The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-09-21
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD


ter and cheese for state institutions
for the next six months at 20 cents
Tor butter and 161a cents for cheese
When Attorney-General w. V. Tan
that it had no legal right to dispose
Of state road, and that such CUES.
lions were properly matters for his
department to settle, he disposed OF
The state supreme court at Olympia
handed down a decision sustaining
and affirming the order OF the State
Railroad Commission directing the
Seattle-Tacoma Interurban Railroad to
reduce passenger rates to points not
reached by other carriers.
Suit against Walla Walla and the
Walla Walla Irrigation Company was
filed, asking a permanent Injunction
to restrain the latter defendant from
emptying the sewage from the city
into the Walla Walla River. No dam
ages, aside from costs. are asked.
a question that has bothered state
officials for some time The point
ton of the Great Northern railroad to
purchase part of the state highway
from Wenatchee to Pateros along the
west bank of the Columbia River.
H. B. Dewey, state superintendent
of public instruction. has completed
the gathering of statistics which
show that during the last year in
Washington the school districts of the
state have reduced the warrant in
debtedness from $2,S73.409 to S2.S09,-
375. or by more than $4,000.
Asking first for the presence Of a
priest, but later conserving to tell his
weird tale to Chief of Police Temple
man, Joseph WALTON, the cook who
attempted to murder Mrs. Archie
Castor and her mother, Mrs. A. Par
ras, at their home at Aberdeen. con-
fessed to the murder of Archie Cas-
tor The confession, though at times
incoherent, is complete.
With the death of Ianzi Luigi, an
Italian section hand, who was shot
in the leg at Wilson Creek, lack Fin
ney, well-known farmer of that
town, and his hired man, George How
ard, may have to answer to charge
of manslaughter. Finney and How
ard admit shooting Luigi, but claim
he and some fellow-countrymen We're
stealing fruit in Finneys orchard.
George T. Reid, division counsel of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, an
nounced that negotiations with the
town OF Ruston nau progressed TAR
enough to justify him in saying there
seemed to be no obstacle in the way
of building the water grade line from
Tacoma to Portland by way of Point
Defiance. Delay has been caused by
the inability of the railway company
and the town to agree on the terms of
franchise.
To make of all the public school
buildings in the city civic centers.'
so-called, is the project launched by
several men and women in Tacoma
who are eager to do something for the
social uplift of the people. They
would make of the school buildings,
when not in use for school purposes,
place where improvement club
meetings may be held and where may
also be held any gathering of the peo-
pie of the immediate district sur
rounding the school,
If the city commissioners put
through the budget as outlined at
present the municipal government for
the year 1911-1912 will be under op-
Grating and other expenses that will
run some 100000 more than for
19l0-19l1 and a dream of the citizens
that the new charter would be
worked out in such manner that the
expenses would be greatly reduced
will be shattered. A reorganization of
all the wants of the commission
shows that the budget will total more
than $l,500,O0O, while last years ex-
penses were $1095,653.
Attorney Frank II. Kelley, of Ia
coma, who returned from San Fran
cisco with Marjorie Keenan, aged 16,
and her mother, Mrs. Porter Magnu-
son, to whom the custody of the
daughter had been given by the su-
perior court in San Francisco. said
that suit would be filed charging Fa-
Their c. G. Van Goethem. the mother
superior of the Academy of the Visi-
tation and Sister Aloysius of that in
stitution, and Attorney Louis |. Lee
febvre, all of Tacoma, with abduction
and demanding $4,000 damages.
Exposed for eight days to terrific
thunder and snow storms raging al
ternately in the foothills of Mount
Rainier, members OF an exploring
party, including the state engineer
and his aSSiStantc opd county co,,