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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-01

Pacific viii be established, and regular
train service between here and New West
minister xill begin Already surveys have
been made for the extension OF the main
line eastward up the Skagit valley, and for
building branch up the famous Nooksaek
valley via Ferndale and Lynden TO con-
meet with the Canadian Pacific above ST.
mas In both valleys work viii be COM
menced in the early spring, this city being
the headquarters and base Of supplies
Property values are stable. Opportunities
for investment were never better, nor the
outlook for the future ever so promising.
Both the city and the county are Tree from
debt, and taxes are low. With natural
location unsurpassed. the finest harbor on
the North Pacinc coast, transportation
facilities equal to the best. an actual term
inal point of great transcontinent@l rail-
road system, manufacturing enterprises
employing hundreds Of men. and the
supply depot Of the nnest agricultural,
fruit, timber, coal and iron region IN the
West, future bright in every way is as
sured TO Fairhaven. already the fourth
city in the state IN point Of wealth and
population, and destined. before the lapse
OF many years, to occupy high rank among
the greatest cities Of the entire West
o. 81. CuLyEz-
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CITY of importance on the east side. Here
the commerce OF land and sea win naturally
center and build one Of the largest cities on
Puget sound
Tributary to the city OF Thatcom are
the agricultural wealth. the vast timber
regions. the mines and the railroads Of
Whatcom county. As al roads led 10
ancient Rome, 80 do ail commercial high
ways lead to Whatcom today because Of
its eligible location
whatcom county contains thirty saw
mills, saingle mills and wooden factories;
the farms yield abundant crops of fruits,
hay, grain and vegetables There are
twenty-five logging camps in operation
along the Nooksack river and At other
points. The timber crop yields an i'm
nense revenue annually and wili continue
to be the greatest direct source of wealth
for years.
Considering the latitude, the climate IS
very mild. and the annual rainfall is only
thirfy-s4ve inches. The population Of
Whatcorn county is Il, go, according to the
June census, and the assessed valuation of
the county Is over $l4.os0.I0 made on
basis of 70 per cent of the actual valuation.
Whatcom county trebied her wealth last
year and the outlook for ls9i Is very bright
T. g. NIcKLIs.
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handsome edifsce, known as the Olympia
theater. at cost Of $5o.aTo, which was
opened the day after Christmas TO very
large audience composed Of oiympians and
people from the surrounding country. IL
l. the isnest Thespian temple IN all It's sp-
rofutnenfs on Puget sound, save the
Tacoma theater, and worthy Of the state
capital.
during the past year new institution
Of learning. the CaIefhea college, has been
opened. with a full faculty and compile
raent Of pupils. This Is IN addition 70 the
Collegiate institute and the admirable pub
lie school system. Providence academy.
controlled by the sisters, il also fayorite
school. Sc. Peters hospital. undeT the
same control. has been sell filed during
the rear with those unfortunate from aces-
dent or disease. Patients ere received
from ell o-er this section Of the grand
country. The city was rsorganized under
the general incorporation law. and an
election held In December for new CITY
officers J. C. Horr was chosen mayor.
Street improvements aTe going sfead ID
ali directions. New avenues are beng
opened, and Il il confidently expected that
half million dollars viii be expended on
the highways Of the capital this year:
Much Of the inlet On the vest side ana
Moxlfe's creek On the east side is being re-
claimed by the Northern PACING and Union
Paeilsc roads. and three railroad depots,
one on the vest side, one on the east SIDE
and one in the center OF the city, nave
been constructed or are now IN course OF
building. The government has ordered .
survey of the harbor preparatory 70 dredg-
ing, preliminary work having begun New
steamboats, have been put on during the
year between Olympia and kamiichie,
Shelton. Tacoma, Seattle and intervening
points. The year 1880 has been the turn
ing point in 0lympia's history. The moss
Is disappearing, and the capital Of the
future great state Of the Union viii pre-
sent to the people Of Washington a spiers-
did city, when the people through their
legislators are ready TO erect here the pub
lie buildings. Let Us hope they viii be on
magnificent scale. commensurate with the
glory OF Washington and Olympia, its cap
ital. c. NJ. 3.
