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Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-03-25

With this, our first number, we
present to the people of Whatcom,
and adjoining counties, tho NORTH
VEST ENTERPRISE, hoping it will
meet the appreciation and kindly
support Of all those that arc direct
ly or indirectly interested in the
culture development of the new
northwest. Tho ENTERPRISE will
be run upon independent prici-
pals, will advocate all onte r.
priscs that may lead to the moro
rapid and permanent settlement Of
the Puget Sound country it will
work tor the interests of Whatcom
and San Juan in particular, Island
and Snohomish counties in general,
and the Which, northwest over all
il will work to promote our equca-
.ional facilities, and TO perfect the
postal, custom house and transpor>
tation service of our district.
We shall publish general items
of news from all parts of the coun>
try, as well as to try and give a
good local report from throughout
the county, and shall endoavor,
with tho aid Of our patrons, to make
it leading weekly newspaper
of the northwest.
Thinking this introduction wills
meet the approval of all, and point
out the stand which we take, we
will tegin our career, hoping our
subscribers and advertisers may
grow rich and prosperous out of
tho enterprise.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-03-25

There seems to be every proba-
bility that before many months
telegraphic communications will be
established between New York city
and Vera Cruz, Panama, Venezuela,
Ppru, Chill and other South Ameri ;
can states, by direct wires, and
that news and business advices will
be as regularly and fully received
from the countries on the west coast
beyond the equator as they now
are from Europe. We learn that
the Central and South American
Telegraph Company is pushing the
construction Of its land lines, and
laying its submarine cables as
rapidly as the wires can be sup
piled. when this is accomplished
and through lines arg established,
it will be of vast Importance to
the commerce of the United States.
AS 1t is now We are comparative ly
ignorant of what is taking place
south of the equator.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-03-25
Buckeye Farm Machinery


and Schutlcr Wagons which have no equal.
carry the largest stock of plows and harrows
also the improved Tulc Sulkey Plow, where
the horses walk on the main land.
have the most complete stock OF general
hardware, mechanics tools, ships chandlery,
shoe findings, rifiss. guns. pistols, fishing
tackles and ammunition, ever brought to the
Territory.
rW-Special attention, given to country cor
rcspondenco and orders promptly attended to-
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-03-25
Done by contracts or otherwise.

Having procured a complete and frs t.
class PILE DRIVING outfit including
an 1900 pound hammer, winch, scow,
ETC., which we have located at Anacortes,
on Ship Harbor, for the convenience OF
the lower Sound maitland and archnpel
ago, the undersigned solicit orders, con-
tracts and COMMUNICATIONS generally,
touching work of all classes, to facilitate
the the transfer of freight, communica-
tions over sloughs. rivers, tide flats, etc
Being familiar, by long experience with
this kind of work, we can do better Tor
shippers and settlements, than them
selves.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-03-25
MAPS AND SURVEYS MADE. Cow
EMINENT LINES TRACED
BY COMPASS.
At the Usual Rates.
At the Usual Rates.

Persons applying to purchase TIMBER
LANDS in Wbatcom, San Juan, Snoho :
mlsh, or any other county IN the Olympia
Land District, under the Act of June 3,
1878, need not 60 to Olympia to make
proof and pay for their land. but con
make such proof before II. j. WHITE,
Judge of the Probate Court of What
com County, t., a few miles distant
only, and thereby save time and money.
LOANS negotiated, and Taxes paid
tor non residents, upon request. Ex-
aminations Of coal and iron groupings a
speciality.
AMOS BOWMAN & CO.,
ANACoRTEs, Wash. Ter.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-03-25

uAVING number of desirable prop
>~ critics to offer, we invite communi-
cation, in person or by letter, in regard
to them, or other locations, for new
corners. We have tracingss of the gov
ernment surveys, covering evory town
ship in Whatom and San Juan counties,
besides other invaluable Land Office
records, serviceable to settlers looking
for unoccupied lands.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-03-25

F. w. WUSTHOFf,
Front Street, (P. o. Box 49,
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Seattle, WASH. TER,
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A. BOW MAN Il CO,
Civil and Mining Engineers,
Anacortes, w. Il.

