The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-10-06
EIpELIGHTS FROM OTHER
CITIES IN WASHINGTON


ton the Washington state fair cioseu
with a cash balance as result Oh the
big event.
Two trees of Bellflower apples III
the famous Pomona archard near Day
ton. this year yielded 12O poxes VI
first grade fruit, which netted the OWL
er SIPS.
The best exhibit of cattle ever maue
os+ of the Rockies is the statement
concerning the livestock exhlpit d.
tho state fair made by the judges IN
the department.
At the fall term of the state supreme
court, which opens Monday, OCTOBER
10 n total of 22S cases will be argued
and the term will extend over periou
of eleven weeks, or until the week De-
fore the Christmas holidays.
What is claimed to be the finest
nine organ in the Inland Empire mas
been established in the auditorium Vi
Washington State College. The organ
cost $500 and occupied two cars III
shipment from Chicago.
Oscar Cain, Federal district attor-
new for eastern Washington, can
draw no salary until winter. comp
troller of the Treasury Tracewell has
ordered Gains pay held up until the
senate confirms his appointment
A new trotting record for the state
of washington was made at the State
Fair races when the CANADIAN morse
Daybreak. driven by Joe MCGUIRE, won
the second heat of the 2:1O trot III
2:OS. The previous record was 2:o9A.
Interstate Commerce Commissioner
Prouty, who has been taking FINAL tes-
timony in the Pacific Coast backhaui
and Spokane rate cases, has voiced
and opinion that some of the rates
fixed by the commission in these
cases will be put in effect January l.
The Puget Sound Navigation com
pany's new steel steamship kulshan,
bound from Seattle to Bellingham with
passengers, went aground at the east
end of Deception Pass, between Fidal-
90 and WILDLY islands, 70 miles north
of Seattle. None Of the passengers
were injured.
Sixty barrels of catsup shipped to
Seattle from a San Francisco plant,
was seized and condemned by the fed
sral authorities at Seattle. 1t is al
eyed by the government that the cat
sup contained large quantities of glu'
,ose and harmful coloring matter, al
though it was labeled pure.
The fight is on in the Wenatchee
valley between the fruit growers and
the fruit buyers, and 1t is expected
that the result of the battle of this
year will be the foremath of fruit
association, which will in
,lude the present association and all
prominent growers of the valley.
Charles D. Howell, charged with
he robbery of United States mail
,ar attached to Great Northern
rain between Bonners Ferry, Idaho,
md Spokane, March Is, 1908, was
ound guilty by jury in the federal
.ourt at Spokane after an hours DELHI
,ration. The verdict means from rs
rears to life Imprisonment.
The surety company which furn-
shed to the state $4,000 bond for
Ortis Hamilton,
low serving term in the Walla
Nalla penitentiary for embezzlement
If state funds, denies that 1t is liable
o the state to make good any part
If General Hamilon's shortage.
At a conference between President
Taft and General Wood, chief of staff,
changes of general officers of the army
was discussed and 1t practically was
decided to relieve General NJ. F. Maus
Of the command of the Department OF
the Columbia, with station at Van
Barracks, and transfer him to
the command of the Department of
the Visayas, in the Philippines.
The department of journalism in
the University of Washington is at.
tracing widespread interest in the
state. From every section students
with journalistic aspirations are en-
tering under direction of Professors
Thrope and Percy. These men, who
have had wide experience in news
paper work, are building a large de.
partment. The enrolment has al
ready reached 80.
Declaring that Its assessed valua
ton had been raised to more than S27,.
100000 by the state board of equaliza,
ton rather than $19.50O,000 found by
the state railroad commission, the o.
r. & N. company secured q writ from
Commissioner Frye of the Thurston
county superior court, restraining the
state board of equalization from GER
flying the assessment to the various
until the superior court had