Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-09-16
TERRITORIAL NEWS.


Green river is to have q $500 bridge.
Worms destroying Walla Walla pears.
The Territorial Teachers Institute at
Seattle adjourned last week.
Britain is about to resurrect the old
tub Libby, and make tug out of her.
About 800 tons of wheat are delivered
daily in New Tacoma by the railroad.
The New Tacoma Ledger is bitterly OPP
posed to Jacobs for Prosecuting Attorney.
In five hours Jacob Duback, of Mill
Plain, threshed $40 beshes of wheat.
1t costs $1,000 to obtain a retail liquor
license from the Yakima commissioners.
T. NJ. Alyord. of White river, has cut
$50 tons of hay from $40 acres of meadow.
The railroad from Walla Walla TO Pen
dclton was commenced week before last.
The Seattle Herald is after the nostrum
ven,lers, and will have them arrested.
A four-story grist mill is running at Che
halls, Lewis county.
james Delano, festive Dayton butcher
man. has mcandered away with $1,000.
There are seven theshing machines at
work in the vicinity of Medical Lake.
There will be stone bridge built over
the Snake river, near Ainsworth.
Twenty five car loads. or $50 tons of
wheat, leave Walla Walla daily.
A 4S0 acre ranch on the 1ouchet, near
Walla Walc, sold recently for $4,000.
The Tacoma mill has now on hand or
ders for the timbers for five vessels build>
ing at the shiryards In San Francisco.
George Fl. Roth. supposed to be some>
where IN this country, is inquired after by
his mother through the German consul.
The Blue Mountain railroad has Sc
cured the right of way from Milton Sta
tion to Walla Walla. 1t will be finished
this fall, and will be broad gauge.
Whitman county covers 1900 square
miles, has population of 10000, and its
property is worth $3,0OO,0OO. Now they
talk OF building $4,000 court house.
Says an exchange: A private letter
from one who thinks he knows, forcshad-
ows the carrying of all the river counties
and several on the Sound for Brents.
The timber from Ceur d'Alenc to Pend
d'Ureile is on fire, and Northern Idaho is
one dense black smoke. The deer are
leaving for the open country.
The railroad ties attached Y the Gov
eminent ON the Yakima river are still in
care of the watchman appointed to guard
them. The company has not settled yet.
The fonr northern counties of Idaho
sent no delegates to the Territorial Con-
vention. They are so closely allied to
Washington, and so widely separated
from the rest of Idaho, that no interest in
politics could be aroused.
Immigration is beginning to drift into
Colville valley this year. 1t seems to he
generally believed that the Northern Pa
cific branch to Kettle Falls will be one OF
the first feeders to be built, rs the Cana
dian Pacific would undoubtedly use it in
the construction of its line east and west
of the crossing of the Columbia. This is
the more probable since the selection of a
pass through the Selkirk range. only 40
miles north OF the boundary line. The
Columbia is navigable about $50 miles
north OF Kettle Falls, and the road to Spo-
kane Falls TO the latter place would he
only about 100 miles long. Rumor has it
that Hallett's force has about two more
months work ahead, and where that force
next goes is a question oil vital imports
ance to that part of Washington territory.
The Corwin, during her voyage to Alas
ka, stopped at st. Lawrence Island, hav-
ing orders to investigate the Wholesale
starvation of the natives. At the tlrst VII
lage visited all were dead; sa, also, at the
second, where 81 bodies were counted,