J. c. SULLIVAN, Engineer,
Pile Driver & Bridge Builder.
E. HAMMOND. Ship Builder.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27
The Granary Of the World.

H. Edmonds. the grain expert, has
published in a recent number of the Bal
timore Journal of Commerce an elabor-
ate statistical review of the cultivating
and marketing of American cereals from
the earliest times. He brings out strik-
ingly the fact that the production and
export of wheat on a grand scale is COM
paratively new business. As late as 1889
considerable quantity was imported
from Europe, and in five fiscal years
ending June 80, 1910, the exports were
only 1884 bushels. This is an av-
erage of SOS, 568 bushels year. Forty
years later the aggregate has risen to
1853, 252.S95 bushels. The exports of
flour, however, amounted to 4, 451 1884
barrels for the FIVE fiscal years ending in
1925. This was 1851 per cent. of the
total of wheat and flour exported. The
percentage of -four pretty steadily de-
creased from that time till 1880, when it
was only 1872 of the whole. In the year
ending with last June. however, it rose
to 21.6 per cent. Its the opinion of Mr..
Edmonds that the proportion of -four,
will steadily increase in the future,
owing to the popularity of the American
article, and the necessity for finding a
foreign market for the growing output
of the mills. The highest average value
for any five years from 1921 to 1875 was
for the five years ending in 1870, when
the export value of wheat averaged 81. AZ
bushel, and of flour S3.03 barrel; the
lowest figures being SO cents bushel
for wheat. in 1880. and S4-9I barrel
for flour. III 1915. The total production
of wheat in bushels for 1871 and 1880,
with the quantity in each section of the
country, is given in the following table:
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27
WOmen's Clothes.

In spite of the labors of the esthetes,
and in spite of the higher education of
women, the women still have wedge
waists, crinolettes. high heels and various
other things in opposition to the canons
of beauty. Woman still impedes her
every motion with her clothes, and still
makes an instrument of torture of her
own hair. Man wears comfortable and
sensible garments. and man tastes
the unspeakable rapture of barring his
bald pate to every breeze that blows.
Their is but one conclusion to arrive at
from the feminine love of uncomfortable
clothes. 1t is that women have duller
sensibilities than men, and women have
duller brains than men. Men would die
under the torment of women's clothes.
If man wants to prove his superiority
to woman he has only to point silently
to his clothes. Old magazines and
periodicals show in their illustrations the
mems costumes invariably wise, good
and graceful, while the women's are
painfully, laughably. disgracefully fool
ish and ugly. While comparing the
clothes of men and women, we are sur
prised that the superiority of man should
be questioned. If men are not superior
to women, how came they to get the
upper hand in the first place? However,
this has nothing to do with the clothes
question.
Women have not worn decent-looking
clothes since the fall of Rome save once,
during the French Revolution, when
they revived Roman dresses. In history
\ z
men; they were mostly dressed in clothes
that, like mems raiment, left the frame
free to perform its functions. The first
sign of woman's progress toward the
ballot will be improved clothes. At
present women are too conventional, too
anxious to do as others do, to take bold
step forward,-Mary Dean. tn Indian
apolis Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27
Snow Bound i'm Switzerland. :

