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Rh prominent names in Oregon and Washington history are involved in its brief annals. M. H. Abbott and N. L. Butler started the paper. Abbott three years later (1869) was one of the founders of the Baker Democrat, which in consolidated status has come down to the present. Abbott withdrew from the Herald almost immediately, and a stock company made up of Democratic leaders was formed to manage its affairs. Members were Aaron E. Wait, who had succeeded George Law Curry as editor of the Spectator and run it for some year; W. Weatherford, J. K. Kelly, L. F. Grover, who within a few years was to be, successively, governor and United States senator; J. S. Smith, N. L. Butler, J. C. Hawthorne.

Beriah Brown, well known in the journalism of California, Oregon and Washington, who came north after a San Francisco mob, disliking his attitude toward the war, threw his plant out in the street, became editor June 10, 1866, and conducted for a year the only pro-Johnson organ in the state. He was succeeded by Sylvester Pennoyer, who bought the paper, only to sell it the next year (July to T. Patterson & Co. Pennoyer also became a governor 1, 1869) of Oregon in later years. His successor as editor was Eugene Semple, who while never a governor of Oregon, achieved something similar before many years by becoming governor of Washington territory. Patterson sold out to a stock company December 1, 1871, and in a year and a half (May 25, 1873), the paper was suspended.

Two items of journalistic interest appeared in April (1866) numbers of the Herald. One, in the issue of the 18th, is part of a quarrel with H. L. Pittock and the Oregonian.

"We had hoped (the editorial said, in part) that Henry L. Pittock, Esq., the State Printer of the State of Oregon, would discuss political and other subjects in a gentlemanly, dignified manner. We hate, aye, we loathe, from our inmost soul this mode of warfare; and whenever Mr. Pittock wishes it to cease, all he has to do is call off his yelping hounds off our track, and that of our friends, and treat us with that decorum and propriety which always obtain amongst gentlemen."

The other item, printed April 20, told of the attack, referred to elsewhere in this volume, against D. C. Ireland, local reporter of the Oregonian. Here's the wordy, bombastic way the Herald man told the story, interesting also as illustrating the hazards of news-reporting:

A RENCONTRE.— We are credibly informed that, yesterday afternoon, A. M. Burns, master of the steamship Orizaba, met D. C. Ireland, Esq., local reporter of the Oregonian, on Couch's wharf, and by throwing a handful of bones with uncomfortable force and precision unerring, on