Show BUILDS FINE HOME IN TREE washington man with fat wife and seven children erects novel dwelling Dwell lna in I 1 stump seattle wash with wit seven calill ahll dren and a fat wife john colvert Sol vert lately from iowa Is living in a stump in the northern part of this city selvert camo here several months montha ago ho he had but little money and a large family faintly because of tho the great boom hero here he was unable to mid find an c empty house and resolved to build ono one of his own lie he bought an una un improved lot in tho the north part of the ho city in a district where logging operations ceased but a year ago and on cu going out to plan his house bouse he found half the lot occupied by a gl gi garitte cedar stump thirty feet high and eighteen feet in diameter ton ten feet above ground with an auger and saw selvert cut out a a seven foot section from the south end and walked into his stump the walls walla were found to be fifteen inches thick and the whole stump was a hollow shell lie he cut out windows laid a tight floor and made it a ceiling of planking and flooring with a ladder he cut another door twelve feet above ground went inside and made the windows tor for the second story the third story was waa constructed and a tight root of and shingles was made over tho the top selvert peeled off the bark and painted tho the stump a light green and the window and door frames pure white the whole makes a very pretty home at a coltof cost of only 40 and the owner has refused 2000 for hla his unique abode |