The '' Catholic Sentinel '' was started in response to anti-Catholicism in 1869 by grocer Henry Herman and printer J. F. Atkinson . After the Whitman massacre in 1847 , a Protestant minister had falsely accused local Catholics of inciting a band of Cayuse Indians to killing 10 Protestant missionaries . The first run of the '' Catholic Sentinel '' was 500 copies , and a year 's subscription cost $ 4 . The Sentinel now sends out more than 20,000 copies of each issue , plus 8,000 of El Centinela
Whitman massacre
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