An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 44

Author: Edwards, Jonathan, 1847-1929. cn
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: [San Francisco?] W.H. Lever
Number of Pages: 888

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CHATTAROY.

This town of two hundred and fifty peo- ple is about twenty-two miles northeast of Spokane. It is two miles east of Dra- goon station on the S. F. & N. Railway. The

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Great Northern Railroad runs nearer, but has no station. Dragoon creek flows through the town and its waters are utilized in running a saw mill. There are two general merchandise establishments. Barker's Hotel has accommo- dated the public for a decade and a half. Dr. Smith conducts a drug store in connection with his professional work. The blacksmith shop and feed stable are well patronized. The pub- lic school has an enrollment of sixty scholars. A Congregational church, ministered to by Rev. F. McConaughy, of Deer Park, and a Sunday school endeavor to meet the religious needs of the place. The Modern Woodmen meet in their own hall and are constantly increasing in membership and influence.

MILAN.

This is an important shipping point about twenty-eight miles northeast from Spokane 011 the Great Northern Railway. There are two saw mills in the place and two others within a few miles and a large quantity of lumber, cord wood and granite is shipped to Spokane and other places. James Conalton is the store- keeper and postmaster.

There is a postoffice eight miles north of Chattaroy at "West Branch" on the Little Spo- kane. J. F. Palmer is postmaster. It is near Blake's lake, a body of water about three miles by one-half mile.

Elk postoffice is about six miles east of West Branch, near the Idaho line. In this region are found fertile meadows, abundance of spring water and fine timber, pine, fir and cedar.

Halfway and Wildrose are from sixteen to twenty miles north of Spokane on the main traveled road to Deer Park. At Wayside there is a store and postoffice, a Methodist Episcopal church, and a large Odd Fellows'hall. The lodge of I. O. O. F. has a strong member- ship and is in good condition financially. A G. A. R. post is located here and the old veter - ans are quite numerous in this region. At

Wildrose there is a Methodist Episcopal church and Sunday school. All the Methodist Epis- copal churchs in this circuit are supplied by Rev. H. A. George.

DART'S MILL OR DARTFORD.

This is an old landmark on the Little Spo- kane river, nine miles north of Spokane. Twenty years ago Mr. H. Dart built a saw mill here, making a splendid water power. A few years ago Mr. Dart erected a grist mill and he continues to turn out good flour. For the con- venience of the region round about a postoffice has been recently established with the eupho- nious name of Dartford, H. W. Dart runs the store and grist mill and is the postmaster, and L. S. Dart manages the saw mill.

TRENT.

Situated nine miles east of Spokane, on the Northern Pacific Railway where it crosses the Spokane river. The land in this section was settled upon nearly twenty years ago, the first settler being a Mr. Edwards. Mr. G. P. Dart. now of this city, resided here for some years and was the owner of the town site until about two years ago. About ten years ago Mr. J. A. Stegner opened a general merchandise store. After his death the business was conducted and continues to be controlled by his widow, now Mrs. J. Narup. There is a good district school house with an enrollinent of about forty scholars. East of Trent a few miles are some of the oldest settlers in the county, Messrs. Esch. Goodner, Myers and others.

Cowley Bridge is an old landmark. It is on the Spokane river near the Idaho line and well known to all the old settlers.

MARSHALL.

William H. Marshall came from California to Washington Territory in 1878. He was a lumberman and was drawn to the locality of the town that bears his name by the possibility of a water power. His homestead was the west

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quarter of section 22, on which is a meadow and a strong spring, whereof flows a stream. Mr. Marshall made a dam and put in an over- shoot wheel or up and down saw, and estab- lished the first sawmill in that locality, which operated on a small scale for several years. In 1886 he sold all his interests to W. E. Pierce and Geo. A. Davis, experienced mill men and originally from the state of Maine. During this year the Spokane & Palouse Railroad was built, leaving the main Northern Pacific line at this place, making it a junction known as Mar- shall Junction. Pierce and Davis platted the town of Marshall in 1887. It is eight miles from Spokane, in many respects a pleasant lo- cality and favorable town site. The new mill owners greatly improved the plant by making a circular mill and also building a flour mill. In 1888 Mr. Davis became sole owner of the mill and town site, Mr. Pierce going to Hauser Junction, where he operated a sawmill for sev- eral years. Mr. Davis built a new sawmill with steam power and capacity to saw sixty thousand feet of lumber a day. Logs were brought on the railroad from Idaho. The town had quite a boom for a while, several families coming from Maine and making their homes there. Several houses were built and a two- story school house, 35x50. But the enterprise did not prove profitable, and the town and all interested suffered accordingly. The grist mill, with water power and land adjacent there- to, came into the possession of Nelson Martin, of Spokane, and he being associated with ex- Mayor Fotheringham, put in machinery and it operated under the name of Spokane and Mar- shall Milling Company for about a year. After being idle for several years the gristmill and water power was purchased in September, I898, by W. H. Wiscombe and W. E. Pierce, both of Spokane. Since that time it has been operated under the name of the Suburb Rolling Mill. Some important improvements have been made under the present management. The capacity of the mill is one hundred barrels a day. In

