The body of the man found on a sandbar in the Snake River on August 5, has been identified as that of A.R. Fairchild when the body was exhumed Monday. The identification was made by a son and son-in-law. Fairchild, a keeper of a small store in Baker left home July 28 when he started by rail for Huntington on a business trip. He was not seen alive by relatives after that date.

After the finding of the floater in the Snake river weighted down with rocks tied with bailing wire to the body, the family started an investigation which lead to positive identification of the body Monday. It is now believed the man met with foul play at or near Huntington soon after leaving his home. It is said Fairchild carried considerable money with him on leaving Baker and robbery is supposed to have been the motive for the crime.

Died - At the home of his brother, T. Favorite, near Powder River, Robert Favorite, aged 50 years. Deceased was buried in the Big Creek cemetery.

FEE:-At Pendleton, March 20, 1890, Mrs. Margueretta Fee, aged 55 years. Deceased was the mother of Judge Fee of the circuit court.

FETTERS.-Near Summerville, August 30, Mrs. Mary Fetters, aged 56 years.

Cora Mae Fidler, 82, a lifelong resident of Rock Creek and Haines, died Sept. 19, 1996 at St. Elizabeth Health Services.

Her body will be cremated. There will be a memorial service at 1 p.m. Saturday at the Haines Methodist Church. Clifford Cole will officiate.

Mrs. Fidler was born Oct. 17, 1913 at home in Rock Creek. She was the second daughter of Lee and Nellie [Hearing] Stanley. She attended school at Rock Creek and was a graduate of Muddy Creek School. She married Wayne Fidler on Sept. 18, 1933. During her life she worked as a telephone operator in Haines and as a short-order cook in numerous cafes. She worked many years at the Circle H and later helped her sister, Edna, run the Circle H.

Mrs. Fidler was a volunteer for the Eastern Oregon Museum and a member of the Haines Methodist Church. She enjoyed the outdoors, fishing, picking huckleberries and mushrooms, and digging for old bottles.

Survivors include her son and daughter-in-law, Warren and Kathy Fidler of Sparks, Nev.; daughter and son-in-law Roberta and Gary Hales of Haines; five grandchildren, Sheri Brown and Kristen Fidler of Sparks, Nev., Steven Fidler of Encino, Calif., Denise Hack of Filer, Idaho, and Troy Hale of Haines; six great-grandchildren; a niece, Susan Horn of Boise; and a nephew, Mike Webb of Baker City.

Memorial contributions may be made to the Eastern Oregon Museum or the Haines Methodist Church through the Coles-Stromer-Monroe Funeral Home, 1950 Place St.

Wayne D. Fidler, 79, a life long resident of Haines, Oregon, died Tuesday, June 18 at his home in Haines. Memorial services for Mr. Fidler will be held at 11:00 a.m. Saturday, June 22 at the Haines Cemetery. Cliff Cole will officiate.

Mr. Fidler was born April 29, 1912 in Haines Oregon, a son of Roy Earl and Hester S. (McKanna) Fidler. He graduated from Haines High School and his whole life was spent in Haines. He worked for Lee and Glen Duncan from 1928 until the company changed to Haines Grain Feed and Seed, working there until his retirement in 1974.

He married Cora Mae Stanley at Baker City in 1933. They have resided in Haines ever since. He was active in the Boy Scouts, has been a member of the Odd Fellows, also loved to fish and hunt in his younger days.

Mr. Fidler is survived by his wife Cora Mae of Haines, a son and daughter-in-law, Warren and Kathie Fidler of Sparks, Nevada, daughter and son-in-law Roberta and Gary Hale of Haines. Three granddaughters and two grandsons, a bother Meryle Fidler of Portland, Oregon also survive. He was preceded in death by his parents.

Those wishing to make memorial contributions in the memory of Mr. Fidler, may direct them to the American Lung Association of Oregon, P.O.Box 115, Portland, OR 97207-0115 or a charity of ones choice. Gray's West and Co. is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Filkins, an eccentric character, who has been living with her husband, when she was not living somewhere else and resided in the foothills west of town, disappeared one night two weeks ago and no trace of her has yet been found. Since writing the above Mrs. Filkins' dead body has been found in the mountains about three miles from the Filkins' ranch in a badly mutilated condition having been devoured by wild animals. The most probably theory of her death is that in a passion she left as she did about three weeks ago, after dark, and came to her death by starvation. Possibly a crime has been committed, but until there is further and better evidence, we think not. Justice Goff is holding an inquest today.

Abraham Fine, an aged pioneer resident of Elgin, died quite suddenly at his home in this city, shortly before nine o'clock Sunday evening. Mr. Fine had not been feeling very robust for some time although he was feeling as well as usual on the date of his death, and had been out on Gorden creek visiting that day. Shortly after returning home he began to feel badly and Dr. Brownell was sent for, but before he reached his patient he was beyond human aid.

Deceased was born in Warren county, Mo., Sept. 6th, 1829, and came to Oregon in 1874. He leaves a wife and six grown children to mourn his death. The funeral took place at the Summerville cemetery Tuesday.

Funeral services for Charles Fisher of the Cove who died Friday at Hot Lake following injuries received some time ago in an auto accident, were held Sunday afternoon at the graveside in the Cove Cemetery. Mr. Fisher was a resident of Cove for many years.

