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Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-08
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LAcoNNER, w. T. April 8, 1882.
AMMO DoMINI.

LAcoNNER, w. T. April 3, 1882.
EDITOR ENTERPRISE.
The first issue of the ENTERPRISE,
March 25th, and that of the 1st inst,
was devotedly read by the inhabitants of
Laconner and vicinity, and all expressed
congratulation that one live and energetic
newspaper existed in this (Whatcom)
county. AS the ENTERPRISE is centrally
located midst commonwealth whose
future is the paradise of western Wash>
ington, the paper cannot fail to receive a
liberal patronage. Anacortes, unlike
many other towns of Whatcom county,
has every natural facility destined to be-
come shipping point for the vast
amount of grain and produce raised in
this rich agricultural country.
Mercantile drummers are in town this
week.
Several projects revolving in the air
grist mill and paper MILL
A larger acreage will be sown this year
than ever before.
The I. o. o. U. w. hold forth their
meetings every Saturday evening.
Mr. Trevice, one of our substantial
farmers, has sold his magnificent ranch to
parties in Olympia. Mr.. T. and family
will take up their residence in Tacoma.
Mr. B. L. Martin, one of our merchants,
decamped for Seattle, to replenish his
stock of merchandise. 3. L. is always on
the move.
J. & G. Caches are grading lot for the
construction of a large warehouse. This
firm is always advancing to the interests
of the town.
RURAL.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-08

EDISON, April 8, 1882.
COLONY,

EDISON, April D, 1859.
EDITOR ENTERPRISE.
Perhaps you of the outside world think
that this is sleeping hamlet, but just
step over this way one of these fine days
and be undeceived.
The mud has vanished, and our country
can no longer be termed mud flats"
The Rev. Mr.. Friend, of Whatcom, has
taken up his temporary abode with us.
There is new store TO be built soon
on the Olympia Slough.
Verify, this is growing ito be country
of logging camps; five are in operation ct
the present time, and others arc talked
of.
The Messrs. Smith and Sias are making
decided improvements in the appearance
of their farms. Each have set out fine
large orchards, while the former has in
course of erection large dwelling house.
Mr.. Gibbons, our favorite carpenter is
experimenting the building.
VoSCS AuVO eonCu cuCu u Suuucu Aioo
since the advent of SO many camps, that
farmers have some difficulty in obtaining
labor; but they are happy and contented'
for the prospects are fair for good crops,
and the more consumers. the better price
paid tor produce.
Now we want a public library, good
hotel, church anu school and least nine
months in the year, then we will be in
dependent. We feel that the NORTH,
WEST ENTERPRISE will lend its voice for
our aid in these good causes.
Iwould like to give method of teach
ing composition, subject vested with
terror to the majority of pupils. 1 have
tried the following method in teaching
and proved it success: Give each child
the name of certain town or state,
telling them to make an imaginary visit
to where ever it may be, starting from the
present place, taking any route they
choose. Then they are to write an ac-
count of their journey, description of
country passed through, etc. If all have
the same destination the composition will
be even more interesting. This teaches
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-08
WhatcOln.
From our regular correspondent
WHATCoM, April 4th.

WHATCoM, April 4tn.
EDITOR ENTERPRISE.
Your neat little paper has made its
second visit to us, and we have made
friends with it already. Hope it may
succeed.
Work is moving on the Whatcom mills.
The framing, which has been delayed on
account of rain, will be commenced this
week.
Our two new stores are doing good
b usiness. Mr.. W. L. Steinway & Co.
proprietors of one and Mr.. Sission the
other.
Improvements are being made in every
direction; new houses, new fences, clear
ings and new gardens, making old
Whatcom smile and the native exclaim
"skookum."
Several of our colony men have rented
farms for this season, one family having
moved out of town, and others are going
soon. Each boat brings colony members,
or Kansans, so the vacancies made by
those moving out of town will soon be
filled.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-08
"THrRE is no surer test Of the oualit

"THERE is no surer test Of the quality
of nation," says Ruskin, ethan the
quality of its servants, for they are their
masters shadows, and distort their faults
in fattened mimicry. A wise nation
will have philosophers in its servants
hall, knavish nation will have knaves
there, and kindly nation will have
friends there. Only let it be remem-
bered that kindness means, as with
your child, SO with your servant, not in
diligence, but care"
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-08

RURAL.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-08

them geography too, and that in very
interesting manner.
AMMO DoMINI.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-08
Market Report.
SEATTLE.

