The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-03-02
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Walla Walla April 81.
A compilation of figures from the
banks of Everett and the postoiilce
has revealed that Greeks, Italians anu
japanese alone send out of that city
annually about $150.000 that never
comes back.
Hippolyte DAWN, a wealthy sheep-
man, was found dead on his Snake
River ranch near Starbuck with Dui-
let wound in his head, supposedly
from the accidental discharge OF a
rifle while hunting.
Secretary Ballinger has issued a
call for bids for the construction OF
the Lake Kachess dam, part oil the
Yakima reclamation project. The es-
timated cost of the work is S625,Ooo.
Bids will be opened at North Yakima
April Is.
J. T. Davis, patrolman, was killed;
John Ford, a young highwayman, was
fatally wounded, and Alexander Nest
another highwayman, was wounded
and captured, as the outcome or a re-
volyer battle between two policemen
and the two holdup men at Seattle.
Contracts were awarded by the
navy department for an oil storage
warehouse at $4,000 to c. F. Graft
of Seattle, and a steel caisson for dry
deck No 2 at $125,000 to Moran
Brothers Company at Seattle, both Tor
the navy yard at Bremerton, Wash.
r. l.. Thelman, alias Darby
Theilman, accused of completely in
the operations of the Maybray gang
of fake przefight swindlers, who es-
capped from a deputy United States
marshal at Seattle last June, has re-
turned from New York and surren'
dered
Two thrifty Italian brothers have
started in the vegetable growing IN
dustry on A large scale in Centralia
to meet the immediate needs of the
city's consumption, as the products OF
the farmers are nearly all shipped
away. Mushrooms will form fea-
ture of their production.
Colonel" William H. Garland, the
aged Portland promoter, convicted OF
swindling a purchaser of stock IN
worthless coal mining stock, was SEN
fenced at Seattle to an indefinite term
of three to five years in state prison.
He appealed to the state supreme
court and was released on bail
Litigation over water rights, which
has been threatening for some time,
has broken out at North Yakima. One
is the protest of owners of riparian
rights along the Ahtanum Creek
against the efforts of the Yakima Or
chards & Investment Company, to ap-
propriate waters from the Lesh canal
Within few weeks the Husum
Power Company will commence the
White Salmon River, short distance
above the present intake to the power
plant at Husum. For the present the
new dam will be of sufficient height
to insure an increase of 1000 horse
power. The demand for additiona
power and lights compels the com
pany to enlarge the power capacity o.
the plant.
Contracts for approximately $4,000,
600 worth of work on 401a miles O
the new line of the North Coast Rail
way, now owned by the Hartman
system, between Spokane and Aye
Junction, on the Snake River, a dis
lance of 1903 miles, where connec
ton will be made with the presen
tracks of the O.-W. R. e N. Co., wer'
let at the Spokane offices of the road
The work must be completed in les
than IS months, according to con
tract.
The output of fish of all kinds OF
the Pacific coast for the year 1911
was valued at $39,406,39O, of whicl
the state of Washington contribute
the annual number of Pacific Fisher
man. A total of 30,506,376 pounds @
halbut reached Puget Sound. At fiv
cents per pound the halibut industr
last year was worth $2,650,31S. TIL
final figures on the seasons came
salmon pack show that the output az
gregated 4,310,OS2 cases, which was
record-breaking pack for a lean
year.
Seattle's citizens committee of Isl
with an executive committee of 81
has succeeded in it's object. 1t sc
out to induce men of certain typ
to be candidates for the city council
and also to defeat men of anothe
type, whom it might deem objection
able Acting in purely advisory C;
pacity, it has gained its point. Anon
the IS councilmanic candidates VIII
were nominated from a list of IS {
the polls, II were Endorsed highly
the committee as men who shoul
be encouraged to run for Office" an
the remaining seven. with a single e.
ception, were each given a certificat
of good character as desirable ft
membership in the council.
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