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400 several years the seat of the Wallowa Chieftain, first newspaper in what was before long to be the new county of Wallowa.

When the Chieftain was lured away to Enterprise, following the county government, in the beginning of 1893, J. A. Burleigh, who later became one of the leading attorneys of Wallowa county, was persuaded to take the Aurora, Populist weekly, Farmers' Alliance organ, to Joseph. But in two years he went back to Enterprise. For a very short time Joseph was again without a newspaper, but W. E. Beers moved in (1895) and started a new paper, the Wallowa Herald, which, now known as the Joseph Herald, has been published there ever since. It was a seven-column folio. The name was changed to the Silver Lake Herald in 1895 and back again in 1899 when Henderson & Henderson took hold, with Lee C. Henderson as editor.

Former publishers of the paper, which was (1938) edited and published by Clinton P. Haight Jr. under lease from the owner, Lawrence G. Allen, while Mr. Allen attends to his duties as post master, have been Mr. Beers, E. A. Pollock (now of Wallowa); G. E. McCully, Thomas Gwillim, L. C. Henderson, Al T. Kinney, Sloan P. Shutt (deceased), W. C. Black, John M. Lowry, W. L. Flower (now of Enterprise), Rev. L. A. Cook, S. M. Smallwood, O. G. Crawford. The latest publisher, succeeding Mr. Allen, is (1939) I. J- Vollmer.

Lostine.—Lostine, one of the smaller Lostine valley towns, has itself been the home of several newspapers, covering the period from 1897, when the weekly Leader was established, to the moving away of the Lostine Reporter to Enterprise, where it became the Wallowa Reporter, in 1919.

The Leader was merged soon after its founding with the Bulletin of Enterprise, which was moved to Lostine by H. L. Herzinger and combined with the Leader as the Bulletin-Leader. It was gone soon after the turn of the century.

Then James Doris Jr. launched the Review, in 1903. This also faded out in less than two years.

The Review was followed by the Ledger and Democrat, established by the Burleigh Bros., prominently connected with other Wallowa county newspapers. J. A. Burleigh, former county clerk, was editor. The paper was gone in two years.

Klamath Falls.—Back in the days when Klamath Falls was still known as Linkville, the first newspaper in Klamath county was born. This was in 1884, nearly forty years after the establishment