Thomas Prosch publishes Tacoma's first newspaper, the Pacific Tribune, on August 9, 1873.

On August 9, 1873, Thomas Prosch (1850-1915) publishes Tacoma's first newspaper, the Pacific Tribune. Prosch moved the newspaper from Olympia to Tacoma immediately after the Northern Pacific Railroad chose Tacoma as its western terminus. Prosch, along with everyone else, expects Tacoma to become a railroad-boom town if not the leading city of the West. The daily appears every evening. Its motto is: "Here Shall the Press the People's Rights Proclaim, Unawed by Influence and Unbribed by Gain." The paper is highly successful until the national financial panic of 1873 occurred little more than a month later. In June 1875, Prosch, declaring regret and high regard for the people of Tacoma, moves the paper to Seattle.

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