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Show Paget Sound Millionaires. -& Racy Stories of Fortune Making from the Great Norllmest, i , Some Croctutct of Stall! t end 1 acovia Money In Itoftltetv Senator Sjnlie Made a Million-Henry .. Yester and it Ust H III A Uu Sail by the City for Million Ilo-o Ite Treated J f is Tcnanlt and 1 1U Quiti Marriage -Arthur A. Denny and Hit fiS0000 Co " folate ou Neutrafer Adi ertlslnj; Mide a Mitlonalie Something about C, It. Wright and Hit ftofioooooof facomt Prefer!), etc ,ele. frerlal (trrapmoinn 0 lis Brl SSkATTUii, Wash, May 8, 1S9J I have Ireen traveling for omc lime through this new stated Washington tl Is destined lo bo 0110 of the wealthiest wealthi-est and mest populous slates of tlio Union, and It lias already been called the Ohio and I'cnnsjlvanla of tha west. It lias sonic of llie richest hnls 0,1 the face of the globe, nnd In this Pugct Sound region tho land Is ns black as jour hat nnd ns rich ns guano llelttccu here and Senile, a distance of about forty miles, the railroad passes through n ttlldcrncsi of hop fields, which net their ou iters, I am told, something like fioo per acre profit each year, and which In some cases produco 7 000 pounds of hops to the acre, Hops are selling now for twcntv-ttio cents n pound, but Ihcyhitc, I am told, been sold as high ns ono dolltr a pound, nnd a man villi a ten acre hop firm Ism ell off. Senator Squire told me n short time ago that he hid nude a good deal of money off ot his hop raising, and some men here hate made fortunes In hops. The Washington hops are among I the finest raised, and they are put up In biles and shipped from here all ot cr the world. The biggest hop ranch of the world Is not fir from here. It contilns 1.500 ncrcs nnd has more thin too acres In hops. This belongs to theSeittle Hop Crow era' Assoclitlon, who are the largest hop growers of the world. Much of their land produces 9,000 pounds to the acre, and they ore Incrcislng their acreigc so tint they will eventually havo the whole ranch one big hop field. It costs 8 cents a pound to raise, pick nnd mirket hops, nnd even at twenty two cents the business Is a goo I one. The picking Is done largely by Indhns, nnd this compiny cmplois 1,500 Indians during the picking season nnd about 900 whiles. A good deal of work is required to bring the land Into slnpe I for the plintlng, but there arc large valleys In this part of Washington which arc being turned Into hop fields, and thcto is enough good -hop land here. I am told, to make the beer lor the world. AN INDIVM mlNCESS. Speiklng of the Indians, they do not amount to much in this pirt of the United Mates, rhcy are mostly beggars and sc ivcngers, and ruant of them arc of the flit-head virlety. This city of Seittlo wis named 11'ter nn Indlin, old Chief Seville 'I his mm was the Nipoleon Ilonipartc of the Indhns of the northwest north-west He wis n chief nl many tribes nnd had n complete organlratloi of them and formed n common hnguige for than. He wist Hal held Indian, but a mm of great strength nnd cha.. acter, I Iu w is n catholic nnd tried to convert his people Ills daughter lives here In Seattle and she Is kept by the voluntary ejus of tie people. Her name Is the Princess Angellnc, and she It about the ugliest plecu of humm llesh which lias ever been wrnipcd aluut royal blood. She his more wrinkles Ihann washboird and Is now very old. She lives in n httlo wooden cottJgc hero and Is considered one of the institutions institu-tions of the city. She dresses In bright colors, walks wlthncnnc and iihinvs has n bright handkerchief about her quccnliLe head. A WOKD AIIOUT SKNATOS. SqUIRE. One of tha brightest joung men of the northwest Is Mr. Sam Crawford, a young mm of perhaps thirl) five )cirs of age. He was for years on the stilf ol the Seittlo lst Intelligencer, when he and another reporter decided to leave JournalljTi lor renl cititc. They hid between them frjo, and the first thing they did was to spend this In newspaper advertising. Tho day It was all gone they had not received n dollar In return, but Ininiedlitcly alter the tide turned nnd they made j 50 000 during their first vcar's business. I was w liking lik-ing with Mr. Crnwford vestcrday through the city when we passed a lot of men cxcnvatlng for a lare.e building and be said. 