The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-09-08
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

$lOO.000,000 in round figures.
Preliminary surveys are being made
Tor an electric line from Lyle to Ca
mas Prairie. There are three transit
parties in the field.
10 take necessary steps, to secure
q municipal water system to cos
about 100000, is the plan of the CANA
council.
Ernest Peck of Oroville has been
appointed superior judge of Okanogar
and Ferry Counties by Governor H2y
vice Judge E. w. Taylor, deceased.
Cougars in the Cascades are report
ed by hunters to be as plentiful as
bear and exceedingly bold. The AMI
mails, it is thought, have been div en-
from their remote habitats by the for
est fires in the mountains
TIL local option fight is on again in
Wenatchee, the petition asking for the
election having been filed in the city
clerks office. A hard fight is pre-
dicted.
Samuel Berry of Spokane, who has
been developing 1000 acres of land in
Okanogan County, has recently added
1000 acres more to his holdings and
is now rated as owner of the largest
orchard on the Pacific Coast
After being revised by the board of
equalization, the total realty assess
ment of Pacific County, based on 80
per cent of actual value. is s7,2S9,664
The total personal assessment is $685.
1873, giving a total assessed valuation
OF $7,92S.797.
George F. Cooke, United States
Army, who recently stood court-mar-
tial at Seattle, for losing $4,000 of the
paymaster's funds, when he was com
handing officer at Fort Gibbon, Alas
ka, has been ordered to San Francisco
by the secretary of war.
Governor Hays offer of a reward
OF $3.50 for the capture of the perpe-
traitors of the attempt 10 dynamite the
Lyons building in Seattle is being pub
lished throughout the northwest in
the hope that somebody 'in on the
deal' Will give the information
Mrs. ]. P. Potts, of Weston, died al
Walla Walla, of pellagra. She was
native of Oregon. This is said to be
the only case in which the disease
was contracted in the Northwest, and
the only death recorded from this all
ment in this section.
Eugene Goff, 81 years of age, and
Guy Ronnes, 16, died Of suffocaion by
black damp in a well they were boring
on COTS place at Puyallup. The Ode
man was first overcome and in a
tempting to rescue him young Ronnes
lost his life.
The Seattle municipal authorities
opened negotiations tor the engage
ment of the services OF civil engi-
neer, who is to take charge of the
"beautifying" of the city and the or
ganization of plans Ter greater Seat
tie.
There has been filed with the Kick
itat County auditor deed conveying
in the aggregate 10,246 acres OF tim
Der lands to Edward F. Peer, OF Lam
sing. Mich. The deed of acreage is
the most extensive OF record to any
one individual in the annals Of Klicki-
tat County.
Exclusive of any bond issue for
good roads in Yakima county the
county commissioners have decided to
spend $4,000 for road contract work
during the coming year. The board
will submit the question of a $625,0o0
bond issue to the voters at the fall
election.
The first vessel of the BerinS Sea
Goldfish fleet to return is the schooner
Fortuna, of Tacoma. The Fortuna re
ports an unusually tempestuous sea
son, but despite that fact came homt
with matches bullying to contain l05,
900 prime fish in salt, which repre-
sents the seasons work.
More than 500 carloads OF apples
have already been placed in the pool
of the Wenatchee Fruit Growers AS
ISOLATION to be sold to the highest bid
der. and bids are being received daily
on different varieties. The assocla-
ton is reserving the right to reject
any and all bids.
The Lewis River Fruit Growers AS
sociation is rapidly getting things IN
shape for the second annual exhibi'
ton which will be held on Octo-
her 10, IA and Is, and the showing
promises to be of very high class
as every fruit grower in the valley is
taking interest in the exhibit.
F. A. Proulx and William Neuert
of South Bend, have been induced 10
nut ND a moving picture show in a
large hop field near Litteil' Lewis
County, which is owned by Herman
Klaber Mr.. Klaber thinks it will be
.w~t1T he