Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1882-12-02
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The Marietta Hotel at Lqconnar has
been purchased by VIVA. Hewitt, vino has
sold his place on Fidalgo Island TO j. s.
Conner for $500.
We hear that Noah Nelson was offered
$1,000 for his place on the island last
week, which was refused.
Damaged oats taken from the steamer
Idaho, are selling in Seattle for Fifty
cents "A sack.
The late Wilhelm Martin was about to
prove up on his place before he died. The
day alter he died was the day sei Tor his
making final proof.
The grain crop on Wildly Islnn1 IS
all thrcshed, and amounts to IA eco
bushels. The average tor WEent Was p
bushels and that OF oats was 45 bushels
10 the acre.
Robert Sharp and Miles Fulk have quit
work at Wells 81 PowelI's logging camp.
and will spent the remainder of the sex
son IN improving their own places Oh the
island
The Nictorians are about to Inaugurntc
IL IIiIt w ltSb tiN' P'"SiIiI ava
the Fraser liver trade. There is also some
talk OF an opposition line OF ocean steam>
ers 10 San Francisco.
After an absence of several months on
the Swinomish and in British Columbia,
George Tobin returned this week, ana in
tends settling down upon and improving
his place on Cottonwood Isl0nd.
We call attention to the advertisement
in this issue of the store of I. Ii. Mangan
& Co., at Guemes. They have an excel
lent stock of goods, which they Offer ut
bedrock prices.
A. A. Doherty, a practical dentist of
Seattle, will he at Anacortes on the first
of December, and remain one week. All
those in need of dental work will dc
well by giving him call. He comes well
recommended.
We are informed that DR.. Lewis will
shortly build new wharf at bis place en
the Samlsh. the old one having fallen
down some time since A wharf is much
needed at that point, for the accommodate
ton of the people on the Samlsh.
The steamer Josephine now runs up to
Balls camp on the Skaget, and makes oc-
casionnl trips to MinXIcr's mill. a few
nil further up the river. She makes
semiweekly trips 70 Seattle, and is doing
a good business.
Capt. Lott. of the steamer Hope, talks
some of changing the direction of his
route, and running hereafter via U,salady,
Coupeviile and Deception Pass, and alter
his new steamer Is placed upon The route
will call at NunaimO and New Wcsimin
ster for freight and passengers.
Capt. Andrew McAlpine, well known
on this route, was married in Seattle on
November 18th to Miss Celestine Rocssel.
The bride is the eldest daughter of IL.
Roessel, one of the early pioneers of What
com county, living about four miles west
of Ferndalc.
The late rains will be the means of rais-
ing the various rivers and slonghs in this
county sufficiently TO enable loggers To-
float their logs out to tide water There
are sew raj million feet Of logs now lying
in the Samsh river. the property of Clio.
ther & English, McRea s. CO., and
others, which will, as soon rs the water
raises sufficiently, be made up into boonS
and towed to the mills.
On Robert Sharp's place, near the pass,
there are two pet deers, which were cups
turpd on the island about two years pgo.
They are perfectly tame. and allowed to
run vt large through the timber, and al
though frequently running with wild d"cr
they evince no disposition to Iun away.
These animals make fine pets when cap
tured young aud properly trained.
The Laconner meal mill has not proved
brilliant success thus Tar, for some rea-
son. 1t was sold last week to John L.
Davis, who will shortly introduce new
set of buhr stones and other improved
machinery into the mill, and put it in OPP
Grafton as soon as possible. 1t is to be
regretted that the Messrs. Milne did not
have better luck with with the undertake
ing. for they certainly deserved to succeed.
There was o tie vote for Justice of the
Teace ut Fidalgo between George Gram
dali and II. w. Poor. The statute pro-
vidcs in such cases that the Auditor shall
decide the matter by lot but the confess
tants would probably not be avcrse to set
thing the business 10y quiet little game
of "seven-u UP" or draw" as John Plaster
is said to have secured the Probate Judge
ship some years ago in this county.
In the course Of q few years the North.
ern Pacific railroad will run through an
avenue of shade trees hundreds OF miles
id length. This extensive tree planting
is being done to project the road from
storms and snow drifts. In addition to
having large gang of men at this work
between Fargo and Bismarck in Dakota.
the officers have distributed immense
quantities of seedlings and cuttings to
the farmers settled on the land grant, and
offered prizes ter skill in forestry.
A couple of weeks ago gentleman
from neighboring island stayed over
night at the hotel in Anacortes, and lett
tor home on the steamer next day, ne
glccting, however, to take with him a
purse containing several hundred dollars,
which he had secretcd under his pillow at
the hotel. Although discovering hi,
loss soon after the departure of the steam>
er, he WAS unable to return here until n
week afterwart, when, as may well be i'm
agined, he was overjoyed to recover his
treasure intact. Verify. it were better to
I've an honest man than to 60 to the Leg
islsture.
At last the old tub Chehalis, so we'll
known in this section, and all over the
Sound for that matter, reposes quietly in