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Rh Independent, and the young publisher, a real westerner, native of Baker county, Oregon, was a fighting editor, with a crusading reform paper. He attacked the alliance between politics and the liquor business and made his paper independent in fact as well as in name. "The first year," he said one day many years after, "25 men were after me to ship me. Finally one of them did catch me. I put a bullet in him. . . . No, didn't kill him, just stopped him." The Grangers were with the editor, and he managed to win his campaign. One of his aims was to put county office-holders on salary instead of on fees-with a view to cutting off unearned returns to many office-holders; this was brought about through legislative action.

Having kept the saloons out of Woodburn for four years, he moved on to Salem, where he started another Independent and continued his crusading.

Mr. Auterson recalls being the first editor to boom Willis C. Hawley, then president of Willamette University, for congress.

Hubbard.—Hubbard journalism goes back to the Beaver State News, established there in 1906 by R. B. Conover. It ran six years.

The News was followed by the Hubbard Enterprise, founded in 1914 by L. C. McShane, who kept it going until 1925, when Alf M. Rhoades, old-time printer, whose nickname of course was "Dusty," spent a year rustling enough copy and ads to keep himself busy in the back shop. Then, in 1926, came Dr. P. O. Riley, erudite ex-college professor and after-dinner speaker, who held the helm until January, 1935, when the paper was suspended.

H. E. Browne of the Canby Herald at once started covering Hubbard with an adapted edition of the Canby Herald known as the Hubbard Herald but soon suspended. For the last eighteen months of its career the Hubbard Enterprise had been printed in Mr. Browne's shop at Canby.

The Hubbard News arrived in 1937, published by Glenn Miller. In the summer of 1938 he disposed of the paper to Ray Ryckman and Terry McIntyre of Salem and is now publishing at Beaverton.

Corvallis.—Corvallis, once for a short time the capital of Oregon territory, has one of the longest newspaper histories of any of the cities in Oregon.

The town's first paper was the Oregon Statesman. This paper, moved from Oregon City to Salem, has so long been associated with