The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-01-19
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

teachers to be held IN Spol-h5 tAe
first week in April.
Plans are under way to raise a
fund of $4,000 to send a representa-
tive east to work for factories to be
established in the Grays Harbor
country.
Reclamation plans for Washington
during 1911 are being made by Chiel
Engineer Davis of the reclamat on
service and engineers of the service
in the Northwest.
Mrs. Edna w. Edings, editor OF
the State Capital Record, has been ap-
pointed deputy sheriff Of ThurstCn
County by Sheriff CASTOR. She Is
said to be the first woman deputy IN
the state. She will serve papers on
women.
To Doty, Lewis County, village
OF 500 people, is entitled the credit
for being the first sawmill town west
of the Mississippi River to secure
Y. M. c. A. of the industrial type.
Former Chief KalosHi of the san
Poll Indians, has gone to Washington,
D. c., to try to induce the government
to allot more than so acres each TO
the Indians on the south half of the
Colville reservation.
The trial of Ernest Winkley, ac-
cused of having slain his wife by
shooting her through the head several
months ago in Everett, drags slowly
on toward completion. The case VIII
cost Snohomish County $4,000, it is
estimated.
Statements just published by Walla
Walla banks show that the five insti-
buttons are in good shape, the total
deposits being S3,000,000 up to the
close of business January 7. The to-
tai loans and discounts at that time
were $3,6S2,000
Senator Jones has proposed an
amendment to the Indian appropria-
ton, providing 100000 for construct
ing roads on the Yakima Indian reser-
walton. The government will be re-
imbursed from receipts of sales Of
Yakima lands when the reservation
is opened.
The treasury of the state will need
a careful and judicious guard, for
with even the enormous increase in
population and taxable property, the
state auditor figures that it will take
$7,404445 to run the state for the en-
suing biennium and the auditor esti-
mates the income of the state will be
stretched to the limit to cover the
necessary appropriations.
This is the first time the people of
the state have been governed by an
executive of wealth, Governor Hay be-
ing reputed to be worth not one but
several millions of dollars Although
Ex-Governor McGraw died rich man,
his term of administration was dur
ing the hard times of the early '9Os,
and he, in common with all the state,
was hard up.
The state treasury made a slight
gain last week as the receipts ran up
to $177,000 and the disbursements
only $12S,000, leaving more than
$1,O00,0O0 cash on hand Next week
the legislators will begin drawing pay
and then there will be a shrinkage.
1t is said that unless the present leg
islature makes a deficiency appropria-
ton for the militia that armories will
have to be closed. r. %~.-i wv
such as BARRIERS, medical, dentistry,
embalming and similar boards will
probably be made to the Legislature
shortly, as the Encouragement has
been asked to solve the problem. The
boards will either have to send all
their money through the state treas
ury and check it out in regular form
or else be put under one commission
1t has been found that money running
into the thousands has been handled,
on which the state has no check.
The report of the board of army en-
gineers reviews in great detail the
situation in the Yakima valley in
eastern Washington, discussing each
of the units of the Yakima project, ia
voring some and adversely reporting
on others While the board is i'm
pressed with the favorable prospects
in this state, the fact that most of the
land is in private ownership led the
board to recommend apportionments
for only those units that are under
way. None of the new units We're
listed to receive funds from the
S45,O0O,O0U at the disposal of the
President.
Beginning with Monday, January
Is, the State Federation of Labor held
a three days convention in Olympia.
During the session the delegates will
frame bills to be presented to the
legislature asking for the more etti-
cient protection of laborers in mills
and factories and many other meas
ures affecting labor interests. One
measure that will be considered is
that commission be created to IN
quire into the causes of strikes and
lockouts, reporting same to the Off
Gals of the State Federation and the
labor commissioner.