[4] pp. Single sheet folded. 30.8x20.5 cm (12x8").
The third issue of the first newspaper published west of the Mississippi, founded and edited by Joseph Charless, “Printer to the Territory,” on July 12, 1808. This issue is described at length on the website of the St. Louis Media History Foundation.
In part: "After two pages of foreign news, three months old, from London and Paris, about the warlike maneuvers of various navies and the effect of our own Embargo Act, we come to some local news.
“At a special court of Oyer and Terminer held at the Court House of this town on Saturday, two Iowa Indians who were committed to prison some time ago for murder were tried and found guilty, and will be sentenced to death. The trial of the Saukee who killed the white man at Portage de Sioux will be held this day.”
“At the election of trustees for the Town of St. Louis, the following gentlemen were chosen, Auguste Chouteau, Edward Hempstead, Bernard Pratte, Pierre Chouteau, and Alexander McNair.”
“The Osages have committed so many outrages on the frontier that the Government has permitted the Delawares, Shawnees and Kickapoos to go to war with them, bringing 5000 warriors into the plains. The Osages and Pawnees fight on horseback and there is no doubt of a warm and important campaign.”