The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-10-27
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Legs are soaring In Tacoma. They
are 60 cents for strictly fancy fresh
stock, the highest price ever known
to the retail trade in Tacoma
George w. Conner. better known in
the west and north as Antelope
Doc" will take the job of chief of pc
lice OF Seattle If pressure is brought
to bear on him.
President E. A. Bryan OF the Agri-
cultural college, has accepted an invi-
tation to address the annual meeting
of the school directors of Whitman
county. which will be held at Colfax
on Saturday, September 29.
Nathaniel Bledser, the negro soldier
of the 25th United States infantry,
convicted of assault on a white won.
an near Fort Lawton last June, has
been sentenced to serve an indeterm-
mate sentence of from four to ten
years in the state penitentiary.
Ellensburg is to have an apple day
for the purpose of collecting apples for
display and distribution at the ma
tional apple show at Spokane and Chi
cago. and the land show at Chicago
next month.
By an appropriation BY the board OF
regents of the college the first course
in poultry raising offered at the state
college proper will commence January
l, 1911. Miss Lillian Blanchard will
conduct the work.
new gold saving machine which
promises to solve the problem Of how
to save fine gold from the river gravel
and sand has been installed on bar
on Snake river, adjoining Charleston,
and is working most satisfactorily.
The machine has a capacity OF twenty
tons an hour.
Not one-fifth OF the wheat crop OF
the Inland Empire has been sold, says
L. c. Crow, president OF the Washing
ton Farmers Union. AS the yield for
the three northwestern states is
placed at about $4,000. 900 bushels. this
leaves about 100000 bushels sold.
the remainder yet to be marketed.
Capable of holding 5000 tons OF hay,
the Galbraith & Bacon WAREHOUSE in
Kittitas. a town of 200, is the largest
storage warehouse in central Wash
ington. The floor dimensions are 80
x2OO feet. making 10000 square feet
of storage space.
As the result Of dynamiting a bunk
house at Gate. in which IA japanese
were sleeping, Almont Post, aged ~;
w. F. Willie, aged "a, and Ashton Wat
son, upon pleading guilty, were SEN
fenced to not less than one year In
the state reformatory at Monroe by
Judge B. R. Mitchell, in the Thurston
county superior court.
The organization Of a state league
OF fire insurance men, representing
all the leading cities of Washington,
is on the program and the meeting
to discuss preliminary plans will prob
ably be known as the Northwest asso-
citation OF Fire Insurance Agents, and
it is thought that 1t will lead to re-
forms which would be slow of develp-
ment otherwise.
Believing that no reduction Will be
granted them by the railroads in the
matter of grain rates to the east, as
a result OF the conference at Walla
Walla, members of the Farmers I'm
ion are preparing to carry the fight
to the interstate commerce commits
sion.
The huge Forestry building dedicat-
ed by the Alaska-Y ukon-Pacific Expo
sition to the University Of Washing
ton, is being invaded by small bugs,
which are eating rapidly into the vel
low pine logs. From examination ii
has been found that the progress OF
the insects will in time eat into the
logs to such an extent that it will
cause the building to decay.
Every logging camp in the Grays
Harbor country will be closed within
the next sixty Gays, representatives OF
all logging companies in that section
having met and come to that decision.
Owing to the weak condition of the
lumber market 1t was deemed advis-
able to suspend operation entirely, and
several hundred men will be thrown
out of employment.
John Miller Murphy, publisher OF
the Washington Standard since its in
ception in 1860, will be the honored
guest OF a great function at Olympia
on the evening of Saturday. November
10, the fiftieth anniversary of his
newspaper enterprise. The Washing
on Press Association. the State His
torical Society, and the State Pioneers
will unite In a demonstration of senti-
ment and regard that will rejoice the