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Skagit County Logger, June 5, 1890
Hamilton, Washington, Vol. 2, No. 3
Part 2: Advertisements and Homestead legals

Clear Lake historian Deanna Ammons met the owner of this very rare newspaper at the memorial service for a descendant of the Bartl family. This is the oldest issue of any upriver newspaper found so far from Skagit county. With the volume number, we now know that this newspaper was launched on May 21 or May 23, 1889, months before any newspaper was published in Sedro. In Issue 24 of the Subscribers Journal online, you will find these three parts of our complete transcription of this issue:

Advertisments, organized by area. A wealth of details and names from Hamilton and towns all over the county. Includes legal ads for homesteads and timberland purchases. See below, sorted by town.
Publisher details about this issue and promotional stories about Lyman at the peak of the 1890 boom, including promotion of coal and iron mines across the Skagit river
News of the day. Locally and all over upriver.
Do you have copies of really old newspaper from the county, especially from 1899 or before? Please let us know. We would love to have photocopies. We do not need your originals. These papers are one of our most important original sources. We also very much need copies or scans of Hamilton scenes before 1920 and of families and individuals from the old days.
We have added historical notes from our own research and a handful of sources about Hamilton history, including Carol Bates's fine 1991 book on the Hamilton Centennial, which is no longer in print. But there are a few new copies still available at the Hamilton Liquor Store on Maple street, which also doubles as the Hamilton town office. You can phone (360) 826-6709 for more details about how to obtain one. Although the publisher nixed an index inside the book, Bates and volunteers painstakingly compiled one by hand, which is available separately.

This 1908 photo of the Jacobino farmily home, the Yellowstone bar that they owned and a hotel with balcony between, shows structures built on Water street in the 1890 period. That was the main street for businesses in Hamilton until the monster floods of 1894, 1896 and 1897 destroyed many of the buildings and chased many business owners up to Maple street, the present downtown main street. Part of Water street is now under water.

