Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-05-06
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month have on board $500 Chinese.
Articles of incorporation of Chinese
water company, with capital stock of
100000. have been filed in San Franz
cisco.
Two car loads of Cinnamon and 175
white men passed through Cheney to the
front last Wednesday to work on the n.
PR. Il,
For personal injuries received by a fall
from a bad sidewalk, Lewis r. Floss re-
covered in the district court $500 damn
ages from the city of Seattle.
James Daley, convicted with shooting
at Robert WEIGH, was sentenced at the
district court of Clarke county to twelve
years in the penitentiary.
The wheat fields at Walla Wala look
exceedingly well this year. The grain is
about six iuches high, of thick growth,
with good healty color.
A mine of clear hard coal, has been
opened on South Prairie creek, about one
and half miles from the railroad. The
vein is about six feet in thickness.
King county taxes have been more
promptly paid this year than every be
fore. Out of levy of $4,000 less than
$4,000 remain unpaid. The greater
portion OF this is for poll tax.
A pleasure party of $50 persons en-
route for the Pacific coast left Chicago
April 10th, to arrive in San Francisco
May 4th, by special car.
Mrs. Mason, whose husband was court
martialed and sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for term of eight years for ats
tempting the lie of the assassin Guiteau,
was presented, while in Washington
few days ago, with $4,000.
Forty thousand acres of land in Ar
kansas have been secured for an Italian
colony. The immigration are to come
from the Tyrol, principally, and will be
agriculturists. About thosand Italians
have already settled in that region.
Jay Gould's stocks alone, amounting to
$54,OOO,0O0, give him an income of So
100000 annually, $27o,OO0 a month,
$4,000 day, 1915 an hour, $e2.5O a
minute and over dollar second. and
still he's not happy.
1t was evening. Three of them were
killing cat. One of them..held lantern
another the cat, and the third jammed
pistol into the cats ear AMI fired, shoot
ing the man in the hand who held the
cat, and the one holding the lantern was
wounded in the arm. The cat left when
it saw how matters stood and that ILL
feeling was being engendered.-Ex.
One night last. week Chinese cook
employed in the logging camp of Frank
Dolan, on the Snoqualmie, left lamp
burning at the head of his bunk when he
retired. The lamp exploded, setting fire
to the bunk and burning the hog eyed
heather so severely that he will probably
sgo."-Snohomish Eye.
The farmers of California spend about
s5,OO0,0O0 annually for grain sacks, and
enormous profits ito the importers are
realized by importers combining to keep
up the price. This great annual drain OF
money will now be stopped by the open
ing of iute works in the state prison at
San Quentin. The machinery now in
place will turn out 5000 yards of bag
ging daily, and the output can be largely
increased.
The town of Medical Lake is just now
experiencing boom which is very graft
flying, though q man with halt an eye
can see that it is destined in the future
tol become great resort. Nichols,
Wood & Goodwin have let the contract
for bath house 3Oxeo and hotel and
,nfirmary 40xS0, two stories high. Elk
cavation has already commenced.
The river steamer Cassiar, while pro-
ceeding up Fraser river, laden with rail
road material, including fiat cars, struck
a rock four miles above Hope, aud went
down near the shore soon afterward. All
hands were saved. and some of the freight