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History of the Idaho State Journal

This article originally appeared in “The History of Bannock County; 1893-1993″ book.

The history of the newspaper in Pocatello, Idaho began in 1890, with the founding of The Pocatello Tribune with C.E. Arney as its editor. The Tribune’s plant, a frame building at Center and Second, was destroyed in the 1892 fire that swept Pocatello’s east side. The paper was revived by two young men named Eldredge and Hardy from Montpelier.

A few months later it was sold to George N. Ifft, William Wallin and C.H. Fernstermaker of Salt Lake City. These men changed the newspaper to a weekly, and its first edition came out on Jan. 1, 1893. Wallin and Ifft bought out Fernstermaker, and this interest was continued as such until George N. Ifft turned the newspaper over to his son, George Nicholas Ifft II. He began serving the paper in 1915, and was active until his death on 1974. Wallin sold his interest in the paper in 1930, to WIlliam S. Cady of Kansas City, who along with Ifft, published the paper until Cady sold his interest in 1947, to Preston Goodfellow of Washington D.C.

Up to this time, there had been a number of newspapers in Pocatello. In 1890, as well as the founding of The Pocatello Tribune, The Pocatello Advance was founded, and this continued for a number of years as a weekly. The Advance was founded by C.A. Broxon. He was active in politics and later went to Boise as publisher of The Capital News. The South Idaho Mail was established in 1907, about a year after that, the plant was moved to Blackfoot.

In 1911, The Pocatello Herald, a short lived labor publication, was founded. Then in 1914, The Pocatello Chronicle was founded by James Murray of Butte, who wanted to help sell his water company. This lasted only until the City of Pocatello purchased his water system.

In 1919, The Pocatello News began publishing and was owned by V.A. Kedney, H.L. Peck and H.M. Sims. The Idaho State Journal was first published in 1924, and was founded by Frank W. Brown, H.P. Pinkney, and E.G. Frawley.

In 1932, The Idaho State Journal was purchased by The Pocatello Tribune from Ike Masters, who sold it to enter politics.

After the purchase by The Pocatello Tribune, The Idaho State Journal was run as a morning paper with The Tribune appearing in the afternoons. However, in 1942 due to the shortage of newsprint caused by World War II, The Idaho State Journal was suspended. The Pocatello Post, founded Dec. 13, 1947, operated until 1949 when it was merged with The Tribune. In 1949, the Ifft interest still continued to dominate, and half of the Tribune-Post combination was sold Scripps :League of Newspapers of Seattle, Washington. It was in this year that the name of the evening paper was re-instituted as The Idaho State Journal, direct successor of The Pocatello Tribune begun in 1890 by Ifft.

The newspaper has continued under the direction of three generations of the Ifft family since that time. The founder of The Pocatello Tribune was George N. Ifft, a young Pennsylvania reporter show had worked for The Pittsburgh Post Gazette as their Washington Senators, who encouraged him to come west. Ifft got as far as Pocatello. Running short of money, he returned to Salt Lake City, where he worked as a newspaperman for a time in that area before coming back to Pocatello with Wallin and Fernstermaker to purchase The Pocatello Tribune, then a weekly, turning into a daily paper in 1893.

In 1906 George N. Ifft was appointed a United States Consul, by President Theodore Roosevelt, and retaining his interest in the Pocatello newspaper, went to Canada and later to Europe for 25 years, serving in various posts. He returned to Pocatello in 1930, assuming the position of the editor of The Tribune. He wrote all the editorials and a weekly column, “Here We Have Idaho.” He continued in this position until he died, still as editor at the age of 82 in 1947.