The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-30
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Seattle last week.
A big Indian celebration will be
held at Inchelium on the Fourth of
July. The sport will be ball game.
horse racing and foot racing.
The annual payroll of Aberdeen in
dustries is $4,5O0,OO0 The annual cut
Of lumber in Aberdeen mills is 300,
100000 feet
Plans are being made for the enter.
tainment of 1000 Eagles in North va.
kima on the occasion of the fifth an.
nual state convention of the order to
be held there July - and 13.
The city of Centralia is expending
100000 on the sewer system, extend.
ing it to residence districts which
have been built up in the last year o..
two.
By vote of % to 10 the people OF
Plaza signified their desire that the
school district erect a gymnasium on
the school grounds.
There will probably be no registra.
ton on the Yakima Indian Reserva-
ton this fall, because investigation
shows that after the allotments are all
made TO the Indians entitled to them,
there will be no land remaining suit.
able for homesteeds.
Two fishermen while after rainbow
trout on the White Salmon river, cap
tured deer, swimming in the river
where it flows through a canyon. The
animals leg was broken and it was
Floating logs had evidently injured
the deer as it tried to swim across
the river.
With a fortune of more than $780,
900 awaiting him in Chicago as the re-
suit of the death of relative in De-
troit, Mich. Thomas c. Sheldon, be-
lieved to have lived in Spokane with
in the last two years, IS being search
ed for by Chicago attorneys, who are
inclined to think the man dead.
Representative Niles Poindexter
has formulated the preliminary plans
Of his campaign for the senate. He
will leave Washington, D. c., shortly
after congress adjourns, for Spokane,
to remain there for some days. He
will then go to Seattle, the headquar-
tiers of his campaign in the western
part of the state.
Two six-inch guns for the firing of
day and night fireworks. said to be the
largest ever used in the Northwest
have been received by the Japanese
residents Of North Yakima for the
display which they will make on July
quantity of fireworks, worth several
hundred dollars, were also received
Mabton business men are endeayor-
ing TO secure the designation of that
point as registration place for the
opening of the Yakima Indian reser-
walton. The fact that most of the un-
allotted reservation lands are in the
south end of the reservation, near
Toppenish and Mabton, is cited as a
reason why the registration place
should be designated as one of these
two towns.
Whitman county seems destined to
30 back into a lower class than that
now occupied, for lack of sufficient
population TO maintain the class to
which il was advanced by the county
commissioners three years ago. The
census recently taken by the govern
ment is believed to show that the
county lacks several thousand of hav-
ing enough people to remain in the
seventh class, which requires a mini
mum of $4,000 inhabitants.
Senator Jones has taken up with
the secretary of the navy the question
OF having battleships designated for
Tacoma harbor during the military
tournament from July "a to 80. He
has not only urgea the designation of
these battleships, but also seconded
the request of the Tacoma chamber
OF commerce that the searchlights Of
the Oregon be loaned them for use in
illuminating the stadium for night per
formances. The secretary now has
both of these matters under considers.
ton.
In the application of pioneer stage
coach method to automobile racing
will be furnished an event of some
novelty in connection with the cele-
bration of the Fourth of July in North
Yakima this year. One Of the races
will be an automobile contest in which
each driver will start the engine dead.
crank up the machine, run a mile,
stop, take on a passenger, start, run
another mile, take on another passen-
ger, and so on. until he has taken on
four passengers and run five miles.
The contest is to be open to amateurs
only.