the fall a considerable amount of wheat is re- ceived from the farmers directly, but the great- er part comes from the Palouse country by rail. Mr. Pierce is the manager of the mill and em- ploys four men. and Mr. Wiscombe is the gen- eral salesman at Spokane, where the flour finds a market. Wiscombe and Pierce sold their in- terest to an eastern company recently.

Among the earliest settlers of Marshall was D. Deacon, who took up a large portion of the meadow that joins the town. The Jar- retts and Rothrocks settled south of town early in the 'eighties. County Commissioner W. R. Parks settled in Marshall eleven years ago. He conducted a hotel for several years; also a general merchandise store and was postmaster. There is but one store in the place at this time. George Montgomery is the proprietor and also the postmaster. But one of the rooms in the school building is used and the enrollment of scholars is thirty. The meadow of two hun- dred and fifty acres, sometimes called Mar- shall lake, has been owned by Mr. A. R. Mc- Kensie since 1891. It was purchased with some adjacent land for eight thousand dollars. Mr. M. has greatly improved the land, making it to produce as much as three hun- dred tons of timothy and red-top hay.

There has been a Sunday school sustained until recently and superintended by Mrs. W. E. Pierce. It has been suspended during the winter, but will probably be resumed in the spring if Mrs. Pierce returns to Marshall.

HILLYARD.

This is Spokane's beautiful suburb nestling under the shadow of little "Baldy." What a few years ago was a broad and bleak prairie is now covered with many acres of railroad shops and tracks, business houses and resi- dences. On October 25. 1892. Leland D. West- fall and Kate C., his wife. filed with the auditor of Spokane county the original plat of the town of Hillyard. Endion Park and Columbia addi- tions were platted on the east. Arlington

W. D. VALENTINE, M. D. SPOKANE

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Heights and Rochester Heights, west, Web- ster's Minnehaha, to the south. The original plat makes the streets sixty feet wide. As an evidence of the sanguine expectations when the town was platted out, we find that a sufficient number of lots were surveyed for a population of at least five thousand. Though such expec- tations have not been realized, nevertheless it has already assumed important proportions, es- pecially from the industrial standpoint. The Great Northern Railroad's machine shops are located here. They are the most important and completely equipped shops between St. Paul and the coast and capable of turning out first- class work. There is every reason to believe that the plant will be extended, which is a guarantee of the future development and pros- perity of the town. Hillyard is located on the neutral strip of a mile which surrounds every first-class city, over which county commission- ers have no jurisdiction. The town is not in- corporated, though some attempts have been made to that effect. There was a time when it had the reputation of being rather lawless, hav- ing as many as six unlicensed saloons. But during the last year, through the laudable ef- forts of some of the best citizens, with the hearty co-operation of the county attorney and sheriff, the saloons were suppressed by order of the court. It is a striking illustration of the opportunity afforded high-minded officials to promote public morality. The town is sup- plied with water by two wells two hundred feet deep, operated respectively by the Hillyard Land Company and the Arlington Heights Land Company. Electric power is used for pumping. The postoffice was established April 16, 1894, with Howard R. Stearns as post- master. The town has an imposing public school house, costing about sixteen thousand dollars, with six rooms and a basement under the whole. There is an enrollment of two hun- dred scholars, with four teachers. The other two school houses in the district are located one a mile south of town, about the south line of

Minnehaha addition, the other about three- fourths of a mile east, which has not been used. The first church was built by the Catholics on the east side of the Great Northern Railroad tracks. The Congregational church has a con- venient building and a parsonage and the Meth- odist Episcopal church has two lots and a par- sonage and a church building is now in course of erection.

Hillyard has three beneficiary orders, the A. O. U. W., the M. W. of A. and a Friend- ship Lodge D. of H. of A. O. U. W. All three, although in their infancy, are prosperous and growing.

