Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-10-06
GENERAL NEWS.

acre Dalryple farm in the Red River
valley will net this year to its owns
CT 5000, 900.
The King County Industrial As
ISOLATION and the Walla Walla
County Association will hold no
fairs this season.
The Massachusetts, Democrats met
in Convention at Springfield, and
re-nominated General Butler for
Governor, by reclamation.
Gen. Hazard Stevens, son of
Gen. l. l. Stevens, the first Cover
nor of Washington Territory, is
visiting friends in Olympia. He is
resident of Boston, Mass.-Tran-
script.
The 50th anniversary of the New
York Sun occurred on September
Sd. 1t was the first 1-cent paper
ever published. and it has now a
daily edition Of $4,000 copies, and
has AN annual income of 81, 100000,
of which 100000 goes for expen-
ses.
Indians from Barclay sound, on
the west side of Vancouver's Island
report that some days ago an un-
known steamer blew up there, and
that quantities Of wreckage are com
ming ashore. 1t is believed here
that the wreckage is the .ettisoned
cargo from the steamer Queen OF
the Pacific, recently aground at the
entrance to the Columbia river, az d
that no steamer has been blown up.
During tho last year there. have
been received at the Northern Pa>
cific Bureau of Information at st
Paul and Portland over 5000 lets
ters of inqsiry, to which 100000
responses have been made. These
were in the way of copies of dcs-
criptive pamphlets. circulars, folds
ers and letters, printed in the Eng
lish, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish,
German, Dutch and Finnish Ian
guages.
On the 25th of November next
New York will celobrotc the Tooth
anniversary Of the evacuation Of tho
city by British troops. One fea-
ture of tho celebration will DO the
unwilling of q colossal statue of
Washington in Wall street. on the
steps Of the subtreasury building.
1t is believed the demonstration
will exceed anything in the recent
history OF the American metropolis.
In a recent interview Vice Pres
ident Cakes Of the Northern Pa
cific said: " The freight and pas
senger tariff of the company from
st. Paul and Lake Superior to the
Pacific Coast is made up on the
basis of the existing tariff between
Omaha and San Francisco. This
means a saving TO the people OF
Oregon and Washington Territory
on through freight OF from 25 to 80
per cent as compared with rates
paid in previous years"
The following dispatch, received
by Mr.. Paul Schulzc, of Portland,
from Mr.. y. +. Oakes, Vice-Presi>
dent Of the Northern Pacific, will set
all fears at rest "You are author
lied TO deny the rumors prevail
ing in Portland affecting Mr.. Vii
ard and this company. On the 20l h
inst, the stockholders adopted the
report and unanimously ra>elected
the old board of directors by ono Of
the largest votes over polled, viz
s65,0O0,OO0. Directly we can get a
quorum Of the board, probably this
week, we will elect officers for the
ensuing year.
A party of twen'y>four engineers,
with complete outfit, passed
through town on Thursday, August
18th, says the Yakima City Signal,
on their way to the centre Of the
Cascade mountains where they will
make definite location of the great
tunnel through the central range.
The party was in charge of j. Sour
ry. Another party is on it's way
here and will go forward to the
same point. The business of the
other party will be to cross. section
and finish up the work. The tun-
mel to be constructed will be from
sixteen to eighteen Thousand feet
IN length and will cost about two
svS,,l:ou Aovlas~