Part 2: Advertisements and Homestead legals Hamilton

Hamilton Townsite Co. Hamilton, the town of railroads, coal and iron mines. And the finest location for a town, both in beauty and natural advantages. It is the natural outlet to the finest and largest belt of fir, cedar and maple timber in the state of Washington. It is located within one miles of an Iron Mountain and a Mountain of Coal, which is now being developed. It has a sawmill, shingle mill and planing mill combined, now in operation. It is situated at the head of low water navigation. It is headquarters for the Skagit Cumberland coal company, which will employ 300-500 miners in a few weeks. It is located in the Skagit river valley, which is one of the richest valleys in the state. Now is the time to get a home in a live town. For further particulars, call on or address. Offices at Hamilton, Fairhaven and Seattle.
Mountain Gem Saloon Fine Imported and domestic liquors, finest imported cigars always on hand. Samuel Mansford. [There was also a small town named Mansford in the Sauk river district on the route to Monte Cristo, but we do not know how Sam is related to that burg.]
Baldridge Brothers Livery and feed stable. We have saddle horses, single and double rigs to let by the day or hour. Everything new and first class. Give us a call.
[Ed. note: We are in the process of preparing a profile of this enterprising family who were pioneers of Hamilton. They came here from Kentucky to join William Hamilton whose first wife was a sister of these brothers. John and Henry Baldridge owned this livery stable. John later went to the Klondike for the gold rush and then returned to Hamilton where he became a noted liquor dealer. He was the father of George Baldridge for whom the Sedro-Woolley American Legion Post 43 is named. After divorcing his wife, Ellen, John died at the Memorial Hospital in Sedro-Woolley in 1937.]
Mountain View Hotel Miss Blanch Lorenzo, prop. First class Accommodation. Stages to and from all parts of the county.
[Ed. note: This is a bit of a mystery to us. In other sources, her name is Blanche Lorenzy, but this is not surprising since Italian names were adapted to Americanized spellings on the frontier. But this listing has caused us to rethink our assumption that she was the wife of John Lorenzy. John was one of the pioneers of Mount Vernon, made famous because he shinnied up a cedar tree on the Fourth of July, 1877, and unfurled the famous American flag that is on display at the Skagit County Courthouse. The 1906 Illustrated History notes that John was 60 at the time. We have always assumed that Blanche was his wife but she may have been his daughter or daughter-in-law. Clear Lake historian Deanna Ammons has discovered Blanche's name as a land owner south of the Skagit in the 1890 time period. In 1891, Blanche launched the Brooklyn Hotel, one of the prime structures of Mount Vernon until the fire of July 13 that year that nearly leveled the town. It was soon rebuilt. We hope that a reader can flesh out this family and the rest of the story of both John and Blanche. The Mountain View Hotel was built by Hamilton founder, William Hamilton, and his wife, Louise (Galworthy) in 1889 and she managed it, but she was taken ill during the construction and by this time in 1890 they had either leased it or sold it. the hotel stood west of Cumberland street on Water street, just east of the Hamilton family residence. Part of that area is now under water]
Mountain View Saloon A full line of liquors, draught beer and cigars. Ice cold drinks always on hand. G.A. Noble, prop. M.B. Cook, mgr.
Newby's Restaurant William Newby, prop. Meals served to order at all hours. Prices reasonable. Everything will be kept on hand that the market affords and served in the best of style . . . Butter, eggs, chickens, mutton and all edible farm products at Newby's restaurant. Eggs 30 cents.
Hamilton Saw-Mill is now prepared to furnish lumber to any landing on the Skagit river at the shortest notice. Both common and finishing lumber and shingles. They are also prepared to cut long timber for bridge and road building. Common lumber $11 per M; Rustic $18; Flooring 4-inch $18, Flooring 6-inch $16; Finish $16. Liberal discount on large orders.
Moody and McDowell C.B. McDowell [Charles], T.F. Moody. Real estate, loans and insurance. We have the choicest property in Hamilton. For sale on easy terms. Call on us early and make an offer on one of the liveliest towns in the state. Prompt attention will be given to all correspondence. [Charles McDowell was lured by gold to the Klondike in the 1898 period and he apparently stayed there until his death. We have only an undated, brief obituary and a letter from there to his mother in 1928.]
F.W. Carleton and Co. Real Estate You have real estate to sell. We have cash customers. You will miss it if you do not place your property in our hands. We will find a purchaser for the real estate you wish to sell. Special attention given to correspondence.
William Meins Shoemaker. Ready made boots and shoes always on hand. Repairing neatly done. All work guaranteed.
William Marsh carpenter and builder. All Work warranted. Estimate on buildings made on application.

Lyman

B.D. Minkler dealer in provisions, dry goods, clothing, boots, shoes, hats, caps. Keeps constantly on hand a full line of ladies and gents furnishing goods. Hardware, tinware, crockery.
Lyman Hotel European plan [in which the rates include only the charges for a room and not for meals]. Bar attached. Wines, liquors and cigars always on hand. Quinn and Moran, prop. Give us a call.
C.B. Knapp physician and surgeon
For sale About 70 rods east of Lyman, 10 acres nearly cleared, with good building and fifty fruit trees. Close to school. Apply on premises. — O.J. Brink.

Sedro

Grotto Saloon Everything first class, including fine line of foreign and domestic wines. Kentucky liquors and Havana cigars. S. Clein, prop.
[Ed. note: Old Sedro by the river. This may have been the site of the saloon in Frank Wilkeson's famous 1890 New York Times column about the two hoboes of Sedro.].
Sedro Hotel McDonald & Rees, prop. The only hotel in town [meaning the town of New Sedro, next to the Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern depot and located where the gymnasium is today, across Third street from the present Sedro-Woolley High School, which was then the site of the main business block, anchored by the Pioneer Building]. Everything served in first-class style. A splendid bar in connection with the house that sells only Genuine A-1 goods. Give us a trial and we are sure of your return. [The hotel went bankrupt later that year, faded in importance as businesses gravitated to old Woolley, burned partially in 1895 and burned to the ground in 1897. The Carnegie Library opened at that spot in October 1915.
A.G. Mosier civil engineer and surveyor. Townsites plotted [platted] and legal subdivisions of land made. [See the Journal profile of Mosier.]

