contemporaneous article in the Oregonian about McDonald's death described the Bee as a "deadly stench to all decent people who come in contact with it." Upon his return to the Bee, Stearns hired his wife's aunt, Catherine Amanda Coburn, who edited the paper from 1879 to 1880. Coburn had previously worked for her sister's paper, the New Northwest. Upon her hire at the Bee, Coburn became one of the few 19th century women editors of a daily newspaper in the western United States. She soon moved on to the Oregonian. The paper also got a new printing press in 1879. In February 1880, the Corvallis Weekly Gazette published glowing praise for the Bee and for owner Stearns. Stearns sold half his interest in the Bee to C. L. Packard in 1879, and the remainder to Atkinson & Farrish in 1880. He went on to a successful career in real estate and fruit trees. The Bee was renamed the Bulletin in August 1880 and discontinued in 1882. It was the third Portland paper to carry the name "Bulletin"; Atkinson had launched the first, which lasted only a few months, more than a decade prior. References 1875 establishments in Oregon Defunct newspapers published in Oregon Newspapers published in Portland, Oregon Publications established in 1875