[6][7] In 1900, Yates sold the paper to F. H Barnhart,[8] who died about two months later from a lung hemorrhage.

[13] In 1937, he sold the paper to Paul Launer and Miss Adelaide V. Lake, a former reporter at The Oregonian.

[14][15] Two years later the two sold The Sun to C. F. Brown,[16] former owner of Twin City News.

[20][21] Eagle Newspapers acquired the paper from Parker in 1978[22][23] and sold it to its publisher three years later.

[25] Decades later the newspaper was purchased by Clinton Vining in April 2008 and ceased in June 2014.