Bush's question. "Put your note in the bank" for the amount, was his assurance to Thompson, and perhaps another little skirmish was won for press freedom.
The Willamette Collegian, now a weekly, had as its forerunner the College Journal, a monthly founded in 1881. The Collegian was launched as a monthly in 1889 (31).
Arthur Brock, veteran printer-publisher, who had been employed on the Daily Independent and Post in Salem, in 1894-5-6, started in '96 the first general educational magazine in the state, the Oregon Teachers' Monthly, in partnership with George Jones, of Marion county schools. After three or four superintendent months Mr. Brock withdrew from the partnership and went to Chehalis, and Mr. Jones took the magazine over to the Statesman office as a job of printing. The Statesman later acquired the publication and conducted it for many years. This monthly, organ of the Oregon State Teachers' Association, ran for 30 years, much of the time under the editorship of Charles H. Jones. It was dis continued the year after the establishment of the Oregon Education Journal in Portland, in 1926.
The Oregon Poultry Journal, one of several publications issued from the printing-shop of the Oregon Statesman, ran under that name from 1896 to 1906, when it became the Northwest Poultry Journal, in recognition of its widening field. It has been now for many years under the editorial direction of W. C. Conner, old-time Oregon weekly publisher.
The Pacific Homestead, successor of a line of agricultural publications published in Salem and Portland, was established in 1900 as a weekly, with R. J. Hendricks publisher. Carle Abrams was editor for many years. It was suspended in 1930, several years after the withdrawal of Colonel Abrams.
DAILIES ARE BORN AND DIE
The Daily News of Portland was the first daily newspaper in Oregon. Its first issue, with Alonzo Leland editor, came off the press April 18, 1859. The publishers, S. A. English and the W. B. Taylor Company, soon appointed E. D. Shattuck, discoverer of Harvey Scott, as editor, when Leland left to take over the editorship of the Advertiser, Oregon's second daily. W. D. Carter, formerly of the Western Star and the Times, soon succeeded Shattuck, who was a lawyer rather than a journalist (though a versatile man who could turn his hand to anything including teaching classics in a college).
The News was a five column tabloid, four pages, issued from an
