Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1882-01-12
PERSONAL WITH THA EDITOR
OF THE "TELLER."

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The Weekly Oregonian of Dec. "a,
1881, contains what purports to b. \
history OF the commencement and rise
of the city Of Portland, and Of some Of
the men who figured in that history.
In the article we find the following re-
lating to the editor Of this paper:
Here, IN the very first number of the
file of the Oregonidn of 80 we no
t,ce that the Democratic party is called
"a corral'of piebald politicians" and
the editor Of one of the opposition pa
pers, "Alonzo the brave! Alonzo the
proud Alopzo Of the Standard;
Alonxo the rat!" is regaled with fight
of derogatory adjectives that would
make u Billingsgate tishwo.nan give
away her stock in trade and retire to
the peaceful haunts of a deaf aud dumb
asylum. There we're three papers pub
lished in town then: the Oregonidn,
the Standard, by Alonzo Leland, and
the Times, by judge Waterman--and
the way the live thunder leapt around
that triangle was fattering to the relig
ion of those Who insist on an orthodox
Hades.
Farther on the writer says:
The Portland Daily News, A. s.
English L. Co., publishers and propri-
etors, blossomed with the April violets
in 1859, and being too good for this
world, WAS promptly sainted. Close
upon the funeral of the News came the
institution OF tho Oregon Advertiser,
by Alonzo Leland, which lived until
1862, when its plant was transferred
to new paper, the Evening CONNER
cial, The Daily Times appeared Dec.
, 10, 1860, and the first number of the
Daily Oregonidn, owned and published
by Henry L. Pittock, Feb. 4, 1861.
Again in reference to public schools
, he says:
!, The public school system of Portland
, | is Justly ths pride of the community
r the jewel in its crown of honor and sue
!. cess-glittering like the sacred sardel
:. in the breastplate of Aaron. The first
9 school was taught by DR.. Ralph Will
|, cox, in a building which stood at the
" foot of Taylor street, during the fall of
h lS47 The first free school was opened
|. Doc Is, 1851, in the old "City Hotel,
:. John T. Clubhouse, teacher. The fol-
j. lowing gentiemen constituted the orig
inal board of directors; Anthony l..
n Davis, al mo Leland and Reuben p.
r Boise. The initial impulse toward the
IS organization of the present free system
J. was given by DR.. Atkinson in lS49,
j. and to him, more, perhaps, than to any
q other man, belongs the homer OF its
I foundation. There are at present -four
N punlic schools in the city: the High
N school, Central, Harrison street ane
is North. The buildings occupied arr
i magnificent edi6ces and with additions
n and improvements, have cost the cit,
N $ll4,477. The tax voted for the sup
9, port Of the public schools during tn
s. current year is four and three-fourtl
o. mills for current expeo sos and two mill
,r for Indebtedness. The average attend
ance is now about $500.
At the close of the article the write
appends a NOTE giving the reference
es be consults in making up his history
e in which he consults the files Of m
RS other paper than those of the Oregon
er iGn. Had the writer been able to con
,ir suit the files Of rome Of the other jourr
he ais of the period, no doubt he woul
OF have formed some notifications Of hi
ch history.
he We commenced the editing and put
by fishing of the Standard in the spring c
er 1854, and continued its publicatio
We till the fall Of 1857, then sold out
,r- a company of citizens of Oregon an
ID, continued to edit the paper till tn
ne spring If 1858 when the purchasin
ar company sold out to James OMear'
lr- Who soon after was nom mated for Stat
in Prin er and entered the canvass, an
ig- during the canvass and up to late in Il
he fall of 1858 we conducted and editt
Sc, the paper in the absence Of Mr.. ONE
nd ra. In the winter of 1859 we
ter company with Mr.. Mallory started Il
rus d lily Advertiser and published Fl
hat six months, and then sold out to S.
md Mccormick, who afterwards transferrt
ere the matter to exGov. Curry. Whf
ale the Daily News started, in 1859, '
be edited that paper for some time al
on then left it, and Mr.. Mcclure, who b
Figured much in Montana of late yea
took charge, and we entered the pub
surveys under Surveyor General Cha
, man. After completing our contra'
we ware employed to edit the Tim