Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-07-14
TsiRKIy0RIAL MEMS,

~ bridge is building over the Sitsop
River.
Several cases of diphtheria have oc-
cured at Walla Wala.
Alfred Tozia Of Oregon is about to
start paper at Chehais Station.
The assessment OF property IN Garfield
county is almost double what it was last
year.
Papers east of the mountains are com
planning that whisky is being furnished
TO Indians.
The proposed wagon road from Seattle
to Ellensburg, through the Snequamie
Pass, will be 100 miles long.
A contract for building $1,000 Meth
odist church at Elma, Chehais county
has been let to John Milburn.
Moses Heroux of Lewis county la 4
tour OF his ribs fractured recently by
horse kicking him in the breast.
On June 21st A. J. Waller was killed at
Silver Creek by falling tree. Deceased
came from Ii nsas and was SO years old.
Our exchanges throughout the Terri-
tory and Oregon are one and all beseech
ing old Jupiter Pluvius to bring out his
sprink er.--Eye.
A pistol ball, accidentally discharged.
struck a man named Daniels in the cheek,
week before last, Mt Arcadia, SCATTERING
the jawboue and knocking out several
teeth.
The numerous complaints about viola
tions Of the laws in the sale of public
lands in this Territory has attracted the
attention of the General Land Office, and
special agents are now in the Territory to
Investigate these complaints.
The Department of the Interior has
caused TO be posted throughout the Sound
ceontry a warning against setting fires in
timber on the public lands and promising
prosecution to the full extent of the law
of any person Or persons guilty OF tue
ofiense.
THE wharf or Fidalgo bay, which is
being built 10y Judge White opposite his
place, is nearing completion. Prcpara-
tons are in progress for supplying tie
stsamers With wood aud water. For the
latter purpose n large tank will he used.
sufficient to surp'y all the water that the
steamei will want to use.
The Pomeroy Rep, w. r., says hum
dreds OF wagons pass along tho roads to
the mountains. Timber, posts, poles,
lumber, cordwood, shingles and all sorts
of building material are coming down in
much greater quantities than ever before.
The Independent says it will not be FIVE
years before that valley, for two miles in
length, will be one solid town OF business
houses, elevators, depots, round-bouses,
machines shops and residences.
Many Immigrants to Whitman county,
says the Boomerang, complain that nearly
all the good land is claimed by some one.
| oiC shii hhNt tiA'tlt'l tlIitS
or four miles without seeing house,
and yet every loot of that land WAS
claimed by some one. When l inquire
of AN old settler for some vacant land he
generally says there is none in this vicin-
ity." Unless something is done NJ once
to induce people IT, abandon these "dum>
my CLAIMS" and give the immigrants OPP
portunities TO secure homes, we are going
to turn the tide OF immigration away
from the Palouse country. Hardly one
acre in fifty in this part of the country is
being put to any use, yet the land hunter
is sent away because everybody says
There is no vacant land here" Either
make use of the land or let some one
have it that will.
The steamship Ma lras with $50 China
men on board, which WAS detained in
quarantine at Honolulu some time ago.
with smallpox on board, arrived at Vic
toria last week and attempted to enter
the har5or with several cases on board
suffering from that disease. "She was or
dered outside the harbor, where she will
remain for the next fouite n days before
being allowed to enter the harbor and
discharge her human cargo. Two Chna-
men who are afflicted with the lcathsome
disease have been removed to the pest
house back OF the Indian reservation.
Had the steamer succeeded in entering
the harbor, IN coming alongside the
wharf and discharglng her pestilential
passengers, the consequences are fearful to
contemplate. Fortunately that object
was frustrated; but the attempt is none
the less to be condemned, for had it sue
ceeded the yellow flag would be in Veto
ria to-day instead OF on the steamer y
Victoria Post.
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