Serving our communities since 1889 — www.chronline.com $1 Napavine Early Week Edition Falls in Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 Thriller / Sports 1 Pickpocketing in Morton ARTrails Set for SWW Spokane Man Jailed for Warrants and Lifting Dozens of Local Artists Prepare to Show Wallet Off of Elderly Morton Man / Main 6 Their Work in Annual Showcase / Life 1 WDFW Centralia Students Donate Hair to Timeline of Accused Create Wig for Girl With Leukemia Illegal Hunting DOCUMENTS: Tracing the Actions of Accused Poachers Across Southwest Washington and Oregon By Jordan Nailon [email protected] Editor’s Note: The following timeline is the latest in a series of articles detailing a massive poaching operation uncovered in Southwest Washington and Northwest Oregon. It comes af- ter a records request that yielded hundreds of pages of evidence collected by the Washington De- partment of Fish and Wildlife. See previous coverage at www. chronline.com Date: Aug. 29, 2015 Location: Gifford Pinchot National Forest south of Randle Suspects: Bryan Tretiak, Erik Martin, William Haynes, Jared Wenzelburger / [email protected] Joe Dills, and Eddy Dills Lily Hubbard, left, smiles as her friend, Ellen Buzzard, right, has her first lock of hair cut Saturday afternoon in downtown Centralia. The hair is being donated for the Bears hunted with the use of creation of Lily’s new wig. dogs. Video evidence appears to show Tretiak shooting a GIVING TO A FRIEND: Ellen black bear out of a tree. “That’s your typical National Forest Buzzard and Kaylee bear,” Joe Dills says on video. Rooklidge Cut Their Hair The bear was taken home by Tretiak. so a Custom Wig Can be Created for Lily Hubbard please see POACHING, page Main 11 By Justyna Tomtas [email protected] Lewis County Two Centralia School Dis- trict students on Saturday sat Claims down in a barber chair and had a portion of their hair cut off so Through Risk they could donate it to 11-year- old Lily Hubbard, who is bat- Pool Similar to tling leukemia. Lily was at The Beehive Sa- Other Counties lon in Centralia when her friend Ellen Buzzard and Centralia se- nior Kaylee Rooklidge had their DIFFERENCES: Higher locks cut so their hair could be Percentage of Claims made into a custom wig for her. The idea to create the wig Listed in Personnel, Law came from Ellen, 11, who ap- and Justice, Government proached her mother and said Operation and she wanted to help. It was a Above: Posing for a photo from left touching moment for her moth- Supervision Categories to right, Kennedy Woods, Kaylee er, Centralia School Board Presi- Rooklidge, Lily Hubbard and Ellen dent Amy Buzzard. By Justyna Tomtas Buzzard stand in front of The Bee- “She came to us and said, ‘I [email protected] hive salon in Centralia Saturday. want to do this,’ and we said The amount of legal claims ‘well what’s prompting you to do against Lewis County through Right: Kennedy Woods cuts off this?’” Buzzard recalled. “She the Washington Counties Risk a lock of Kaylee Rooklidge’s hair, said it’s just that she needs hair Pool is comparable to that which is being donated for the and I have some. It was that of other counties, according creation of a wig for Lily Hubbard, simple.” to numbers provided to The Saturday afternoon in downtown Ellen and Lily have been at- Chronicle, but the county is Centralia. tending school together since seeing more claims in some ar- kindergarten. The 11-year- eas. olds have created a friendship please see CLAIMS, page Main 14 please see HAIR, page Main 14 The Chronicle, Serving The Greater Continuing the Renaissance Overtime Victory Deaths Lewis County Area Since 1889 Team in Adna Girls Gribble, Douglas Lowell, Follow Us on Twitter 76, Centralia @chronline Chehalis Prevail in Puckett, Douglas C, 82, Takes on Title Game Winlock Find Us on Facebook New Slate Rematch Cheney, Donald G., 65, www.facebook.com/ of Projects Against Centralia thecentraliachronicle After Success Kalama / Main 3 / Sports 1 Main 2 • The Chronicle, Centralia/Chehalis, Wash., Tuesday, Sept. 12, 2017 PAGE TWO News Blazing Sunset of the Weird Washington Ranch Hall on Tuesday, you may hear screaming. Comes With Its Own A group called Demand Utopia is hosting events called Butte; You Supply Rustic “Scream Like Goku” at the two Cabin and $17 Million locations. The state Capitol event will take place from 2 to By The News Tribune 2:30 p.m. The City Hall event A Washington ranch so big will take place from 6 to 9 p.m. it has its own butte, river and Goku is one of the main wildlife can be the start