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

.oy large majority.
All the Mississippi steamers are crowds
ed with refugees from the floods.
Gov. Newell has written a so page
phamplet on Washington Territory, which
nc Will have printed soon.
Northern Idaho is holding meeting
agitating for union with Washington,
and immediate admission as state.
4 number of new settlers haze recent
ly taken up claims on Wildly Island, OPP
posite Muckiltio.
WA. G. Hughes, of Seattle, takes the
place of ". l.. Bryant as postal agent on
the Tacoma Towusnd route.
The O. r. & N. Co. have located line
from Baker City southeasterly to Snake
river, distance of fifty miles.
At Kalama, March 21st, Gussie Groves,
stepson OF w. f. Magoon, was caught
ana terrible mangled by q cougar. The
little fellow only lived at short time.
Last week private Leomaitinc, Co. A,
First Cavalry, took an overdose of NOR
phlne and died. Deceased was awaiting
sentence for desertion, at Walla Walla.
There are now two cases of small poX
on the Patti about eleven miles from Day.
ton. The patients are Mrs. Thomas and
son. There are at tho same place five
other persons who have been exposed and
will probably have the disease.
Black Jacks work train, bound west,
on the n. p. r. r., went through bridge
near Sweetbriar, and - passenger train
behind it nearly followed it; 81 persons
killed and wounded, were taken to
Mandaw on the znow plow.
A shipment of carp to stock the DOGGY
and stagnant ponds around Puget Scum
will shortly be made by Prof. Baird to
Jas. G. Swain, of Pt. Townsend, and by
him they are to be distributed. To thrive
the ponds must be free from other fish
catching fish.
John Todd, of Victoria, rs years ago,
when a boy of is, entered the employ of
the Hudson Bay Company, and in their
service came across the continent in 1919.
He was Hudson Bay man for 20 years.
lie is in feeble health, and may rot sur
give the present year.
Lodges of United Workingmen and
Chosen Friends are organizing in many
places. The latter Organization is similar
to the A. o. U. W., the difference being
mainly in the fact that the Chosen Friends
admits ladies as well as gentlemen.
~ Pendleton introduced an amendment to
the constitution of the United States,
March 22nd, providing that postmasters,
.marshalls, district attorneys, clerks of
court, ETC., shall be elected by the people
under the authority of the several states.
A dispatch received at Washington on
Wednesday March 22nd, from St. Peters,
burg, states that five of Danenhowers men
under Lieut.. Harbor at Nischinuainskisi,
are ready to leave as another searching
party for Capt. belong. Sec'y Hunt
replied that they should co.
The Puget Sound West Side Railroad
Company, is the title of new incorpora>
tion filed at Olympia; headquarters at
Port Townsend. Incorporaters are
Messrs. Bartlett, Kuhn, Attr;dge, Hill,
Montgomery, Swain, Eisenbers and Kirk
patrick; nominal capital $4,000, 900; object
TO build road from Townsend south,
along the peninsulas of the west side to
connection with the Oregon system Of
communication. 1t is not presumed by
any one familiar with the section describ>
ed, that this organization of Townsend's
citizens means construction in the present
tense, yet the road outlined must inevitv
able be built, some day.
Mr.. p. NJ. d. Collins, formerly Rus
sian telegraph contractor at Siberia, and
who is familiar with the part of the
country where the Jennettes survivors
now are, on being Intercepted on the
subject, said he is quite confident that