Robert Florer 68 years old, committed suicide in a rooming house at Baker last Saturday, by shooting himself through the head. Florer was known by nearly every livestock man in eastern Oregon, and had been employed by many prominent ranchers in this vicinity as a sheepherder. His health has been slowly declining within the past few months which is given as the reason for the act.

The toll upon human life was brought home forcibly this week when on last Monday morning three bodies were in the West undertaking establishment at Baker, all victims of auto accidents.

The first accident occurred last Saturday, when E.E. Homewood was killed when his car left the highway near Meacham west of La Grande. Mr. Homewood was returning to the coast from a trip to the east, when the fatal accident happened which ended his life. The funeral was held Monday afternoon in Baker.

The second when Nels Crawford, aged 20, of Baker was killed happened about 4:30 o'clock Saturday afternoon. Crawford accompanied by Bruce Alexander another youth, were driving a racing car on the Baker-Cornucopia highway. At a point near the schoolhouse, the car left the road and the boys were thrown out. Young Crawford lived only a short time. Alexander received injuries, but is now on the road to recover. The body of Crawford was shipped to Wetumka, Oklahoma, to relatives.

On Sunday afternoon Mrs. Catherine Flynn, 64, of Nampa, Idaho, was driving with Mr. Flynn returning to their home. In attempting to pass a car several miles east of Baker, the Flynn car ran into loose gravel, breaking one of the rear wheels turning the car completely over, killing Mrs. Flynn almost instantly. Mr. Flynn was slightly injured. The body was shipped to Boise for burial.

Chester a. McLaughlin, aged 24, and Harvey Folkestad, an I.W.W., aged about 43, were killed in a freight train wreck early Monday morning when an extra east freight train was derailed at Perry.

While passing Perry at 1:45 a.m. the brake team came down on the fourth car from the engine, and as a result the six following cars left the track. Three were loaded, two with canned goods and one with lumber. The other three were empty, two of which turned turtle. Five of the cars are a total loss. One of the empty cars which turned turtle was thrown about 20 feet in front of the Perry store, while two of the others were in the county road.

In the sixth car from the engine, in an empty flat coal car, six men were riding while beating their way. Folkestad who jumped when the cars began to leave the track was pinned beneath one of the cars and instantly killed the body being badly crushed.

McLaughlin, who was caught beneath the coal car, suffered the amputation of one leg and one arm, but lived for about 15 minutes after the accident. Both bodies were brought to La Grande by Coroner Hal Bohnenkamp, who was immediately called. The other four men escaped with their lives, although two were badly bruised. Passenger traffic was held up for three hours by the wreck. - La Grande Observer.

The death of F.A. Fortier at the Hot Lake hospital at 2 p.m. Tuesday afternoon was a surprise and shock to his friends and acquaintances here, many of them not knowing that he had been compelled to return to a hospital.

While planning a Christmas visit at Boardman, where Mrs. Fortier's parents reside, he was taken ill, and had to postpone the trip, about the first of the year, he had recovered sufficiently and they went to Boardman. While there he was taken acutely ill and confined for a time in a hospital at Hermiston. Upon returning, some weeks ago, he resumed his work at manager of the Standard Oil company's wholesale distributing plant at North Powder. He had a relapse and was taken to Hot Lake last Friday.

Mr. Fortier had resided her for several months last year, coming here from Union where he had charge of the oil station there for the same company.

The funeral took place at La Grande yesterday at 10 a.m.

Tommy Shaw, who substituted as manager here previously, is now in charge of the local plant.

John Haskell, who came in from Susanville yesterday just before we went to press, brought the news of a fatal shooting affray at that camp. Geo. Snodderly, of the firm of Snodderly & Muldrick, operating on Deep creek, and Joe Frasier, a miner, formerly of Bourne, were the principals. Snoderly's daughter, who is employed at the Susanville hotel, was infatuated with Frasier. Her father tried to induce her to accompany him to Long Creek, when Frasier interfered, receiving for his pains a 45-70 rifle ball through his liver. Snodderly took refuge in a cellar and refused to surrender except to an officer. - Sumpter News.

John French, an eccentric resident of Lincton mountain for the past third of a century, was found dead in his cabin a few days since by a party who happened to visit his home. French's place was situated a few miles north of the tollgate on the old Lincton road, and had long been a noted camping place for the denizins of the Walla Walla valley during the hot season.

French was quite old and of an exceedingly erratic disposition. He made his living by selling feed and pasture to people traveling the Lincton road, but could not be depended on, as he would sell neither if he happened to be in a bad humor. He was a bachelor and lived all alone and had evidently been dead for several days when found as the body was badly decomposed.

Funeral services for Miss Grace Frost, Baker teacher, who died at Hot Lake Monday, were held at the West chapel in Baker Wednesday afternoon. The body was shipped to Portland for cremation.

James fry, aged about 53, of Portland, died suddenly at Huntington Wednesday afternoon just as he arrived from the east with two motor trucks which were transporting freight toward Portland. The body is being held pending receipt of instructions from Portland.

Mrs. Blanche Fugit of Kalema, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Bellfield of this place, died in the hospital at La Grande, Monday morning of this week. Funeral services were held at the Methodist church and burial was made in the North Powder cemetery, the following afternoon. The immediate surviving relatives are the parents, the husband, a child of two and a babe one day old. Mrs. Fugit was 22 years of age and lived at North Powder for many years prior to her marriage, where her husband is employed by the O.W.R.R.&N. offices.