Avon

A.H. Skaling dealer in General merchandise. A specialty of boots and shoes, which he receives direct from the Eastern states. The prices will suit you. Another shipment of tea just arrived. Imported under his own name and brand, the Pride of Japan, can't be beat for quality and favor. [See this Journal website for the March 11, 1884, issue of the Skagit News where we include a brief profile of Mr. Skaling, founder of Avon.]

Mount Vernon

Mountain Vernon Drug Store Established 1882. Montborne & Townsend [Dr. Hyacinth P. Montborne] Drugs, chemicals, patent medicines, perfumery, toilet and fancy articles. Physicians prescriptions and family recipes accurately compounded. Your orders will be executed promptly and goods sent by return mail or state.
[Ed. note: Dr. Hyacinth Montborne came to the Skagit valley in 1882 and set up a practice and this drug store in Mount Vernon. You can read his advertisement in the first issue of the Skagit News of March 1, 1884, in Mount Vernon at this Journal website. He platted the town of Montborne on the east side of Big Lake in the spring of 1890 and it became a center of logging and sawmilling in 1891. That was just downslope where the Big Lake Bar and Grill stands today, clustered between the depot of the Seattle Lake Shore & Eastern railroad and the lake. The doctor faded from the historical record as his town faded after the Depression of the 1890s. We hope that a reader can tell us more about him and supply more photos of the town.]
Livery, Sale and Feed Stable Alfred Bernier, prop. Light and heavy rigs and saddle horses. Everything new and first class. Boarding horses a specialty. Give me a trial. Satisfaction given. Mount Vernon, Washington
Clothier and English Pioneer Store Dealers in groceries, provisions, boots, shoes, dry goods, notions. Ladies and gents furnishing goods. Hardware, tinware, iron, steel, loggers supplies. Cigars and tobacco. Single and double buggy and work harness, bridles and saddles, horse and saddle blankets,. Have on hand a large stock of first quality goods, which they are disposing of at bottom prices. Country produce bought at market prices.
F.L. Helfrich fashionable boot and shoe maker. Repairing neatly and promptly attended to. All work warranted. Men's ready made boots and shoes always on hand.
Matlock and Pickering Insurance Fred G. Pickering, abstractor. Ed. N. Matlock, county treasurer. Insurance, abstracts made, transcripts of County Records. Titles perfected, real estate bought and sold. Taxes paid for. Non-residents, loans negotiated, township and townsite plats furnished.
Lewis & Million Attorneys & Counselors-at-law. E.C. Million, Mt. Vernon. Hamilton Lewis, Seattle.
Sinclair, Waugh & Payne Attorneys & Counsellors at Law. Office in McCall's Block
[Ed. note: This was the building of Capt. M.A. or M.D. McCall. We are not sure of his initials because the 1906 Illustrated History presents them both ways within one page. He was a Mount Vernon pioneer of 1878 and in 1889 he constructed the first brick building in town on the lot where Jasper Gates's original shack stood. In the Feb. 3, 1888, edition of the Skagit News we find: "Capt. McCall is having his home on 1st moved back, will build large business block on corner 50x90 front on 1st and Washington. Lower 3-4 rooms for stores. Upper story Masons rooms and 3 offices, will commence May." That bank went through several incarnations until it was finally razed in favor of a new bank one block east. The site is now a downtown park. His title came from being the captain of a sternwheeler, the Alki, and in 1883, he rafted the first shipment of logs from Millet and McKay's logging camp in the area of future Burlington]
Behrens & Moody of Mt. Vernon have several thousand acres of agricultural and timber land for sale in Skagit county. They make land office business a specialty. And persons wanting to file on a pre-emption or homestead initiate a contest; get an entry attended or a right restored or transact land office business of any kind, can safely rely that they make no mistakes. Final proofs always correctly taken.
[Ed. note: In this partnership, Moody was J.B. Moody who joined Skagit county clerk F.D. Cleaves in March 1889 in a West Mount Vernon real estate company called Cleaves and Moody. A Wisconsin native, Moody succeeded Cleaves as county dlerk. Cleaves sold out to Adolph Behrens, who was the first mail carrier to the upriver district earlier in the decade. A New York native, Behrens moved to Seattle in 1893 and was active in real estate there as well as in Alaska later on, where he also invested in mining along with Skiyou sternwheeler captain Dan Benson. You can read Adoph's profile at this Journal website. Behrens and Moody sold acreage all over the county. We are curious if Moody was related to A.A. Moody, a pioneer from the Belfast-Edison area. And we wonder about other Behrens pioneers: Herman Behrens of Hamilton and John Behrens, a pioneer in Blanchard in the 1880s. We hope that a reader will supply more information about both of these families as well as the Cleaves family.]

