Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1884-01-12
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is possible at all seasons of the
year.
From $50 to 300 4 month is paid
to laborers in the lumber camps OF
Whatcom and Skagit counties.
Philip Bowman, 50 years Of age,
was recently run over BY the cars
at Cumberland, Maine, and killed.
The steam Launch Helen from
Port Townsend arrived at Aacortes
on Wednesday, on a pleasure trip
through the Islands.
A heavy snowstorm fell in New
York on Christmas eve, otstructing
travel and delaying all the trains.
Mr.. Joseph Bridges died last
week at Wkatcom of heart disclose.
He was for many years u resident
of Orcas Island.
The Mullen tunn Ell, through the
main divide of the Rocky noun
tians, $3.50 feet in length, is now
completed. Two years were requir-
ed in constructing the work.
Arrangements have been made
to bold Worlds Fair in San Fran
cisco in 1857, Governor Stoneman
OF California is President of the
committe OF arrangements.
A large school Of whales of the
back yer ETY. were seen disport>
ing themselves in Ship Harbor on
Saturday. They came within gun
shot OF the Anacortes wharf
The Michigan Central Railroad
issues about SO, 900 passes annually
at Chicago, some OF them being for
the whole year, and from that to
three months, aud single trips.
A train while rushing through a
hugo snow drift at Milford, Cons
necticut was stopped by the snow
putting out the fires. An explosion
followed killing the fireman and en-
sin2er.
Mr.. NJ. J. Norde OF Fidalgo Is
land. has taken up about 1900 acres
of land ut the foot of the Olympia
range west Of Port Towused. lie
will also invest on the San Juan
islands, if desirable lands will offer.
While Mrs. Julia Farrell was pas
sing in front of II grito In Cincln'
uatti, her dress caught on FIRE, and
before assistance could reach her
she was so badly burned that she
nied soon after.
A:coiored convention will meet
at ftichmand, Va, on the SECOND
Tuesday in July. for the purpose o
giving the entire colored vote to the
party which facors their civil
rights, aud recognizes them as citi
zcns.
With the exception of the ladies,
u full ,ote> was cast at the Shil
Harbor precinct on Tuesday, tn
Republicans having n majority, ex
cent in the case of Miss Brady VIII
had the largest vote for the schoo
supevintcndcncy.
Nine million copies of the st. ia
eobs Oil Book OF Health and. HUI
NOR for 1884 have been published
for gratuitous distribution. Jost
Billings, Bill Nye, Burdette of the
Hawkseys. and Knox of the Texa
Siftings, are contributors to its pa
gee.
Tho rich Carbon mine in Montan,
which was lost by two of the dis
coverers being murdered by Indi" n
and the survivor becoming insane 8
that he could never trace the trai
has been rediscovered by Jacob My
or, who has traced the lode twenty
Ave miles, and it proves to be vcr
rich.
The steamer Washington wa
stuck in tho mud on the Swinomis
slough, from noon on Friday last
til Saturday morning, a period o
about eighteen hours, befor tho tide
rose high enough to swing her OH
These delays will necessitate tn
mail steamers to abandon the slougl
and go through Deception Pass, il
order to arrive at their destination
on schedule time.
The fear expressed by the OPP
p0nents of woman suffrage tina
aisrepHtable ladies would vote Will
the better class would stay at home
vas NOS verified at the Ship Uarbo
precinct, daring the election thu
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