The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-12-21
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

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Seattle Press Club.
Forty-three Australian boys, prize
students from western Australian
provinces, are in Seattle on their tour
Charles Butts was awarded the con
tract for building the new postoffice
building in Centralia. 1t will cos'
about $1,000.
Tuesday the state public service
commission held final conference al
Olympia on distributing freight rates
in this state.
Edward Brown, the convict escaped
from the Meskill quarry. is still at
large although determined hunt mas
been made for him.
The Puget Sound salmon pack for
1911 established a new record, total
of 1,625,0 900 cases having been packed
according to figures compiled by Sec
rotary Crawford of the Puget Sound
Gamers Association.
After being out more than 20 hours,
the jury in the trial at Seattle Oh
Frank Lombardo, charged with muir
der in the first degree for the death
of Frank Bressi, was discharged. The
jury failed to agree on a verdict
With a capital stock OF $12,5O0. 900
the Colonial Oil Company, OF Seattle,
has filed articles of incorporation with
| the secretary of state. The company
purposes to acquire and develop coal
mines, manufacture lime and cement,
generate gas and electricity.
Baseball as an intercollegiate sport
has been abolished by Whitman Col
lege, and unless the right arrange
ments can be made, basketball will
go as we'll This decision was reached
by the associated students of Whit
man College at meeting held for this
purpose.
THE present somewhat lenient pol
icy may develop into an abuse in the
hands of less scrupulous officials in a
growing city," says the bureau Of in
specton in it's report on the condition
of South Bend, in Pacific county. after
praising the present officials for their
honesty.
Henry J. Pierce, of Spokane, who
plans a merger of cargo mills in Ore
gon and Washington, having a capa-
city of more than so per cent of the
total output of sawmills at tidewater,
mas announced that he will finance
the consolidation scheme through a
large New York banking house.
The Spokane, Portland & Seattle
Plantation Company, with offices at
Spokane, has filed articles of incor-
poration with the secretary of state.
Tue objects are to handle real estate
| in Washington, establish plantations,
acquire tCwnsites, etc. The capital
stock of the company is s1.500,0O0
W. V. Tanner, Encouragement, is
in Washington, ID. c., to argue before
case of the Washington railroad COM
mission against the DIV. r. & N,
the Northern Pacific and the Spokane
e Inland Empire road, the commits
sion having directed the roads to es-
tablish physical connections to facili-
tate the interchange of business.
Material is being assembled for the
establishment at North Head of the
most powerful wireless plant on the
Pacific Coast, if not in the United
States. On it's completion it will be
possible to receive and send aerial
messages for a distance of 5000 miles
bringing this section OF the Coast
within easy communication of the
Orient, Alaska, the Panama Canal
zone and the west coast of South
America
Loose methods of handling local i'm
provements are charged against The
city OF Vancouver by the state bureal
of inspection. The bureaus report
covering the period between January
l, 1908, and October l, 1911, indicates
that no comprehensive or methodica
scheme of making improvements anC
keeping check upon them has beer
followed, and that property-owner.
who are overcharged have difficulty il
getting redress.
Believing he is St. Paul and ami
mated by desire to smash furniture
S. Bidman, of Tacoma, a laborer, wht
says he has been attending the GYPSY
Smith revival, became insane from re
ligious hysteria chased his chi.
dren out of the house, broke III
the greater part of its fixtures, in
vaded the home of neighbor, turne,
: its interior into wreck and then
with the police hard on his heels
charged into a grocery store ant
turled its stock to the floor until h,
was overpowered.
AS result of energetic pleas by TIL
people OF Puyallup Valley, backed b,
the Puyallup Commercial Club, an
nouncement has just been made of
farmers school to be established il
connection with the Western Wash
ington State Experimental Station, a
Puyallup. The school will be what i
known as short course, and the frs
session viii be held the latter par
!. OIL January. Lectures on various farm
topics will be given by practical an,
experienced men who have made
success on their own farms.