many a first daily in the older and larger towns." (Washington Press Association Proceedings, 1887-1890, page 43.)
Sunday Independent, established on November 9, 1889, by Hull, Kerr and Julian. It lived but a few weeks.
CHEHALIS, LEWIS COUNTY
Bee-Nugget, the combination of two pioneer journals. The Lewis County Nugget was first issued on July 14, 1883, by Tozier & Meybrick. It was not attractive. The Asotin Transcript said: "We have seen many poor papers, but never worse." J. E. Willis secured the paper, changed its politics to the Democratic column, secured the local postmastership and sold the paper to A. H. Wehner, who continued it as a Democratic organ until November, 1889, when he sold it to Owen & Morrison. In February, 1890, the paper was acquired by A. E. Partridge. The Lewis County Bee was established on June 6, 1884, by Bull & Francis, who changed it to a semi-weekly on August 1, 1884. It skipped one week and appeared again on September 12, 1884, as a weekly by W. W. Francis, with Charles Weston as editor. On August 4, 1886, W. W. Francis sold out to J. T. Forrest. (Edwin N. Fuller, in Washington Press Association Proceedings, 1887–1890, page 82.) Besides the files in the office of publication, there are series of them, especially since the successful combination of the two papers, in the University of Washington Library, in the State Library at Olympia, and the Public Library at Chehalis.
CHENEY, SPOKANE COUNTY
Enterprise, listed by the Lord & Thomas Newspaper Directory, in 1890, as an independent weekly.
Northwest Tribune, established at Colfax in 1879, moved to Cheney in 1883 and to Spokane Falls in 1886. (History of the Pacific Northwest: Oregon and Washington, Volume II., page 548.)
Sentinel, spoken of by Charles Prosch on August 14, 1889, as "a large weekly published by Fred Publer, the official paper of the city of Cheney. It has just completed its eighth volume and looks healthy enough to "live through eight more." (Washington Press Association Proceedings, 1887–1890, page 41.) It was listed in the Lord & Thomas Newspaper Directory, 1890, as an independent weekly.
