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Rh Miller and his gifted wife, Minnie Myrtle Dyer Miller. John Michell was editor of the paper in the early nineties.

J. H. Douthit bought the Times-Mountaineer September 1, 1895. The daily Times-Mountaineer, which had been running intermittently, was suspended November 23, 1900. The paper was now losing ground in the face of developing competition. November 12, 1901, the Times-Mountaineer began publication of a semi-weekly edition, a six-column folio, on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The paper was suspended September 30, 1904. Its valedictory editorial said it had been losing money for three years. Thus died the oldest paper in eastern Oregon, started, as the Journal, in the year of Oregon's admission to the Union. Successive editors had been Captain Jordan, W. H. Newell, Lieutenant Halloran, Lieutenant Catley, Henry Miller (at one time editorial writen on the Oregonian), George B. Curry, Col. Thomas S. Lang, John Michell, and J. A. Douthit. By this time the Chronicle, daily and weekly, established in 1890, had virtually absorbed the field. But more about the Chronicle later.

Virtually lost in the haze of time is The Dalles and Wasco county's second newspaper, called The Weekly, issued for a short time in 1860.

The third paper issued at The Dalles was W. W. Bancroft's Daily Journal, which ran opposition to the Mountaineer, giving the city two dailies during those Civil war years which were at the same time boom times for The Dalles, because of mining activity in Idaho, which was dying out just as the war was coming to an end. The Daily Journal was a Democratic paper. Little further information about it survives.

The fourth paper issued in The Dalles is mentioned here only because its editor and publisher was M. H. Abbott, either founder or editor of several prominent Oregon papers in Albany, Baker, La Grande, Pendleton, and The Dalles. His paper in The Dalles was the Tribune, started October 28, 1875, and run for two years, after which it was discontinued and the plant removed to La Grande to start the Gazette. The Tribune was a Democratic six-column weekly.

T. B. Merry, an able writer who was soon to be the first editor of the Sunday Oregonian, ran the Inland Empire in The Dalles for two years, starting it July 6, 1878, and suspending December 10, 1880. This was paper No. 5 for The Dalles.

The Wasco Weekly Sun, which ran for 13 years, from June 4, 1881, until the great flood of 1894, was another publication washed out of existence by the high water. The founder was T. Draper, and it had nine or ten owners before the flood, at which time its publisher was D. C. Ireland, whose name dots this story at frequent intervals. The flood washed out the plant, and publication never was resumed. Successive editors so far as checked have been F. S. Floed of Roseburg; W. S. Worthington, Col. T. S. Lang, F. C. Middleton,