Portland Bee

For the Portland-based newspaper founded in 1906 and still publishing, see Sellwood Bee.
Portland Bee
TypeDaily, Weekly
FormatBroadsheet
Owner(s)Doran H. "Don" Stearns (founder) (1875-1879/1880)

W.S. Chapman (briefly)
C.L. Packard (1879-1882)

Atkinson & Farrish (1880-1882)
EditorJames K. Mercer (1875-1878)
Catherine A. Coburn (1879-1880)
FoundedNovember 1875
Political alignmentRepublican
Ceased publication1882
HeadquartersPortland, Oregon, United States
Circulation1,000

The Portland Bee was a Republican[1] newspaper in Portland in the U.S. state of Oregon in the late 19th century. It was launched in November 1875, the same year as the Portland Daily Bulletin disincorporated;[2] like the Bulletin, it had both daily[3] and weekly[4] editions. It initially had two daily editions, and circulated 1,000 free copies.

Though fairly short-lived, the paper has been described as "a journal of force and influence in its time."[5] It was quoted, and its contents syndicated, in numerous contemporary newspapers in its region,[6][7][8] and contemporary papers also published general praise for the Bee.[9][10]

Several of the many owners, publishers, and editors it had during its short tenure were family relations of the editors of other major newspapers of the time, the Oregonian and the New Northwest. Shortly after the paper launched, and after its first ownership transfer, editor James K. Mercer killed the editor of the rival Portland Telegram in a duel. D. H. Stearns, the paper's founder, repurchased the Bee following the scandal, and emphasized the change in leadership in advertisements in newspapers around the state. Following another ownership change, the Bee was renamed the Bulletin in August 1880[11] and discontinued in 1882.[2]

The Oregon Historical Society acquired archival copies of the Bee upon its incorporation in 1898.[12]

  1. ^ "An Old Friend". The Corvallis Weekly Gazette. February 20, 1880.
  2. ^ a b Turnbull, George S. (1939). "The Bulletin and the Bee" . History of Oregon Newspapers . Binfords and Mort.
  3. ^ "The daily bee". National Endowment for the Humanities. OCLC 10527729.
  4. ^ "The Weekly bee. [volume]". National Endowment for the Humanities. OCLC 10527776.
  5. ^ Bennion, Sherilyn Cox (1990). Equal to the Occasion: Women Editors of the Nineteenth-Century West. Reno, Nev.: University of Nevada Press. p. 142. ISBN 978-0874173840. OCLC 45731454.
  6. ^ Daily Capital Journal, 1878
  7. ^ Think link and Grant County News, 1879
  8. ^ this link and Corvallis Gazette
  9. ^ Albany Register, 1876
  10. ^ Daily Astorian, 1877
  11. ^ "Grant County news. (Canyon City, Or.) 1879-1908, August 28, 1880, Image 3". University of Oregon Library. 1880-08-28.
  12. ^ Proceedings of the Oregon Historical Society. Salem. June 1901.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)