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Rh won the county seat away from Joseph, and the paper was moved there January 1, 1893. Durseland remained six months, when he was succeeded by F. A. Clarke, now of Portland, and W. E. Beers, which firm conducted the Chieftain as a regular Republican sheet. After a short time Mr. Beers bought out his partner.

The interweaving of Wallowa county newspapers is interesting and a little confusing. Before the Chieftain moved to Enterprise, the future Wallowa county seat had a newspaper. The story of this paper is told by H. H. Phelps, who with John King started it. (151)

Mr. Phelps and wife rode into Wallowa county on a buckboard, which carried the mail, about the first of June. The big store in Enterprise was being kept in a tent, and the newspaper erected the second building in the community. A part interest was sold to Jeff Ownbey, who supplied part of the needed money, and the paper was launched as the Wallowa Enterprise, a name suggested by Mr. Phelps' father. The paper was purchased by Ownbey in November of the same year.

Mr. Ownbey soon changed the name of the paper to the Signel. (152)

In 1892 the paper underwent another change of name. J. A. Burleigh, a school-teacher, purchased the paper and changed the name to the Aurora, a Friday Populist weekly, organ of the Farmers' Alliance (153). It was this paper that aroused the Republicans to an aggressive policy in the Chieftain, which soon was moved to Enterprise from Joseph.

Business men of Joseph, then left without a newspaper, persuaded Mr. Burleigh to move away from his competition and give their town an organ. Mr. Burleigh moved to Joseph in April, 1893, and continued publishing the Aurora there for two years, then moving back to Enterprise, leaving Joseph again without a paper. How the need was supplied is told under the Joseph end of this story.

When J. A. Burleigh became county clerk in July of 1896 he turned the Aurora over to his brother, W. S. Burleigh, now of Los Angeles. After a year the new owner moved the plant to Lostine.

To supply the need for a Democratic organ H. L. Herzinger started the Bulletin in Enterprise. After a year or two he merged his paper with the Lostine Leader under the title Bulletin-Leader.

April 26, 1907, the News Record was launched in Enterprise, giving the Chieftain competition again. This was the old Wallowa News, which had been running in Wallowa for eight years. Fred G. Conley and J. Arthur Bishop changed the name to the News Record on moving to Enterprise. Later in the same year the paper was purchased by Homer A. Galloway and his sister-in-law, Miss Snow V. Heaton.

Ben Weathers was publishing the Chieftain at the time, and