The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-11-10
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

switches has been brought by the
state railway commission against the
Tacoma & Eastern railway.
Several Walla Walla Chinese have
removed their queues as the result
OF royal edict recently promulgated
that the faithful may hereafter dis.
pense with the characteristic Mongol
appendage.
A man using the names of Hugh
Waldron, w. H. Norton, Adolph
Steiner and 8. r. Rowley succeeded
IN bilking five banks OF the Inland
Empire out of several thousand dol.
lars, and there is little likelihood
that he will be captured.
The Carsten Packing company OF
Tacoma has complained to the inter.
state commerce commission that the
Oregon and Washington roads charge
excessively to transport live stock
from Portland and other Oregon
points to Tacoma.
Eight young women of the state
college who will graduate from the do
nestle economy department in June
nave been selected by the head OF
the department to attend the Nation
al Apple Show at Spokane as demon
strators.
The state superintendent of public
instruction has awarded the final GER
tificates earned by the teachers at
the August examination This was
the largest examination ever held in
the state, 1888 applicants. gain OF
" over the May list. OF this number
1882 were successful.
The Washington Bankers associa-
ton has offered prize OF $25 for
the best essay written by member
OF the Whitman senior class on q
prescribed economic subject The
same offer has also been made to
Washington State College and Uni.
versity of Washington.
Memorial services in honor of the
late Ex-Governor John McGraw will
be held in Whitman college chapel
Tuesday evening, November Is. And
at this occasion some of the best
known men Of the Northwest will be
speakers. Among them will be ex.
Senator George Turner. now member
of the United States international ar.
bitration board, and c. H. Hanford.
Puzzling force Of attending ply
sicians with his wonderful vitality.
William Emsley. Spokane carpen.
ter is still alive in spite of a frac
tured skull and severed spinal col
umn, sustained in a fall from the
third floor of a new packing plant in
course Of construction.
According to General Marion p.
Maus, commander Of the department
of the Columbia, with Headquarters
at Vancouver barracks, there has
been remarkable decrease in the
number of assertions in the western
posts of the regular army this year
Last year $50 soldiers were listed as
deserters. This year the number is
but 227.
Officers of the Spokane Fish Pro.
tective association have perfected
plans to remove the carp and suckers
from the bass lakes In Spokane coun.
ty and will then extend their opera
lions to other parts of Washington.
This is the first organized attempt TO
do this kind of work In the North.
west. and 1t is expected that lake
fishing will be greatly improved as a
result
Some idea OF how assessed valua.
ton OF the railroads was fixed at
about real and personal, In the state
of Washington has increased since
1891 may be gained from the state.
ment issued by the state tax commits
sion which shows that In 1891 the to
tai valuation was only little more
than $12,O00.000. while In 1910, It was
over $10O,O00.0OO.
The forest fire loss In Western
Washington In 1910 was the lowest o.
any year OF which there In n record
Chief Forester Simons OF the Waah
ington Forest Fire Association, re
ports that the virgin timber do.
stroycd was valued at 100000 or
$1,000 acres OF green timber attack.
ed only One-eighth wan destroyed
The small loss was due to tho effec.
tivenesa OF the asaocinti0n'a fighting
force.
Alaskan gold to the amount 0f o.,
353, lAb.77 has been received at the
Seattle branch OF tbs United States
assay office during tho first ten
months Of tho present year, This fig
ure IL exclusive 0f nm enormous con
signment ~ gold from this north
brought down by the North western,
but too late 10 be classified with the
October reeeipts, The coming nj gold
10 the value NJ almost u .00DO 900 from
ths newly found tditarod sDd Squirrel
river districts more Than made ~ Tor
the deficiency In ths Fairbanks Yield
due 10 an excessively dry seaa6n hhd
scarcity ~ iab0r following tba rDab
10 the idiisrod gold fialda Gonaefva
live mining man estimate This years
output N s0id from Alaska ~ 80,
900 900, which VIII brlss ihs fatal
yield 0f gold ffem tbs nofiblaad