Eureka weekly sentinel. [volume] (Eureka, Nev.) 1887-1902, 1898-06-04
NOTES OF FORMER RESIDENTS.

TOm MOhEAs IA eNe0R1
SPOKANE. Washington, May Is. 1898.
1 left Seattle last Monday. I spent
Sunday afternoon with Ben Levy and
family and met John shoenbsr and wife
,here. John has started into bust
ness there ss q mine promoter. Ben Le-
W has turned 9 rank Republican-oui
and out single gold standard. ]. P. Fay !
met the day / left. He is said to be
worth all of fifty thousand dollars. John
McDougsll is rated worth the same
amount. left Dennis Keefe q. Seattle.
He intended leaving for Republic to-mor.
row.
left Seattle on the Northern Pacific
Railroad and was delighted with the trip.
The pretty farms. luxurisnt vegetation
and grand scenery made ID most interest
ing. Passing through Puyallup Valley
there is not g spo, you csnno, admire, and
along Green River the scenery is superb.
The snow-clad Mount Rainier in the dis
lance lie grand in its ascension TO the
clouds, q giant in structure above the
hills and valleys beneath ID. Il 10 q
mountain Of perpetual
You can see 1 AN writing from Chef
Batchelder's Office. He seems 10 be doing
well here. His Oldest and youngest
children are down sick at present. the
former with ~whooping cough and chicken
pox and the latter with whooping cough.
W. p. Haskell is here promoting mixing
schemes. W. P. Steichelmsn is keeping
books for q big furniture house. Heeyi-
IDENTIFY has seen his ups and downs in this
region. VIM. Sholderer is working N q
butcher shop. VIM. Bodler. formerly of
Ruby Hill, had charge Of the water
works there) is among spoksne's property
owners, and is said to have lots OF stuff
Jack Moore is here also. / met hin yes
terday; he is dealing at q saloon in "
He lives with his family oil the property
adjoining Billy Stowell's residenc,.
Charley Fasset has a fine assty Office
and laboratory in town and is doing we'll.
Billy 5towell has a very pretty residence
situated in the beat locality in town. The
house itself is rather quaint, but comfort
able and well kept. They have q beautiful
lawn and garden, with flowers in plenty,
and more fruit than they can use. The
girls have grown TO young lsdies. They
would like to go back to Eureka ever so
much and visit their old haunts and see
old friends. Billy has 8 fine business in
drugs and ssssying. The store is large,
but one side OF it Ia occupied by a jeweler
1t is situated in the best business block in
town. He runs his asssying work in the
cellar, as do most Of the sssayers here, bui
he keeps busy and must be making mon
ey. He keeps a full line Of assayers goodi
for sale in addition to drugs.
You know that Frank Mercer Is here. J
have not met him yet. He is rated as
rich man. having married 8 rich widow
with lots of land. Parker, the barber, is
running . shop here. Jack Enright ant
Charley Graham passed through here from
Montana about two months ago. en- route
to the Klondike.
Spokane is q lovely town in appearance
with handsome buildings Of large proper
tions and splendid architecture. Tbt
business blocks are superb and the schoo
houses are grand structures. handsome
commodious and costly. The courthouse II
a magnificent building. utthey were bull
with the boom, on borrowed capital. The
city. I am told, Is about two millions in
debt. Taxes are levied al three pei
cent, but only saloons and gambling
houses are licensed. The general bust
nesr houses pay nc license.
The press is represented by one morn
ing and one evening paper-well edited
sheets-the Spokesman and Review and
the Evening Chronicle. The population
Of the town 10 probably thirty.fve thou
sand.
There is considerable farming done In
this region, but the principal industry
which benefits the town OF Spokane II
mining. II ia the nucleus Of investment
Companies incorporate with millions Of
shares, and the stocks sell from / cent 9
share mp to any possible figure.
1t appears true that Charley Robbins
has u.s. 900 shares OF Republic stock, and IL
is quoted this day at So q share. / have
just been looking at . map Of Republic
aud ii shows a solid mass Of mining
claims for eight miles In length by one
and one-half miles In width.
Spokane Falls ia capable OF furnishing
power for manufacturing purposes sufi-
Client to sustain two or three million peo-
pie I should say, but there is something
radically wrong here. There are Touring
mills on the Spokane River which ought
to be run by water power. but are run by
steam. What the general industries are
l have not had time to learn. The prin.
cipal business blocks. I am told, were
built during the boom, with Dutch cap.
ital. People who owned the ground bor-
rowad monav IN huiid and INV mora