Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-02-24
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

TERRITORIAL NEWS.
Last Saturday night a man named
Harry Williams, an employee Of the
Northern Pacific Railroad at Sand Point,
who recently came from Mlssoula. Mon
tana, went out into the company's yard
to attend to some Of his duties. Several
hours afterward, Williams not having re.
turned, and the night being intensely
cold, the thermometer registering 33 de-
grees below zero, search was made for
him by the other employees. His lifeless,
frozen rody was found by the side OF one
of the tracks, having evidently been over
come by the cold and lain down and died.
Union, Feb. 9th.
The records of the land office at Olym
pia show that during tho month OF Octo-
Der, 1882, there were 80 entries OF timber
Ian Is and 100 entries OF Homesteads and
prescriptions made in Chehalis county.
Since that time the number of CLAIM s
taken has not been so great, but the filings
are still numerous and constant, and there
can be no doubt that the coming spring
will witness a rush of immigration to
this valley unprecedented in the history
OF any portion of Western Washington
Territory. Transcript.
A letter from Hazard Stevens, the man
who assembled Mount Rainier several
years ago, and is now Boston attorney,
to real estate agent in this city. makes
inquiry In relation 10 the present and
prospective value of lands in township 81.
in the vicinity of Tacoma City, Of which
he is the possessor Of so acres. -Tacoma
News.
Beef, veal and mutton are now retailed
in Olympia at 1920 cents; the latter, OF
course, for choice cuts. Eggs, 5000
cents; butter, 30@473 cents; potatoes
1890 cents; -four, So per barrel ;nd
other articles accordingly. Groceries
are cheaper than for years, so that tn.
price of living is lcssened somewhat.
1t is almost certain that the Northern
Pacific Railroad will tap the Colvills
country from Spokane by means of Q
feeder, and there is good ground for the
belief that the road, which sooner OIL
later will have to he built through the
Big Bend country. will have its terminus
at the Falls.
A man employed on the wharf at Port
I'll .kely' was struck on the leg by heavy
rapidly moving stick. of timber, and the
calf was torn Oft the bones, the muscles
and sinews going with the rest. He wal
taken over to Seattle on the steamer Sue.
cess and placed III the hospital.
John Lucky. 65 years old, said to bs
oldest steamboat pilot on this coast, was
stricken with paralysis recently at Aims
worth. He has pilot papers dated back
as far as 1852, granting him permission
to run over distance of 300 miles on the
Mississippi River.
| We have it from reliable author!t y that
$50 emigrant teams are now on the way
from Missouri. Kansas and Nebraska tC
the Chshalis Valley, where there owners
propose to find homes. They will moi
have come in vain.-Vallcy sidette.
Railroad surveys make Walla Walls
500 feet higher than Walluls, and give
the latter place an elevation above the
sea OF 1877 feet, thus making the altitude
Of Walla Walla, at the old depot, 936 test
Coal bunkers have been erected at Pres
colt, in Walla Walla county. The loco
motives on that division use coal fol
fuel instead OF wood rs heretofore.
Spokane Falls was deprived of it,
mails from the 28th Of January to I'll.
9th of February by washout on the rail-
road.
Metcalf Bros. of Nontesano, Chehali,
county, will milk one hundred cows dur
ing the summer.
| Two stores and national bank will be
among the improvements Of Pomeroy THU
year.