Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-04-21
TERRITORIAL NEWS.

The postofice in Pomeroy issued dur,
ing the past quarter postal orders to the
amount of $4,000.
Large numbers OF sheep are brotght 10
New Tacoma by lail to he r,shippcd to
Victoria and Sound por S.
During March Mr.. Iartsock, lumber
Inspector, sealed 2,030,721 feet of logs in
Distri Nc. 3, Thurstou county.
In February last there were $500 acres
of public land entered in the Walla Wala
land office, and in March %, 040 acres.
Thomas II: Rooney, the new receiver
of the Walla Walla land office, is said to
be a nephew of Senator Fair of Nevada.
Eighty thousand pounds OF clans are
to be put upon the market from the beds
at Sequim, near Port Townsend, this sea-
son.
A prominent mill man and capitalist
from Wisconsin Is reported to be in the
Grays Harbor region, seeking site for
an imml use mill.
Prof Hubner was waylaid one night
recently in the streets of Vancouver, by
several men who stole his watch and
chain. valued at $3.50.
Garfield county has about 100, DOC acres
of vacant government land, that is mostly
in the Assotin country, near Snake River
and close under the Blue Mountains.
The Willamette Farmer says that there
are about $4,000 acres o. government
land in the northwestern part of Column
bia county, in the vicinity of Tukannon.
The cash receipts of the Olympia land
office for the month of March, lacked but
a few dollars of $4,000. which is an
enormous increase over the business Of
former months.
Cattle and horses left TO themselves
east of the mountains last winter are
very thin in flesh. Stockmen should pros
ers burn every fall.
The agents tor railroad lands at Spragus
sold during March $500 acres for 81 5000.
beside ten lots in SIr que and Stevens,
ranging in price from s75 to 800. The
lands were sold mostly'so newcomers.
w. w. Newlin, a brilliant lawyer, for
merly U. S. land register at Vancouver.
committed suicide at Walla Walla re,
Gently by poison. 1t is said he did the
deed to find relief from the power of the
whskey fiend, to which he had become
victim.
Spokane Falls is in the enjoyment Of
lite in the real estate market heretofore
unknown in that region. Lots sell there
rapidly at the highest prices. One dealer
in II single month sold 81 lots at from
$75 to $3.50 apiece. r. w. Forr st sold
100 acres, two miles from town, at $50 an
acre. ID. p. Jenkins sold 40 acres nd.
joining the town at $l75 an acre. Sew,
eral additions to the town are being plat.
ted preparatory to putting on the market
Mail advices from Chehalis, w. T., arc
that W. II. Terry, farmer living near
the head OF Chehal,s River, was killed on
Thursday week ago by falling tree
Not returning home his wife started in
arch and found the body. No neigh.
bors were within two miles. so she got
saw, cut section out of the log, freed the
body, dragged 1t home, and remained
with it all night. Terry arrived at Che
halls from Indiana last summer, and was
a hardworking, honest man.
In and around Tacoma, cleaned from
the News: A large number of horses
have come through by rail from Kalama
to this city recently, for shipment by
steamer to Victoria, for use on the Cana
dian Pacific Railroad. d. "A large raft of
logs was recently put into the boom at
the Olympia Railroad depot, belonging to
Foster, containing about 100000 feet.
and waiting steamer to be towed to
the Tacoma mills. Immediately upon
the completion Of the new buukers a ROOT
800 feet long will be placed over the en-
tire structure, and covered with iron.
The sides will also be boarded up in or
der to protect the frame from the effects
of the weather. The Howe truss bridge
will be completed this week. and it is
thought the outside bunker will lie ready
for use in loading the collier San Pedro.
which will probably be here on her Sec
ond trip late next week. {. . Tacoma con.
tinues to lead in lumber production. OF
the twelve vessels sailing foreign in March,
four loaded at Hanson g. Co.'S mill. with
cargees aggregating in value $51 ,3l273,
while the value OF all the lumber ship
ped foreign from Port Blakely, Utsalady,
Port Gamble and Port Discovery was
$67, 474 The bids for the construction
OF bridge cross the Puyallup River.
rear the village. according to the pla' 8
and specifics tons in the Auditors office,
will probably be opened 1T the May