SEATTLE.
Eggs have taken rise. On Wednes-
day of this week they were sold for %
and 30 cents. Potatoes on the other
hand have had a tumble from II to II
cents per h., having been previously sold
still higher.
LACONNER.
We quote from the Mail April 1. Ba>
con, country, at 12@14c; butter, 30@3ac;
chickens, s3@$3.5O per doz hides, dry
15@16c, green, 7@sc; hay $14; shingles
So; oil 40c.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-08
ADvERTIsEMENTS.

MAN WANTED.
A man to work about farm, one that
can make himself generally useful. APP
ply at this office. .m 1tf
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-08
BOY WANTED.

A good boy is wanted at this Office.
Must be at least sixteen years old and
have common school education.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-08
HOTEL. KEEPER

A man and wife to take charge and
run hotel. One with experience pres
fered. To the right party good induce
ments will be offered. Address this
Office. lit
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-04-08
GIRL WANTED

GIhL WANTED.
A good girl that is accustomed to all
kinds of house work and the care Of
children. Good wages will be paid to
the right person. Apply at A. Bowman
g. Co.'S store. 1tf
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22
Marshes and Malaria.

The opinion. formerly so prevalent,
that malaria exists only, or chiefly, in
marshy soil appears to be successfully
combatted by Professor Tommassi, who
cites as evidence not only that the Cam
pagna of Rome is not really marshy.
but that, speaking roughly, two-thirds
OF the malaria-stricken districts of Italy
are situated on heights. He refers to
the well-known fact. that sometimes the
surface OF these districts is completely
dry during the summer, but the produc-
ton of malaria in them goes on Just the
same. provided they are kept moist be-
low the surface by special conditions of
the subsoil, and the air can reach the
moist strata by pores or crevices in the
surface.
The investigation made by NJ. Tom
massi and others further show, that the
direct action of the oxygen of the air is
SO necessary TO the development of the
microscopic plant to which the malaria
is due, that the most pestilential marsh
es become innocuous when the soil is
completely covered by water; pave
ments, buildings, and the like, may act
Sn the same way. and arrest the devel-
opment of the plant by cutting off the
necessary supply of oxygen-but if, even
after the lapse of years or of centuries,
communication with the outer aiEis re-
stored, while the other conditions re-
main the same, the soil RECEIVERS its
noxious properties.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22
work OF A WAR CORRESPONDENT.
How ths World Was Given the FIRST News of
an Englishvictory.

War correspondents lead exciting and
advensurous lives. They can never be
certain of peaceful half hour at home,
and when one campaign is ended may at
any moment expect to be dispatched to
share the trials of another. Nor is it only
that they are continually ON the move
While actually at their work they must be
prepared to face the danger, endure hard
ships and exposures. More than all, they
must, if they would give loyal service to
the journals they represent, be men of iron
constitution, with boundless energy and
powers of endurance. A new proof of
their value has just been afforded by one
of the most distinguished of their number.
Mr.. Cameron, who has long been on the
staff of the Standard, which paper he re-
presents in India and the Transvaal, is
now in Egypt adding fresh laurels to his
reputation. His report of the fight at
Kassassin on the 2Sth was one of the
finest things he has done, and rivalling the
exploits of such men as McGahan, and
Forbes. With the skillful prescience which
is not the least of the gifts of true
correspondent, he had attached himself to
the cavalry brigade under Drury Lowe 1t
had already been actively engaged at
Nahsamieh, and was so near the next ad
vance post that it was certain to come in
ioI any nGhtlnS III progress. cameron
was not disappointed. He found himself
on the spot, accompanied the cavalry
through all their movements on that ardu-
GUS day. and rode with them in their flank
march which SO completely decided the
fight. Having witnessed the charge of the
Household cavalry and its successful re-
suits, he knew that the worst was over,
and that it was now his business to get the
good news home He had been in the
saddle the whole of sltrying tropical day; it
was now night, and twenty four miles of
trackless desert interposed between him
and Ismailia, the point from which he
could best telegraph to England. Nothing
daunted by these tremendous difficulties
he set forth to ride back to the canal alone
The long journey must have so'ely tried
his strength; nevertheless at the end of it
he penned one of the most mastery and
graphic dispatches ever produced by a cor
London Home Netos.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22
WHY THE FARMER LAUGHS.