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THE CITY OF HoQUIAM.
Record of an Exceedingly Prosper
Gus Era.
establishment OF Many New Industries
Rapid Increase Of Population-Two
Hundred New Buildings.
HoQurAu, Wash. Dec. is. 1sao

L.
The city of Hoquiam is adyantageously
situated at the mouth Of the Hoquian
river, on the north side of Gray's harbor.
fourteen miles from the entrance TO the
PACING ocean. The position of this pro-
gressive young city at the mouth of the
first navigable river from the ocean en-
trance 70 the habor, affording as il does
the first secure land-locked anchorage 10
ocean vessels, in connection with the fact
that within the present year the practi-
cal ternini OF the two systems of
railroad, the Northern Pacific and
the Oregon & Washington, now
approaching Gray's harbor. are Elk
pected 10 be at Hoquiam, establishes the
most suitable point for commercial Gem
ter in Southwestern Washington. Lo-
Gated at the junction of land and sea
travel and trade and at the only natural
gateway and pass into the rich belt of tim
Der, agricultural and mineral land living
between Gray's harbor and the Olympic
mountains, Hoquiam can easily explain
her high ratio of increase in population
and property values during the past wear.
Less than eighteen months of growth have
transformed village of less than 300 souls.
possessing an only industry in the great
sawmiH and wholesale supply store of the
Northwestern Lumber Company, into a
little city having a population of l,3i7.
according TO the Federal census last june.
and AT the present time containing be-
tween LOO and 1900 people.
Active steps have been made in estab-
fishing mills and manufactures TO begin
the work of utilizing the vast resources
lying nearest at hand. In the North
western Lumber Company's mill and
stores the town possesses by far the largest
industry on the barbor. The mill of this
company is cable Of cutting 10000 feet OF
lumber per day. In connection with il Is a
planning mill and dryer, capable ofdrying
1000 feet per day. On the stocks Of the
shipyard, which is also part of the mill
property, is now laid the keel for . four
masted schooner that will carry
100000 feet OF lumber when
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within the next few months better and
larger supply Of water viii be brought IN
from the OIsrnpics- Several small manu-.
factories have made a Beginning and their
projectors are awaiting the completion OF
the railroad before branching ont exten-
sTyeIv. The blast furnaces which have
been idle for a short time VIII be started IN
the spring and kept burning indefinitely.
Negotiations are pending for two or three
manufacturing plants OF consIde rabie
magnitude and subsidy has been raised
for dry dock 70 cost over $4,000 This
is to be completed by next September
Port Townsend during 1890 grew consid-
erabIy In area as veil as in every other
way. The corporate limits al the time the
federal census vas taken included less than
one square nile Of territory, which con-
tanned population Of nearly 4, so. Shortly
after the taking Of the census the limits
were extended, so that the population now
numbers between 100 and 500, the
former Inquire being the most conservative
estimate given of the population Real
estate transfers for the year have amounted
to $500 900, and a large part 81 the pur-
chases have been for substantial improve
ment and permanent investments, rather
than for speculation. Activity has been
held back by the strain on the financial
markets of the East, but Port Townsend
has felt the pressure, perhaps, less than
any place in the country. As community
the city Is rich, and owes no money
abroad. Whatever debts may be out
standing are cared for at home and the
banks have abundant capital TO
care for all legitimate business enterprises.
manded more accommodations, and capi-
tai kept pace with the times, so that there
are now six banks doing business in the
city. 1t Is somewhat singular that not
withstanding the financial depression, the
merchants Of Port Townsend consider
themselves on better footing than ever.