of family protagonists from the Dragon ranching legacy. Ball manga series and television The nearly 19,000 acre shows. Idlewild Canyon Ranch, 12 The City Hall event’s Face- miles northeast of Goldendale, book page has the following de- can be yours for $17 million. scription: The property does not come “Feel like the fate of the earth with a ranch house. It’s currently is at stake, and no one is step- owned by a timber company. ping up to take on the bad guys? Jared Wenzelburger / [email protected] The ranch is the largest prop- Wish you could power-up to Some haze remained Friday as the sun set over Chehalis. This week has seen clearer skies as smoke from fires across erty for sale in Washington, ac- stop them? Come on down town the region has cleared. cording to listing broker Tyler in front of city hall to Demand Jacobs of Hall and Hall. Utopia and human rights for all “There’s a legacy opportu- Olympians with a good old su- nity in the sense that it’s a blank per saiyan scream!” canvas,” Jacobs said. “It is virgin Notable Quote land, it’s never been built on or developed.” La Center Couple The ranch includes the Wants to Give Away southern face of the Simcoe “I personally think that some of that is, frankly, Mountains. Historic Home Miles of interior roads will abused. And that happens on all sides of the aisle.” allow you to explore 29 square By The Columbian miles of commercial timber and LA CENTER — If you ever grazing lands. It’s bordered by Sen. John Braun wanted to live like a 19th Centu- state land to the east and west. discussing extra-session expense payments The ranch’s high point is ry lumber baron, a retired cou- 4,720 feet-high Lone Pine Butte. ple in La Center has a house for From there, Jacobs said, one can you. You just have to haul it away. (see page Main 13 for the full story) see several mountains includ- Marsha and Lloyd Lytton ing Adams, Rainier and Hood. bought their 20-acre ranch off Views also extend to the Colum- Northeast 379th Street in La bia River Gorge. Center in 2012. On the property The property’s namesake, is a three-story home built in Today in History Idlewild Canyon, is a lush green 1889 by Portland lumber baron oasis. Olaf B. Aagaard, who owned the West Highland and East High- Today’s Highlight in History: ican forces slowed British troops addressed questions about his After a 2014 wildfire, the cur- advancing on Baltimore. Roman Catholic faith, telling the land mills. His La Center prop- On September 12, 1942, dur- rent owner planted more than In 1846, Elizabeth Barrett se- Greater Houston Ministerial As- erty was used as a summer home. ing World War II, a German U- 425,000 ponderosa pines. The cretly married Robert Brown- sociation, “I do not speak for my A century later, the roughly boat off West Africa torpedoed property can be managed for ing at St. Marylebone Church in church on public matters, and the the RMS Laconia, which was timber, cattle or as a conserva- 2,700-square-foot house is more London. church does not speak for me.” carrying Italian prisoners of war, tion area, Jacobs said. than the Lyttons want, both in In 1914, In 1974, British soldiers and civilians; during World War Emperor Haile Se- Deer, turkey, bear and other living space and in property tax- I, the First Battle of the Marne lassie was deposed by Ethiopia’s wildlife call the property home. es. Their plan is to install a manu- it’s estimated more than 1,600 people died while some 1,100 ended in an Allied victory military after ruling for 58 years. The ranch is home to several factured home. Since they moved In 1977, survived after the ship sank. against Germany. South African black streams including the east fork onto the property in 2014, they’ve In 1938, Adolf Hitler demand- student leader and anti-apart- of the Little Klickitat River been living in the dairy barn. The German crew, joined by other U-boats, began rescue op- ed the right of self-determina- heid activist Steve Biko, 30, died which originates in Idlewild After purchasing the ranch, tion for the Sudeten Germans in while in police custody, trigger- Canyon. their real estate agent told them to erations. (On September 16, the rescue effort came to an abrupt Czechoslovakia. ing an international outcry. bulldoze the house. But they felt In 1944, the Second Quebec In 1986, Joseph Cicippio, the bad about razing such a historic halt when the Germans were at- You May Hear tacked by a U.S. Army bomber; Conference opened with Presi- acting comptroller at the Ameri- home, said Marsha Lytton, 69. dent Franklin D.