In San Sata, Texas, half-pound peaches
are common.
Harry Peters of Gloucester, New Jersey,
laughs because he has cut thirty bushels of
wheat to an acre.
One hundred and fifty acres in one water
melon Patch is no uncommon thing in
southeast Missouri.
A fruit farmer of Mendoza, Illinois,
gathers 1000 quarts of blackberries day
from patch of five acres.
Texas. farmers propose to sell $4,000, 600
bushels of corn this year, whereas last year
they bought.
From three acres of land George Cut
ting of Lunenburgh, Pennsylvania, moved
this season eleven tons of hay.
From two acres of vines William Tuthlll
of Huntington, Long Island. has picked
10000 cucumbers this season.
G. w. Bangh of North Danville, Va,
raised cabbage this season which had
twenty-six heads on the one stalk.
Within radius of eight miles of San
ford, Fla, three are 2,992 orange groves
containing 1876, 235 trees. The state pro-
duces over $4,000, 600 oranges.
A half acre of corn belonging toeG. w
Bancroft, East Windsor Hill, Conn,
averages Ii feet in height and weighs
eighteen pounds to the dozen ears.
w. w. Hackney of Brownsville, Neb,
measured a stalk of corn several times,
and found that il had grown four inches
insone day and five inches in another
"A Salamanca farmers wife milks eight
cen cows night and morning, and during
the haying season rides the moving ma
chine and cuts ten acres of grass day.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22
THE PARTY OF MORAL IDEAS.

SARATOGA, Sept. 21.-Great excitement
has been caused by the discovery that the
dispatch was forgery authorizing the po-
lice commissioner of New York to act by
proxy for Collector Robertson. The dis
patch read as follows:
New YORK, Sept. 10.
Hon. S. r. French, Grand Union Hotel
Please act as my proxy at the meeting
of the state committee, and oblige
Signed w. Ii. ROBERTSON.
Considerable indignation is expressed
and an investigation will be made. The
forged message has been photographed
and copies circulated among the delegates
with view to Identification of the writing
The E0enfng Post has a dispatch from
Saratoga which days: Gen. Hustled receiv-
ed to-day the following message from
Robertson:
WHITE PLAINS, Sept. 81.
Gen. J. W. Hustled care J. w. Vrooman:
Stephen r. French has no authority and
never had to represent me in the state
committee. His unauthorized appearance
here was an insult to the West Chester del
egates and a fraud upon me. 1t is machine
tactics over again.
[Signedl W. I'll. ROBERTSON.
The above letter was received at Con-
gress Hall about four o'clock yesterday,
but as Hustled was at the Grand Union
hotel it did not come into his hands till
to day. At the close of the convention
French was sought out and asked with
reference to this Hustled dispatch. He
renewed his former statement, that he was
authorized to act by telegraph, and added:
THE bottom facts in the case are simply
these: Robertson has always declared to
me, and others of Folgers friends, that he
intended to support the candidate of the
administration, and on the other hand he
persistently declared to Albert Daggett
that he was for Cornell"
At the Western Union office, P. E. Yves
tervelt, receiver of dispatches, says no
dispatch ever went out of the office on a
sending blank If such dispatch is al
legged to have been received by anyone it
is prim a-face fraud.
j. E. Owens messenger of the Western
Union office, says of the French dispatch
that it is one of the campaign counter"
blanks. 1t is manifestly fraudulent, and |
he never delivers messages on such blanks. |
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22

