The Alaska daily empire., 1918-06-25
Baker, of Tribune, Pur- chases The Ledger and News from s.
 A. Perkins.
PURCHASE SIGNIFICANT I
New Owner of Former Re- publican Papers Is Sup ported of Wilson
 and Lister.

| Word has been received at Ju- neau of the consolidation of Taco ma s new largest newspaper enter prises. The Tribune Publishing Company, of which Frank S. Baker Is the principal owner and movine spirit, for some time the owning ant publishing company of the Tacoma Evening Tribune, of which MT Baker was also the editor, has sc. l quired the Tacoma Ledger and Ia. coma News, s. A. Perkins the own CT of these papers retiring. \ The Ledger and the News are tbe pioneer papers of Tacoma. Orisin. Radebaugh, and was purchased iron him by Nelson Bennett. For years it was the leading Republican pa per of Tacoma and Southwestern Washington, and the one of the morning papers to be established al Tacoma to survive. It was an As sociated Press paper.
 The Tacoma News, the evening Associated Press Paper, was estab lished in Tacoma by the late Capt Richard Roediger, later publisher of the Dawson News, William Me lntyre, associated with Capt. Roed iger in the publication of the Daw son News, and Franklin K. Lane the present Secretary of the Inter for, who was it's editor. It was { Democratic newspaper. It also be car e the property of Nelson Ben nett.
 About twenty years ago s. A Perkins, formerly Tacoma druggis but at that time secretary to Sena tor M. A. Hanna of Ohio, purchased since then they have been publish ed from the same office.
 II The Tacoma Tribune was 'estab lished about ten years ago by Capt Roediger and Mcintyre, who had solo the Dawson News. Later it was purchased by Frank s. Baker, whose father, the editor and publisher ot the Cleveland, O., Plain Dealer gave him the money for that pur. pose. MT. Baker had had many years of excellent newspaper train ing on his fathers paper, and iron the beginning the Tribune was g success under his management. Perkins made a fortune with the Ledger and News before selling then to Baker
 The effect. of the sale of the Ledg CT and News to Baker will have al important political effect in Wash ington State. They had both beer strong Republican newspapers, ant Perkins has been the Republican National Committeeman for man. years. Bakers Tribune, while es classified as an independent news paper, has ben strong supporte of the Wilson Administration and Gov Ernest Lister, and has gener ally supported Democratic sandi dates for office. The Cleveland Plain Dealer, owned by Bakers ia ther and upon which Baker had } his early newspaper experience, has always been a Democratic newspa per.
 , The name of Frank s. Baker as edi ! tor and publisher is carried at the head of the editorial columns al both the morning and evenign news papers as editor and publisher
 The following is the notice oi sale appearing in the Tacoma pa pers of June 18th:
 NOTICE!
 Ebert H. Baker of Cleveland, Ohio and Frank s. Baker of Tacoma owners of The Tribune Publishing Company, publishers of the Evening and Sunday Tribune, have purchased the Daily and Sunday Ledger ard Evening News of Tacoma and will publish the Daily and Sunday Ledg. CT and Evening News-Tribune on and after Monday. June 17th. The sale of the News and Ledger does not take with 1t any of the Perkins Press papers outside of Ta- coma, and does not include the Perkins Building.
 (SignedD