Neighbors gunfight left three dead, one hanged

Published: Aug. 13, 2024, 2 p.m.

Although nearly everyone agreed the Mache family had had it coming, evidence at the scene convinced the sheriff that Kelsay Porter had ambushed them in cold blood, and the jury sentenced him to swing for it. But the neighbors characterized the whole affair as a railroad job. (Pine Valley, Union and Baker County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1711c.kelsey-porter-vigilante-killings-470.html)