The A. O. U. W. was organized in Au- gust, 1899. It has at present a membership. of sixty and meets every Wednesday evening in the Hillyard school house. The officers are as follows: M. W .. Thomas Olaughlin : B. M. W., B. J. McMannus ; recorder, E. Kennedy; financier, E. Bowdoin; overseer, J. Chattglion.

The Modern Woodmen of America organ- ized on February 1, 1900. They meet regular- ly on the second and fourth Friday evenings of each month in the Hillyard school house. Their present membership is thirty. Officers : Venerable consul, B. S. Shiere; advisor. W. E. James; clerk, E. Morrill; banker, W. B. Hampson.

The Friendship Lodge D. of H. is a ladies organization auxiliary to the A. O. U. W. It was organized on February 15, 1900. . Its mem- bers are. now thirty-five. It meets in the A. O. U. W. hall on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. Officers: P. C. H., Mrs. P. J. McMannus; C. of H., Miss J. Munson; L. of H., Miss N. Paridon; recorder, Ruth McMan- nus ; receiver, Mrs. Olaughlin.

Hillyard has two grocery stores, conducted respectively by Smith, Russell & Doust and N. Leigh. S. W. Minthorn carries a good stock of drugs and stationery, and he is also the post- master and has fitted up a room adjoining the store for the postoffice. There is also a black- smith shop and meat market. Hillyard Hotel

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accommodates the largest number of boarders, though there are several other boarding places of a private nature. D. F. Eakin, M. D., is the practicing physician.

A larger number are employed in the shops and round houses than at any time in their history. The following number are working in the various departments : Machine shop, eighty-eight; blacksmith, twenty; boiler, twenty-four; car, seventy; paint, five; tin, three ; engine room, four ; round house, seven- teen; engineers and firemen, sixty; total, two hundred and ninety-one. Counting the laborers around the tracks it reaches over three hundred. About fifty trainmen should be added. New men are employed nearly every day and the demand is greater than the supply. The man- agers are as follows: George Emerson, gen- eral master mechanic; W. B. Hampson, super- intendent of shops; Joseph A. Steel, general foreman ; Robert Clark, machine shop foreman ; Hugh McCauley, boiler shop foreman; Will- iam James, blacksmith shop foreman; Bert Mead, car shop foreman; Bradley Shiere, paint shop foreman; A. E. Carle, locomotive fore- man ; R. P. Bentley, tin shop foreman.

ORCHARD PRAIRIE.

This place is about three miles east of Hill- yard, a little north of little "Baldy." In May. 1879, Mr. Thomas T. Howard Doak and H. Dart, from Blue Earth county. Minnesota, reached Pleasant Prairie and took up land on the west end, now known as Orchard Prairie. The first fruit trees in that region were planted by Mr. Thomas Doak in the spring of 1880, and some of the trees are bear- ing now. Other settlers soon followed, Palmer, Eulick and others, and D. and B. Hopkins. Stonemans, Andersons, in Peone prairie, and in a few years all the land was taken up. During recent years much of the land is broken up into ten and twenty-acre orchards on Orchard prairie, consequently the population has be-

come comparatively numerous. A few miles east is

PLEASANT PRAIRIE.

The earliest white settler on this prairie was Henry Eilenfelt. a German by birth and a mil- ler by trade. He reached the prairie, coming this way from Olympia, June I. 1878. He took up a homestead about half a mile east of where the Congregational church is to-day, and for one year was the only white man on the prairie. His neighbors were Spokane Jim and Chief Peone. In June. 1879. David Mc- Cary came from Idaho and settled near him. In a month or so C. H. Frederick and family came. having journeyed overland from Illinois. They were soon followed by L. Dill. Richart Graham, and Hon. D. Lehman. In 1882 came Mr. W. H. Magee and the following years Samuel Gardner, O. Hanson, G. T. Belden, Marston and others. Col. I. N. Peyton, now one of Spokane's largest capitalists, purchased large tracts of Pleasant Prairie's best land in early days. Some of it has been sold, but he still holds an extensive farm which is cared for by his brother, C. E. At present the prairie is well settled with well-to-do farmers. The Con- gregational and Methodist Episcopal churches have each substantial buildings and the organi- zations with their auxiliaries are in a whole- some condition. and the pulpits are regularly and ably supplied. The school house is cen- trally located and they generally have nine months' school. The school lot and that of the Methodist Episcopal church were donated by Col. I. C. Peyton, who owns some of the best land on the prairie. There has been erected near the school house recently an Odd Fellows' hall.

