The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-07-14
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD


upon which filings were made of can
didates for state and county Offices in
the September primaries of both par
ties
The prune crop this year in Clark
county will not be more than from
one-half to two-thirds of an average
crop, owing to the late frosts and the
cold spring rains.
The total area of coal lands with
drawn in Washington aggregates q
207,961 acres scattered in a number
OF tracts in the western and central
parts of the state.
The members of the Congregations
church of Walla Walla have deter
mined to build new church to cost
$4,000. 1t is expected to be com
pleted by the fall of 1912.
Wesley L. Jones. United States SEN
ator from Washington, has announced
his intention of supporting John l..
Wilson of Seattle for the position now
occupied by Senator Piles.
The bureau of Indian affairs has
completed plans for retaining about
10000 acres of swamp lands in the va.
kima reservation. All plans have been
made and active work probably will
begin at once.
Judge A. E. Rice has announced
that he will be candidate for su.
preme judge at the coming Republican
state convention. Judge Rice has for
several years presided over the super
Tor court of Lewis, Pacific and Wah.
kiakum counties.
What is claimed to be an apti-mar.
rage matrimonial club. organized and
comprising all the handsome young
women of Montesano, is one of the
subjects which the young men of that
city are DESTROYS of having brought be-
fore the present grand jury for inves-
tigation.
State Grain Inspector Hoist says
that the indications are for crop of
fully 80 per cent of last years bumper
yield and with the large amount of
wheat held over by the farmers from
last fall, will bring the total amount
available for this winter up to nearly
the usual figure. The outlook for oats
and barley he reports as poor.
A successful innovation of openair
theatricals was made at the Cheney
Normal, when scenes from las You
Like IT. were produced on the lawn
in front OF the main building at the
state normal. A stage was arranged
and the slope to the normal grounds
made an amphitheater. 400 students
and citizens attending
That the threatened epidemic of
measles in Columbia county has been
about stamped out is the opinion of
physicians IN Dayton. Although many
cases have been reported in the last
few weeks, only one death SO far has
been attributed indirectly or other.
wise to the effects of the malady. Ex
cept for few cases OF measles. the
county is reported free from contagi
Gus disease.
Although the county commissioners
and treasurer Of Chehalis county are
sharply criticised for not following the
laws regarding their official duties
Treasurer Taylor learns that his short
age is but $500, according to the re
port of the state examiners, rather
than shortage of s2075, reported by
a firm of Seattle accountants, whom
Taylor recently employed to check hi:
books.
Ranchers throughout the White Sal
mon valley are enthusiastic over the
proposed electric line and are sub
scribng literally toward running
thorough survey and right-of-way con
cessions. The tonnage shipped from
the increasing populated districts hal
demanded some kind of Transportation
facilities other than by wagons for tn,
past two years. Ranchers and bust
ness men realize that an electric rail
way will be paying investment from
the start
That the ]. R. Batten who was ar
rested June 10 at New Orleans on 6
charge of fraudulent use of the mail.
and who pleaded guilty June 80 ane
was sentenced to two years at hare
labor in the United States penitentiary
at Atlanta. Ga. is the same man who
opened produce house in Seattle in
April, and after operating about three
weeks fleeced shippers in Washington
and Oregon out of sum estimated a,
not less than $4,000, is the opinion held
by officers of the Seattle Dairy Pro
luce Exchange who have q mass OF
evidence against the Seattle operator
Attorneys for Charles F. Newcombe
convicted in the lower courts OF frs,
degree murder in connection with the
death of Martin Kvslshaug, at Ia
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