Westfall is an unincorporated community in Malheur County, Oregon, United States.

[3] The Moses and Mary Hart Stone House and Ranch Complex, constructed in the vicinity of Westfall in 1898, is on the National Register of Historic Places.

Carey was known as a bully and trouble maker in the best of times but his temper became even quicker when he had been drinking in one of his regular hangouts Frank Jones or Ivan Harts Saloons.

Carey let it be known in 1912 that he wanted to become the Town Marshal , a job that paid $75.00 a month which was a fine sum in those days.

40 year old Jasper was a relative of the City’s founder and was known as a fair minded sober man.

Around noon Asa Carey wandered into Frank Jones’s Saloon armed with a revolver.

All day he continued to drink wandering back and forth between the two Saloons and boasting that he was the better man for the job of Marshal.

He then went out onto the porch of the Jones Saloon and began whooping and yelling that the Marshal Jasper Westfall should come and quiet him.

Jasper at home about a block northwest heard the commotion Asa was causing and headed to the scene to quiet him.

Jasper then calmly turned and walked home where he buckled on his Colt revolver and strode briskly back to Main Street.