One reason for this is that most OF them
have abundant capital on which 10 do
cash business, and another IS that the
tributary country has been keeping pace
with the city in growth Of population and
development
As the port of entry for the Puget sound
district the city derives a lucrative trade
from the hundreds of vessels that enter
these waters. Jack Tar always has prodi-
gal hand, with silver to spare at the Begin
ming or end OF a voyage. This being the
first and last port Of call for all vessels
doing business on the Sound, Port Town
send possesses mine Of wealth that can
never be exhausted by the most inimical
legislation or the most unreasonable ne
glect from overland transportation COM
panies. She commands commercial high
way that must always return profits to
her, and which must make every new year
more prosperous than the old
j. WILL LYsoSs.
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The total output of all mills running in
this vicinity for 1890 IS about as follows:
Sash and door factories, $4,000; sawmills
cut 10 o00. coo feet Of lumber; shingle-mills
made 100000 shingles.
BUILDING IMPROVEMENTS.
Including South Snohomish and addi-
tons to Snohomish, there have been not
not far from 200 buildings, including resi-
dences and business buildings, put up in
Snohomish in 1880. These have cost up
ward of 500, coo, perhaps nearly $3.50 900.
The new brick courthouse, 60xf20 feet.
two stories and basement. is an important
improvement. It cost $24, 900. The three
story brick Burns block is also fine build
ing, and cost $1,000. When these build
ings were put up brick, etc, was very
cheap, hence they are much finer and bet
ter buildings than their price would indi-
cate. Other valuable public building
built In 1890 are: Puget Sound bakery.
county Jail, with its steel cells; Sisters of
Mercy home for boys and Catholic school
building, DeifeI's block, Wargeithorn's
hotel, C. Dubuque's hotel and the Robin
son block
Among the principal residences are
those of ]. Fl. Plaskett. S. Yestai. Mrs.
Bass, DR.. Eddy, W. Eddy, Mr. Williams,
4. Proctor, Mr.. Hensel, ]. B. Ault, A.
Blaekman, Joe Mallett and John SWEET.
During 1890 real estate steadily increased
in value. Those who bought last year
paid for their lots and buildings Recently
E. C. Ferguson, Fl. C. Petit and g. &.
England formed q land company. Mr.
Ferguson owns or controls over one-haif
of ali property inside of city limits, besides
a great amount elsewhere.
In 1880 not only has the Seattle. Lake
Shore & Eastern been completed across
Snohomish county. but the Great Northern
is graded, most Of the piling done and
everything progressing nnely. This last
line crosses the county not tar back from
salt water.
In 1850 about 81 ooo, 900 was spent on rail-
road construction and equipment in Snd-
homish county. Probably an equal surt
will be spent here each year for many years
TO come until all our quarries of granite
and sandstone. our mines and timber,
farming and all other interests and re-
sources are fully explored, opened and de-
yeloped.
By the town and Federal census, both
taken last June, there were something over
1900 people in Snohomish. These were
taken when a great many ioggers, who
belong here, were working away In the
woods. THESE men are all at home now.
South Snohomish and other suburbs OUT
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THE CITY OF CHEa1
Thriving Center of Fine Agrisp
Region.
Season of Exceptional Railres g
Accession OF Industries
Water Flume.
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An era of great prosperity o. {
the year 1880 in Chehalis. -.
account the amount Of improves.
have been and are being comp
safe to say that the growth Of -
the past year has been gres'sa. I.
other years put together, ana tne :
kapt pace with the march Of p''s
through Washington.
Chehalis is in the midst o. II
finest agricultural sections -
Washington. 1t is surroundea
pastures and productive neias :
seasons abundant crops have - -.
had some influence in contripua
general prosperity. The mop
alone has brought thousands :
into the country, while the Sc
has been greatly in advance -
years. Prices have been e.
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The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1891-01-01
THE CITY OF sNoHoMIsH.
Its Great Material and Industrial
Development.
Value Of Lumber Output Was 500. 600
Buildings. $3.50, ooo-Era of Railroad
Extension-Street Improvement.
sxoHoxrsH. wash. De. %. lsao.

SxoHoxIsH, Wash, Dec %, 1890.
