[6][7] A. C. McDonald, one of the owners of the Telegram Publishing Company, was killed in a duel with James K. Mercer, assistant editor of the Portland Bee, over an editorial dispute in 1878.

[10] The radical journalist Eleanor Baldwin wrote for the paper between 1906 and 1909, in her daily columns for the editorial page called “A Woman’s Point of View.

"[11] Lumbermen John E. and L. R. Wheeler bought the paper in 1914;[5] and the Telegram Building, now a historic landmark in Portland, was built during their tenure.

[5] In 1922 an East Oregonian editorial accused the Telegram of opposing the interests of Eastern Oregon and meddling, more than other Portland papers, in electoral politics.

[17] That year Carl H. Brockhagen, co-owner of the The Sacramento Union, was made president and publisher of the Telegram.

It was financed by the Scripps-Canfield publishing house of Seattle, but in complete secrecy, due to a promise E. W. Scripps had made to Sam Jackson of the Oregon Journal, not to compete in the Portland market.

In spite of low circulation in its early days, the News constructed a building on Clay St. at a cost of $50,000.