The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1910-06-09
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

saloon in the city will be closed, which
is signal victory for the anti-saloon
and local option forces.
The new Franklin County Jail will
be completed in about two weeks. 1t
is modern steel structure, with eight
cells and accommodations for sixteen
prisoners.
Columbia College. Scandinavian
institution Of learning and culture of
Everett, will graduate its first class
from its new building on the evening
of June 10.
Mrs. M. Louis Blackburn. who was
injured last January while riding In
a taxicab. has instituted suit against
the city of North Yakima for $4,000
damages.
The necessary $4,000 for an En-
listed Mems Club at the Navy Yard at
Bremerton has been almost subscribed
and the humble jackey who has
known no home except his own ham,
mock is to have a club with every
convenience.
Judge ,McMasters in an adjourned
term Of Superior Court at Kalama,
sentenced Charles Smith to term OF
from six months to Ave years in the
peniter tiary for living off the earn
ings Of fallen women.
No clue has been discovered to the
men who robbed the store and post
Office at Husum. Besides tapping the
money drawers the thieves got away
with pocket knives. tobacco and small
articles.
Arrangements have been practically
completed for the irrigation of about
5000 acres of the best land in the
Chelan Valley. which until recently has
been held as Indian allotments by Sc
attic capitalists who are interested in
the Wapato irrigation project.
Mrs. Vera Prosser. under arrest at
Libbey. Mont, on a charge of staying
her husband. Reese Prosser. Seattle
automobile man. on a Great Northern
train near Libby. maintains steadfast
silence. acting under instructions from
her attorneys.
Through the Woman's Improvement
Club and on q promise of that organi.
ration that the spot will be made
beautiful, T. w. Howell has given to
Mabton two acres near the center OF
the city for park purposes. All taxes
and local improvement assessments
have been paid by the donor.
If the Iditarod fails to prove another
Klondike hundreds. even thousands, OF
people. most of them unused to the
hardships OF the North. will find them
selves stranded in the interior of
Alaska with nothing on which to re.
turn to civilization.
Saving through the main door OF
the store and removing the lock. dar.
ing robbers entered the company
store of the Grays Harbor CONNER.
cial Company at Cosmopolis and
looted the establishment. Among the
loot carried away was 100 Ingersoll
watches. fifty pocket knives. a rife.
ammunition. etc.
May Schultz and Viola Udell, two
16-year-old Spokane girls. who gave
up the prosaic business school for ad.
venture and ran away to Everett. are
under arrest there. The Schultz girl
will be returned to Spokane with her
father, while the Udeil girl will be
put in care Of guardian at Monroe.
Seattle bankers, as well as those in
other parts of the State. are seriously
considering a plan to reduce the In
terest rate on savings deposits.
Whether the reduction will be from
4 to 8 per cent or from 1 to 3h per
cent. has not yet been determined.
To hire as many bands and to buy
as much fireworks as $4,000 will pay
for are the instructions to its commit
tee and from the Business Mems As
ISOLATION which will have charge Of
the Fourth Of July celebration at
North Yakima. 1t will be VALLEY
OF the Yakima" event and every Sec
ton from Naches to Prosser will be
invited.
Liquor may not be sold to Indians
who have severed tribal relations and
become citizens. declares the Supreme
Court In . decision reversing the
Pierce County Superior Court and up
holding the constitutionality Of the
1909 law prohibiting sale of liquors
to any one OF Indian blood. whether
citizens or members Of tribe.
Republicans of King County are IN
a pretty tangle over the choice Of 16S
delegates to the State convention In
Tacoma. How are they to be sc.
lected? The question has agitated
leaders in Senatorial politics to such
an extent that they have forgotten
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