Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-10-28
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

NlOnteSanO is 10 nave ueWsp per.
They have bear club in Spokane.
The police of Seattle will be uniformed
Wheat is worth SO cents in Walla Walla.
MIR. Stacy will start bank at Yakima
City.
There are about 100000 feet of logs
now in the Snoquamie river.
There are 81 pupils in the University at
Colfax.
The Page farm, near Walla Walla, con-
taining 4S0 acres, sold for S20,500.
1t costs 500 to smoke opium in Walla
Walla. Still many persons indulge i'll ii.
Hops are still going up. Sixty cents
were offered in Puyallup last week.
Parties on the steamer Messenger las,
seed and captured deer the other day.
Last month 100000 acres of land were
sold in the Olympia district to settlers.
The yield vi wheat in Dakota on the
line oi the railroad is 100000 bushels.
Footpa'ls arc annoying bcla,cd citizens
IN Victoria, and burglars are operating
Chchalis county is settling up fast. In
the last six months it has doubled its pop
puIution.
Opium joints are in FULL blast in Seat
tic, which are patronized 10y white per
sons of both sexes.
An excellent limestone quarry has been
discovered near Goldendale, Oh the Co.
lumbia river.
The statement is made that 500 bales OF
Washington Territory hops were recently
sold in England for $l.67 per pound.
NJ. E. Hartsuck and wife have been
transferred from the Chehalis reservation
to Puyallup, employees under agent Eells.
VIM. Ii. White, of Seattle announces
himself rs an independent candidate for
Prosecuting Attorney OF this district.
Fairweather is the name OF new town
on the headwaters of four creeks in Spo-
kane county. 1t is lively little burg.
Beef cattle are very scarce east OF the
mountains. Steers that II year ago brought
$50, now sell readily at $40 and $45.
On the western end of tho Northern
Pacific there are $4,000 men at work,
grading, track-laying, etc. Eighteen
miles of track were laid in SO hours.
Palouse wants steam fire engine, and
$l045 has been raised by subscription, and
it is expected the city will appropriate
$500.
George Myers, proprietor OF the Seattle
canncry, having made light catch this
season, tried to buy some fish at Tacoma,
but was unsuccessful.
A woodchopper named james Parrish,
on the Tualatin river, in Spokane county,
was dangerously stabbed and beaten by
iour of his comp, Mons on the 18th inst
The bark IIcspcr was launched frum
Port Bakely by the Hall Bros. last week.
This is their 3Sth vessel. She is said TO
be beauty. Capt. Rider will command
Miss Cora Wilson, Of Pomcroy. Garfield
county, is defending her right to claim
of 100 acres oil land, before the United
States land Office, upon which she hnd
built $500 house and made other i'm
provcmcnts, when it was jumped by w.
+. Potter while she was absent.
The average cutting capacity of the
Blakely mill is 10000 feet per day. They
employ $50 men all the year round. Ii
is reported that 40 vessels have been
loaded at these mills for foreign and coast
ports from Jan. to Oct. of this year,
and the amount of lumber manufactured
during the year was 30,00O,0O0 feet.
Tho smallest woman in the Territory b
said to live at Garfield. She is nearly 90
years old and Is 32 inches high, and she
weighs 35 pounds. Her name Is Amanda
WEIGH, and she was born in Oregon. The
strangest of all is that Sue has yet her
first or baby teeth.
One of the pioneer settlers of Pierce
county is Thomas Conovan, who came TO
this territory in 1859, before the United
States surveyors had reached the coast.
ind squatted on the prairie adjoining
" hat is now New Tacoma, but which was
then dense forest. Tacoma was then
occupied by three persons-J0b Carr and
Howard and Anthony, his sons. Subsc-
quently Mr. Conovan went into the woods
and took up u claim, near New Tacoma.
FINE STORE. While at Seattle O few