Anacortes

Frank W. Spears attorney at law special attention gives to real estate and mining litigation. Ten years experience at the bar.

Whatcom county

Blue Front Drug Store M.M. Hopkins, prop. Harris street, Fairhaven. Drugs, druggists sundries, soap, toilet articles, combs, brushes, soap.
G. Grieb The Tailor Harris street, Fairhaven. Call and see me.
Bacon & Ells $100,000 to loan on improved property for one to five years. Whatcom, Wash. Mount Vernon office. [For details about George Bacon and this company that made loans to early farmers and homesteaders, see this Journal website.]

Seattle

Lowman Hanford Stat. & Ptg. Co. Standard and Davis sewing machines, Kuabe pianos, Mason and Hamlin and Packard organs. Sole agents.

Transportation Sternwheelers on the river

W.F. Monroe leave Seattle every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, returning the following day, calling at Utsalady, Stanwood, Mann's Landing, Skagit City, Mt. Vernon and all intermediate points.
Henry Bailey Fast time to Seattle. George Hill, master. Arrives at Sterling every Wednesday and Saturday mornings, leaving the same days for downriver points, Stanwood, Seattle and Tacoma. The Bailey has just been refitted with elegant staterooms and roomy passenger cabins and is prepared to accommodate her passengers in a comfortable and first-class manner. [This was banker Joshua Green's first sternwheeler. Read about him and his boats at this Journal website.]
Indiana Daily except Sunday, leaves Hamilton every morning. Leaves Mt. Vernon 9 o'clock a.m. Connecting with trains at Sedro and Avon both ways [Fairhaven and Southern at old Sedro by the river and Seattle & Northern at Avon Landing.

Railroads

Fairhaven & Southern Railroad Leaves Fairhaven 11 a.m., Arrives Sedro 1 p.m., opposite way leaves 2 p.m., arrives 4 p.m. Stops and mileage markers from Fairhaven: Happy Valley 1.2 miles; Welbons 4.7; Chuckanut 6.2; Samish Lake 10; Alger 14.5, Jarmon Prairie 18.4 [this stop was named for William Jarman, first white settler in both Whatcom and Skagit counties and the Prairie was misspelled at different times as Jarmon on German. The stop was just east of present Hwy. 99 and Bow Hill]; Collis 19.6; Sedro 26.1. You can find many details of both the F&S and the Seattle & Northern rail lines in Part 3, The News Section of this issue.