'That Is where Senilor Squire Is putting up n new building He owns nenrly a million dollirs in Seattle property pro-perty and he will be a very wealthy man He has a fine farm near here and he Is Interested In many tuslness enterprises. enter-prises. This new building of his will be made more valuablo by the building of Jim Hill s Great Northern depot. It will be an iimnenso affair, covered with n glass roof, nnd Its site cost Hill a qu wter of n million The cllv has given him a snip of land nmio long through the fiats for his frtieht houses. It ton tains 14s pcrcs, which is now covtrrd with wattr, but which will be diked nnd plied " "I tow did Senator Squire get so much tcil estate?" 'Oi.itw-islirgclv throiRhhlsfitlic-n throiRhhlsfitlic-n law, Mr. I'enilngton, tl c fireirms nnd typewriter 111111 Squire murlcd a l mil kton nnd he was connected with the hrni l'mlnglon tnmo cut hero )cars .igo, nnd thinking Seittlo wis goin, to grow to be 11 big city, be bought iy,na worth ol property It did rot develop ns fast as ho exported, and Squire cmo out 10 look at it. Ho fiund tho boom hid stirtcd an 1 he went back, I nm told, nnd offered his luhcr in I in hl interest In the Iteming, ton works for his Senile property. His filler wis accepted and Squire thus became t millionaire. A ;jO,000 COW t ASTUKE. , "Vol must hive a lot of rich men hcie,"sald I. "ies, ' replied Mr. Crawford, "we Invc quite n lot of millionaires herein Senile Tacomi has a goodly number, and there are mnny Joung men who hive made fortunes on I'u.-et sound One of the richest men of Scittle today is Arthur Denny, who founded Scittle nnd who at the igeof sixty still lives Ho is worth several millions. Ho was, V ill know In Congress somu cars ago He lit -s hero in tha center of n big lot In the h art of the city, nnd histard is warlh about frjoooo He keeps a blooded Jersey cow, and he leti this feed upon tha hwn Not long ago, when bu was urged to sell the block lor business purposes, ho replied! ' I can't dolt, for if I sell where cm I pasture my cow? "Mr. Denny cmie to Srittlu nbout fort) years ago He Ins n great fortuno In prospect from his Iron mines, and he ow ns some of the best Iron mines In the world. These hive been leased by an 1'ni.lish compiny for n term ol fifty years, and the) piy a big royalty rtgu-larl), rtgu-larl), whether the mines nra worked or not " Tlltt I UIOLS YHTER CASE. " hit is this ester case, in which It Is said the heirs are trying to dclraud Seattle out of a million or so?" "It Is still pending," replied Mr. Crawford, nnd it is n queer nfTalr, Henry U Yester was ono cf thcremarh. ablu men this country Ins known. He came hero when Seattle was a vlllige to look up a site for a siw mill, and he died last year worth millions. When he came here ha found the best site for his mill cut oil by the cliims of thrco men, Dr. Majn.ird. Mr. lloren and Arthur Denny. They were anxious to hate his mill here and (hey shifted their cliims so as to kite Mr. Yester a strip 300 lect w Ida from his mill to the w aler t cdc. This strip cvcntuill) became the center of the clt). The best of our business buildings are built on it nnd it Is now worth millions One of the main streets of the city, Yester avenue, goes through It and Yeister held pro perty on It when he died. He una tery enterprising man nnd wa ilwajt doing good for tho town At the ago of scteiit)-clght his first wife ( I 1U1 he mirrlcd again soon nltr, ta! ns his second wife n )ounklrl of tenli, named Mln lie Oaglc. She wis a ihs tint rclalitn and alio came, I think, from Maslllon, Ohio Mr. Yester t Id mo onco tint he mirrlcd hcrlnsclfiUfcnse He was besieged by fnrtun hunting ndtenturcsses, who tried to get him Into all soils of trouble nnd nltemtted to blicknnll him. Well, two )cir nftir his mtrrlagc ho took sicltanddl d, and lo the suiprlso of all no will could be found He had dd repejle lly th t he intended to leaven great 1 irt if hu fortune lo the cit), and ns hit cstite amounted to nbout &)cooo t c loss of the will creited 11 (cnsiti 1 His wife mid the two doctors who attended him wercchirged tilth tleitrot 1111, it and u suit was begun by the city to force the produrlngof tho will. One of the liw ycisi.f ludcfriilanlshadlhecliccktoiuv tolhccuy tint ho would find the will lor twenty five per ccntol th amount of the est itc 1 his was refuse 1 nnd the Jie Ji )et untitled. During Mr c'lcr'i I itt sickneas tliese doctors nnd nis wife never left hint alone with nut one for a moment." A OOOD LANDLOKI) ' Whit kind of n man was ester? "lie was n ver) good man, nnd always liked to help young men along. Ho would Indorsa any one's note almost, anil lie lost f r 10,000 in fiv 1 yi in b) going s curlly for his Iricm's SI orllj before lie died ha give n trust deed to bis nephew to