Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-09-09
TERRITORIAL NEWS.


a railroad across the Cascade mountains.
Whitman county has elected dclega-
ton favorable 70 Dr.. Minor.
The people of Columbia county talk OF
building $1,000 conrt house.
A correspondent predicts that the n,
=. II. will be nearly through to Missoula,
NJ. T., before the snow flies.
The steam sawmll of Mr.. Pringle, near
Chehalis, was destroyed by fire on the
2Sth ult. Loss, $4,000.
Forty men are employed on the coal
bunkers at Tacoma. Ii lumber could be
had, they would employ $50.
There were issued at the Laconner post
office during the past month Ill money
orders. amounting to So, 1892, and re-
deemed six, amounting TO $102.1o.
Plans are drawn for large hotel at Tia.
coma, two and one-half stories high, and
hard finished throughout. Will be leased
TO E. e. Everslam Tor five years.
During the past ten days three saloons
have been started in Olympia, and some
houses OF ill-fame. Thi5 is probably the
outcroppings OF the late vote on the school
tax.
Two gentlemen from Georgia have re.
gently purchased 800 acres of land on the
headwaters of Crab creek, iE Spokane
county, 81 miles from Cheney, and will lay
out town.
Andrew and Amos johnson, fishermen,
were drowned on the Columbia bar re-
Gently by the capsizing of their boat.
which. with Others. was being towed to
Hume's cannery, at Gray's Harbor.
a channel 81 feet deep and rs feet wide
has been cut through ST. Helen's bar of
the Columbia river. 30 miles below Port
land, by the propeller Walla Walla, under
the direction of the o. r. & N. Co., at
cost OF $1,000.
At recent election the following gen
tlemen were chosen as Directors of the
Washington Industrial Association: G.
A. Barnes, T. c. Van Epps. j. S. Dobbins,
G. Fl. Hale, II. A. Chambers, Isaac Burlin
game, L. p. Yemen, L. G. Abbott. F :rnan
do Ford, T. Webb, Amos Tullis, c. w.
Lawton, H. Prescott.
The material for the Cape Flattery mil
iiary telegraph line has been ordered to
lie shipped, with view of completing
the line this fall, if practicable. Lieut..
b. +. Hancock, will, under the direction
If Lieut. Frank Green. have personal SUI
pervision OF the construction of the line.
Not less than twenty recent murders are
credited TO the railroad front in Idaho
and Montana, and persons travelling in
that region should exercise great caution
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is filled with robbers aud murderers. vi
GLANCE committees are proposed by the
people.
The China steamship Triumph has been
seized by the Uoted States alshal at
Port Townsend, on complaint of some of
the c0nsignees OF the cargo brought on
her last trip. 1t is charged that the Chi
nese passengers damaged certain goods to
the amount of $4,000. IN which sum the
steamship will be held to await the result
pf the suit.
Extensive improvements and repairs
have been made To the college in Whitman
county, and the grounds have been put in
iirst-rate order, 10y the personal supervis-
ION OF DR.. Anderson. When all the con-
templated changes are made. Whitman
College will he the finest appointed school
house in the Territory.
The Carbonate coal mines are now ship
ping 5000 to 1000 tons to Tacoma per
manth, and employ from 200 to 800 works
men. The veins are from IL TO Is inches
ip thickness, and there is every reason to
believe that the supply is comparatively
jnexhaustible. These mines have been
systcma ically opened and worked under
the direction of superintendent Pinker-
ton. Fhe difficulty 1T present is the scar
city of ships to carry the coal.
Work on the Oregon Short line is brisk,
On the 14th ult. 1000 Italians arrived ut
the railroad grading camp, seven miles
yellow Bellevue. under Capt. Fitzpatrick.
the contractor. On account of the lava
and dust, Irish workers have been let out,
and their places filed by Italians. About
800 Of Kilpatrick's men went into Belle
yne on Saturday evening and made lively
work, taking the town by force. Seven
hundred more men are ordered from Om-
aha to Denver, to work on the grade, and
As cars of track iron are expected to ar
rive at American Falls in faw DAYS, and
five cars OF track iron will leave Omaha
each week hereafter.
Pie new town of Spraguc, in Spokane
county, is built upon an op. and almost
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