A correspondent of the Louisville
Cou4Ter-.Jouraol recalls time when Chal-
mers, of Mississippi, was not SO enthusiast
tic an independent as now. The CORES
pendent was once denouncing a political
murder in Chalmers hearing, when the
latter said: ''Oh. no; you are entirely
wrong. 1t was good thing for him.
Better little bloodshed now and then
than having democrats going off to stir up
the community as independent candidates. I"
The same Chalmers is now running as an
independent candidate, and receiving from
republican headquarters all the money
which his canvass needs. The grand old
party" and the assassin of Fort Pillow oc-
cupy the same political bed without fight
ing over the bed-clothes or attempting to
kick each other out. A sweet picture of
peace and reconciliation they present.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22

In speech delivered not long ago at
Akron, Ohio Governor Foster said; "All
the vices, the saloon keepers, and the pros
titutes are arrayed with the democratic
party, and all the virtuous, the churches,
and the schools are arrayed with the re-
publican party" An Ohio democrat,
whose indignation was aroused by state
ment so reckless and malicious, has taken
the trouble to collect some statistics, which
prove that Fosters assertion was the
veriest buncombe of the stump. His in
ouiries embrace fifteen democratic and
fourteen republican counties. The demo
cratic counties have population of 562,-
1903 Divorce suits brought, S62; for
adultery, SO: for drunkenness, 40; for
cruelty, LA. Democratic majority in the
counties, Is, 952. The fourteen republican
counties have population of 520,41S.
Divorce suits brought, 1909; for adultery,
PA; for drunkenness, 90; for cruelty, 229.
Republican majority in the counties, 3d.
315. The stump orator would be very
much at loss if he should confine himself
to the truth, and Foster will indulge in as
much political mendacity as anybody to
make an impression on his audience.
Whenever the assertions of the demagogue
are challenged, they are generally found to
be untrue.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22
NOTIONS ABOUT DEATH.
From the New York Sun.

There are two popular notions about
death that, though they contradict one
another, have adherents throughout Chris
tendon. One is that what is called a
natural death takes place with the ebb of
the tide; the other, that it occurs after
midnight. in what are called the small
hours before dawn. The records show,
as might have been expected, that the
Black Rider, who respects neither age nor
worldly condition, is Indifferent in timing
his visits In this city last week the great
est number of deaths took place at II
o'clock in the day, when there were
seven; but there were five deaths in each
of the hours of 8. 4, and 10 o'clock in
the morning, and 3, and o'clock in the
evening. Four persons died at 5 o'clock,
6 o'clock and at o'clock in the morning,
and at / o'clock and 6 o'clock in the even
ing, and three persons died ct each Of the
hours of / and Q o'clock q. %. and 3, 10
and II o'clock p. m. There happened to
be no deaths at 5 o'clock in the evening.
There were ten more deaths before noon
than afterit.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22

In reply to an article in the Washington
Cd. CO. Jou-aal, Der Democrat, of Daven-
port, In an editorial of Tuesday morning,
says:
But one thing we will give the Wash
ington Journal to understand: According
to our conviction the democratic platform
of the state of Iowa in regard to the ques-
ton of the day, does but hit the nail on
the heak We therefore fully support this
platform with full conviction, and all the
candidates who stand upon 1t, and we ask
every man who loves personal liberty and
respects himself. may he DO republican,
a democrat, or greenbacker, heather
or turd, to vote for the victory of said
platform.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22
What Hats Young Men Nav Wear.

Dress hats for Spring are of pearl gray
cashmere with bell crown five and a
half inches high, and round curved Eng
Ish brim that is nearly two inches wide.
The felt hat for business and general
wear is an English Derby, larger than
those lately worn; the crown is five and
a fourth inches high, and the rolled brim
is two inches and an eighth in width
Cocoa brown is the stylish color, and
there are navy blue and English green
Derbys imported To match suits. Amer
lean Derby hats Bave. more tapering
crowns, and are not SO high as the Eng
lish shapes; they come in pearl color,
black and brown.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22
Early Maturity and the Teeth.

