The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-01-10

the town after the same deed. He
found before he LETT that thew had GOT
ten the deed too, and the first deed
that was recorded IT Sioux Falls would ae
the one which would hold. Both parties
were on the same train. and il was queS-
ton as To which would get 10 the court
house first. Pettigrew saw his rival get
OF and telegraph 81 the station. and he
found that be had telegraphed for team
Of fast horses 70 meet him al the depot.
He saw that his game was lost without
he could eheckmate his rival before
he reached Sioux Falls. A.the next water
tank he got OUT and slipped around 70 the
locomotive and Eas soon riding with the
engineer. After q few moments CONVEX
sation the engineer detached the locono-
tive from the train and Il steamed On
ahead into Sioux Falls, which vss three
miles away. leaving the train with Petit
Crews rival IN il ~ the water tank Ten
minutes Later the engine moved back, and
half an hour after Pettigrew's deed was n
the hands OF recorder, carriage dashed
up 10 the courthouse and Pett5grsg's rival
rushed in and said that he wanted = deed
recorded Immediately. The recorder looked
a. the paper be handed him, and replied
thar he hEd just finished recording deed
for that property 70 Frank PettigreE, snd
the man kpew ne was beaten. PetfigreE
by thar days operation made $40 90, and
this formed the basis OF his fortune
TIE ETNsES0T4 sEsAT0RS.
Both Of the Minnesota senators are self
made. though WAsbburne comes of q
noted family. and al OF bis brothers have
made fortune and fame. Old Israel
Wzshburne, % Maine, had seven sons,
and the cradle IN which the boys were
rocked = kept IN NorlaDd's library IN
Maine. Il IS made Of pine boards an
inch thick. ruGelg dove-tailed together
and is sold pine rockers are shaped Ike
half-raooas. i IS painted q dark green,
and bas been Drowned BY age. IN is Sem
Htor Washburne vas rocked. Two OF his
brothers. p no were ministers 10 foreign
countries, slept IN Il. and j. has held four
congressman and two governors. The
father G; all the Wsshburnes was a
farmer, and the present United States
senator was raised On farm, and until he
was - he worked IN the corn nelds
and the hay fields in the summer
and went 20 the common schools in the
winter. He WAS sent 70 Bowdoin college
and studied law with his brother Israel.
ana then went ont 70 Minneapolis where
he settled about thirty-five years ago. His
life there has been an active one. he has
made and lost one or two fortunes and he
Is said 70 be . rich man today. He looks
more like Presbyterian preacher than
anything else. His black side whiskers
are OF Calxinistic cut. and his blue ewes
LOOK ont Of severe and cultured features.
he is very popular in his section, and is a
man Of weight. He has q magnificent
house IN Minneapolis, and he rents st
Washington City the p-iscn-like structure
which belongs TO Senator Edmunds.
~ ApmIEEs or NAPOLEON.
Senator Cush Davis, the other Mime
sots representative in the upper house. is
the direct opposite OF Wsshburne. Sen.
stor Davis looks ike Ben Butler. He was
taken for Ben Buffers son not long ago
when he and Butler were stopping az the
Fifth Avenue hotel together. and IL sis
sald that when he was counting his wife,
with whom be fell IN love ct almost the
first sight. she insisted that she had a