During the last half of the 19th century frontier newspapers in the American west were unabashedly political and volatile. Papers were continuously being established, sold, folded and merged, with successive editors determining the paper’s favored political views.
NW press association initiated; Fairfield Progress plant sold to the Argus; libel charges; F. F. Lischke becomes editor of the Sentinel, Miller leaves Republic; record shows 225 papers published in Washington. Kennewick Columbian suspended. F. W. Roach takes over the Prosser American.
3rd b'day of Prosser American; Republic Publishing Company incorporated; Seattle Telegraph started; Seattle Times sold by Hughes & Davies to Charles Fishback. M. F. Satterlee closes the Yakima Times.