The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-12-29
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD


consideration of $4,000.
Thirty-three divorces granted In
three nours set new records both for
continuity of performance and for
speed in the superior court at Sc
attic.
Pretending to be agents, but IN
reality a pair of clever swindlers, w.
p. Clark and Roy Wilson. who are
said to have forged checks amounting
to 5000 in Walla Walla, are being
sought by the officers of that city.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the supervising architect to
prepare plans Immediately for pub
lie building at Olympia. that being
the only state capitol in the United
States that now has no federal build
ing.
At the request of the Seattle board
of trade the trustees of the Walla
Walla commercial club passed reso-
luton asking Congress to make ap-
propriations for the Notifications OF
the Pacific coast and especially Puget
Sound.
One man Is dead, another Is in the
city hospital and four others are Sc
riously ill with beri beri, peculiar
dieease which broke out on the Brit
ish steamship Beachy at Seattle. The
disease came to the attention of the
health department when Arsai Ali,
Hindu sailor on the steamer. died.
BY vote of II to /, the Seattle
council voted to revoke the franchise
of the Seattle-Renton and Southern
Railroad Company, which operates
the suburban line into the Rainier
valley, commonly known as the Craw-
ford lines.
Frank B. Westling, for 20 years an
attorney in Seattle. has been ordered
disbarred by the grievance committee
of the Seattle Bar Association, and
action will be taken at once. One OF
several counts against Westling is
that he endeavored to browbeat and
coerce men into voting for him as
prosecuting attorney and for other
men he was working for.
j. P. Hubrick, who threatened the
life of his daughter, must return to
the state penitentiary whence he was
paroled. Hubrick was sentenced to
IA years for stealing coal. but was
pardoned on condition that he follow
the narrow path and support his fam
lily. Governor Hay revoked the par
don and Hubrick was returned to
prison without trial.
The first local option election in
Richland will be held December 81.
There has been no saloon in the town
since its establishment, although the
sentiment has never been tested.
Should Richland vote "dry" only one
county town will have saloons. Ken.
newick. The remainder of the
county is dry" through local option
votes.
Approximately $4,000 carloads of
shingles were shipped from the state
Of Washington during 1910, or about
1000 more cars than were shipped
last year, according to a manufacture
ers statement given out here. Al
though the shingle departments were
in excess of those Of the previous
year, the sales were nearly 10000
carloads less than sent out during the
banner years of the industry.
Twenty-one Spokane residents are
rated as owning property valued at
$r.O00.O00 or more; 28 are credited
with possessions worth 100000 to
$1,000,0O0, and 81 are listed at $780,
900 to 100000. 1t is estimated that
133.Spokane people own an aggregate
OF $5S.00o,0o0. The total assessed
valuation Of the entire city figured on
a 60 per cent basis is $s3.3o0.0o0.
The regents Of the University OF
Washington announce their accept
ance of the 100000 bequest left BY the
late Abraham and Sigmund Schwa-
bacher of San Francisco. The money
is to be devoted to the establishment
of child welfare bureau in the de-
partment Of education. The donation
is made through the efforts Of Mrs.
Nathan Eckstein Of Seattle. a daugh-
ter of Abraham Schwabacher.
Bert Schuman, alias Herbert Rola-
son, kidnaper Of 11-year-old Dewey
Wellman. was found guilty by . Jury
in the superior court at Seattle. The
fury took one ballot After the yer.
dict Schuman boldly admitted he had
previously served q term in the peni.
tertiary for the same offense and the
court adjudged him q habitual crimi.
nal and pronounced an indeterminats
sentence of from 20 to 20 years in
Walla Walla prison.
Veteran prospectors predict that
the most important miners rush in
the history Of the Northwest will fol.
low the passage Of a bill at the ses.
sion Of Congress opening to entry the
mineral lands Of the Spokane Indian
reservation. northeast Of that city.
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