The Californian (1840s newspaper)

[3] When Commodore Robert F. Stockton arrived in Monterey with the American naval invasion in July 1846, he found the printing press stored in the Custom House and notified Colton.

[2] The biggest news item in the first edition was the United States declaring war on Mexico.

Its rival newspaper, the California Star run by Mormon Samuel Brannan and Edward C. Kemble, suspended publication for the same reason on June 14.

[2] Gunn regained possession in November when Gore was unable to pay the balance of the purchase price.

The old press was brought to Sonora, California to be displayed as a museum piece, and was soon lost there to one of the many fires that destroyed the town before 1858.