Gunnison news-champion., 1915-02-05

self supporting during the pressnt win
ter. we have concluded to suspend It for
The present and viii issue instesd tri-
weekly. including the seterday. O.
weed " edition. If the tri-wsekly 10 -
supported as to he self sustaining il wil
be continued. II after fair trial u dses
not % prove. we shall cut down to =
weekly. We believe that our Pstrens
will approve this course and sustain us
in it We cannot afford to publssh .
newspaper tor fun and certainly the
pahlic will not expect US to do 30 ut .
loss. In accordance with this Arrange
mept no paper will be issued Tuesday
or Thursday of this week. " And thus
ended the Gunnison evening daily. The
Review Press continued as tri-weekly
for three years. edited by II. C. Olney
1t then was made q weekly and wss
known as the Weekly Gvnnison Review
Press.
As soon Is the paper became weekly
it began to prosper and became IN ex-
celient publication. c. h. Adams
bought the paper in January 1891, pub
lished it weekly, and changed the name
to the Gunnison Tribune. When nr.
Adams took the paper no complete files
could be found except those kept by the
Kansas Historical Society, so Mr..
Adams purchased the files and after
wards lent them to the Colorado State
Normal School. The following 10
posted in these volumes: These news
paper files of the GunRisoa Review,
Review-Press, and Tribune, are the
property of the undersigned, president
of the first board of trustees-of the
State Normal School ut Gunnison, Colo
redo, end are loaned to said school for
its exclusive use in order thst the early
history of the city and county Of Gun
nison may be preserved-Chsrles L.
Adams.
H. =. Lake Jr. bought out the three
papers: The Gunnison New in Decem-
ber 1900, The Peoples Champion in
January 1901, and the Tribune in July
1904 and has combined them to make
the News-C Champion. On November 1,
1911, C. ?. Roehrig bought the News
Champion and published it fourtt en-
months, when he sold it to Judge Cliff
ford H. Stone. Mr.. Stone had the
paper until July II, 1914, and is still
connected with it, though Mr.. Lake is
editor. this pioneer paper of the county,
being now published by the News
Champion Printing and Publishing Co.
Editorial note by Mr.. Lake:-The Gun
nison News, later the Gunnison News
Democrat. was also pioneer paper of
the county, it's first issue being in May,
1880, the same month that the Review
was started by Root & Olney. It's his
tory is also continuous and as full Of
vicissitudes as that of its rival, but no
complete files of this publication exist,
so far as known now. During the
''hard times" of 1893, and the violent
financial and political disturbances that
accompanied them, The Peoples Cham
pion, a weekly paper WAS started in
Gunnison, by Geo. c. Rhode one of the
populists leaders of opinion, and for
seven years it fiourished us the stormy
petrel of newspaperdom on the Western
Slope. Among its editors was C. 7.
Rawalt, afterwards the Representative
from Gunnison county who secured the
our city. Mr.. Rawalt was also owner
and editor of the Gunnison News at one
time and is now publishing the Limon
Daily Express in Eastern Colorado,
But the history of these two papers
would require another extended article.