A young breeder asks whether animals
that are said to mature early show this
maturity in the teeth as we'll rs in a pre-
cocious growth of the body at that age,
or whether they still require the ordi-
nary time to perfect the teeth. In cases
of real early maturity, the teeth are as far
advanced as other indications of ripe
ness. DR. Martin. of Kentucky. an in
telligent breeder, made careful observa-
tions upon this point in his own herd,
as well as among those of his neighbors,
many years ago, and found that the
best Short-horns had perfect teeth, or q
full mouth, at three years old, while
native cattle in the same region did not
show the same maturity of teeth till five
years old.
There were many objections to DIR.
Martins conclusions, and some doubts
expressed as to the accuracy of his OBJ
servations at the time, but they have been
fully corroborated by many observers
since.
Several years ago, the London Agri-
cultural Gazette had series of illustra-
tions of the teeth of certain cattle. with
the actual age stated, and remarked:
THE permanent dentition is often COM
pleted in bulls of the most advanced
type at three years of age, instead of
five or six years, according to the old
standard" This effect of early matur-
ity applies DO all our domestic animals
used as food. Some English butchers
have declared that their most particular
customers preferred the meat of those
earliest matured. This also reverses
the stronglv-expressed opinion that the
highest quality of beef requires four
years to mature. 1t is not probable that
many animals, reared expressly for
meat. will be kept beyond 81 months, a
few years hence. Ltve-S Stock
Journal
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22

A miracle is announced from Goldsboro,
n c.. by the Alamance Cleaner. There
was camp-meeting in Bethel, and the
story goes that Bob Tawney, deaf mute,
thirteen years old, was regular attendant
of the camp services. Many people won
dered what Bob was doing there, as he
could hear nothing. but he told them what
he was about before the CAMP meeting was
over At the last call he came up to the
mourners' bench, opened his mouth and
sang the hymn: ''He proclaimed His con-
version" 1t is stated there was general
amazement, and all the sinners present
were converted. According to this, the
boy Bob got his hearing and speech and
voice culture in singing all at once,
although he had never heard the human
voice before. The account also states that
Bob Tawney has been deaf from birth, and
consequently dumb. and to this his father
and mother and others who have known
him from infancy at Snow Camp are
willing to swear.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22

The democratic position on the prohibit
ton question is getting to be so well de-
fined SO far as the western democracy is
concerned, that it will be an easy task for
the next national convention to formulate
the platform for the presidential candidate
of 1884. All aspirants who seek nomi-
nation will do well to make up their minds
in advance that whoever the lucky man is
he will have to make sharp and distinct is
sue against all classes of sumptuary legis-
lation intended for the benefit of the few
at the sacrifice of the personal rights and
liberties of the many. That is the ground
the national democratic party viii stand
firmly fixed on the next presidential cam
paign.
The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1882-09-22
BEL0IT's DRLUsION.
A Portion of the City Found to be in Illinois
Instead of Wisconsin as
Supposed.
[From the Roekford Register.l


Beloit people are reported as all broken
up. 1t appears that the late geographical
survey locates the state line some eighty
rods north of where it was supposed to
run, bringing it nearly up to the Goodwin
House. 1t puts the speople in a pretty
pickle. A number who supposed they
have been living in the state of Wisconsin
have been citizens of Illinois instead, and
there is the deuce to pay. They have been
cutting up all kinds of didoes, perfectly al
lowable under Wisconsin law, but
considered the most diabolical
evils in Illinois, and these
folks are beginning to get frightened and
think about the outraged justice of Hi
nois and wonder whether they won't end
their declining days in prison. It's bad
mess, and the bother of it is that crusher
on a swarm of Rockford couples. 1t seems
the minister who married the largest num-
Der of runaway pairs had his house on the
Illinois side of the line as ascertained by
the new survey, and SO the marriages be-
ing performed in Illinois without license
are not legal, and some six dozen pairs
who have been living in happy matrimo
NAL bliss in Rockford for years, will learn
from these lines for the first time the start
ling fact that they have never been mar
ried, and what are the children going to
do about it? It's hard lines, but the best
thing to do, is TO do it over again quick
with the proper documents, and stand it
as well as possible.