Pleasant Prairie Lodge, No. 166. I. O. O. F., was instituted December 15. 1899. Offi- cers : C. E. Peyton, past grand : G. H. Collin, noble grand: H. B. Doak, vice-grand; George O. Dart. secretary: C. E. Peyton, treasurer ; G. Claire, inside guard: J. A. Kronquist, out-

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side guard ; L. Mickleson, conductor ; Gus Ger- lach, warden; James Fraizer, right supporter to noble grand; C. H. Conrad, left supporter to noble grand; J. Uligh, right supporter to vice grand : O. Piper, left supporter to vice grand; O. Oleson, right scene supporter ; A. Frederick, left scene supporter.

Highland Tent, No. 64, Knights of the Maccabees, was instituted in November, 1898, with twenty charter members. Officers : George H. Collin. past sir knight commander; C. E. Peyton, commander; G. O. Dart, lieutenant commander; W. E. Terry, record keeper; A. H. Collin, chaplain; Dr. Kalb, physician; T. Southwick, sergeant; Gideon Claire, sentinel; Gus Gerlach, picket.

DEEP CREEK.

This town of about one hundred souls is fourteen miles west of Spokane on the old main traveled road to the Big Bend country. The first persons to take up homestead claims in this locality were Daniel and Alfred Stroup, as early as 1878. Henry Eads was the pioneer mer- chant. John Bauman came from Portland, Oregon, in 1880 and built a gristmill which he operated for nearly a decade. About the time the Central Washington Railroad was built through the place the population increased to about three hundred, with several business houses. Thomas Perkins was the pioneer blacksmith and he and his brother Frank after- wards engaged in general merchandizing. A. M. Merriman settled near the place in 1882 and remained for nearly a decade when he removed to Spokane where he is still in the grocery busi- ness. There was once a Christian church or- ganization in the place with occasional preach- ing. The place has been going through a pro- cess of decay for the last five years, several of the largest buildings having been consumed by fire and not rebuilt. At present M S. Gardner is the general merchant and postmaster. Mr. Pos- ton has also a grocery store. The cheese fac- tory has become the property of the Hazlewood

Dairy, Spokane, and the long distance tele- phone is in charge of B. C. McQuilken.

SPANGLE.

The town of Spangle is located some eight- een or twenty miles south of Spokane and about three miles north of the divide whence the drainage is southward into the Palouse river. It is on the northern boundary of the great Palouse wheat belt. The country around is almost level and fringed with timber on the north. The supply of water at a depth of from twenty to thirty feet is abundant .. William Spangle, from whom the town takes its name, came to the location where the town now stands in the spring of 1872. At that time there were very few white people in the country. In and around and passing to and fro were a good many Indians, representing different tribes, as the Spokanes, Nez Perces, Cœur d' Alenes, Co- lumbia river or Moses tribe, etc. These were peaceful and friendly, rarely causing any dis- turbance. The whites were engaged chiefly in raising and grazing stock, the native bunch grass furnishing rich and abundant pasturage for horses and cattle. It was then thought that the soil, especially that of the higher lands, could never be made profitable for cultivation. It is stated that a party surveying the country with reference to the location of the Northern Pacific Railroad reported the land worthless for farming purposes. In the fall of 1873 Will- iam Spangle erected a log house, 16x27 feet. He cut and hewed the logs in a piece of pine timber some three miles distant, hauled the logs and, assisted by his two small boys, erected the building. Some time afterward this was weatherboarded and a good sized shed room added. It was first used as a farm house and afterward as a tavern or hotel. After this came to be somewhat advanced in years travelers and guests gave it the name of the "Old Castle," and the upper floor being all in one room, they called it the "quarter section." This house is still standing in the town and used as a tene-

