Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-09-23

TERRITORIAL NEWS.

A large number of immigrants are go
Jog into the ColviIle valley.
Miss '. Hancock is telegraph operator
OF Dungeness near Port Townsend.
The coal shipments from Seattle during
the month OF August were e060 tons.
The new school house at Seattle will
be furnished ct cost of $4,000.
There is steady increase in the passen>
ger traffic on the Sound steamers.
VIM. H. Shin, resident of Victoria
since 1859, died there last week.
Forty-three whales is the aggregate
catch of the whaling fleet this season.
Wheat Oh Mill Plain, Clarke county,
gives an average yield of 273 bushels to
the acre.
The Yakima log drive required 1913
days to travel from the headwaters of the
Yakima to Aainsworth.
Barley is selling for $50 per ton in
Walla Walla, against $40 per tor this
time last year.
A tramp took a ride with Nj jor Jen>
nings, of Clackamas county, the other
yday-he also took $7C0 from the Major.
The Void brothers have commenced
hop picking at their place on the Squak.
Forty pickers arc employed, and $50 more
are wanted.
Three prisoners made their escape from
the Yakima county Jail two weeks ago
10y pulling out the stagle that held the
lock.
The saw mil belonging TO Major Nc
Auliff, situated in the mountains near
Wala Walla, was totally destroyed by
fire with 100000 feet of lumber recently.
Several ranches in the vicinity of Col
umbup are raising grapes extensively.
Mr.. Presby is now shipping IS boxes per
week to Walla Walla, and will make a
considerable quantity into raisns.
A man named O'Donnell died very sud-
denly on the last trip OF the Dakota,
which arrived at Victoria on the 9th
Deceased was going to Seattle with his
wife and six children.
Ten vessels took lumber from Puget
Sound mills to foreign ports during Au-
gust. The total value of these exports
was $6O,4O3. The quantity reduced to
lumber measure, was something over
100000 feet
Trouble exists among the Dublin po-
lcemcn. Two or three hundred have
been dismissed, and many others have re-
signed. The military are temporarily in
charge of the police stations.
Sixty families are en- route from Nom
tana to the Crab creek country. Twenty
six wagons arrived in Spokane last week,
and the balance will arrive next week.
This is but one instance OF the rapid man.
per in which the Big Bend country is fill.
ing up.
At Astoria last week two-year.oltl
daughter of Captain Barron, OF the ship
.Cordelia, tell overheard. She fell On her
back, and the strong ebb tide was rapidly
carrying her of, when \ brave fellow by
the name Of Frank Tracy plunged in and
rescued the little one.
A lake has been discovered in Montana
near the headwaters of the Weis river. II
is surrounded by high crags, and the wa
ter is frozen solid. In the center of this
great body OF ice is q large avalanche Of
saow piltd up to great height, which has
evidently fallen from the crags surround
Jag he lake.
The Argus says: A meeting Of the
stockholders OF the new mill co mpany
was held last night. A vote was passed
authorizing the directors to lease the mill
for period not exceeding twelve years,
for rental of not less than 1925 per
month and an insurance Of ut least $4,000
in some approved company. Indictment
s. Boole, OF San Francisco, have the re-
fusal at terms prescribed. It IS under
stood that they will establish ship yard