Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-06-10
General News

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ice 800 feet in length.
The wife and daughter Of Lieutenant
belong reside with General Glasgow at
Burlington, Iowa.
Since March 1st to date Chicago pack
ers have slaughtered 500, 100 hogs, against
100000 for the corresponding period last
year-Chicago Journal.
The new Puget Sound Iron Co. has
leyiedl it's first assessment. A force 81
workmen arrived on the Elder recently
and commenced operations at Irondale.
Chas E. Spenser, who was recently in
dcted at New Tacoma for the killing OF
Frank Dewitt, will..no; be tried till next
term of court.
the Northern pacifc'ss wharf frontage
at Tacoma, on Puget Sound, is now $3.50
feet; enough TO accommodate all the ships
and steamers chartered or regularly run
ming to that growing seaport.
Itiis thought that by Sept. is. the. Cam
ada Pacific Railroad will be completed
from Lake Superior to the Rocky mount
aims, making with its branches, 1900 miles
of track.
The Northern Pacific road is no1 fin
ishcd to the mouth of the Big Horn river,
near the scene of the Custer massacre,
about 200 miles west of the Missouri, and
7S2 miles fr.m Duluth, on Lake Superior.
The Chinamen'employed by the Oregon
Construction Co., on the grade above
Pendleton, are on strike. They..have
been receiving $26 per month, and they
demand $50. Four hundred is the num-
Der employed, and the entire lot have
struck. The company. say the.wages will
not lie raised.
Jack, noted chief of the Utes, was
killed at Fort Washable recently while at
tempting to evade ARREST. He had bor-
'rOwed q gun at ranch and shot SER
geant dead. Capt. Norton trained a
mountain howitzer on the cabin where
Jack was concealed.and blew it tospieces
with shells.
The railroad company's freight house ct
Sprague will be changed next week to a
warehouse exclusively, as the new passen>
ger andsfreight depot will be completed
in about two weeks. The freight bust
ness alone at this station during the month
of April amounted to $40, GOO; the pass
seDger receipts amounting to $4,000 or
more.
Northern Texas was recently visited by
storm centerine near Denison and Sher-
man. Hail stones as large as goose eggs
are said to have fallen. DR.. May, of
Whitssboro, was killed, and many persons
were injured. Stock was badly lacerated
and the crops in the stricken belt were
ruined.
Tuesday of last week, while the atten-
dants Of the Halsteai House were absent
at the wharf in the hack, the safe stand-
ing behind the counter in the Office was
opened and the sum Of 1926 distracted
thereirnm. The money belonged to Mr.
Flett, and bad been given to Mr.. Halstcad
for safe keeping. Several suspicious
characters have been hanging around
town for some days, and it Is quite likely
that one or more of this gang we're con-
cerned IN the robbery.-Ledger.
At Portland, May %, Capt. Thompson,
Of the ship Boutwell, Castle, was fined one
thousand dollars for violating section
4,2B6 of the revised statutes in having
omitted to give the collector at Astoria a
correct list of bis passengers, and eight
thousand dollars for violation Of section
4,258 IN carrying more passenges than
allowed by American measurement, $50
for each passenger. A stay of execution
was granted for sixty days, to permit de-
feudant to apply to the President TOR
pardon.
There are now 5000 at the front on the
Pen d'Qreille division of the Northern
Pacific road under j. L. Hallett. Six
luudred were sent up last week and 600
more will be sent up during the present
week to reinforce him. Last Friday
Hallett moved his headquarters from
Sandy Point to Cabinet Landing, on lake