Legal Land and proof notices
If one of the listings is for someone in your family or you know the background of the claim, please email us and we will give you the exact legal description. Sec. stands for Section. Twp stands for Township. HApp stands for Homestead Application. Where we cannot read a name exactly, we insert a ?. Thomas S. Reed Jr. is the lands registrar on most of these documents. A Princeton graduate, he was an early law partner of Washington heavyweights, Elwood Evans and James F. McNaught of Tacoma. After moving to Olympia for another private practice, he was named by Republican President Benjamin Harrison in 1889 to be Register of the Land Office, with headquarters at Seattle. His district covers the public domain of northwestern Washington, extending 130 miles south from the British line and from the Cascade mountains to the sea. He served there until Harrison was defeated by Grover Cleveland in the 1892 election.

In accordance with Congress Act of June 3, 1878, for sale of
timber land in California, Oregon, Nevada and Washington territory.
For land more valuable for timber or stone than agricultural

John Woods of Sterling, Purchase of land in Sec. 34, Twp 35, Range 10 east. Registration deadline Aug. 6, 1890. Witnesses: John McCorquodale, Frank Bradsberrry, William Borland and Bert Everett, all of Sauk District.
C. L. Orth of Clinton, county of Henry, state of Missouri, Purchase of land in Sec. 20, Twp 36, Range 6 East, Nooksack river area north of Lyman. Registration deadline June 27, 1890. Witnesses: F.S. Mussetter and A.D. hart of Seattle; H. Quinn, S.A. George and M.E. Kennedy of Seattle.
[Ed. note: Henry Quinn was a colleague of upriver pioneer Otto Klement in Lyman since 1881. He was a partner with a man named Brownrig in the Lyman Hotel as early as 1884. You can read about him in this 1884 newspaper at this Journal website and enter his name in the Search Box below for other articles.]
M.E. Broaddus of Boonville, Cooper county, Missouri. Purchase of land in Sec. 20, Twp 36, Range 6 East, Nooksack river area north of Lyman. Registration deadline June 27, 1890. Witnesses: F.S. Mussetter and A.D. Hart of Seattle and H. Quinn, S.A. George and M.E. Kennedy, all of Mt. Vernon.
Charles W. Ask of Seattle. Purchase of land in Sec. ?0, Twp 35, Range 8 East, Finney creek-Faber area. Registration deadline August 16, 1890. Witnesses: Lewis C. McCurdy, Frank N. Shillestad, Christ Thompson and Edwin C. Beames, all of Seattle.
Miels Standish of White Hall, county of Muskegon, Michigan. Purchase of land in Sec. 7, Twp 34, Range 10 East, Sauk river/Suiattle mountain area. Registration deadline Aug. 8, 1890. Witnesses: A.J. Phelps and N.P. White of Sauk, Herbert E. Wilcox of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, and H.B. Rickey of Blachard. [It is interesting to see the town of Rhinelander, Wisconsin, listed. This was the hometown of John C. Wixson, Maurice Splane and others who were the core of the Day Lumber Co. in Big Lake. We hope that a reader from that town will tell us more about the lumbermen there before the turn of the 20th century.]
Fielden C. Hulen of Mount Vernon. Purchase of land in Sec. 26 and 27, Twp 36, Range 6 East, Nooksack river area north of Lyman. Registration deadline July 25, 1890. Witnesses: Robert Boyles, Lenard Ward and L. Perkinson of Mt. Vernon and John Duffy of Lyman.
Cornelius Mulvy of Mt. Vernon. Purchase of land in Sec. 34, Twp 36, Range 6 East, Nooksack river area north of Lyman. Registration deadline July 29, 1890. Witnesses: W.A. Sparks, Fred Paper, Albert Landen and George Tessler of Mount Vernon.
David H. Hartson of Hamilton. Purchase of land in Sec. 3, Twp 35, Range 7 East, Birdsview area. Registration deadline July 31, 1890. Witnesses: G.T. Stevens, Charles McDowell and William Hamilton of Hamilton and George Pierce of Sauk City. [For a thorough introduction to the town of Hamilton, see this Journal website.]
Samuel J. Stillwell of Seattle. Purchase of land in Sec. 25, Twp 34, Range 9 East, area west of Sauk river. Registration deadline July 18, 1890. Witnesses: John Erickson, Samuel H. Lowe and C.C. Cady of Seattle and A.J. Phillips of Sauk City.
Peter C. Larsen of Tacoma. Purchase of land in Sec. 32, Twp 35, Range 9 East, Skagit/Sauk river junction area. Registration deadline July 16, 1890. Witnesses: Samuel Wainwright, A.O. Kindy, Eugene Beloit and Peter Newman of Sauk City. [See our three-part series on Sauk City, see this Journal website.]

