Francis H. Cook also moved from Olympia to Tacoma, with a newspaper plant, on which he had for a time published the _Echo_. This paper was started in 1868 by Randall H. Hewitt, and that year in its office the writer began work as a printer. James E. Whitworth, now of Seattle, Nathan S. Porter, of Olympia, and Ike M. Hall worked together in that office. Hundreds of the older residents of Seattle remember Judge Hall, who died here about ten years ago. Early in 1869 C. B. Bagley became the owner and publisher of the _Echo_ for about a year. Like most of its fellows, it underwent all manner of changes of ownership, of form and place of publication during an erratic career of about eight years. During the eight or ten years following the founding of Tacoma in 1873, many attempts were made to establish newspapers there, but most of them were far from profitable to their backers. In fact, it has been frequently reported that their more pretentious successors have not been far from financial stress. The _Beacon_ was brought from Kalama by Mr. and Mrs. Mooney, which had been the organ of the Northern Pacific Railroad. This soon died. In 1880 there started the _North Pacific Coast_, but its life was brief. R. F. Radebaugh, of San Francisco, and H. C. Patrick, of Sacramento, came to Tacoma and started the _Weekly Ledger_ April 23, 1880. April 7, 1883, the _Daily Ledger_ was started, and both the weekly and daily are still appearing regularly, having long passed the usual period that has been fatal to so many papers on Puget Sound. Mr. Patrick left the _Ledger_ in 1882 and bought the _Pierce County News_, which had been started August 10, 1881, by George W. Mattice. Mr. Patrick changed the name to _Tacoma News_, and it appeared as a weekly paper until September 15, 1883, when he started the _Daily News_. It continues to occupy the evening field, while the _Ledger_ retains the morning field. The limits of this article do not permit mention of many papers which have appeared from time to time in every town and almost every village. In the writer's collection there are not less than one hundred publications, daily, weekly, or monthly, that have sprung into life since 1852. Most of them are forgotten in the communities where they appeared. Success has come to but here and there one. Kirk C. Ward was a fluent writer and a promoter of no small sagacity. Having lost control of the _Post_, he soon induced some friends to back him and started the _Chronicle_. It had a variegated career and finally became the property of one of the leading law firms of the city, McNaught, Ferry, McNaught & Mitchell. They employed a Bohemian from Kansas, named Frank C. Montgomery, as editor, who conducted it until May 1, 1886, when Homer M. Hill, who is now engaged in other business in Seattle, bought it.