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A new newspaper came to town in the fall of 1885; the journal was the voice of the Knights of Labor.

The Sunday Gazetteer
Sunday, September 27, 1885
pg. 5

About a month later the Gazetteer prounced that that newspaper was "devoted to the interests of the laboring classses" in a column titled "Workingmen's Column" and had some rather critical comments about the Labor Siftings.

Labor Siftings moved from Denison to Fort Worth after two or three months.

By mid-January 1886 the Denison Knights of Labor were extremely upset that the Labor Siftings had been relocated at Fort Worth, so much so that they proposed to establish a new paper to be issued on a daily basis, supported by fees paid by members of the local Knights of Labor organization and subscriptions, and managed by Charley Scholl, brother of the well-known Mortimer M. Scholl, the "Snake Editor".

Shortly after the moved to Fort Worth, the Labor Siftings was out of business. But soon to be replaced by its successor, The Southwest.

In 1891 former editor Henry Thomas of the Labor Siftings was declared insane. The following year another former editor, Dr. R.P. Wright, reported that he had withstood criminal charges, changed his name to "Louis L. Loggins" and was practicing medicine in Sabine County, Texas.