The Bickleton News, Bickleton, WA., January 21, 1900, page 1

 A LIBEL ON HUSUM, WASH.

     There is only one Tom Richardson, but at Husum, Wash., is a man who is in training for his place, and if we are not mistaken will get it before the year is out.  Husum is a house.  It is perched on one side of a precipitous canyon about 500 feet wide.  The canyon is in one of the most out-of-the-way parts of the world, and Husum is in the exact center of it.  A dozen or 20 families eke out an existence in the canyon within as many miles of Husum.  Yet the man who lives in the house that is called Husum has made it the best advertised city in three states.  You can't pick up a Portland, Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane or Boise paper which hasn't one or more circumstantial accounts of the mad whirl that is called life in Husum.  There are more “slug-heads” over Husum date lines than over any other in the world except London, New York and Washington.  We take off our hat to the population of Husum, and we are glad to note that his efforts to boost his town are meeting with the reward they deserve.  A woodshed is to be built back of the house at Husum this spring, just almost doubling the size of the city at one fell swoop.  Next year an acre of ground will be cleared, and it is rumored that the year after foreign capital will be enlisted in a scheme to grow a crop of turnips on the land.  -- Yakima Republic.