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254 complete control of the paper, took it to Helena, where in May, 1868, he again resumed publication. The reason for the change was that Virgina City was a placer camp, and after its mineral beds were exhausted the miners left the city and there was no longer need of a newspaper. On April 23, 1869, Helena was swept by fire, and from that time until June 11 of the same year The Post continued fco appear, but was unable to make any collections either for subscriptions or advertisements on account of the paralysis of business. On the date last mentioned The Post was compelled to suspend publication.

The second paper was The Montana Democrat, established in 1865 at Virginia City by John P. Bruce. In 1857 Kirk Anderson, reporter and correspondent for The Missouri Republican, had established a "Gentile" newspaper in Salt Lake City. After running the sheet for about a year and a half he returned to St. Louis after he had sold his printing-plant to Bruce. With this material Bruce started The Democrat, which became a daily in 1868. In 1865 T. J. Favorite, having removed the worn-out type and hand-press of The Radiator from Lewiston, Idaho, started in Helena The Montana Radiator on December 17, 1865, with Bruce Smith as editor. The Radiator continued until November 15, 1866, when it was bought by The Helena Herald, the third paper in Montana. That paper continued publication until December 27, 1902, when it became The Montana Daily Record. The Rocky Mountain Gazette was first issued on August 11, 1866. It was destroyed in the conflagration of 1874 and did not resume publication.

The Independent, which had been published originally in Deer Lodge, secured John H. Rogers as editor and then moved to Helena, where it is still published.

COMMENCEMENT IN WYOMING

Wyoming Territory, organized in May, 1869, was composed of land from three other territories, namely, Idaho, Utah, and Dakota. The first newspaper published in the boundaries of Wyoming was The Cheyenne Leader. It first appeared September 19, 1867, with N. A. Baker as editor and proprietor, from a primitive printing-office on the east side of Eddy Street. In