Owing 10 the weather September
22), the state of Central Europe is in a
more melancholy condition than it has
been for many years. The whole of
Northern Italy is more or less under
water, the Simplon and Splugen are
blocked by the snow that has fallen,
and the latter lies foot deep in all the
Swiss cantons, excepting only those
of Vaud and Geneva. Travellers intend
ing to go over the former pass from
Switzerland to Italy have. on arriving
at Visp and Brigue, been told that there
is no longer a1y possibility of their
crossing it this year, and have been
forced to discharge their traveling-car.
riages, and take the railway to Culoz,
and thence accomplish the Journey by
way of the Mount Gems. One English
gentleman and his wife, who had in
tended crossing the Simplon last week.
were resolved to 90 over it if possible,
and by means of heavy payment in
duced their Uetturin0 to attempt the pas
sage from the Swiss side. They got as
far as the fourth refuge" when it was
found absolutely impossible to proceed
any further, or, what was still worse. to
return to the starting-point. In these
circumstances they were forced to re-
main in their carriage for three days.
and to subsist on what food and wine
they had with them; and on the fourth
day, when at their last resource, to de-
scend on foot, at considerable risk, to
Brigue.
Meanwhile, the amount of misery and
loss that has been entailed by the month
of rain land that the harvest monthly is
incalculable. The cattle are living dead
on the hills, the wine crop Immediately
north and south of the Alps will have
no actual existence this year, and what
would have been the winters hay is in
jured beneath the snow. Wolves have
appeared on the outskirts of several
Swiss towns, and bears (small and not
formidable) are reported in the Enga-
dine. In the Tyrol things are as bad.
if not worse. At Innspruck and in the
Pusterthal people who have been caught
there are prevented from leaving.
The trains have almost entirely ceased
to run, and several bridges have been
carried away by the floods. At Bru-
neck even worse than this has occurred,
as houses have had their foundations
washed away, and the little town of
Trent is entirely under water. At the
last moment came the joyful tidings
that the eighty snow-bound and impris-
oned visitors to Zermatt have seen rift
of blue sky in the clouds above them,
and thst, before long, they hope to be
able to struggle across the st. Nicholas
Pass to the Valais and freedo7s.--Lon-
don World.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27
Egg.Candling.

An odd trade is that of the egg-can-
dler. One having been advertised for a
few days ago, Tribune reporter to
whom the word GAMBLER" was full
of mystery, took the liberty of calling
upon the advertiser for an explanation.
Thither the reporter went, and in the
shadow of huge bank of egg-cases on
the sidewalk discovered a passage-way
labeled "Butter" which led into the
basement of the building designated.
Entering, the reporter found himself in
a small apartment, which may be truth
fully said to be the fullest apartment he
ever entered. The space occupied by
two yonng men, and innumerable egg
cases, was filled with stencil so thick
that the reporter felt like cutting off a
chunk of it and bearing it away as a
trophy. But as nothing save 'hen-
fruit" was visible, he was constrained
instead to inquire if poultry-cholera
was prevalent just at present. One of
the young men tumbled off the pile of
cases on which he was reclining, and
after rolling over the floor with laughter
two or three times, arose and said,
quietly: "NO; l guess the hens are
all WELL" After few words of ex-
PLANTATION as TO the nature OF the call,
the young man kindly consented to
give an exhibition OF egg-candling, and
led the way. Going up to dirty look
ing patch on the wall, he drew aside an
old gray army blanket, disclosing a
lighted interior beyond. He real
lid the effect, for he stopped
loag enough on the threshold to
say: "Oh! come in. This amt no trap;
it's the candling-room." The apart
msnt was found to be about seven by
three feet, and upon bench at one
end were three open ege-cases. A
small metallic oil-lamp was attached by
q wooden fixture to the farther end of
the middle box. This furnished the
only light in the room. The GAMBLER
walked up to the bench with watch
me-juggle-them air, and. turning back
his shirt-sleeves. plunged both hands
into the middle box. and suddenly
brought forth four 'chicken-buds.
With the thumb and fore-fnger of each
hand the uppermost eggs were caught
up and held for an instant only in front
of the flame. There was a convulsive
movement of the hands, and, with all
the dexterity of slight-of-hand per-
former, the uppermost eggs had given
place to the other two, and were being
more carefully examined before the
light. "There." said the GAMBLER, de-
sig mating an egg with a clear, trauspa-
rent shell, and a wildly rosy light
showing through it, "that is strictly
fresh egg. / put that in the right-hand
box, which is intended for the New
York market. This one is not quite so
fresh, but it will do. This, you see, is
spotted; that's where the yelk has fast
ened to the shell because the egg laid
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27
FARM AND PRESIDE.

