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

called to take place At Republic on
July Is.
A subagency and model farm will
be established on the Colville Indian
reservation near Omak
Representative Poindexter went to
Oyster Bay Tuesday to see Colonel
Roosevelt.
The Pacific 4 Eastern railway has
decided to connect its western termi-
nal. which is just above Willapa. with
the Northern Pacific at Willapa.
The United States assay office At
Seattle received $500. 900 in gold from
Nome and Fairbanks. nearly $780,.
900 Of 1t coming by mail. y
While attempting to cross the Ska.
git river Mrs. John Jones, wife Of a
Waterman in the Great Northern ter
minals At Rockport. was drowned in
sight Of her husband. They had been
married only . few months.
The state has received notice that
its bid il accepted for $4,000 in
bonds, which were recently issued BIZ
Pacific County to finance the construc.
ton OF new court house in South
Bend.
1t Is reported that petition is being
circulated throughout Ferry county
asking Judge E. W. Taylor of the su.
perior court to call q grand jury. II
done It will be the first called since
the county was organized.
w. B. Hill. United States engineer
In the Indian department. is in Okla
hogan investigating the proposition Of
installing . power plant to pump wa
ter from the Okanogan river to irri.
gate Indian lands.
A total of 176.662.717 pieces of mail.
in the shape of letters and papers. was
handled by the Seattle postofiice dur.
ing the fiscal year ending June 80. OF
this number. 16.535.36s were letters
mailed and distributed in the city.
Extensions made this year on the
Roslyn branch of the Northern Pacific
have brought that line to Jonesville
= within a mile and half Of Lake Clea
lum. Further extensions are planned
which will make the lake readily &C
cessible.
z The Fern Hill residents. in theil
Aght with the Tacoma street-car com
nnpy. have raised fund to oppose the
application of the company for an in
junction in the federal court. At a
mass meeting $4,000 was asked by the
leaders for the contest and in few
minutes S5l2.50 was raised.
Mrs. Mary Lehan. q full-blooded
Cherokee Indian woman. with . fam
. ny u great proportions. arrived in
North Yakima and presented to the
police authorities credentials from
all over the country. Mrs. Lehans
family OF twenty-one children accom-
Daeier her, and she sells charms and
teln fortunes for their support
The quarrel over the estate Of the
late Senator Walter ]. Reed is ended
Aftnr some months of incriminationa
and litigation between the widow
brother and sister OF the dead man
the settlement of the estate will be
concluded without legal action The
matter has been Of special interest
owing to the prominence Of the par
ties concerned.
Fruit growers in conference Al
North Yakima appointed a committee
Of i've men to represent the various
fruit districts of the Yakima valley
In procuring information as to crop
and n.Arket conditions SO that the
growers may be able to meet the buy
ers on an equal footing when selling
their peaches and other crops.
Two hours after he had made appli
cation for Job and received It. Ed.
ward Mas. . laborer. was 4 corpse in
the Walla walls morgue. He was pu,
to work with gang Of men employ J.
putting an elevator in the Denny
building and the centerweight dropped
from the top OF the building. striking
the maakin the neck
That the various communities in the
state inDsrested In developing rivers
and harbors may benefit by the gov.
srnments appropriation for such pur.
poses. DR.. N. g. Blalock. Of Walla
Walla. state director of the National
River and Harbors Congress. plans to
meet with the citisens interested IN
this work for the purpose Of organis-
ing q statercommittee.
A strikes Of the metal crafts which
already involves thirty-hve machinists.
blacksmiths and boilermakers at the
Union Iron Works at Spokane. has
been declared on refusal Of the CON-
pany to discharge q nonunion black.
smith. 1t II expected that when the
matter 10 taken up by the central Ia.
Dor BODIES the patternmakers and
noulderS viii be called out and q gen