The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-10-13

the material Of the Sentinel was purshased
Dy the volunteer was May 8, 1851.
Career of w. w. Phelps.
w W Phelps was born in Oakland,
MICH; IN 1922, graduated at the University
OIL OF Mlchlgan, studied law, was admitted to
me par and, IN 1854, while member of the
Michlgan legislature, was appointed reg
lster OF the United States land office at
Ecu w ing; Wnlcn was opened Feb. 1, 1856
ne was elected to congress when Mime
mayor OF Red Wing. He was Democrat
OF the old school and did much to give an
e eSeo ted tone to early journalism. He was
the solid foundations she now enjoys. He
died Aug. 8, 1873.
The fnty-siXth newspaper published in
the territory was the Rochester Democrat.
The st: Paul Advertiser of Aug. 90, 1857,
says: The Rochester Democrat and Ohm
sted Journal are the only papers running
III I K9cnester, Olmsted county"
Vol. l, NO. 80, of March 18, 1858, being
the hrst number of the Democrat that /
can find, I am compelled to count back,
for vol. l, No. l.. In that way make the
n.gsglnnlng Aug. s, 1857. Oct. q, 1858, IS
In That number Charles w. Cottorn, the
owner and editor, says he is going to
WI Wlnona. where on Wednesday. Nov. II.
1858. he will begin the Winona Democrat.
AS ne took his press and material with
MIN, the Rochester Democrat died. It
was four-page, seven column Demo-
cratic sheet.
The fifty-seventh newspaper in the ter
letin.
This is. another newspaper of which
Advertiser Of Aug. 20, 1867, says it has
received the first two numbers. 1t must,
therefore. have been started early in
August of that year The Advertiser
quotes it on Dec 5, of the same year,
which Is the last heard of it in the news
papers. No copies of it are to be found.
The Bulletin was started in Cannon Falls.
brother. with the plant of the Cannon
Falls Gazette. At the close Of 1857, see
Ing better prospects in Mortified, Rice
county, they moved the press and material
to that place and started the Mortified
Journal. In August. 1852. R. A. Hoag
enlisted in the army and three years
later came out a captain. In 1870 he
removed to his farm near Mortified.
Hastings Independent.
The fifty eighth newspaper was the
Hastings Independent.
The first Of the Hastings independent
that I find in the Historical library is
NO. 26, of Vol. 2, Jan. 49, 1859. Again
l have. to count back to get Vol /, No. l.
Aug. 6, 1857 which must be very nearly
If not quite correct. 1t was a fOur-page
seven-column Republican paper. and Col
umbuS Stebbins was its owner,-editor and
publisher. 1t was the second weekly
newspaper established in Dakota county
Stebbins ran 1t until its union with the
Minnesota Conseryer Nov. "a, 1866 The
Independent and Conserver then died.
the union of the two papers producing the
Gazette under the firm name of Todd &
Stebbins.
Columbus Stebbins.
Columbus Stebbins was a native of
Indiana. Though of only a common school
education he was possessed of such nat
ural talent, that he uplifted and bettered
journalism whenever he used his pen
He was the friend and exponent of all
that would best advance the interests of
Minnesota. A close attendant to his edi-
torial duties, he made a bright county and
local newspaper. He laid the foundations
of the Hastings Independent broad and
strong and 1t lasted well. He died Dec
81, 1878.
! The ffty-ninth and last Of the Mime
sofa newspapers established prior to the
bursting Of the mid-f1fty boom in August,
1857, was the Glencoe Register.