The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-12-15
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Inc report of Northern Pacific IN
erations for October shows an in
crease OF revenues of almost a mil
Non and a half.
Representative Poindexter called on
the President and recommended the
appointment of his law partner. O. C.
moore. OF Spokane, as United States
Judge for eastern Washington.
Six prominent women of OLYMPIA
al leaders in the suffrage move
ment. have been summoned by a jus.
uce OF the peace to serve as Jurors.
Chicago will not get the National
Apple show next year" is the positive
statement made by E. F. C. Van Dis
sci. vfce-president and active head OF
Spokane's big apple exposition.
Aside from $3.50 paid to Senator
Jones. Of Washington, no money
whatever was sent into Pacific North.
west during the last Congress cam.
paign by the Republican Congress
sional Committee.
Anticipating the appointment OF
Chief Justice Rudkin to the federal
bench in eastern Washington, Judge
D. H. Carey of Colville is stated to
be q candidate for the vacancy that
would thus occur on the Washington
supreme bench.
A man who is cruel to his wife can.
not become . citizen of the United
States. according to the ruling OF
John Smead Smith. special agent OF
the government. at a hearing at Bel
bingham at which only four of the IL
applicants for citizenship papers were
admitted
Chief Statistician Hunt, after re
count and recheck, reports Tacoma
population 20 be S3.473, gain OF
more than 800 over the revised fig
ures announced by Director Durand
October Is. but still $4,000 below
116.270. the figures originally report
ed to the Census Bureau by Super
visor Kelly
One OF the first practical results OF
the recent granting of suffrage to
women was the ordinance passed at
the regular meeting of the council
making It . criminal offense for any
one to smoke at the polls hereafter,
at any election. A fine of $50 and
80 days in Jail is the penalty for viola
ton. The ordinance was passed
unanimously.
Electrical engineering students OF
the University of Washington soon
win be given the opportunity of hear
ing q series of practical lectures rem
dered by many Of the leading cleo
tricians of Seattle. Men at the head
OF the largest electrical enterprises
will devote the evening in behalf OF
the students of this college.
Third degree" methods are bitterly
denounced in a decision handed down
BY the supreme court reversing the
King county superior court in the con-
viction of Peter Miller. on the charge
of burglary, as the court says there
is. no question but that duress was
used to obtain the confessions Of Pc
ter Miller and the boy. Willis Taylor.
The right to buy a drink in a sa-
loon Is not q constitutional right, the
state supreme court held in sustain.
ing the Whatcom county superior
court which convicted A. Nichols of
selling liquor to a halfbreed. The
court says that the legislature may
constitutionally prohibit certain per
cons from buying intoxicants while
granting the privilege to others.
The North Coast railroad will pass
out OF existence the day before Christ.
mas, when the Oregon-Washington
Railroad 4 Navigation Company. the
new Hartman corporation, becomes
An operating company. The North
Coast. o. r. & N and all associated
lines will lose their identity when the
new company, as an active factor in
the railroad world. will officially come
into being.
A man from q foreign country
who has been listed as a deserter
from the army OF the land Of his birth,
even II he takes out citizenship papers
in the United States, can have NO
protection from this country il he re-
turns home and is made to serve out
his time in the army. That informa.
ton IL contained in a letter written
70 /. N. Howell, Secretary OF State
Of Washington. by Secretary Knox.
The annual winter school for fruit.
growers. stockmen, dairymen, poultry.
men and farmers opens at Pullman
January 2. the following 10 weeks
being given for practical instructions
in the lines indicated. New features
of the work will be domestic science
ana forestry. The work in forestry
Nill relate to practical problems such
as are met mainly by pioneers and
others who are not engaged in the
general management and care OF tim.
bered areas. There will be special
short courses OF two weeks each in
fruit-erowing, February 10 to "a, and
in grain and stock judging, February
= TO March 10. Another two weeks
course will be in poultry production
from February ~ to March 10. The