Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-15
GENERAL NEWS,


be painted 10y w. II. Taylor tor $500.
The Illinois state senate March 2Sth,
adopted resolution asking the president
10 pardon Sergeant Mason.
The ship VIM. J. Rotch, now on the
way from Hongkong to Portland, re-
csived 100000 for carrying her load of
Cinnamon across the ocean.
1t is reported that on the night of the
9th inst, a destructive cyclone swept
across the southern portion of Kansas and
the north part of Arkansas doing much
damage. In the new town. Of Cbace %
ont of the sc buildings were demolished
Guiteau is making about $50 week by
selling photographs and autographs. He
uses the money to get out his book. Sgt
Mason is in the penitentiary, not making
a cent, while his wife is washing hard to
support her little ones; but then Guiteau
killed a president, while Mason only took
shot at william, and poor shot too.
What is known as the Big Bend coun-
try, situated due east of US, and west of
Spokane and north of Sprague, contains,
says the Spokane Chronicle, about $4,000
acres of rich wheat and grass lands. with
sufficient timber for farm purposes. AT
no time this winter have cattle been with
out outdoor feed. The Indians raise
good corn.
The Helena (Montana) Independent has
high authority for saying that no agrees
has been made between the Northern
Pacific and the Utah & Northern by
which the rights of either party to build
in any direction have been waived. The
Utah s. Northern will extend its line to
Deer Lodge this season, and it will be a
narrow, instead of broad guage, The
road to Helena will not be pushed rapidly
owing to the fact that the Union Pacific
is spending large sums of money upon
the Oregon short line and other enter
prises, and does not wish to increase the
outlay at present by pushing the road to
Helena.
On what is promised us as the first
transcontlnental road, the Jay Gould
Union Pacific & Snake river CUTOFF, fol-
lowing the old pioneers trail, Bates, Steel
& Co., to whom was awarded the contract
for grading the Baker City line of the O.
r. & N. Co.'s road, have engaged fifteen
hundred men who are to commence work
about the first of April. A tunnel of
three hundred and eighty-four feet in
length will be constructed. The contract
requires that the work be completed by
the first of next October. The people of
Powder river valley look for unusually
lively times in the ensuing spring and
summer.
A committee has reported favorably
upon the proposition to reduce the time
Of residence necessary to acquire home
stead under the United States laws from
five years to three; also to reduce the
period allowable for absence from six
months to three months. These are good
propositions. If, now the senate and
house will provide some means to prevent
and punish the purjury which gives
annually tens OF thousands of acres of
the public domain to constituencies
scoundrels who employ professional liars
to make a pretence of pre-empting lands
for their own use, they will do well and
accomplish much needed reform. Pierce
County News.
James Williams, of Astoria, has pur
chased three lots in Tacoma, on the water
front, for fish cannery, to cost about
10000, and to employ from thirty-five
TO forty men. He will also build or buy
. steamboat for use in connection with the
cannery, to look out for his interests in
all parts of the Sound. 1t is his inten-
ton to begin the building about the first
of Juno. He proposes to make his home
in Tacoma, and in addition to furnishing
the Portland market with fresh fish, will
engage largely in canning for shipment
he is now. as heretofore stated in the
Ledger, engaged in supplying Portland