began relocating to John Day—primarily each time after severe fires in Canyon City: the Grant County Courthouse burned in 1870, Chinatown burned in 1885, and fires in 1898 and 1937 devastated Canyon City’s downtown.[8]
A trading post built in the area in the 1860s along The Dalles Military Road was purchased in 1887 by two Chinese immigrants, Lung On and Ing Hay. They converted the trading post into a clinic, general store, and social center for the community, which continued to operate until the 1940s. In the 1970s the
building, then the property of the city of John Day, was converted into a museum called the Kam Wah Chung & Co. Museum. It is now operated in conjunction with the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department and is one of the premier surviving examples of a 19th-century Chinese apothecary shop. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 2005.[8][9]
http://www.opb.org/artsandlife/article/oregon-historical-photo-lung-on-with-sedan/
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