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372 line between Silver Lake and Bend. He was in Bend during the deep snow of December, 1919, when he got word of the big Silver Lake fire. Reassured that his editor was getting out some sort of a paper, he remained in Bend for several days, only to find on his return that the Leader had missed an issue. This meant that it had lost its entry at the post office and would have to be re-entered. More or less in disgust, the owners accepted the offer of L. B. Charles to buy the paper. There was nothing much to sell after the fire but the subscription list of 500 or 600 at $2 a year. L. B. and Glen Charles moved their Fort Rock plant to Silver Lake and combined with the Leader as the Lake County Tribune and Silver Lake Leader, in January, 1920. They continued its publication until April, 1928, when they purchased the old plant of the Lake County Rustler and moved the Tribune and Leader to Lakeview, where, under the title Lake County Tribune, the paper has been published since.

The Tribune ran as a semi-weekly for four years, part of the time under the editorship of Josephine Barry, former University of Oregon journalism student, and L. H. Van Winkle, formerly of the Albany Democrat-Herald. It was changed to a weekly June 16, 1932, under the editorship of Harry E. Dutton, University of Oregon journalism graduate, who had been the first sports editor of the Eugene Morning News. L. B. Charles and Glen Charles continued as publishers until 1937, when they sold to Thornton Gale, another Oregon graduate, who had been editor for a year, and C. L. Edger ton, all-around printer, who became business manager.

The Register, a Thursday independent weekly, was launched at Lakeview in 1898, while the Rustler was running as a Populist paper. The editor and publisher was J. G. Walters. It failed to answer the bell for the Ayer's directory of 190o. After the Register faded, however, the Rustler was again listed as an independent newspaper.

Though he did not start the first paper, the first half century of Curry county journalism revolves pretty much around Walter Sutton, real Oregon pioneer, who crossed the plains in 1854, and many years later purchased the Port Orford Post from J. H. Upton & Son, who had established it in 1880.

The new paper was started as the Curry County Post, and the first number, four five-column, 10x14 type pages, appeared at Port Orford Thursday, May 27, 1880. Ellensburg, later to be known as Gold Beach, was the county seat, and it was the original plan of the Uptons to start the paper there. The first item in volume 1, No. i, is an editorial in news form headed Change of Base—"Port Orford Post," explaining that "it would be unnecessary for us to give any