text: I am not sure why the Klan diminishes greatly in 1925 in Oregon. A black man, Timothy Pettis, was murdered in Marshfield (now Coos Bay) in 1924. The Klan was suspected but the case was never solved.  His body was mutilated and left in the bay. Although a $500 reward was offered by local authorities and another $100 by the local black community, the murder remained unsolved.  Previous to this blacks were terrorized, but not actually murdered by the Klan in Oregon. I am not sure if this lead to many people dropping out of the Klan or not as the case was not solved and there was not proof that the Klan was responsible.
  In Eugene it appears one of the focuses was on getting rid of the police chief who was Catholic and that effort was successful. The Klan did not succeed in denying the hospital (what would become Sacred Heart) non-profit status because it was Catholic or in trying to forbid the Catholic Newman Center next to campus from serving U of O students.