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258 Brevier, about 300 pounds, 8 fonts of English, 3 varieties of border, 6 fonts job type, metal, 25 pounds more or less of display type for paper, lead advertising rules, cuts, etc., paper boards, wriglets, brass and wood rules, sponge, proof brush, lye brush, planer mallet, basket, bucket, dipper, wash-pan, boiler and kettle for rollers, wrench, screw-driver, saw, miter box, a lot of blank deeds, notes of hand cards, envelopes, note paper, bill paper, wrapping paper, pens, and six printer's candlesticks, and everything else appertaining to the office of the newspaper lately known as the Jacksonville Herald. Consideration $1400.

In May 1862 the Civilian was started to take the place of the Gazette. D. William Douthitt was publisher. The paper, less violent than the Gazette, was strongly enough Democratic to be rather unpopular with a large element of the population, and the end came in a few months.

Mr. T'Vault, who seems to have owned the plant, having purchased it when the Herald failed, now started the Intelligencer, but it died late in 1864. This was T' Vault's last Oregon newspaper. He died of small-pox in Jacksonville in 1869.

In January 1865 P. J. Malone, formerly of Portland, Albany, and Corvallis, started the Oregon Reporter; but he retired at the end of the first volume, having failed to make an impression. He was succeeded by Frank R. Stuart, who remained until 1867, when Stuart and Pidler (W. W.) changed the name to the Southern Oregon Press. A few months, and this venture too had failed, and the plant was used to start the Reveille in July 1868 for the Democratic committee. It soon died from malnutrition. Voluntary contributions from politicians were insufficient for its needs.

The next year P. D. Hull and Charles Nickell started the Democratic News to take the place of the Reveille. The plant was destroyed by fire in 1871, and Nickell launched the Democratic Times to look after Democracy's needs in Jacksonville. This paper went right on down to the twentieth century, conducted most of the time by Nickell himself, until its consolidation with the Southern Oregonian about 30 years ago. Nickell was a prominent and popular figure in southern Oregon and active in the state editorial association, but his fame was in eclipse before the end. Most of the time his paper was a weekly, issued, at various times, on almost every day in the week. Beginning in 1895 it ran for a time as semi-weekly, Monday and Thursday.

The present Jacksonville paper is the weekly Post, issued on Friday, with occasional lapses, since 1906, when it was founded by J. B. Barnes. S. P. Shutt, D. W. Bagshaw, Blanche Johnstone Cook, W. T. Bray, C. J. Shorb, R. E. Blankenberg, have been