Milk and warm water applied witt
, flannel cloth is very good for cleaning
white vanished paint, which SHOULD
never be cleaned with soap, as it turn
ii yellow,
Somebody says old hens should b,
fattened and killed off in the fall. A her
of two years has seen her best DAYS, bu
a rooster is none the worse for being q,
old as three years.
For a nice breakfast dish use cold
rice. mixed with flour and egg. For .
small quantity use one egg and one ia
blespoonful of flour, and fry in very ho
lard until browned.-St. Louis Globe.
Mr.. Burnham, scientific Connec
ticut farmer, recently sold one of hi,
young COWS for $4,000. This animal
in 372 days, has given in milk ten time!
her own weight-10, 900 pounds-anG
1000 pounds of butter.
Large yields of potatoes depend or
the methods of cultivation. The rocky
soil of New Hampshire produces foul
times as much per acre as that of Mis-.
souri,. The average for New Hamp.
shire is $50 bushels per acre. while Mis-
souri, averages only thirty-eight.-De.
troit Post.
"A cow-tail holder is the latest nov.
city. 1t was shown in New England
fair. at weighs but few ounces, is
some six or eight inches long, has clasp
at each end, one for clasping the tail.
the other the leg at the hook, but without
hurting the animal in the least. 1t can
be put on or taken off in an instant, and
we should Judge might last a lifetime
if used with care" Hcosts fifty cents
Chicago Tribune.
Mixed Pickles: One peck of green
tomatoes, half peck of onions, one pint
grated horseradish, half a pound white
mustard seed, half pound of unground
black pepper, one ounce sack of CHINA
mon, cloves and tumeric, and two OF
three heads of cauliflower; tie the pep
per, cinnamon and cloves in a thin mus
lin bag, place all the ingredients in a
granite ware kettle, cover with vinegar
and boil until tender; can while hot in
glass fruit jars.-N Y Tribune.
Baked or roasted onions should be
washed, but not peeled. First boil them
for an hour in water which is well sailed.
When they are tender drain off the
water, let them stand for a few minutes
and drain, then remove the skins, put
them in dripping pan, put a
little lump of butter and some pepper
and salt on each one; let them remain in
the oven until they are nicely Drowned.
Serve while very hot.-M Y. Post.
Lands are not drained simply to add
to the quantity and quality of the crops,
or to place your lands in condition to be
TILED by the least possible expenditure OF
time and means. These would indeed
be commendable objects. and might well
engage your earnest and constant atten-
ton. But you do more than this; every
farm well drained has gained partial If
not entire immunity from certain dis
eases, and every farmer who builds him
a home, where he may eat and drink and
repose .'under his own vine and tree"
on well drained land, takes thereby an
extended lease of life, and adds security
to the happiness and health of wife and
children. Journal.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27
A Curious Disease.

One of the most curious and battling
of nervous diseases is dphasia, which
consists in the loss of power in the SUBJ
ject of it to recall certain words, and
which in serious cases destroys all power
of expression.
An eminent French Judge who suffered
from it would say to his wife, ''Give ME
my-dear me! my-you know" and he
would point to his head.
"Your hat?''
30, yes, my hat"
Sometimes, again, he would ring the
bell before going out, and say to his SER
want: ''Give me my umbrel. :"
Your umbrella?'
"Yes, my umbrella"
At this time he exhibited no other
symptom of diminished intelligence, but
was in the habit of discussing the most
intricate points of law. Another invalid
would substitute the word he desired to
use with periphrase, as for instance,
when he wanted to mention his ''aunt,"
he would say, my nearest relative by
the mothers side.''
While in the simpler forms of the dis
ease, only a few words are lost by the
sufferer. in more complicated cases, his
vocabulary is limited to perhaps not more
than half-a-dozen words. In one instance
the total vocabulary of an aphasic pa
tent consisted of five words-"yes,"
mo-" three" "always," and .'helo."
He answered all inquiries with
one of these. and though when
questioned concerning number he
would invariably say three; he would
give the accurate number by exhibiting
his fingers.
The greatest sufferers are as unable to
express themselves by writing las py
speech. They take up the pen eagerly
in their hands and either scrawl few
unintelligible hieroglyphics, or write
some word wholly different from the one
they intend.
No positive cure for this strange aber-
ration is known, though the patients
sometimes recover, and the most curious
feature of it is, no general weakening of
the intellect accompanies it.-Touth's
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27
A Novel Wolf Trap.

