The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-12-23
THE NEW DAILY PAPER
AN OFFICE RENTED AND THE
OUTFIT BOu5HT.
Editor Haywood Arrived Yesterday
MIR. Willis Briggs Will be the
CITY Editor;

The Tribune, the new Republican daily
paper. will begin publication between Jan
uary / and q.
Business Manager G. NJ. Kenyon Is here
now arranging for the Opening of the of
fee at an early date. He las rented the
store and basement in the Henry build
Ing, formerly occupied by: the Raleigh
Stationery Company, and las given out
the contracts for putting in his presses
and machinery. A handsome job office
outfit and double-revolution cylinder press
have already been bought.
Three Linotype machines have also
been ordered, but will not lie here until
after the paper starts. The first few
issues will, therefore. be set by hand.
the BREWER type in the job office being
used. The Tribune will take the South
ern Associated Press dispatches.
Nearly every prominent Republican in
the State il a stakeholder in the paper.
The capital stock, which is now nearly all
paid in. is $4,000 Mr.. Kenyon is the
lnrgest individual stakeholder. The Of
ficers OF the company are as follows:
President, Charles j. Harris, of Dillsboro;
Secretary and Treasurer, w. w Hay
wood; Attorney, Hezekiah Gudger, ~
Ashevlle.
The Tribune will be candidate for the
public printing, and, backed by influential
stockholders, will give the other candi-
dates lively tussle. Business: Manager
Kenyon says the Tribune " ii i:ot be run
for glory, but for the money there is in
it, just like any other business enterprise.
He says the subscription price will be the
same as that charged for the News and
Observer.
AIR. Kenyon will move his family here
as soon as he can find Il suitable residence.
Editor w. w. Haywood arrived yes
terday and will spend the next two weeks
arranging the details OF his work and
selecting his staff. Most Of his printers
will be Raleigh men and his local editor
will also be resident of this city-Mr.
Willis Briggs, son of Mr.. Ttos. II.
Briggs. He is young man of very de-
cided LITERARY ability and his acquaintance
with Raleigh and Raleigh people will
give him great advantage as / news
gatherer. The rest of the staff The tele-
graph editor and reporters for the Legis-
lature--will be selected later.
Mr.. Haywood is q man Of about 40
years of age, and bears n striking re-
semblance to Maj. Mckinley. Most Of
his life has been spent in Journalism,
much OF the time in the wild and woolly
West, where the pistol was law and
public sentiment was always on the side
OF the man who could draw his gun first.
He began his newspaper coreer ia Mis-
souri,, his native State, as city editor of
the Dallas Herald. Then, in the; early
10s, he went to Tennessee and became
financial and commercial editor of the
Memphis Appeal. From there he went
to Illinois and he and his brother pub
lishei the Joliet Sun, an afternoon paper.
Selling out the Sun spirit OF adventure
seized Mr.. Haywood and he went to
Tucson, Arizona, and began the puhlica-
ton OF a paper there. Some years: ago
MIR. Haywood came back East and: has
since been at Hendersonyille editing the
Times, a weekly Republican paper, cwn-
ed by Mr. Kenyon, until a few moaths
ago, when he sold it out to an Iowa man.