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412 He said he would do his best but had doubts as to his success. He left the office, and was gone for about an hour, when he returned and reported an absolute failure, but suggested that if I was to call on a certain party he thought I might have more success. Desperate conditions require desperate remedies, and I called on the party referred to, made known my desires and needs and was handed the goods nicely wrapped, with the admonition: "The next time you need anything like this, come after it yourself; don't send the justice of the peace." Chap had never mentioned he was an officer of the law.

Bonanza's present paper, the Free Press, is (1939) owned by Mrs. Catherine Prehm Terry and managed by Mr. and Mrs Thomas Wilson.

The Bly Review, a Thursday weekly, independent Democratic, was established in Bly by A. E. McDonald in 1929. It is continuing under the same direction.

Chiloquin.—The Priaulx family, active in Oregon journalism and politics, makes it headquarters at Chiloquin, busy lumbering town of Klamath county. Arthur W. Priaulx (pronounced Pree-o), later chosen chairman of the Republican state central committee, in which capacity he headed two campaigns, started the Review in 1925. Chiloquin was a shack town when the paper was launched. "Ten years full of work, pioneering and roughing it, to help carve a city out of a pine wilderness," is the way the editor expressed it in a retrospective editorial at the end of the first ten years. W. A. Priaulx father of the publisher, is an old-time publisher-printer who has been associated with a multitude of country papers since he made his start in 1890. The present manager is Edouard Priaulx. Arthur is in Eugene publishing the Eugene News.

Grants Pass.—A. E. Voorhies, publisher of the Grants Pass Courier, has been connected with the paper for more than 40 years. He has been to the Courier-and for a longer period-what C. S. Jackson was to the Oregon Journal. But he did not found the paper, and the Courier was not quite the first newspaper in its home city and county.

The Courier, as a matter of record, comes within three weeks of being the first Josephine county publication. The first was the little old Argus, started by Dr. Keeler H. Gabbert, the first issue of which appeared March 13, 1885. Gabbert's paper was tiny. Mr. Vooorhies