Siberian wolves are caught in various
ways, sometimes by poisoned bait, and
again by traps. One of the commonest
kinds of traps now in use is large cir
cular pen, surrounded by a high wooden
fence. Outside of this fence is another
similar one, perhaps two or three feet
distant from the first, and running en-
tirely around it. In the center of the
pen is placed live deer or pig. In the
outer fence is small opening, the door
of which, swing inward, is left conven-
iently and seductively open. The wolf
scents the live bait in the center of the
pen, and after vainly endeavoring to leap
over the protecting barrier and get at it,
finds the door standing open, and at
once enters in. The passage between
the inner and outer fence is wide enough
to allow him to move ahead comfortably,
but is too narrow to admit of his turning
about.
Once in, he must keep going straight
ahead, and very naturally thinking that
in this direction lies his prey, he presses
on. licking his chops in anticipation of a
rich feast. Having completed the circle
-ofhis pen, he arrives at his starting point
and finds his further progress completely
barred by the door which still stands
open as when he entered. Pushing
against this, he shuts it close in order to
get by, and has effectually made himself
prisoner. Then the crafty huntsman,
who has all the time been con-
cealed within, shoots or spears the
animal from the top of the
fence, draws his carcass within, so as to
save it, and opens the outer door again
so as to welcome the next visitor.
When wolves are plenty, two men or
more in one of these pens have very
busy time for a number of days, and are
scarcely able to slaughter or skin the
animals as fast as they would like to rush
in unconsciously to their death. 1t not
subsequently happens that the men are
kept in these pens for a number of days
at a time, being unable to get out on &c
count of the wolves which surround
them, and would tear them to pieces the
moment they made their appearance. The
only thing for the men to do under such
circumstances is to consider themselves
in state of siege and to keep on trap
ping and Strengthening until the animals,
starved out and disappointed, abandon
their position and skurry off to another
part of the country.-Boston CONNER
ciat Bulletin.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27
1t was at the sea-shore and gentle.

1t was at the sea-shore and gentle.
man was chatting on his cottage porch
with two or three guests. His pretty
daughter comes up from the beach, first
out of the surf. go, papar' she ex-
claimed, 'only think, I was nearly
drownded." Papa, turning pathetically
to his friends: ''By the powers, gentle
men, do you hear that? have spent
nsre than $1,000 on that girls educa-
ton, and to-day she was nearly drown
ded. n-ProQreSs.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27

DIR. Virgins, the other weather
prophet of Canada, predicts that a ire
mendous storm viii sweep this planet in
March. 1888, beginning in the northern
Pacific seas, and crossing the meridian
of Ottawa at noon of the 18th. India,
the south of Europe, England, and es-
pecially the North American continent,
will be the theater of the rayages. The
low lands of the Atlantic viii be sub
merged, and on the ocean, no vessel less
than an ocean steamer viii be able to live
in the tempest. The recent gale that
visited this continent was predicted by
DIR. Virgins four months before it came
TO pass.-Detroa Post.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27

The daughter of one of Denver 5
best citizens-it always is the daughter
of a '.best citizen in such a case, and
the girl is always young, handsome and
accomplished-was caught by her fatEcr
at the dead hour of night at the ground
end of rope. Her lover was waiting
for her behind convenient tree, but so
soon as he saw the old man he fled, and
the daughter was returned to her room
and locked in. The next day it appeared
that the romantic lover was an ex-con-
vict discharged only few days before
from the Canon City Penitentiary.-
Denver Tribune,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27

AT Muddy Creek, Texas. the other
morning. while Mr. Boutwell, daughter,
aged six years, was driving a COW along
a road through some thickly wooded
land she was attacked by a cougar,
killed and partly devoured. Some neigh
bors who heard her shrek when the
cougar sprang upon her, pursued and
shot him.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27

The Prince of Wales is said to be
So, 000, 900 in debt He must have been
trying to run newspaper in some re-
mote corner of his mammals empire
n Z. Graphic,
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27

"A large aerolite fell near Pinos Altos,
New Mexico, recently, crushing several
trees. A Mexican who saw it reported
to his local paper that part of the moon
had fallen.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27

We ought not to look back unless
it is to derive useful lessons from past
errors and for the the purpose of profit
ing by dear bought experience. George
Washington.
The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1882-10-27

Many in this world run after felicity
like an absent-minded man running
after his hat. while all the time it is on
his head or in his hand.-Sydney Snnt1L