Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-09-15

Bi.EEF MEN TION.

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J,hn Swerdiger, of Otcas Island, spent
Sunday at Anarortes,
Only one registered letter IN every
1900 is lost in the L. S. mails.
The Eastern and Western ends of the
Northern Poetic Railroad met on August
2snd. 701 miles east of Portland.
We learn that the Land Office at Olym'
MIA. is burned, and all the land records
Destroyed.
The people OF Whatcom are petiti"ning
fora $4,000 Court House, Captain Roe
der and the Peabody Estate offering to
donate the ground tor the same.
The fires in the woods near Mr.. +. Van
Valkenberg's last week communicated
with his buildings, and destroyed prop
erty to the amount OF 5000.
The first oats of the season W re
sbipped to Seattle last week from the
farm of Richard Holyoke, on the SkaG't.
Mr.. Holyoks has over 600 acres in oats
this year.-Mail.
When p. T. Barnum recently visited
Mount Washington he telegraphel home
that the view from the snmmit was the
..second best shaw in the whole coun-
try.
Tne first volume of the ENTERPRISE
closed with the number OF the date OF
March II. and on March "a was is
sued the first number OF the second vol
ume.
Tie old Russian gun-boat Politkots%y,
+. S nth, Muster, formerly from Alaska,
i.y at Bowman's wharf over Thursday
night. She is here tor Jennings boom of
Nos. moorcd at March's Point, boui d Tor
Pv,t Blakeley.
The Fall t, rm of Alden Academy opens
Otober Isl. 1883. We are informed by
Prof. Tnoc that the prospects for tuii
attendance were n yer better. As only u
limited number can be accommodated.
those first applying will be on the safe
slc, as we under stand some were refused
LAST year ;or ant of room.
A petition is being circulated at Ltcon
ner and on the Skagit to divide Whatcsm
county. The line of division IS 10 be on
the Chuckanut mountains, and running
west hetuetn Cottonwood and Gucmes
Islands, bringing Guemes, Cypress and
Fidalge Islands into the southern portion
and making Laconncr the county seat
The long drought has at last been ter
minated W plentiful rains. which fell in
cop.ous showers at intervals for several
days at the beginning of the week. the
air has been Gle, red of the smoke and fog
which have lung in dense clouds over the
t,untry, and rendering navigation upon
these waters extremely hazardous. The
forest Tres winch have ragged so long
have been distinguished, and need give no
further alarm.
Attention is called 10 the ENTERPRISE
premium map OF the "Fuca Mes!iterra-
ncan'' or Page. Sound. 1t is 42x36
inches in size, and is the best outline map
ever published OF the Puget Sound basin.
aud the only one that gives the waters OF
British Columbia in connection with those
Of Washington Territory. This map is
given with the paper for one year for 81,
and is we'll worth the money alone.
Two railroads are being surveyed along
the wagon road leading frsm Whatcom
to the Nooksack crossing; one under the
direction Of Cornwall and Mills and the
other under the control OF Mr.. Garfield,
With the old veteran, Sheets, at the head
sf the surveying party. The stakes of
both companies are driven along the road,
one occupying the lett and the other the
right side, and both parties are trying their
utmost to get to the boundary line first.
Where these roads are TO cross tue Frazer
river, or whether bridging that stream is
possible at all. are questions wholly un'
known 70 either oil the parties who are
making tbs surveys.