A historical, descriptive and commercial directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898 . October. 1874. in the Hush times of Owyhee, he establisiied a ])aper. wiiich he continued for about a year and a In Aj^, lie leased tiie paper to J. S. Hay, who a year later ])urchased andbecame the owner of the same, carrying it on until October 16, 1880, when hedisposed of the same to Guy Newcomb and Dave Adams, wdio formed a partnership under the style of Newcomb & .Xdams. until May 20. 1882. when Adamsdisposed of his interest to C. M. Hays, who also bought out Newcomb onDe
A historical, descriptive and commercial directory of Owyhee County, Idaho, January 1898 . October. 1874. in the Hush times of Owyhee, he establisiied a ])aper. wiiich he continued for about a year and a In Aj^, lie leased tiie paper to J. S. Hay, who a year later ])urchased andbecame the owner of the same, carrying it on until October 16, 1880, when hedisposed of the same to Guy Newcomb and Dave Adams, wdio formed a partnership under the style of Newcomb & .Xdams. until May 20. 1882. when Adamsdisposed of his interest to C. M. Hays, who also bought out Newcomb onDecember g, 1882. Mr. Hays carried on the business until November 8. \^ he the otVicc to John I,andi and L. A. York, who continued its pub-lication until the spring of i8g2. when Lamb retired, and \()rk re-leased ])ur(liasin,i; tile same June i. 18(^4. ()n .August 20, i8g7. the beginningIII tile tliirty-tliird volume, the name of the pajier was changed from The to The Owyhee Avalanche, the name under which it first ajjppeared,.August 15. L. A. >ork. Mr. L. A. York, editor and publisher of The Owyhee Avalanche, was bornin Lewiston. Maine, on Marcli i,^ 1866. Moved with his parents to Concord,N. H., in 1871, and to Evart, Mich., in i87g. In 1881 he entered the WeeklyKcview office, of Kvart, in the capacity of devil, and in the spring of i88j left 42 HISTORICAL DIRECTORY OF for Telluride, Colo., where he worked at the printers trade. Was in NorthDakota from the fail of 1884 to the spring of 1889, working alternately at farm-ing and printing. In 1889 he returned to Colorado, going to Salt Lake Citythat fall. Worked on the Salt Lake Tribune as slug 14 until March, 1890,when he quit to accept foremanship of the Avalanche office. Was married atWeiser, Idaho, September 19, 1893, to Miss Catherine Brady, two children, Ralphaged 3, and Ruth aged 1V2, blessing the union. Mr. York is an active memberof the Odd Fellows fraternity, and the pre
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