The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-07-13
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

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South Bends postal savings bank
was opened for deposits June 29. and
now has deposits to the amount OF
s575
The State Board of Control raised
the price of grain bags made at the
penitentiary from s6.75 to $3.50 per
hundred.
Dr. Harry F. Alton, quartermaster
at Seattle, is ordered to Fort Doug
las, Utah, TO take charge of construc-
ton work at that post.
During the fiscal year ending June
30, gold to the value of $10.273,000
was received at the United States
assay office at Seattle, most Of it COM
ing from Alaska.
Many entries received in all the
early closing events insure the great
est harness racing program ever seen
on a track for the Walla Walla
County Fair this fail.
A young man. who registered as E.
H Cline. of Raymond, was found
dead in his bed in the Albee Hotel
at South Bend with evidence at hand
that he he.1 taken carbolic acid
wala Walla voted upon the adop-
ton of a commission form of govern
ment Monday, as a result OF the de-
cision OF the state supreme court de-
claring the Allen law constitutional.
By vote of 1928 to 277 Kennewick
voted to retain its five saloons, the
vets having won victory after one OF
the most holly contested political
campaigns in the history of the city.
The first "Umpire's Day" known in
history of the world was observed
by Tacoma fans Sunday on the field
of the Tacoma club of the North
western league with Jake Baumgar-
ten as the recipient of honors.
Ephrata. county seat of Grant
voted dry, the drys winning the cleo
ton by the decisive majority OF As,
the vote standing los to 81. Total
registration was 1876, 1923 men and &C
women. Fifty-eight women voted, OF
whom the drys claim 40.
The Western Pine Manufacturers
Association at its semi-annual meet.
ing in Spokane August 2 probably
will take steps toward providing an
exhibit of Washington and Idaho tim
Der and timber products at the Pan.
anna exposition at San Francisco.
In spite of a sand storm, men and
women faced the gale to vote in the
Pasco option election. The vets cast
SIS ballots while those opposed to
saloons could only muster 154 votes.
Nearly every business man in the
city was opposed to the movement.
Archibald Tiderington of Walla
Walla, who last summer paid $500 for
two kisses he stole from Mrs. Else
Van Zante, of Spokane. and then de
vised a cheaper method of securing
them by marrying Eta McMannis,
was divorced by order of the superior
court, on complaint of his wife.
Melvin Mucklestone. star football
player on TIE University of Washing
ton team and it's captain two years
ago, who is spending his vacation
working as a forest ranger, was ar
rested, accused of attacking a woman
at o'clock in the morning Of July
; after a Fourth of July dance at
Eatonville.
Ministers of Walla Walla will face
criminal charges in the superior
court unless they are more prompt
with marriage returns than they have
been in the past. The law provides
that the person performing the mar
riage must make returns to the
county clerk within three months or
be liable to fine of from $25 to $500.
Edward Burns must spend from
one to fifteen years at Walla Walla
because he took JOY ride in another
mans buggy at Monroe. Burns had
been celebrating in Monroe, and de-
cided it would be a great joke to take
horse and buggy belonging to A. S.
Tester and ride away into the green
fields. He was overtaken about five
miles from town and pleaded that he
had no intention of stealing the rig.
The officers thought otherwise, and
he was held for trial.
This has been military week with
the national guard of Washington.
The assembling of troops carried the
infantry, cavalry and signal corps to
Camp Fortson, American Lake. for
the annual maneuvers, continuing 10
days; the naval militia, in possession
of the coast defense monitor Chey-
enne, is busy with a 10-days' cruise
on Puget Sound, and the companies
of the coast artillery reserve have
their eyes on Fort Worden, at the in
Dlnd entrance to the Straits of Fuca-
Although the stockholders of the