Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-05-13
LOCAL.

0lUuuay i"ps'
Mr. White. purser of the Welcome,
left Seattle for Portland on Monday last,
for q weeks visit.
w. X. Bauman has started a tannery
at Ferndale, where he proposes to tan all
kinds of leather and furs.
The WhatcOm county commissioners
have been busy eaualizing taxes whole
week, aud will probably adjourn about
Tuesday.
Harrison lake, near Sehomc, is
famous locality for trout. Messrs. White
and Poore, of the Welcome, caught 81 on
Thursday last.
Mr.. r. E. Whitaey, OF Padilla bay, has
four three horse teaais at work putting
in crop of 900 acres of oats and barley;
and AZ acres already planted.
The Welcome blew out her cylinder
head, between Muckelteo and Seattle, on
her trip south May 9Th, and has since
that time been detained tor repairs.
Mr.. T. B. Mangan, of Ship Harbor,
has bought all the sheep belonging to Mr..
S. B. Best, on Fidalgo island, numbering
four or five hundred.
The sloop Top sailed hence Thurs
day for Mike Sullivans, on the Samish, for
cargo of oats. She will go next to
Deception Pass mill for load of sheep.
The fine young Percheron stallion
raised by VIM. Munks of this island, has
been sold to Stephen Sweeney, of Or,aS
for 1927. He was shipped by the Dis
patch from this place Sunday.
Miss Sarah l.. Wallace, late assistant
teacher at Alden academy, was married to
J. II. Johnson, of Indiana, at Whatcom
last Tuesday. 1t is pleasure to Us to
give the young people good send of
Public school for Anscortes district
opens OH Monday, May 18th, ut the
Academy building; Emily Hagadorn as
teacher. Miss Hngadorn not only holds
frst.c certificate, but she has made
something of reputation as successful
teacher.
-Fouth of July committees and pro-
CRANES are on the tapis Semlahmoo,
Fcrnoule, Whatcom, Laconner, Skaget
river, Coupville. Port Townsend, Friday
Harbor and the Fldalgo and Guemes
settlements will probably celebrate by
picnic ut least.
-Somebo ly over on the mainland
shore of Padilla hay has invented Il
marsh horse shoe, now in satisfactory use
there, and worthy of notice. 1t is all
iron, and consists simply of large fiat
tened circle fastened to the ordinary
horseshoe by riviled cross bars.
BY the Welcome from Whatcom on
Friday, Mrs. +. f. Gilkey, Miss Dale and
Miss Thomas returned to Edison; Miss
Graham, Miss Hagadorn and Messrs L. y.
Tade and Geo. Hagadorn to Anacortes;
while Messrs. Ebey and Penfield passed
south.
On the Nooksack all the talk is about
roads. 1t is great damage to the coun>
try to have no regularly established
authority for laying out roads where
they ought to go. The best located
routes for roads are habitually spoiled by
angling around sections and quarter
sections, through the mire, or over natur-
al Notwithstanding the county in
accessible from want of roads.
-Samish has scandal CASE Friend
of husband-better friend OF wife. Some
too utter niceness mutually observable
of course commented upon. Husband
absent and otherwise occupied good
deal-nice person. convenient, delicately
considerable, and always accommodating.
Intercepted letter and announcements
reimbursement of the eternal fitness of
things.
From s. Sweeney, whose sloop is just
back from her last regular trip to Victor
ia, we learn that the times over the line
are lively, especially as regards Cinnamon
and rice; a ship load of orientals having
Just arrived direct, from which 500 labor
ers went on to Yale. Victoria is still, as
it always has been, a very good market