The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-16
THE COUNTY
COMMENT
COMMENT

Evangelist William Matheson. an
ex-'lumber jack is holding meetings
in Blaine. Why must an evangelist be
an ex-anything besides sinner?
Bellingham is going to vote in an
eff6ft to get a commission form of
the government.
Bellingham High School boys dis
graced themselves and school Friday
by mobbing together and tearing col
lars and ties off their teachers. They
should spend a week or two in jail.
We see by the Blaine Journal Of 20
years ago that the Lynden Pioneer
Press was about to move to Birch
Bay. 1t didn't do it. though later a
time came when the editor couldn't
make a living in the little hamlet
then here. He turned his paper over
to the school children and they issu-
ed it occasionally. Finally it was quit
altogether and the plant was sold.
There was no paper then until the
Tribune's predecessors started up at
the beginning of the Twentieth CEN
fury.
The Birch Bay Chauauqua will be
held the last week in July. One day
is to be set aside for Lynden.
Hugh Behme, the q year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Behme, of Custer,
died last Saturday night from a
bursted blood vessel near the heart.
He was one Of the Custer school nine.
Saturday he was at Birch Bay pic
mic. On the way home ne got out
of the wagon and to catch up ran a
bcu two miles. He reached the wag-
ON and sprang into it, falling dead in
the bottom.
A crazy man Tor was heO In the
Jail at Bellingham says 1t is writ in
the book of fate" that A. L. Black,
f Bellingham is to be the next pres
ident of the United States. COnsarn 1t
we should think Bellingham would be
satisfied with bagging all the coun-
ty offices.
Two brothers aged - and Is, Fred
and Meyer KnutesOn, were drowned
while in swimming in a pool near
their h. me, three miles east of Nook
sack last Saturday. They had been
missing from the house only few
moments when their bodies were found
locked in embrace in about four feet
of water. They had often been In
swimming in the water and the only
supposition is that one of them had
been taken with cramps and that the
other went to his rescue.
O. C. Hamilton who owned a $50
acre farm in river bottom near Fern
dale, sold it last week to J. z. Nord-
by for $13,500 or nearly about half
the value of river bottom land In
this vicinity.
The Standard No. fishing schoon
er out Of Bellingham was driven on
the rocks just beyond the straits last
Saturday.
Kinsey and Fell objected to paying
Sheriff Van Zandt TN cents meal
fer the prisoners. and so undertook 10
hire cook and buy the food for the
county and allow the county to pay
the bills. They are now. according to
the Sunday Herald, paying 80 cents
meal. After all it may be persecution
and not prosecution that Van Zandt
getting.
&c rec Whipple, of Northwood, had
a roundup with the commissi oners
Saturday, that looks like a grand
stand affair all around. Whipple who
is said to be candidate for office.
built the road FROM NAPLES mill to
the Guide Meridian. He has had trou-
BILE ever since he began the work with
the county commissioners. He says,
according to his friends, that he has
been annoyed because he did not
stand in with the old ring politicians,
which may be true for all we know,
but it looks as if part of his trouble
originated with purpose OF not oriety
when he would 60 the commission
ers for his row, accompanied by a re-
y rter of the yellOwest paper in the
conntv. The commissioners say that
all of his trouble results from refusal
to follow orders on his contract. The
Tribune don't know who is right and
who is wrong, SO will not attempt to
say.
| 1t is possible that there will be no
republic an convention in this county
this fall. according to Chairman Bris-
ban as reported in the Herald. The
only thing to be done at convention
is to nominate delegates to the state
convention that will name candidates
for the supreme court, and there Is
said to be no contest on these offices
The Tribune should think another i'm
p-rtant matter was resolutions, for
at the present time this state is pref
ty well divided between insurgent and
antii-insurgent republicans. However
the Tribune is not a politician. and OF
course is quite likely to be mistaken
in what should be done. The central
committee has been called to decide
whether convention is needed or NOT
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