Snohomish has direct communication
with Seattle BY the Seattle. Lake Shore &
Eastern railroad. The trip occupies a
little over an hour, trains making rapid
time over the substantial roadbed of the
Lake Shore The Snohomish river is
navigable 10 the Sound.
Snohomish has been steadily at work
during all of 1soo. Everybody has been
building and improving. Money has been
tight, the large amount invested in
building and real estate having had that
effect, but property has steadily increased
In value, population has continued TO in
crease, and men have found means TO keep
an immense amount of building and other
Improvements going forward TO compile
ton.
Blackman Bros MILL In South Snoho-
mish, IS the largest Institution of the kind
in the county. The mill was burned in
1850, and has been rebuilt and rented
throughout. Their plant, as it now stands,
is worth $4,000, and has a maximum ca
pacity of $4,000 feet of lumber in ten
hours. It employed 100 men during the
season.
E. d. Smiths large sawmiI at Lowell, is
4
run part of the past year. It's cost has
probably exceeded $4,000 Recently Mr..
Smith Is reported to have sold half inter-
est in his mill. townsite and logging inter-
ests there 20 Hewets, a Tacoma capitalist,
for S1250o.
E. & o. Volrath's shingle mill at South
Snohornish, one-half mile south of Snoho-
mish, is built on the river bank, 100 feet dis
tant, by their right-of-way, to railroad.
They built their mill the past season and
began saving the last of July. This plant
Is valued at $500. Their Eastern Office
Is at Bucyrus, Ohio.
The Star shingle mill, formed of ]. A.
Haster, P. A. Parker and J. 4. Nehr, was
formed last winter. The plant and outnt
cost $500. They have run most Of the
year.
Cathcart has completed his sawmiil, at a
total expense of $4,000. This was com
menced over one year ago. The mill is at
Cathcart station, and has run but short
time. The Weber shingIe mill, also at
Cathcart, has run all the year nearly
They have also made improvements OF
value.
Nuggets shingle mill, north of town,
has run most of the year. G.. Dubuque's
sawmiIl has cut 100000 feet of logs.
Andrews & Anderson's mill is completed,
and has been saving most of the year.
These mills are up hePillchuck. Illman &
Missimer's mill, at Lake Stevens, is also
completed, and has begun saving. Nor
gan Bros have added 5000 worth of i'm
provements to their mill and factory in
Snohomish Their output is valued at
$1,000 for 1890. The output of the Sno-
homish Manufacturing Company for 1880
is $500.
The total value of all.nill improvements
and repairs for 1890 may be summarized as
follows:
pIaetr,ap pros mills s10 noo
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07
interest,


The other two points determined upon
Tor commemoration, Fort Meigs and the
PUTIN Bay burial ground, belong to the
period of the war of 1912. when tho
Maumee Valley became again the scene
of military operations. The hero of this
campaign was Gen. William Henry Har-
rison, who in February. 1913, erected
and established Fort Meigs, ten miles
from Fort Industry. While the work
was in progress two unsuccessful attacks
were made by Tecumseh Gen. Harri.
son and recumseh had first met in arms
at the battle Of Fallen Timbers, and
they met again here, each commanding.
Iecumseh is described as zone of the
most splendid specimens of his tribe.
celebrated for their physical proportions
and fine forms-tall, athletic and manly
-dignified, graceful, the beau ideal of
an Indian chief" The victory was with
Gen. Harrison, and Tecumseh was killed
during the war. The outlines and works
OF Fort Mefgs are nearly all preserved,
and no pillow had been permitted to run
over the graves of the dead 1t is en-
braced in the farm of Michael and
Timothy Hayes, who for the twenty
years of their ownership have not per-
mitted any dissertation of the graves, of
which there are several hundred, almost
wholly unmarked They contain the
names Of those who were killed in the
battle, who died during its occupation,
and those who were killed in the attack
on the British batteries at Fort Miami,
across the river.
The area of land necessary to include
the fort and the graves is about fifty-fve
acres, valued at 500 an acre. The
works themselves are in such a good
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07
AcocoANur COAT OF MAIL.
