Oswald West's telegram to mayor of Copperfield, Oregon, 1/2/1914

Telegram to mayor of Copperfield, Oregon (1914)
by Oswald West

Oregon Governor West famously sent his private secretary, Fern Hobbs, to the remote Eastern Oregon town of Copperfield, where rampant and illegal gambling and drinking had become the norm, to restore the rule of state law.

2421809Telegram to mayor of Copperfield, Oregon1914Oswald West

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM.

January 2, 1914.

The Mayor,
⁠Copperfield, Oregon.

Miss Fern Hobbs my private secretary, will arrive your City two fifty P. M. today. Would request you kindly arrange for a public meeting so she may meet the members of City Council and yourself together with the citizens of the City and deliver a message from this office.

Oswald West,

Governor.