Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-05-30
That is What Rea Accuses the Trib-
une of Putting on His Ocosta
Correspondence.
The Song of the Ocean Waves is One
Of the Attractions Of Life ON
Puget Sound.
Another Newsy Letter Full of Gossip
Regarding a Number of Drift
ing Ex-B ismarckers.
Ocosta to be the N. p. Termfnus

Ocosta to be the N. r. Terminus.
OcosTA, WASH, May A.-[Special]-
I come down here occasionally from Sc
attic. ,Iyenjoy the roar of the ocean. It
is my first experience with the ocean.
The wild raves are great singers. Even
Gage of the First National block would
take back seat in the presence of one
of them.
Your headlines are libellous. I am
not booming. I have no rocket. T sim
ply visit 5Ocosta on general principles.
A man by the name of Bob Gray, a Bos-
ton sea captain, on the 18th of May 1892,
sailed into this harbor in the somewhat
historic ship Columbia. I heard of an
old lady in this vicinity who remembered
the incident and I have been trying to
find her. AS nea as I can figure it out
from the log of that good ship. she an
chored in the water at the end of the
Ocosta pier. If I don't find the old lady
the historical society of Ocosta can file
away a copy of this number of the TR1B-
UNE. The Northern Pacific has let the
contract to build from Tacoma to Ocosta,
requiring the same to be completed on or
before January first. Judge Little will
tell you there are no flies Oh Ocosta.
in Seattle. The senior has purchased
five acres on Mercer Island, in Lake
Washington, and will settle down on tie
beautiful spot. His purchase will prcba-
bly, be converted into a truck farm. Fred
Smith has decided to locate at Sande Flu
ca, a new town on WILDLY Island, an
island in the sound, and, Fred says, the
original Garden of Eden. I passed Gale
and wife of Canton on a Seattle street n
few days ago. The colonel has come
west to locate.
Waller, ex-chief Of police and now a
resident of Spokane Falls, is in the bust
ness Of buying and selling stock. He is
on the sound this week. He has pros
pered-owns a section of land seven
miles from Spokane. He reports John A.
Mclean and r. r. Marsh in Spokane.
John is selling teas and coffee and Marsh
is looking for a location.
Hon. A. w. Hoyt and wife have arrived
in Tacoma. He is travelling in the inter-
CoU vi IloNl " w. Ilc1Dl OOh, WHO WAS Il
division engineer on the Northern Pacific
west of Mandan, years ago, has been gen.
eral manager Of the Seattle and Great
Eastern r. r. for two years. Cook, for
merly of Steele, is with a Northern Pa
cifc engineering party in the Cascades.
Capt. O"Ioole, we'll known in Bismarck
when he was post trader at Fort Keogh,
is the owner of a mountain of iron in
Skagit county. Where's azagit county?
On the sound, not far from Fred Adams.
Ed. Martin, Henry Gager's on-in-law,
lives in DesMoines, a boom town between
Tacoma and Seattle.
Although Gov. Church is a bloated lot
holder in Ocosta, he has a town of his
own north of Seattle that promises to
make him rich. It answers to the call of
Muckilteo. There is the element of mys-
terry about this town, and Seattle specu-
lators are puzzled over the ex-governor's
movements. The fact is there is a hen
on.
I believe the best business in this
country is that of notary public. Over
eleven hundred notary commissions have
been issued since Washington was adj
mitted.
The story of Bill Nye meeting a bear
during his search for an outside lot at
Seattle is denied by the real estate agent
who accompanied him.