Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-01

with other dogs by day or night
are in the habit of seeking that relaxation
so necessary to break up the monotony of
a dogs life, which is found in the exciting
sport of running sheep. Dog owners
who never tie up the unframed carnivora
should not take umbrage at finding tue
latter missing. Ii is poor sport for the
sheep.
About 5000 has heed subscribed to-
ward clearing the Nooksack river. The
river at the present time is navigable as
tar up as Ferndalc, some Is miles, with q
comparatively good channel all the way.
The jam in the river, that has created so
much talk and commotion generally,
occurs a short distance above Lynden, at
George Rehbergers, and is being over
come by cutting a canal, across bend
in the river, distance of about half a
mile; the contract having been let for
$3.50. When this is completed vessels
can run up 80 miles and tap one of the
finest sections in the county. All is being
done that money and hard labor can &C
complish, aud it will not be very long
before they will be rewarded by having
regular steamboat communication.
The sheep on the islands of the arch
apelago in Whatcom and San Juan coun~
ties, numbering $4,000, our own rough
estimate, are generally in very excellent
condition for this, to them, the most try
ing season of the yrar. Half Of the
focks now have lambs-making the hills
musical with their calls and the parental
in tenor treble and bass. in
most cases these sheep are lett to take
care of themselves the year round, until
time. in our mild cengenial
climate, the open grounds intervening
with scattering timber and denser forest,
the rocky hills, headlands and peninsuas
and smaller islands OF our inland sea,
afford such good pasturage and brousing
that even in ordina snow falls sheep
can be comfortably trusted to their own
devices, if not over crowded. The early
lambs some seasons require attention, in
default whereof an undue proportion may
be lost. Eagles watch their movements
the Landing season and when
not picked off occasionally harass the
fiocks, frequently decmate, and some
times destroy, with other animals, the
average increase. On the islands there
are no wild animals that can do the sheep
any harm.
Langley, age about 35 years
of consumption, at Hutchinson, MIMI,
February 10, 1882.
Mr.. Langley formerly resided at Lang
ley Bay, sometimes called Telegraph Bay,
near the southwestern end of Fidalgo
Island. He came to this country with
Orlando Graham from Glencoe, Minnesota,
in the spring of 1878 and pre- empted the
place named after him.. and lived on it
two years when he returned to Minnesota.
He became wildly acquainted in this coun-
try during his residence, and was we'll
liked by all who knew him. Becoming
interested in stage line at Hutchinson,
laterly he decided his place on Fidalgo to
his sister, who died in the same state be-
fore him, like all the rest of the family
but the mother, also of consumption.
Had this family followed in John Lang>
ley's footsteps to Fidalgo Island, judging
by the experience of others previously
afflicted by the same disease, there is
every reason to believe they would now
be all of them living, like so many of
their old neighbors hereabouts, thrifty
and unbroken circle. The Langley place
reverts to the mother and is for sale. It
has very good site for wharf and
steamboat landing for the accommodation
Of the settlers at the southwest end of the
island, facing Fuca Strait.
Monsieur J'Affret, farmer ard fish
srman of Waldron Island, came to his
death at East Sound, Orcas Island, on the
night of the Goth ult., in the following
manner. J'Alret considered himself and
family slandered by Brown, a blacksmith
at the latter place, and went to Browns
house in an intoxicated condition about
one o'clock at night. Being admitted, he