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nient house. For several years before the town was platted, or there was any thought of having a town at that place, Mr. Spangle kept a stage station. The original town of Spangle was platted from a homestead quarter-section of land belonging to William Spangle, and hence took its name. Mr. Spangle also had the post- office and in connection with this started a small hardware store and sold on commission such agricultural implements as were called for by the few farmers who were beginning to cul- tivate the adjoining lands. After a few years lie relinquished this to others, who desired to conduct the business on a larger scale and to include dry goods and groceries. The first gen- eral store was conducted by E. M. Downing, who afterward sold out to the Hinchless Bros. About this time James Matchett, J. T. Mc- Farling and J. M. Grant liad stores for general merchandise. Some time afterward William A. Saunders bought out the Matchett stock of goods and conducted a general merchandise store. Other lines of business were gradually introduced into the town as demanded by addi- tional settlements in the country around. D. E. Fisher started a drug store in 1886 and aft- erward sold out to L. M. Sanders. Later on Sanders moved his stock of drugs to Garfield. W. E. Hoxsey, who now conducts the only drug store in Spangle, opened his store in 1891. In the spring of 1885 J. H. Hoxsey, M. D., lo- cated in Spangle and has since been the leading physician in the town and surrounding country. In the year 1882 or 1883, or about that time, C. W. Frick began the hotel business in Span- gle. He erected the building known as the St. Charles Hotel and is still proprietor and land- lord of this hotel. In the year 1887 E. T. Rich- ardson started in the hotel business in Spangle and still owns and conducts the Sherman House. In the year 1886, when the Spokane & Palouse branch of the Northern Pacific Rail- road was being constructed, an addition to the town was made from the land of William Spangle. Otlier additions were made about

the same time and afterward from lands belonging to other parties (see records). The town is beautifully and advantageous- ly located on both sides of the Spokane & Palouse Railroad and in one of the rich- est agricultural sections of eastern Washing- ton. No town in the state has a more healthy location. It is surrounded by an intelligent and enterprising community. At present it contains two large general merchandise stores, one owned and conducted by R. W. Butler, the other by E. W. Whitney & Company : one gro- cery store, by J. T. McFarling ; two hardware stores, one by Lucas Brothers, the other by Heaton & Morse; confectionery and notion store, by T. Y. Richardson; two hotels, the St. Charles, by C. W. Frick, the Sherman House, by E. T. Richardson; several grain ware- houses, one owned and managed by Lucas Brothers, another by D. U. Gildea : one machine and carpenter shop, by George Warbis; two saloons, by Knuth & Weise and Joe Koelsch ; one saddle and harness store, by W. S. Grant ; two respectable-looking church buildings, the Baptist and the Christian; one drug store, W. Emmet Hoxsey, proprietor and pharmacist : one butcher shop, by Fred A. Bull; one livery stable, by S. F. Parker; one barber shop, by M. McCauley; photographi gallery, W. H. Green, photographier: one weekly newspaper, the Spangle Star, owned and edited by E. Drake : two blacksmith shops, by William Hart and G. A. Mentzel. Spangle is fully abreast of the age and up with the development of the county in the way of educational advantages. It has a fine, large, brick school building, sit- uated on a beautiful elevation, convenient to the town. employs experienced and cultured teachers and has the school in session the full school year. At present Prof. J. W. Howe is principal of the school and he has able assistants in Mrs. Howe and Miss Jennie Soules, and as bright and wide-awake a lot of boys and girls for pupils as can be found in any town of its size in the state. The citizens of Spangle are

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hospitable and generous and take an active interest in whatever contributes to the upbuild- ing of their town and the development of the country around. They read the daily papers and keep themselves well informed in all news of interest or importance, whether at home or from abroad. As the country around is de- veloped the town will grow in population and as a business center and will improve in ap- pearance and all advantages of an elevating nature. We are indebted to Dr. J. N. Allen for much information regarding Spangle. He is an intimate friend and pastor of the founder of the town.

WAVERLY.

Through the courtesy of the genial attor- ney, Albert J. Langhorn, formerly the editor of The Waverly Optimist, we are permitted to make use of the excellent "write up" of the his- tory. resources and development of this town. which appeared in the first number of the paper mentioned :

"The immigrant of today gazes with rap- ture upon the fields of waving grain, the fruit- ful orchards and beautiful homes, and the cities and towns rife with commercial activity in the famous Palouse. While the poet of to-day, impressed with the beauty and grandeur of the scene, is wont to chant

'Where the mountains turn to the glowing west And slope to the sunset sea, God planted a garden of loveliness, A garden of destiny.'

"The cheerless winter blasts of 1878-9 were anything but comfortable for the pioneers who had left their homes in the east and cast their lots amid the hills and valleys, plains and for- ests of eastern Washington. At this time a few settlements had been made in the wilder- ness. Here and there the advance guard of civ- ilization took up homesteads or 'squatted' in the most convenient and desirable places. A number of these pioneer settlers located in the vicinity of what is now the subject of this

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An illustrated history of Spokane county, state of Washington, Part 44

Author: Edwards, Jonathan, 1847-1929. cn Publication date: 1900 Publisher: [San Francisco?] W.H. Lever Number of Pages: 888

Author: Edwards, Jonathan, 1847-1929. cn
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: [San Francisco?] W.H. Lever
Number of Pages: 888