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256 These items may have been something to do with hastening O'Meara's departure from the paper.

A change came with the acquisition of the Sentinel by Henry Denlinger and W. M. Hand, printers, in 1861, and it was never again a Democratic partisan—usually, in fact, strongly Republican. Hand left within the year to volunteer in the Union army, and Denlinger carried on the paper until July 1864. His editor was young Orange Jacobs, a strong Union mam who expressed his sen timents strongly in the paper. His two years and a half on the Sentinel, which he left in July 1864, were characterized by brilliant writing not only in his editorials but through the body of the paper. He became a lawyer, and in 1867 went to Washington territory, where he became eminent in the law and rose to be a justice of the territorial supreme court.

T'Vault, founder of the Sentinel, let his pro-Southern feelings overcome his normal American patriotism in Civil war times. The following exchange, taken from the Jacksonville Democratic Times and the Oregon Sentinel indicates his feeling for the Pacific Republican plan which had loyal Union men of the West worried at this time. T'Vault, who had started the Sentinel and had seen it drift from pro-secession clear to extreme Republican in a few years, had written the Portland Times as follows:

"Lewiston, July 7th, 1862.

Editor Times:—I see in the daily issue of the 2d inst. of your paper, the obituary notice and coroner's inquest, held over a dead body found at Portland, from which you say it "leaves but little doubt that the dead body was that of Col. T'Vault." As to my obituary, I am thankful for your references. But few men live to read what is said of them, after death; however, I assure you that I am still alive, and expect to live to occupy a high and honorable position in the Pacific Republic."

The Colonel had, more or less, "asked for it," and here is how Orange Jacobs landed on his exposed chin:

"By request (Jacobs commented in the Oregon Sentinel) we copy the above from the Portland Times. Well, Colonel, we are glad to learn that you are still alive. You may live to occupy a high position in a Pacific Republic, but we have serious doubts about its honorable nature. We don't believe you will ever occupy either.

July 9, 1862."

The Sentinel's next owner was B. F. Dowell, who published the paper from 1864 to 1878, using the following editors in succession: J. M Sutton, D. M. C. Gault, William M. Turner, E. B. Watson, Harrison Kellay, and Ed F. Lewis. Frank Krause pur-