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Rh of the most picturesque of Oregon country papers, was founded by C. E. Dustin and Peter Connolly in November 1886. Though the official population of the town (Long Creek) was 150 or so, they carried on until September 1889, when they sold to John H. Kahn, who two years later sold to Orin L. Patterson. In 1898, the same year when Mr. Chandler bought the News, the name of the Long Creek paper was changed to Blue Mountain Eagle.

Clinton P. Haight, present editor of the Eagle, and co-publisher with P. F. Chandler, is known as one of the leading authorities on the coyote, which he seriously regards as the cagiest and perhaps the most intelligent of animals. He was elected to the legislature in 1934 and made a name for satirically humorous speeches.

When the Eagle flew over to Canyon City, the Long Creek Ranger was placed in the journalistic saddle by Charles A. Coe, in 1900, as a Friday independent Republican weekly. In 1908 Weir & Allen (W. E. Weir and J. H. Allen) purchased the paper and were still conducting the paper when it was finally suspended in 1930. Through most of the 1920's, the Ranger was edited and published by Grace Porter (Mrs. Tanler).

One other paper, perhaps, needs a brief mention. Keeler H. Gabbert, formerly of Josephine county and later of St. Helens, whose urge to start papers exceeded his strength to keep them going, launched a paper called the Avalanche-Journal in 1896. It was described in Ayer's for 1897 as "Republican. Eight pages. 11×16. $1.50." It soon faded out.

Prairie City.—The Grant County Journal is the old Prairie City Miner under a change of name dating back to 1912. The Miner was established by W. W. Watson and edited, successively, by A. M. F. Kircheiner, C. P. Haight, William E. Weir, and Albert G. Owen.

Editors and publishers of the Journal since 1913 have been, successively, Jesse H. Allen and Philip F. A. Boche, Don Jolley, George H. Flagg, C. S. Rice and F. E. Donaldson, W. Glenn, and Lester A. Wolf.

Union.—In a period of more than 60 years (107), Union has had at least four newspapers—the Mountain Sentinel, the Grande Ronde Post, the Oregon Scout, and the Eastern Oregon Republican. Of these, only one survives, the Eastern Oregon Republican, still published at Union.

The Blue Mountain Sentinel of La Grande was moved to Union in the middle 70's (probably 1876, after the loss by La Grande of the county seat to Union in 1874. Mrs. H. M. McComas, widow