Page History: Colfax Gazette

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Title¶

• Ayer Annual¹; Chronicling America record³
  • Publish day: Friday
  • Content: Republican
  • Established: 1877; 1893-1932 ³
  • Pages: 8
  • Size: 15x22 in.
  • Editor: Ivan Chase
  • Publisher: Ivan Chase; Colfax Gazette Co.³
• Frequency:
• Coverage
  • Region: Southeast
  • County: Whitman
• Unique ids
  • SN: sn88085460
  • OCLC: 17401202
    

History¶

• Preceding: Palouse Gazette (Colfax, Wash) 1877 - 1893³
• Succeeding: The Colfax Commoner (Colfax, Wash) 1911 - 1932 ³
• Related title: The Gazette-commoner (Colfax, Wash) 1932 - 1958 ³
• WSL publish history chart: http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/docs/iii/charts/whitman.htm
  

Essay Notes¶

• Palouse gazette vol 1 issue 1 Sept 29, 1877, by Lucien Ezra Kellogg and Charles B Hopkins. Subscription price $3/year
• June 13, 1879 dissolution of partnership announced. Hopkins continues with paper.
• "Pioneers I have known" by SC Roberts of Pullman, Colfax Gazette-Commoner, May 8, 1936 (accessed through Dubuar scrapbooks)
  • 1884 Hopkins installs first telephone line in eastern Washington in order to facilitate gathering news for his paper. Over next 15 years his company grew to be the Inland Telephone and Telegraph Co of Spokane.
  • Hopkins sells paper (year?) to Ivan Chase, who had worked on gazette staff for several years. Name changed to Colfax Gazette.
  • Bros. Howard and Charles Bramwell worked in job dept. of gazette office. They bought the job equipment, built large business. Bought out Mr. Chase (year?)
  • In 1932 gazette merged with the Colfax commoner (controlled by Mr Allen Lacey). Name change to Colfax Gazette Commoner, firm name Bramwell, Lacey, and Bramwell. Bros. Bramwell die in 1930's and their wives take over their share of the paper.
    

• From Meany Pioneer File (special collections biography file)
  • Charles B Hopkins,
    • born 1855-July 18, San Francisco. Served as US marshall in Seattle. Newspaper in Colfax. Known for building first long distance telephone line. Died in Rochester Minnesota following an operation at age of 65 (PI 1920-02-05 obit)
  • Lucien Ezra Kellogg (Wenatchee Daily World, 1930-05-05 obit)
    • Born in ohio. Died in Sunnyslope of apoplexy at age 79. Apprenticed as a printer. Came to WA in 1877. Nez Pierce War delays start of paper in Colfax. Sells his portion and starts NW Tribune in Cheney, WA. Sell, moves on to Big Bend Empire at Waterville in Mar 1888. Starts Wenatchee Advance in 1893. Starts a paper in Chelan Falls in 1895. Leaves newspaper industry in 1897 to start land office job.
      

Research¶

1. N.W. Ayer & Son's American newspaper annual -- 1900 -- 849
2. NDNP Candidate Title List (Appendix A1.2)
3. Chronicling America record (LOC) - Colfax Gazette
4. WorldCat record - Colfax Gazette
5. WSL record - Colfax Gazette
6. UW record - Colfax Gazette
   

Digitization plan¶

• WSL ordered duplication and testing of 1900-1912 (8 reels) from Proquest
• Received order 2008-12-01
  

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Reel¶

• Filmed by: WSL
• Positives held by: WSL
• Negatives held by: Proquest
• WSL Holdings:
  • Location: WSL
  • Call Number: NEWSPAPER 6/39
  • Lib. has 1894 - 1933 Aug 25
    

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