, 1882-10-28

Glass. with a door, and the usual appliances
of A dwelling house, and it stood on what
now would be the northwest corner oil 1hiru
and Main streets. n A. Ball had saloon
| in 1855. where Thos. ouinns building now
stands. and be is said 70 be the party VINO
gave that city the name of Waila "aiia.
/ That fall Harry Howard, now living In
/ Walla WaIla, wIth his partner. Parkeson'
built log saloon at the crossing half way
between Mill creek and the present bar
racks, at point now known as the haii-way
House. That ancient saloon Is now occu-
pied by Ed. Williams, having been moved
I to near the present bank OF Baker Boyer.
Others built around the Halfway House
until If was thought that town might be
started at that place. Among those build.
ing there were Michael Kenny, saloon,
( Wm. Terry, the Bank Exchange saloon,
| Aahan and Harcum, store, James buck
! lev and Thos Riley, saloon, and bakery
by one Meyo. They laid of plaza
and built facing it. and the prospect was
| favorable for the success of the halfway
/ site. but those on the creek had the advan-
| tsce and maintained it. To their population
were added James McAuliff in the fall OF
| IS5S, J. d. Baldwin, f. B. Whitman, Frank
Warden, James Galbraith, p J. Bolt, Frank
Stone. timer named Bogart, and Others.
Finally it was found that packers were
bound TO 90 to Mill creek to camp, and
when there would trade at the nearest store
or saloon, and this forced both saloons and
stores at the halfway place to move to the
same locality, which ended the decision of
town site.
Before the halfway locality was aban-
doned, however, it appears that quite feel
ing had arisen among the people in the VII
lage, or rather in the two villages as to what
should be the name of the town. 1t had
first been called Walla Walla, then Steptoe-
vile mad been adopted, but this proving un-
popular, Walatpu had been substituted as
more acceptable name. The denizens OF this
much named embryo city seemed, however,
not to be happy yet, and their unrest devel-
oped in the form of a petition, asking the
County Commissioners to lay out the town
of Wailatpu, which was responded to by
protest, asking that the name Of Walla Waiia
be given to the place To this petition were
subscribed names, which We give 10 show
who were some of the early residents OF this
section
Charles II. Case, ". A Ball, b. F. Stone,
Joseph Hellmuth, !. I. Reese, T. J. Bolt,
DR.. Thos. Wolf, DR.. d. S. Baker, William
Stephens, r. c. Wabash, d. d. Brannan,
Pat Markey, f. b. Whitman, ]. Foresythe,
f. l.. Worden, Baldwin L Bro, d. ID. Bald
win. John N. Silcott, Francis Pierrie, Il. IL.
Regart, n. B. Dutro, n. Eastman, A. G. ?.
Warile Neil McGhnehey, James Buckley,
Frank Stone, Robert Oldham, Chas. AL
bright, K. Warmack, John Nj. Cannaiy,
William NJ. Elroy, J. Clark, John May,
James McAuliff, A. ID. Pambrun,
To the protest were affixed the signatures
of San,1. F. Legart, II. H. Hill, s F. Moi
fit, John Cam, +. NJ Archer, K. Powell,
Louis \. Mullan, William b. Kelley.
Ia response TO this petition and protest,
the board, on the 18th of November, 1883,
changed the name from Wailatpu to Walla
Walia, and the record entered the following
upon the minutes Of that meeting:
''On motion, there was a county seat
ordered to be located boundaries as followsI:
Commencing III the center Of Main street 1t
Gllll creek, thence running north four hun
drei and forty yards $40, thence running
west one half mile to stake, thence run
ming south one half mile TO a stake, thence
running east one half mile to a stake, thence
running north to the point Of commencement"
Then followed the naming and Locating
OF county seat, the organization Of a town
government, by the appointment OF a record
er and three trustees, +. c. Warden, Samuel
Baldwin. and Neil McGlinchy being selected
for the latter position, and |. T. Rees Tor
with streets SO feet wide running north and
south, and 100 feet wide running east and
west The lots were to have 90 loot front, |
a depth OF l20 teet. and we're TO be sold at |
81 each, to which was added one dollar for |
recording, and no one person was allowed 10 |
buy more than two Of them. Purchasers |
were bound TO fence their property within |
SIX months, and build upon it within year. |
At first ten acres Were set apart for public |
square, on which were to be erected the |
public buildings, but November 80, this was |
reduced 10 one acre. Thus the swaddling |
clothes OF government were placed upon the |
infant village, that drew its nOurishment |
from government patronage, and might never |
have existed, but for the proximity of 4 |
military post.
the town site Was surveyed by III. II. |
Case, and the first lots taken were lot >, /
block Is. by l. T. Rees, aud lot ., in the |
same block, by Edward Everts, both being |
recorded November 80, 1859. On the 22nd, |
Of Deco mber Of the same year, the records |
notice the survey Of $50 acres Of land into |
town property, adjoining the west and north
west Of the original survey, for Thomas
Wolf and l.. G. Kinney, the former selling
his interest to the latter January 10, 1850.
These recorded entries of location are re-
ferred to as an evidence of this early survey.
the original plat not having been preserved.
II it was ever made matter of record, the !
book containing it has been lost, probably in
the fire OF 1865, the earliest survey on re
cord being plat by ". W. johnson, made
IN October, 1861, which purports to be a
correction OF the work by Fl. II. Case. The
order OF the board authorizing the survey is
as follows:
THAT the balance of the eighty acres upon
which the town now stands be surveyed in
accordance with the original plan and survey
OF said town, as surveyed by H. II. Case,
except that portion Of said town at and near
the crossing of Mil creek on Main street,
which shall be surveyed to correspond with
the survey of the addition of A. J. Cain;
and W. W. johnson be, and he is hereby
appointed to make such survey, and report
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