Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-02-17
URIEF MENTION.

Seal catching on the Straits has as
sumed considerable proportions this year
The Washington Colony have COM
menced extensive improvements at What
com.
j Attention is called to the article "For
Timber Land Buyers" on our second
page.
A daughter was added to the family OF
p. Brewster of Laconncr on the 9Th
inst.
Mr.. OBryant, OF Gucmas Island, shipped
so or 20 boxes Of fine apples to Laconner
last week.
There are signs Of boom on the Sam
ish the coming Season, like unto that on
the Nooksack.
Messrs o. Graham and W. Dcutsch re-
turned from Seattle by the Welcome, on
Tuesday last.
Mr.. Shadrach Wooten came over from
Cypress Island in his sloop, the Nip and
Tuck" last Tuesday.
Three inches of snow fell at Anacortes
on Wednesday. The south end of Cues
mes Island, our nearest neighbor, had
much less.
A little son of Mrs. A. W. Day, late of
Spokane Falls, was drowned in Samamish
Slough, on the LIST inst, by the overturn-
ing OF a boat.
A. G. Kelly, of the Skagit, who was in
jured by the explosion of the Josephine,
died at the hospital in Seattle, on Sunday
morning, Jan. 2Sth.
The country round about Whatcom and
the Nooksack will make rapid strides
this year in increase of population aud
general development.
In another year double the transporta-
ton facilities we now have will not he
sufficient for the growing trade of What
com and San Juan cointi,s.
The progr, IS of San Juan county is
marked by steady and healthy growth,
and the coming spring and summer will
bring renewed and increased prospersity
The steamer Dispatch encountered mn
accident tn her screw on her trip from
Semiahmoo to Whatcom, hence her ina
bllity to reach all the points on her route
hist week.
Laconncr poslnfficc during the month
Of January issued 1870 money orleI 8
amounting I" S5,475Sl reing the largest
amount issued for any one month lin c
its esiablishment.-Mail.
Dir. jesse Francis. Lrothcr of Mrs
James Caches. arrived last week from
England, and kas settled down with us
as clerk in the store OF Messrs ]. & @
Gsches, the leading merchants of Lacon-
ner.-Mail.
We have received copy Of new
weekly piper, the "Woman's World"
published by Helen Wimans, Chicago.
1t is the best edited journal of the kind
We have ever seen, and We would like to
see it circulate everywhere.
Mr.. Beecher appeared as purser of the
Welcome ON her Tuesdays trip to Ship
Harbor. We do not know what has be
come of Mr.. Starett, bis predecessor. but
suppose lie has been appointed to some
other route. Mr.. Beechsr is very clever
gentleman, and our people will like him.
From one of our correspon tents we
learn that the energetic Mr.. KATE has
made up his mind TO change his place OF
business from San Juan to Friday Har-
Dor, having made a proposition to the
Board of Commissioners to buy the county
building and lot, with the intention of
building large store ami wharf. 1t rs
also rumored that he will have hotel
built before long. This is wise move OF
Mr. KATE, and if he had done this before
how, it would have kept much of the
trade, which had left these islands. at
home. However, it is never too late to
do good.
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