The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1890-07-19
Whatcom Melton Mcleod, another old
Bismarcker, is running "The Bridge" sa-
loon and making money.

WhatcOm Melton McLeOQ announcer Olu
Bismarcker, is running "The Bridge" sa-
loon and making money.
Fred Adams and his associate, Evans,
full of advertising and 8 0 prosperous it
would make any North Dakota editors
eye water. COnnella, formerly of the
jamestown Alert, is now telegraph editor
of the Post at Tacoma.
At Seattle, on the wharf, / met Benny
Forster, son of j. L. Forster Of '79 restau-
a II fame in Bismarck. Benny is on n
of tile boats running down the sound.
Henry Whitney is driving a hack in Ia
coma. 1 Jaw him Sunday at Old Tacoma.
D. w. Tyler, the gunsmith, is here wait
ing for his tools. His shop will be q couple
ofdoors from HanscOm's, with the Chicago
safe company.
I see Charley Thompson occasionally.
coma. Hackett, the carpenter, is building
it. Charley, 1 am told, has struck it rich
and is likely to make this his home. l
learn he has secured some lots between
the old and new townsville bon ton resi-
dence portion of the city.
Down at Centralia, a two year old city
of 5000 people, where the Northern Pa
cific branches. off to Gray's Harbor, n
where the Union Pacific is also at work, is
another Bismarck colony. Centralia is
Col. .Ellsbury's town, and old time DakO-
tans know what a boomer Ellsbury is. He
is building q railroad Of his W out in the
pineries. Charley T%hompson's coal mine
il near Centralia and a broad gauge road
is being built to it. Cy Thompson IS over
seeing it and Jas. Mckee is opening the
mine for Thompson.
Mr.. Hawly of Burleigh county coal fame.
built the Arlington hotel in Centralia.
Russ Marsh and Val Schreck ave leased
it, and old Joe Dillon is attending bar.
Marsh says Centralia is wide open and
suits him-reminds him of early Bismarck.
Mr.. Ames, Mrs. Schreck's father, is also at
Centralia.
Sam Whitney is building a hotel. It is
all ready but the windows and Sam thinks
the contractor is holding out for a bonus.
Mrs. Whitney says if she had known they
would have had so much trouble she never
would have left Dakota, and Lille says
she's so home sick it makes her cry to see
any one from Bismarck.
Harms and Emery are still in the saloon
business and Jerre Wren, an old time
friend of John Quinlan, is also running a
saloon and has become quite wealthy by
real estate speculati0ns.
Woods the harness maker and Toby the
plasterer say they are working every day.
The Clark boys, Mel. Chas. and Franklin,
have a carpenter shop, and Pat Byrne is
working at his trade and doing well.
Wesley Burgess is working in a mill, as
is also n of the Breen boys, while Walter
Breen has a blacksmith shop.
Cash Dunn is looking around and says
he will stay, and Dick Fern has quite al
extensive dairy, with milk 10 cents a
quart.
Chambers has a harness-ShOp and old
man Richh0lt, father of Henry, is specu-
lating in real estate in q small way. The
Bowers brothers are also at Centralia.
David Stewart is down at Chehalis, three
miles below Centralia. He says he has all
the law practice he can attend to and is
making some money.
farmer, is in the Puyallup valley. n OF
the richest in the world, but the land can't
be bought for less than $500 an acre. 1t is a
great hop region. Mike Flynn has q claim
fifteen miles out from Tacoma and Rock
Golfer and his brother are about 40 miles
from Fairhaven, near Cedra. Ferd Sicily
has a ranch 40 miles from Tacoma and Joe
SWant0n, who used to run the poor farm,
is at YenidO, the junction of the Northern
Pacific and the Olympia roads. DR.. K. o.
BOstwick, Sol Sunderland's son in.laW, has
a large practice at Tacoma and lives in the
bOn-tOn portion in an elegant residence.
Everybody will remember Ed Bostwlck.
Mike Mayouck has been unfortunate in
Tacoma and will leave soon. He lost his
oldest boy the other day and feels dis
heartened.
Tom Griffin is q contractor at Fairhaven
as is also Mckay, another old Bismarcker.
Timothy r. KershaW has his law shingle
out in Fairhaven and the Sharpless boys
have q barber shop with plenty to do.
F. NJ. Brown, the contractor who built
the Sheridan house, is at Seattle and Billy
Bannan has a saloon in Old Tacoma,
Griffith, the ex.ticket agent of the N. p.
at Bismarck. is in a steamship ticket Office
at Seattle and Mr.. and. Mrs. Englm, who
W property IN Bismarck on Third street
are also at Seattle.
John Cannon has opened a hotel down
| George Elder was in Chehalis the other
day sick, but has gone, no one knows
| where. Mrs. Elder is married again and
lives in Tacoma.
Joe Reed, an old timer in North Dakota
away back in the seventies. has a ranch
and a hotel at a place near Tacoma and
has become rich. Orange Hadley, another
Henry & Reed, contractors, Is a popular
firm at Seattle. They are old residents of
Jamestown. At Hope, Idaho, on the
Northern Pacific, Davis, formerly of Man
dan, keeps q hotel and railroad eating
house. Martin, formerly of the Sheridan,
is head cook. Proctor. "Death-on-the:
Trail" he is called out THERE'S also at
HOpe-has a mining claim near Hope and
is the same old Proctor, except that age
and frontier life are beginning to tell on
him.
Pat Gallagher has become rich at Seattle,
and Judge Fray, formerly of Fargo, makes
a good s'spec" now and then in the real
estate business at Seattle.
l.. w. Sloan is lathing at Fairhaven and
Edwards is keeping a boarding house at
Fairhaven. monte Bob" is also at Fair
haven, and slap" and "Griff," a couple of
old time Fargo gamblers. have cleaned up,
it is said, o quarter of q million on the
sound.
Bart Huber, the famous Bismarck pitch
er. is dOinG good work for the Port Town
send nine, and Cllnch, another ex.Bis-
marck printer, IS working in the state
printing Office at Olympia.
Phil Lewis-everybOdy will remember
Phil. who used to be with Tom Winston at
Fort StevensOn-is In a mill at Fairhaven,
and old mar Barrett, father Of Bismarck's
city clerk, is also at Fairhaven.
VanHOuten bought out Weaver's steam
laundry in Seattle. and believes he is
making 500 q month. The books. it is
claimed, had been doctored: When he
bought the business he thought it was pay
ing $500. Weaver is a brother of G. s.
Weaver, formerly of Bismarck. Young
| VanHOuten and Mamie Pye are running
! a lemonade stand at Lake Washington,
near Seattle, while VIM. Pye, Sr., will prob
atty work for Charley Thompson.
Ed Marlin is at Des MOines. Harry
| Weatherby is still living IN Tacoma but he
is looking over Gray'S HarbOr, with q view