He sold the Pilot in April 1899[4] and then purchased a new printing outfit to set up Juliaetta, Idaho.
[6] At other points the paper was called the Priest River Pilot and Newport News.
[9] Fred L. Wolf acquired the paper from the Talmadge family in 1907[10] and ran it for 35 years.
[2][12] As publisher, he championed the Good Roads Movement, the creation of Pend Oreille County and construction of the Claiborne Pell Newport Bridge.
[11] Two decades later Frost sold the paper in 1964 to Gerald Carpenter[13] followed by Jim Hubbart in 1977 and then Fred Willenbrock in 1986.