Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-05-26
BRIEF MENTION.


Mr. John J. Elens is getting out piles
for Bellingham City.
Frank M. Walsh has gone to Whatcom
to work on the Reveille.
Jack Swerdfiger writes that he likes
farming, as far as he has gone.
DIR. VanZant, will move his family from
Seattle to Whatcum next week.
Bancroft is the name selected for the
new town site at Alden Academy.
Ladies' Missionary Meeting at the
house OF Mr.. Nelson, at ? pm. today,
Saturday, May &c.
Considerable annoyance is experienced
at Whatcom from the difficulty In pro-
curing lumber fer building purposes.
The little son OF Mr.. Lewis of Guemes
Island has been very i'll for several days.
The disease is supposed to be diphtheria.
George Coupe, the genial purser of the
Washington, has resigned his position on
that boat, being succeeded 5y Mr.. Lyon.
The work on Maugan's wharf is pro-
crossing finely, and Tim has gone to Sc
attic to get the necessary lumber to COM
plete it.
The public school in the Jennings dis
trict. on the mainland, commenced last
week, with Mss Nellie Graham of FL
dalgo Island as teacher.
A number OF the employees of the
steamer Idaho have recently located
claims on the Samish. Messrs Green,
Poor and others wcit up this week to To-
cate.
On Monday evening the Washington
brought over from Lummi boom of
piles for the new wharf at Whatcom,
which are being driven AS rapidly as pos
sitle.
Mr.. Brown of the Department OF Agri-
culture, Washington, called at Anacortes
this week. Mr.. Brown is looking up the
resources of the Northwest for the inior-
nation of the Department.
sIr. Allen A. Curtis, brother of Mrs.
Amos Bowman, spent several days with
his sister and family, at Anacertes, this
week. Mr.. Curtis left Ivy the steamer
Washington, yesterday, for San Francisco.
Mark one for Laconner. On Tuesday
the citizens met and concluded to have
grand celebration on the Fourth. A gem
sral committee OF eleven was appointed,
which appointed subcommittee on
finances, sport, etc.
Large quantities Of stone are now being
taken from the quarry at Chuckanut by
the steamer Gipsey Especially chartered
by the 0. r. 6 N. Company for that pur-
pose) to be used for building and s. rect
purposes at Seattle.
Robert Kirby OF Sucia Island, Cult Of
Georgia, with his fishing schooner, the
Champion, dropped anchor in Ship Har-
bor on Tuesday last. Mr.. Kirby will
spend the season at the halibut bank be-
tween Lummi Island and Point Roberts.
The material for Will D. Jenkins new
paper, the Whatcom Reveille, went down
to Whatcom on the Idaho on Monday. A
irst>class Job Office is included in the out
fit. 1t is expected the first notes Of the
Rsysille will be sounded about June LIST.
We learn that. acting under instruc-
tions from the owners. Mr.. Eldredge has
suspended tue sale Of town lots in the
new town of Beliingham City. and the
plat has been withdrawn from the market.
Lots have been selling readily at from
500 to $3.50 apiece.
Rev. e. o. Tadc of Alden Academy
contempla,es the erection OF large thres>
story building Tor academic purposes this
summer. The present Academy buildings
are inadequate to the accommodation of
the largely increased number Of pupils
attending that growing institution.
On Thursday morning last, while the
steamer Washington was lying at anchor
off Sehome, Sam Hoyt. the Mate, in as
sisting in weighing anchor, hurt his leg
very severely, and becoming eLtangled in
the hawser, was tripped overheard. He
narrowly escaped drowning, and sank
twice before being rescued.
Rumcr ha- it that Capt. Curtis Browns
held, the popular master OF the Washing
ton, is about to withdraw from the eni-
plsy Of the w. s. s. T. Company aud ac>
cspt more lucrative position. 1t is TO
DC hoped lie viii not do so. Brownfeld
y one Of the most accommodating and
efiicient captains on the Sound, and the
company cannot easily find his equal.
A gentleman from Seattle informed us
aiew days ago OF an affair that occurred
aboard Of certain sound steamer that
y ought 20 attract the attention OF the Port
Townsend authorities. Tie gentleman
tays that while the steamer was lying At
TIE wharf in Seattle an employee came
aboard with two pairs OF oars and row.
locks, articles with which the boat was