Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-05-13

ARTHUR A. DENNY.
has a goodiy number and there are many young
men who have made fortunes on Puget sound.
One OF the richest men of Seattle today is
Arthur Denny, who founded Seattle and who
at the age of sixty stili lives. He is worth sew
eral millions. He was, you know. in Congress
some years ago. He lives here in the center of
a big lot in the heart of the CITY, and his yard
Is worth about $3.50, 900. He keeps a biooded
Jersey cow and he lets this feed upon the lawn.
No Not long ago. when he was urged to sell the
block for business purposes, he replied: Il
can't do it, for If sell where can pasture my
cow?'
MIR. Denny came to Seattle about forty
years ago. He has q great fortune in prospect
from his iron mines. and he owns some Of the
best iron mines in the world These have been
leased by an English company for term Of
nifty years, and they pay big royalty regu-
larry, whether the mines are worked OF not"
THE FAMOUS YEsrER CASE.
'What is this Yester case, in which it is said
the heirs are trying to defraud Seattle out of
million or SOP"
1T is still pending" replied Mr.. Crawford,
and it is queer affair. Henry L. Yester was
one OF the remarkable men this country has
known. He came here when Seattle was a
village to look up a site for saw mill, and he
died last year worth millions. When he came
here he found the best site for his mill cut of
BY the claims Of three men, Dr. Maynard, Mr..
Boren and Arthur Denny. They were anxious
to have his mill here and they shifted their
claims so as to give Mr.. Yester strip 800 feet
wide from his mill to the waters edge. This
strip eventually became the center of the city.
The best Of our business buildings are built on
it and 1t is now worth millions. One Of the
main streets of the city, Yester avenue, goes
through it and Yester held property on it when
he died. He was a very enterprising man and
was always doing good for the town. At the
40 NJ frsf viii Had
and he married again soon after, taking
as his second wife a young girl of
twenty, named Minnie eagle. She was
a distant relative and she came. / think, from
Masillon, Ohio Mr.. Yester told me once that
he married her in self-defense He was be-
sieged by fortune-hunting adventuresses. who
tried to get him into ell sorts of trouble and
attempted,to blackmail him. Well, two years
after his marriage he took sick and died, and
TO the surprise of all no will could be found.
He had said repeatedly that he intended to
leave great part OF his fortune to the city,
and as his estate amounted to about $4,000, 900
the loss OF the will created sensation. His
wife and the two doctors who attended him
were charged with destroying it and a suit was
begun by the city to force the producing Of
bad the cheek to say to the city that he would
find the will for 25 per cent OF the amount Of
the estate. This was refused and the case Is
yet unsettled. During Mr.. Yester's last sick
ness these doctors and his wife never left him
alone with any one for a moment"
OTHER MONEY KINGS.
Seattle has a large number Of men who have
made fortunes in money and mines. Judge
Thomas Burke, the great lawyer Of this region,
is worth a million. L. d. ]. Hunt, the owner
of the Seattle Post Intelligencer, and one Of
the big holders Of the Monte Cristo mines,
came here worth $50, 900 and he is now quoted
at from three to five millions, and there is a
bakers dozen of other Seattle men who are
rich beyond the dreams OF avarice.
SOME TACOMA MILLIoNAIREs
It is the same with Tacoma, Seattle's rival
city, which is only forty miles further up the
sound, and which is filed with the homes Of
rich men. During my visit there / met a
number Of them and heard Of Others What
surprises me most is the number of young
men who have grown rich. Mr.. Hunt is not
over thirty-three and Allen C. Mason, one of
the big millionaires Of Tacoma, is under forty
Mason's wealth illustrates the value Of news
paper advertising. Just ten years ago he was
teaching school in Jacksonville, Ill. He bor-
rowed 50, 900 for three years to come to Puget
sound, settled at Tacoma and went into the
real estate and loan business. During five
years his transactions amounted to more than
three millions. He is now building house in
Tacoma which will cost S125.0 900. has given the
city a public library of 20. 900 volumes and owns
all sorts of valuable property. He con-
siders the newspapers one of the secrets of sue
cess.
CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER's soN-IN-LAw.
Hugh Wallace, who married Mildred Fuller,
is fast making fortune in Tacoma. He is
under thirty years of age. but he must already
be worth $500 900, and he is, 1 am told. good
business man. He is especially happy just now
in the possession of son who is said to look
much like his grandfather. the chief justice.
The biggest individual property owner of Ia
coma is, L am told. C. b. Wright, who used to
be president of the Northern Pacific railroad
aud who owns over S10,0O0,000 worth of Ia
coma buildings and lands and stocks. Mr..
Wright is said to be worth $50 900. 900. He
paws one-eighth of all the faxes in Tacoma, and
he recently bought the Hunt system of rail-
roads and paid SIS. 100000 for them. He is
row about seventy years old. and he is called
the father of Tacoma. He had the tunnel
built through the Cascade mountains and thus
made Tacoma the terminus of the Northern
Pacific railroad. He made many of his friends
rich at the same time, and the big business
blocks. the magnificent homes and the solid i'm
provements of Tacoma, with its forty fifty
thousand people, stand there as a monument to
him. FRANK q. CARPENTER.