Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-05-05
T'IREsEYOaEAE NEWS.

III. nltnlal.
Fifteen applications for divorce are on
the District Court calender in Spokane
county.
The recent election for city officers IN
Goldendale resulted in victory for the
temperance ticket.
From all parts of Eastern Washington
come reports OF increased acreage and
good crop prospects.
The sum of $500 has been subscribed
toward the purchase of grounds Tor
county fair purposes at Walla Wala.
A boy named iiie Frazier died at
Tacoma on the 18th from the effects OF
putting lighted matches into his mouth.
The Alaska Commercial Company has
bought the Western Fur Company, and
now has no competitor In the Alaska fur
business.
The weather is getting warmer east of
the mountains, and the rain has ceased.
Crops look beautiful and large yields are
expected.
c. L. Dingley and Mr.. Boole, OF Mid
dlemiss & Boole, of San Francisco, are
trying to establish ship yard at Port
Townsend.
A noble Siwash over in Whitman coun-
ty recently digested 81 hard boiled eggs
at one sitting. Somebody ought to have
wrung in china egg on him.
A mammoth Touring mill will shortly
be erected at Colinx by Warner & Talbot.
The mill viii! be 75x1OO ieet, five stories
high, and will cost sos 200,
A girl named Agnes Day died at Pom
er"y the other dry, from the effects OF i'm
pure vaccine matter which had been in
jected into her arm.
An ominous cloud is towering over the
title TO the town site of Sprague. 1t is
claimed that the land belongs to the gov
ernment, and was never owned by the
railroad company.
During the next four months We may
expect many immigrants direct from Eu-
rope. European agents are ticketiug
them through to San Francisco by way of
New Orleans at $35 head
A company OF foreign capitalists rep
resenting IA capital of 81, 600, 000, ARE talks
ing of const ucting an irrigating canal
which will cover the whole lower Yakima
country on the east side.
Some of the Puyallup hop growers held
OF to to their product little too long,
and sold for 81 cents per pound lew
days ago, about 5000 per ton less than
they might have been sold for three
months ago.
1t is expected that there will be large
immigration into Wahklakum county the
coming summer. The timber anos are
very valuable, aud are attract ing much
attention. When cleared the land is fer.
tile, and stock of all kinds do we'll.
NJ G. Marsilliot, for several years occu-
plying the position of first assistant en-
g:neer on the revenue cutter Wolcott, has
been transferred to the steamer Hartley,
ut San Francisco. The position made va.
cant by this transfer will 10 filled by Hor
ace Hassel.
The Terminal Land Company has re-
Gently been incorporated in Portland by
Charles p. Church, Robert E. Bybee and
III. L. Pittock, for the purpose of laying
out, surveying and locating townsite
known as Coulter's addition to New Ia
coma. The capital stock is $780, 900.
Walter Coffin, deputy sheriff, was
killed on the 25th ult. in the Squaw Creek
mountains by man named Cannart,
whom he was sent to arrest. Cannart
was the principal in the Island City,
Union county, tragedy last February.
The Governor and the friends of Coffin
have offered rewards amounting to $780,
A telegram from San Francisco states
that a colony of $50 German farmers was
organized at Denver, and left there two
weeks ago for Washington Territory.
They will locate near the mouth of the
Snohomish river, where they propose to
establish the nucleus of a thriving town
The company is under the management OF
II. Widdick.