The Armen-Seelen Freund, German monthly, The Benedictine Press, Publishers. Oregon News — Japanese daily, N. T. Abe, editor and publisher.
women's journals.
The Western Lady, monthly, Frank Lee, editor and publisher. The Wo- men's Tribune, fort-nightly. Organ of Woman Suffrage, Mrs. Clara Bewick Colby, editor. The World's Advance Thought, Mrs. Lucy A. Mallory, editor.
LITERARY VENTURES
Portland has always possessed one or more sharp witted weeklies, whose trenchant satires on existing fads and follies have been highly appreciated by readers who prize talent and independence, more than circulation and advertis- ing. Among these now doing yeoman service in the cause of justice and com- mon decency, may be mentioned "The Weekly Indaha," by J. A. Horan, editor, and Wm. B. Orr, manager.
"The Lantern," by Jos. B. Fithian, The People's Press, by Geo. K. McCord, editor and manager. "The Sketch," by Murray L. Wade, publisher. The "Spec- tator," by Hugh Hume, editor. "Oregon Citizen" by L. D. Mahon, editor.
TRADE JOURNALS.
Commercial Review, weekly, Leo Peterson, editor. Pacific Builder and Engineer, A. V. Willoughby, manager. 'The "Guide," semi-weekly, directions to every place. J. C. Stuart, manager. Hardware World, hardware trades, T. M. Shearman, manager. Hotel News, hotel intelligence, G. W. Dixon, publisher. Medical Sentinel, Dr. Henry W. Coe, editor.
Northwest Furniture Review, Vincent-Merrick Pub. Co., managers. Oregon Tradesman, by J. P. Chambless, editor and publisher. Pacific Banker, banking interests, Lydell Baker, editor.
The Timberman, monthly, organ of the lumbermen, Geo. M. Cornwall, editor. Pacific Drug Review, monthly, Guy T. Ketcheson, publisher. Retail Grocers Magazine, C. B. Merrick, editor, (now postmaster.) School and Home Magazine, D. N. Cochran, editor and publisher.
FRATERNAL SOCIETY PAPERS.
The Artizan, monthly, Hon. H. S. Hudson, editor and publisher. Pacific Odd Fellow, monthly, W. A. Wheeler, publisher. Portland Olive Branch, monthly, A. Wells, editor,
Portland Labor Press, organ of the trade unions, weekly, and with large circulation, H. J. Parkinson, editor.
SUNDAY PAPERS.
Sunday Oregonian, immense circulation, printing lOO pages, fully illustrated, with magazine articles and special historical and other general literature.
Sunday Journal, on same lines as Sunday Oregonian, with about equal circulation.
Sunday Welcome, oldest Sunday paper, started by John F. Atkinson in 1870, now owned and edited by Morris Senosky.
Sunday Mercury, started by Walter Moss in 1878, and by questionable methods, and personal attacks and intimations against private character attained a large circulation, "commanding" liberal advertising from thin skinned and vulnerable people until the paper was making a thousand dollars a month for its editors. By libel suits instituted by aggrieved persons the questionable methods of the then editors were exposed, the power of the paper broken do
