It was originally delivered by horseback riders and the press stood underneath a tree as there was no building to house it.
Witnesses alleged Hutchinson attacked Wallis with a billy club or a slungshot, but no weapon was found.
[20] In 1989, Jeff Fletcher, owner of the Grant County Journal,[2] purchased the Free Press from the Wilbur and Jantz families.
He renamed the company Free Press Publishing;[2] at the time the company owned several weekly newspapers in eastern Washington, including the Spokane Valley News Herald (its largest paper), the Davenport Times, and several specialty publications, and owned 70% of the Ritzville Journal.
[23] The company had previously had an ownership stake in the Newport Miner and the Grand Coulee Star, but had sold its interest to the local owners.
[2][23] In Mach 2020, Free Press Publishing acquired the Odessa Record and The Whitman County Gazette.