History of Philippine press / Carson Taylor.

36 History of the Phiippine Press
There were six American, nine Spanish and nine Filipino publications started most of which did not live long and
not one of which is being published today.
The American papers in the order of their appearance
were: The Manila Freedom, The Tribune, The Insular Daily.Press, The Sentinel and the Monthly Summary of the Commerce of the Philippine Islands.
The Manila Freedom was established early in the year,
by Don C. W. Musser and was probably the successor of
The Soldiery' Letter. It was sold to Fred C. Fisher and C. A.
McDermod, two employees of the military government, some
time during the year and became a strong rival of The American in the morning field.
Eddie O'Brien was the editor and George Fuller, the
business manager. Both were aggressive and appeared to
get by the military press censor, who was Captain Green
(now General Green, retired) with stories which the more
conservative American did not dare to publish.
Fisher and McDermod later sold the paper to Fred L.
Dorr, an American who had resided in the islands several
years previous to American occupation. Dorr and O'Brien
were later sentenced to Bilibid for criminal libel, committed
against Benito Legarda, who was one of the Filipino commissioners. This was about 1904 after civil government was
established. The paper was later acquired by George Fuller,
who was the business manager. With the return of the
greater number of American volunteer troops to the United
States the field was much reduced and the Freedom finally
ceased publication about 1906.
A daily called the Tribune was started by C. W. Ney,
an attorney, late in the year 1899, but lived only two or
three months.
Another daily was started during the year under the
name of the Insular Daily Press. Its career was also limited, possibly to a few days, or a few weeks at most.
The Sentinel, organ of the American Catholic Club,
appeared October 21, 1899. It carried no advertising and
soon disappeared.
The Spanish papers founded in 1899 in the order of
their first appearance were a Tagalog edition of La Oceania
Espainola, El Noticiero de Manila, The Courier, El Progreso,
La Estrella de Antipolo, Boletin de la Camara de Comercio
Espanol de Filipinas, the Revista Comercial (Iloilo), La Patria and El Correo del Oriente.