miniuo bis propcit), and It Is believed hero that lie lntcndrd him to he his executor. Henry 1. ester never ousted n tenant if ho thought ho was trying to j,ct along, and he was greatly Impoied upon. Ono man, n baker, hid a house of his for ct litre n I vcare and never paid a cent of rent. During the most of the time he sublet a part of the house, and ho wis getting slxt) dollars a month for a room In it when he concluded ho wanted to use that part of tho house for n restaurant and lie ordtrcd the tenants lo leave These tenants wcro a telegraph compiny com-piny and they hid their wires In nnd did not want to move. They concluded to U) and rent the w hole place of Yester nnd oflercd him fjoo a month Mr. Yester heard them end refined, s.i)lng' 'I would like lo obllgo )ou, but 1 can t. '1 hat man Is ono of my oldest tenants, Uhj.lie has been with me setenteenjears." The fact that ho had not paid his rent nnd that he wis eliciting him seemed to mike no didercr.ee. OTHER HOW I.ING3. Seattle has a lire.e number of men who have undo foiluucs in money nnd mines. Judge riionns Ilurke, the great lawyer of this region, Is worth a million. I- D.J. Hunt, the owner of the Seattle fsf Intelligencer, nnd ono of the big holders of tho Monte ChrUlo mines, came hero worth f 30,000 and he Is now quoted at from three to rite millions, and there Is 11 baki r's doien of other Seattle men who arc rich bc)ond the dreams of avarice EOMIi TVCOMA lllLLIOYAIkKS. It is the sarno with Tncomi, Seattle's rival clt), which is only forty miles further up tin sound, mil which Is filled with the homes of rich men. During m) vitlt there I met a number of thciii ond I heard of others Ulnt surprises mo most Is the number of )oung men who have grown rich Mr, Hum is not otcr thirl) three and Allen C Mason, pnepf the big millionaires of Tocom-i, Is under forty. Mssonswcnltli illustrate the value of ncwspiptr ndvertluig Just ten years nco ho wis teaching school in Jacksonville, lit. Ho borrowed JJ 000 for three terns Incomes to kVret sound, setl'cdntTacoim and went Into the real estate and loin business. Dur-ng Dur-ng hie) ears his transactions nmounlcd "'"pre than threo millions. lie is now building nhoutu In Tacomi which will rostjujooo, Ins given tho ell) a public library if soooo volumes nnd owns all sorts or valuable proper!). Ho considers con-siders tho newspapers one of the secrets of st cess. He put all his money at first into newspier advertising He flatted in l advertising his real estate In religious papers, spending nt first ioo n month and increasing III! hi was spend-Ing spend-Ing about fjoo a month in this way. I hen he tiled tho big cistern dallies nnd one Stitidiy he spent 510,000, all lint he Indnt the (line, in putting two page ads In the big Sunday newspapers of New lork, Iloston nnd Ihiladelphli Tho result was that the letters came in by the, bushel and Inir of them contained money, nnd Mr Mason si)s ho is still Letting business from tho advertising of that time. About two tears ago lr. Mason and a friend of his, Mr Chirks Reeves, who his also made a ft rtune In Incpmn reil csntc, went round tho world together They carried a cimeri with them and photographed tlienucltca In all sorts of shipes They brought back n lot of plunder and among other things Mison bought n mummy and smuggled It out of l'g)pt md across here to Tacomn. Clliri' JLSTICIt rLLLKR's S0V l-LAtV. Hugh Wallace, who mirrlcd Mildred lullcr. Is fast msklngn fortuno inTico-mi. inTico-mi. He is under thirty )cirs of age. but he must already be worth ficooTm, and he Is, I am told, a gooil business niati. He Is especially happy Just now 11 the possession of a son who is said to look much like his grandfather, the chief Justice. The biggest Indlv Idiial properly owner of Tacomu Is, I am told, C. II Wright who used to be president of the Northern I'acihc railroad and wlo owns otcr f 10 000,000 worth of Tacoma buddings and lands and stocks. Mr. Wright Is said to be worth Jso.ooooco He pits one eighth of all the tixcs In Tacoma. and ho recently bought the llunts tent of railroads and paid f jj 000 000 for them. Ho Is now about seventy tcirs old, nnd ho Is called the father of laco. ma Ho had the tunnel built through thii Cascade mountains nnd thus mide ; Tacomi the terminus of tho Northern I acific rallroid. Ho made mam of his friends rich at the same time, and the big business blocks, the nngnlliccnt homes and the solid Improtements ol Tacoma, vt Ilh Its forty or fifty thousand people, stand there as a monument to him. I RAMK G. CVKhENTIiR. |