Homestead applications and Preemption proofs

Judd Mechling of Sauk, HApp 12715 for Sec. 25, Twp 34, Range 9 East and Sec. 30, Twp 34, Range 10 East. Registration deadline June 30, 1890. Witnesses: E.K. White, Hiram C. Crockett, William Rinker, Ai [A.I.?] Marshall, all of Sauk District.
Robert Marshall of the Skagit/Sauk rivers junction area, HApp 10724 for Twp 35, Range 9 East. Registration deadline June 25, 1890. Witnesses: Orrin Brann of Mt. Vernon, Samuel Wainright [see this Journal website], J.G. Perrault and Wm. Littlefield, all of Sauk District. [Orrin Brann originally owned logging camps on Whidbey Island, then in 1884 he obtained a liquor license for the Mount Vernon Hotel with George Moran. This could have been one of his boarders or maybe he grubstaked Marshall. Many upriver prospectors and homesteaders boarded in Mount Vernon for the winter.]
Charles Kunde of the Lyman area, Preemption 14928 for Sec. 8, Twp 35, Range 6 East. Registration deadline July 23, 1890. Witnesses: Anton Wohlsin, August Richter, Fred Wence and G.G. Arnold, all of Lyman.
Henry Harbauer? of Lyman-Hamilton area, HApp 15033 for Sec. 35, Twp 35, Range 6 East. Registration deadline June 20, 1890. Witnesses: Henry Hurshman, Joseph Parick and William Doherty of Hamilton and John Sinning of Lyman.
George A. Noble of Hamilton [Noble owned the Mountain View Saloon in Hamilton], Preemption 14997 for Sec. 32, Twp 36, Range 7 East, Nooksack river/Mt. Josephine area, northeast of Hamilton. Registration deadline June 20, 1890. Witnesses: William Walker, Patrick Ferry and Michael McMullen/McMillen, all of Hamilton.
Eugene Cozier of unknown area, Preemption 14052 for Sec. 12, Twp 35, Range 10 East, Skagit/Cascade rivers junction area. Registration deadline June 26, 1890. Witnesses: George Ingls?, Remi Durand, Robert Kerr and J.D. Perrault of Sauk area.
Joseph Rivord. Preemption 12900 for Sec. 32, Twp 33, Range 10 East, Suiattle river area. Registration deadline July 11, 1890. Witnesses: Norman W. Smith, Jacob Lyman, John Williams and Patrick McCabe of Sauk City.
Samuel Wainwright of Sauk City, Preemption 12846 for Sec. 32 and 33, Twp 35, Range 9 East, Sauk/Skagit river junction area. Registration deadline June 25, 1890. Witnesses: Robert Marshall, Magnus Miller, Peter Trueman and John Erickson of Sauk City.
James M. Garrett of the Hamilton area, Preemption 13657 for Sec. 23 and 24, Twp 35, Range 6 East, Hamilton area. Registration deadline June 27, 1890. Witnesses: H.W. Johnson, James Cochrane, William Meins and John Hamilton of Hamilton, Washington.

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Skagit County Logger, June 5, 1890 Hamilton, Washington, Vol. 2, No. 3 Part 2: Advertisements and Homestead legals

Skagit County Logger, June 5, 1890
Hamilton, Washington, Vol. 2, No. 3
Part 2: Advertisements and Homestead legals