A Curious Armor Worn by q Warrior Of
the Caroline Islands.

A Curious Armor Worn by q Warrior Of
the Caroline Islands. i
The full armor worn by q warrior of
the Caroline Islands is one of the most
curious bits of savage workmanship I'M
the world. This suit consists of two;
separate parts-the clothing and the
cuirass. The clothing, worn next to
the skin, is made by weaving, or, rath-.
er, netting, by hand, a web of coarse
cords twisted out of the husk of the
cocoanut, each cord being tied into a
hard knot between each mesh. The
knots are crowded close together, and
thicken the cloth so that it would not
be easy to stab or cut through it. It
also protects the legs against being
torn by thorny shrubs or scratched in
clambering over the sharp coral rocks.
But the main curiosity in this armor
is the cuirass, or chest and head pro-
tector, the like of which is known no.
where else. The wool or substance of,
the cloth is of cocoanut thread the
size of wrapping Irvine, but tightly
twisted and tough, while the warp
upon which these are woven is much
heavier, SO that the finished cloth is as
thick as our heaviest canvas. The
threads are crowded very compactly
together also, SO that no slight force
would be needed to force blow
through. The selvage is bound over a
stout cord and ornamented by alter
nate plaits of black hair and yellow
fiber: Ornamental designs are worked
in with horsehair, too.
! But the form of this outer war Jacket.
is still more remarkable. It consists
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07
Ten Dollars for Eight Cents.

The above sign is prominently dis
played over one of the desks in
the Office of the United States
Express Company, at Fourth and Vine
streets. A bright-eyed, well-dressed
young shaver-he couldn't have been
more than 6 years old-eyed it intently
for few minutes yesterday, spelling
out the words in his unskilled, childish
way. Their import gradually dawned
upon him and he boldly approached
the cashier.
Il want money order, (" he said.
Glow large one, my boy?" the
clerk inquired, benignantly.
well, let's see," pondered the little
fellow. II want to buy hat, drum,
some candy for mamma, and some
candy for ryself. I guess $40 will be
enough"
He fshed through his pockets and
triumphantly placed nickel and three
coppers before the astonished clerk.
"Give it to me right away, won't you! !"
It took ten minutes to convince the
child that nothing less than $1O.Os
would buy $40 at that Office. His dis
appointment was partially smothered
by one Of the gray-haired attaches
of the Office, who slipped some
candy and an orange into the youthful
fnancier's hands.-Ci1aci2e7adti Com
naercial Gazette.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1891-08-07
which it is estimated $1,000 will bt

sufficient.
From Fort Defiance Gen. WAYNE. I'M
der instructions from Washington, Of
fered the Indians peace. In council of
Indians Little Turtle, chief who is said
to have possessed a degree of statesman
ship that would have won him fame in
diplomatic circles of European courts,
advised peace. His counsels were over
thrown by the younger chiefs, who
boosted of previous victories. Turtle
cautioned them against the n ew warrior
that the Father at Washington had sent
against them, but they were obstinate
and voted for war. Gen. Wayne ad-
vanced and pitched his camp near
Waterville. The next day aug. 20,
1794,) he gave battle to the Indians,
who We're intrenched behind some trees
that had been Frustrated by tornado,
whence the name of the Battle of Fallen
Iimbers. Wayne came upon the saw
ages like the wind that had laid low the
forest, his soldiers partaking of his own
irresistible courage. 1t was this battle
that won for Wayne the cognomen of
sChe-no-tin" or the Hurricane. This
battlefield lies on the river and is Guilt
waited for farming purposes There are
about twelve and one third acres that,it
is proposed to purchase at an estimated
cost of 500 per acre, and erect at con.
spicuous point granite monument, so
as to bring the total cost within SIS, 900.
Gen. Wayne pursued the Indians even
under the guns Of the British Fort
Miami, but passed on down the river to
the mouth of Swan Creek, where he con-
structed military fort, which, owing to
the industry of his army in its construc-
ton, he named Fort Industry. This