	The Portland "Morning Oregonian" of May 4, 1888, reported that a newspaper called the "Enterprise", intended to rival the size of the "Seattle Post-Intelligencer", was incorporated with $25,000 capital by Piper with W.E. Lockard, H.F. Jones, J.C. Mavel and J.F. McDonald, just over a year before the Great Seattle Fire. After the Fire he ran a bakery in a tent in Nome, Alaska, for two years, then returned to Seattle as a farmer and orchardist. Their farm on Pipers Creek was founded c. 1880.