The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-02-09
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD


Mirror Lake, near Bellingham, plle'
to a depth of 100 feet to secure hril
foundation, gave way and as resui
the earth will have to be timDered 1t
a great depth or the route OF the roao
changed.
Officials of the Northern Pacific
Great Northern and O.-W k, q ~ ~
will meet with the Washington state
railroad commission February Is loi
the purpose of discussing the estap'
fishing of an interchangeable TICKET
between Portland and Tacoma
The rabbit drive near the Harry
GRAY ranch was well attended These
drives are Kidding the country OIL
pest besides furnishing sport TO d
great many people The rabpits are
shipped to Spokane and Seattle
State school land in Clark County
amounts to about $4,000 acres ana 10
estimated to be worth between
80. 600. 900 and So 900. 600, according 10
a party of surveyors who nave just
completed a thorough cruise OF all Oh
the state school holdings in that
county.
By order of Mayor Weinberg, is
sued through Marshal Daley to sa'
looms in Colfax, all screens must be
removed from the places OF business
by March /. A strict ordinance ap-
plying to the saloons and regulating
the liquor traffic in the city was
passed year ago.
Senator Piles announces that he
has joined with Senator Jones in rec
ommending the appointment OF w. A.
Halteman of Spokane as United
States marshal for eastern Washing
ton, having abandoned George II.
Baker, incumbent, because the Presi.
dent refuses to appoint him.
The state railroad commission has
completed it's findings in the causes
of the wreck of the Northern Pacific
train at Cheney last January when
five persons were killed by the col
lision between two trains. The COM
mission holds the railroad officials
were negligent and responsible for
the wreck.
"Old Sleuth," the cougar that has
attracted much attention in the
Vol thyOt, oh
his depredations on cattle and horses
belonging to farmers in the Blue
Mountain districts, and which was
supposed to have been killed, is still
alive and thriving,
The financial statement of the city
of Montesano for the year ended De-
cember 81, 1910, SHOWS that the total
receipts from all sources for 1910
$4O,721.0S. The disbursements were
$2O,936.72. leaving a cash balance
with the city treasurer of $19,7S4.36.
The total outstanding indebtedness of
this city January /, 1911, was $52,.
1879.
The 100000 bond issue voted by
Pacific County at the last general cleo
ton was taken by the state of Wash
ington and the bonds have just been
returned from Olympia for registra-
ton and signing up by the county
commissioners. The bonds bear per
cent interest and run for Is years.
They were issued for road and bridge
purposes.
The people of Pullman will exert
every effort to have the proposed
state trunk road pass through that
city The board of trustees of the
Pullman Chamber of Commerce
passed resolutions to the effect that
II the proposed state road from Walla
Walla to Spokane is to go through
Whitman County it should go by way
of Pullman.
The ordinance granting the Chica
go, Milwaukee & Puget Sound Rail
road Company the exclusive right to
use a portion of Front avenue in Spo-
kane has been held invalid by the de-
cision OF the supreme court handed
down in the case of the state ex rel
e. Schade Brewing Company VS.. the
superior court of Spokane County and
the Chicago, Milwaukee & Puget
Sound Railroad.
T.. f. Benson, chairman of the legis-
latlve committee of the Washington
State Horticultural Association, sent
the presiding officers of the legisla-
lures of Montana, Idaho, Utah, Colo
RADIO and Oregon circular letter ask
ing for a law making the standard APP
pie and pear boxes the same as
Washington, and protesting the eff
fort of Eastern growers to establish
a different standard.
Bluestem wheat, for many years tha
leading grain grown in the Wa:ia
Walla Valley, will be displaced within
two or three years by a hybrid va
riety, is the opinion of leading farm
ers of the Walla Walla Valley. Blue
stem, they point out, has always had
faults of being easy to burn. easy to
freeze out, and a light yielder. Hy-
birds originated at the Washington
State College, they claim, do away
with all these faults, and add many
virtues that the old variety never
mad