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210 There was also the Western Stock Journal, a monthly established in 1916 by Grant B. Dimick, who a few years later disappeared from Oregon City while under charges of defrauding clients he repre sented in property deals.

Canby.—This community has had three weekly newspapers since Herbert L. Gill, who started several newspapers in Oregon and Washington a generation ago, launched the Clackamas County Register, a Saturday paper, in 1896. After a few months he sold the paper to John D. Stevens, who suspended it in 1898.

Prior to this the town had had a one-third interest in the Three Sisters, a four-page six-column paper issued for Aurora, Barlow, and Canby by Maurice E. Bain, from 1890 to 1894.

The Tribune, a Friday weekly independent in politics, became a Republican paper, merged with the Willamette Valley Irrigator, using the combined name, with W. H. Lucke editor. F. M. Roth was editor and publisher in 1912. The next year the name was changed to the Canby Irrigator, H. P. Bennett editor and publisher.

The present newspaper, succeeding the Irrigator ın the field, was started in 1915 as the Clackamas County News. In 1923 W. C. Culbertson, prominent Democratic politician, took hold of the paper, changing the name to the Canby Herald. In 1928 he gave way to H. E. Browne, who conducted the paper until 1937. when his health failed and he turned the paper over to C. F. Hall, the present publisher. Mr. Browne died in 1938.

Milwaukie.—The Milwaukie Review, present occupant of the field, was founded by George A. McArthur, typographical veteran of nearly half a century's experience, April 14, 1921. McArthur was one of the printers who, rather dubiously, went to the aid of Tom Dillon and M. H. Voorhees when they were starting the East Side News in Portland in 1902. He ran the Review until 1926, when C. O. Wilson, former intertype salesman, took hold. Wilson remained until 1930, when S. L. Burton, present owner, purchased the paper.

Milwaukie journalism, of course, goes right back to the beginning, when Lot Whitcomb started the Western Star. Portland won the battle for a future, and Milwaukie journalism apparently lay fallow until 1905, when the Milwaukie Bee, a Saturday weekly, Charles Ballard editor, tried out the field, moving to Sellwood, inside Portland city limits, the next year and becoming the Sellwood Bee (still running).

A little daily, the News, came and went in 1908.

The Milwaukie Record, a weekly, however, launched in the same year, kept going, under James P. Shaw publisher, lasting until 1911, when it was succeeded in the field by the Milwaukie Appeal, S. A. Thomas editor-publisher, issued Fridays. All gone by 1912.

C. W. Barzee started the Alliance, a semi-monthly Socialist publication, in 1912, but it soon dropped out.