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Rh chased the paper from Dowell in 1878 and had Turner with him as editor from 1880 to 1882.

The Sentinel in those days of more than half a century ago (1883) was a seven-column, four-page paper issued Saturdays at $3 a year. There were five columns of advertising on the left side of the first page in the issue of October 13, 1883, and the other two columns, with a runover, were filled with an interesting list of "Our Heaviest Taxpayers." There were 350 of them who paid on a valuation of more than $2,000. At the top was C. E. Tilton, valuation $25,000, and next H. F. Baum with $23,900, then G. Karewski $22,455.

Page 2 was filled with editorial and miscellany, two columns, and advertising, five columns. G. Karewski, just mentioned, had a big display ad topped with black type an inch deep: "Attention Everybody! Stoves, Agricultural Implements."

Page 3 had six columns of locals and personals, with no head lines, and a column of advertising. Page 4. six and a half columns of advertising and the rest miscellaneous matter. The paper's format changed from time to time. For instance, under D. M. C. Gault, in 1868, there were six wide (2½-inch) columns.

Krause was still editor through 1886. The next publishers were Will Jackson and J. W. Merritt, then M. Langell in 1887. The paper was sold to Charles Nickell March 16, 1888, and suspended, leaving the shrinking field to the Democratic Jacksonville Times.

Another Sentinel appeared in 1902, with Charles Meserve editor. It was discontinued in 1906.

In 1857 Beggs & Burns had started the Jacksonville Herald, a short-lived paper. In the records of Jackson county is a bill of sale from William J. Beggs to W. G. T'Vault covering the plant of the Herald. The items listed will give an accurate idea of what the well-equipped newspaper had to have in its back shop in 1858. The plant was used in August 14, 1861, by O'Meara & Pomeroy to start the Southern Oregon Gazette. This paper was so intensely Democratic under O'Meara that in a few months it was barred from the mails.

Following is the list of material sold by Beggs and Burns:

One Imperial No. 3 Wash, press, one rolling frame and apparatus, and roller and roller mold, 2 double chases, 1 pair of cases, 5 job chases, 1 job hand roller frame, 1 cabinet galley with slides, 1 small cabinet for cases, 17 pairs of cases, 1 bookcase, 1 stove and pipe, 1 bank and 1 table, 4 double stands, 1 slice galley, 4 brass proof galleys, 4 wood galleys, 1 wooden job stick, 1 iron job-stick, 3 composing-sticks, part of a keg of news ink, part of a keg of book ink, 2 small cans of red ink, 1 lead-cutter, 2 chairs, 2 stools, 1 large font of Bourgeoise about 300 pounds, 1 large font of