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Rh The next paper, the Santiam News, was founded by Albert Cole and Roy Hill in 1897. Ira A. Phelps was publisher in 1899, D. C. Humphrey in 1904, and T. L. Dugger in 1909.

The present Scio Tribune is the result of the consolidation of the Sweet Home Tribune, which was brought to Scio in 1914 by T. L. Dugger, and the News, which was still running at Scio. The News was sold to the Tribune in that year.

Sweet Home.—The Sweet Home New Era, successor of several newspaper ventures in this field, was started in September 1929 by G. H. Crusen as a 6-column 4-page paper, for which the subscriber was charged $1.50 a year. The town is small, but the paper has been lively and well made up. It was here that the late Mrs. O. Feigum, wide-eyed country correspondent, always interested and often astonished, did her picturesque work—this lover of nature and chronicler of the first robins, trilliums, etc., who was made famous by Ben Hur Lampman and Ed Miller of the Oregonian through editorial recognition and special interviews. Mrs. Feigum told Sunday Editor Miller that she got her tips by listening in on the rural party lines.

The present publisher of the New Era is John T. Russell, whose big fight now is to keep his town from being drowned out of existence by one of the proposed great dams of the Willamette valley project.

Astoria.—Astoria journalism goes back to August 1864, when James Newton Gale, recently from Eugene, Salem, and Portland, where he had edited papers (as told in the appropriate spots of this work), started the old Marine Gazette. Gale, as George H. Himes and Airs. A. C. Barette of Eugene, Gale's daughter, recall, was in vited to Astoria by a group of promoters. His wife, sister of H. R. Kincaid, Eugene publisher, did not like Astoria, and he moved on to Puget Sound within a year, becoming a pioneer publisher in the new territory of Washington.

He was succeeded by W. W. Parker, son-in-law of W. L. Adams, remembered as the able and caustic founder of the Oregon City Argus. Parker is supposed to have been helped and coached by Adams, for he was not himself a newspaper man. Adams had gone to Astoria as collector of customs, a reward for his part in directing organization of the young Republican party in Oregon. (72).

Adams had purchased the Spectator plant for $1200 after the suspension of Oregon's first newspaper, and it was type from the Spectator which was used in printing, first the Argus, then the Marine Gazette. The Oregon State Journal of Eugene was printed on