Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-12-09
BRIEF MENTION.

The bark Kitssp is loading lumber a,
Utsalady for San Francisc@.
E. Sibley shiIp ID 1870 sacks of cats to
Laconntr on the steamer City Of Quincy
during the week.
The best, cheapest and most fashion,
able stock OF clothing north OF San Frau
cisco at the Arcade, Front S :, SEATTLE.
A rattle will probably be held at Man.
gan's store on Christmas for span of
horses, q revolver, and icktas.
Mr.. Lazar, recently from Olympia, is
about to open tobacco and stationery
store IN Laconner.
An elegant assortment of wraps.
ulsters and closks at the Arcade, Front
street, Seattle
The ball to he given bv Leckie & Ossicr
in their new hotel ut Whatcom comes oil.
on Christmas evening, not on New Years
evening, as enormously stated.
Notwithstanding the inclemcncy OF the
weather there is n, perceptiblc decreasr
in the number OF passenger ON the local
steamboats,.
If you want anything in the way Of
Christmas presents in dry goods or cloths
ing, don't fail to visit the Arcade, Front
ST., Seattle, before making your pur-
chases.
Geo. II. Judson, of Lynden, was mar
ried at Waterloo, lows, Nov. is, Ia Miss
Flora Phelps. They are expected home
in shert time.
The steamer Gazelle has been chartered
BY Cove & Wilson, Of Seattle, to run on
White river She will 60 up the Nook.
sack about once q month.
The City of Quincy has recently been
repaired and fitted up in much finer style.
making her very comfortable bout to
travel upon.
Persons in need of good yoke Of oxen
very large. 6 years old and well broke,
would do well to address this office.
Can be bought cheap.
The grain season on the flats is about
at an end and the Welcome will prob
ably he hauled off from the grain Carry
ing business the corning week.
The bark Corea, Of San Francisco.
finished loading oats ut Utsa'Sdy this
week. She took about 10000 sacks to he
delivered at San Francisco, Tor $3.50 per
ton.
James Graham 10 doing a thriving husi-
ness at his place near the Pass mill, sup
ying wood to steamers. The demand
f.r wood at that point is far greater than
the supply. He sells for - per cord.
The cargo of the steamer Hope on her
last trip to Victoria consisted Ut go sheep,
81 chickens, 10 ducks, 10 gees. 42 tur-
keys, 175 dozen eggs, Is barrels Of app es
and ~ hogs.
1t is said that the Skaget Coal Co. have
have selected terminus for thu ir pro-
posed railroad from the Mines ut point
on Fidalgo Island, on :he north side at
Similk bay near the reservation.
The steamer Hope failed Ia put in an
appearance at this place on her Victoria
route. for the last two weeks, being en-
gagged carrying the Neah bay mail i"i the
steamer Dispatch, which is icing re
paired
We hear that the Mcintosh place on
Gu mes Island, recently purchased by +.
Van Vslkenburg, WAS sold by that gentle
man last week to Macintosh & Re- yes,
bankers. of seattle, for $4,000. Surely
there IL not much money IN that kind OF
trading.
The Washington Steamboat & Naviga-
tion Co., are about to build a steamboat
Ia add to their already numerous fleet.
The contract has been let to Michel the
ship builder of Seattle. She will be
about the size of the Quincy, and is in
tended to run on the Skagct river.
The irst attraction on the programme in
the way OF amu,ements for New Years, is
q grand ball ut Laconner, un'ier the
auspices of the A. U. U. w. The price
Of tickets. including supper at NJ G'inn's.
will be t2.50. The Workmen never do
things by halves, and those attending are
assured OF pleasant time. Read tho nd
vertisemcnt.
Miners working In q bank at Cassair,
on Fraser river, found about thirty
Chinese coins strung on q wire. six feet
below the surface. The wire crumbled to
pieces on exposure to the air. The coins
are said, by Chinese, to lie over three
thousand years old, and the gu stion is
now ash Q were the Chinese the first set.
tiers of this continent2
Unqucstionably the hest piece Of road
on the Island 10 that leading up from
DAVID Fulk's to Robt. Sharp's place. in
the neighborhood Of the Pas. This
piece OF road was built BY the Sharp
Bros alone. The Sharpe have probably
done more good substantial work on
roads than any other men on the Island.
One of the deservedly popular business
houses of Seattle is the we'll known San
Francisco Store, kept by Messrs. Toklss &
Singermsn, two OF the most energetic and
wide awake business men Of that busting
town. Coming 10 Seattle but lew years
ago, they have by dint Of hard work and
pluck built mp an extensive trade. Their
store is replsts with all manner Of dry
goods, clothing. furnishing goods, etc.
at San Francisco prices.
Several years ago three young men, all
practical workers and thorough bushes.
men, started in q modest way in the cloth.
ing and dry goods business in Seattle
They felt their way along slowly and eau
tiously. until at the present time theil
house occupies foremost position in that
city Of thriving and energetic mcrchsnts
with steady and iucr. tive trade. The
firm we refer to Is that of Boyd s. Poncir
(Mr. Young. the third membr of th.