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Rh, 1931, Lee B. Tuttle, veteran Oregon editor and publisher, and Walter Stronach, who had been one of the founders of the News, purchased a controlling interest in the publishing company, and Mr. Tuttle for a time acted as editor. Later (1933) Robert H. Galloway, formerly managing editor of the News, was made editor of the Progress. He left late in 1934. His successor as editor is Embert Fosum, Klamath Falls man, who had been graduated from the University of Oregon school of journalism the year before. Mr. Stronach is manager.

Bonanza.—The Bonanza Bulletin was a picturesque little paper which ran from 1906 to 1914 and survived the city's disastrous conflagration of 1909 only to be wiped out in a much smaller fire involving its own building. The Bulletin was founded by Charles Pattee and Frank Salcedio in May, 1906 (159). J. O. Hamaker, whose brother, J. Wesley, had steered W. O. Smith into Klamath journalism back in 1903, purchased the paper in August of 1906 from Salcedio and assumed the indebtedness. The plant consisted of one case of ten-point, one of 18, and one of 24, an Army press, and a stock of six-column news print.

When the fatal fire came in January 1914 and destroyed the Bulletin building, one month after $4,000 insurance on the enlarged plant and building had been allowed to lapse, the Bulletin came out with an 8×1O-inch edition, carrying an account of the fire taken from Sam Evans' Northwestern, and an announcement that publication would be resumed in the spring. The optimistic announcement was not carried out.

There are a lot of good incidental stories in the newspaper life of early Klamath papers. Nate Otterbein (died 1938) told one dealing with his work as a printer on the Bonanza Bulletin when he first came to the Klamath country.

Chap Graves (he said in the News and Herald Supplement, January, 1937, page 4) was running the Bonanza Bulletin, and his printer was off on leave of absence for some reason or other. Chap tried to hire me to assist in getting out the next issue. I was still holding a situation on the San Francisco Examiner, and explained to him that I was not at liberty to hire out to any one under the circumstances, but assured him that there was no rule to keep me from helping him out as a friend.

Worked for him three days to get out that issue, and when he asked me how much he owed me, I told him that he didn't owe me anything. But I did suggest that as I was thoroughly imbued with a dread of snake bites, if he could secure about a quart of preventative for me it would be very acceptable; that as I was a stranger it would be very difficult for me to procure it. (The county was under local option).