The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-12-14
WASHINGTON BRIeFLErs

The 18th annual convention Of the
State Dairymen's Association was
brought to a close at MOntesano Fri.
day.
Mrs. Grace X. Gibson. of Tenino.
has the distinction of being the first
woman to hold a municipal Office in
Thurston county.
Mrs. Abigail Scott Duniway, of
Portland, has been honored by Spo-
kane women by being put on the list
OF the 20 greatest women in the world.
Sentenced to serve a maximum of
30 years, Kittitas county's most noto-
rious crook, Jack Connor, has been
taken to the Walla Walla penite1tiary.
AS result of the dismissal of the
states cases against the alleged COM
mission house combine of Spokane.
no more suits are likely to be brought
under the state antitrust law.
After celebrating six hours almost
to the minute, the jury in the case OF
the State VS.. Eva L. Veness, charged
with arson in the first degree, re-
turned a verdict of not guilty at Che
halls.
Meyer Cohen. manager of moving
picture theater, was convicted at Ia
coma of embezzling 1918 of the funds
of the Moose lodge, the proceeds of a
minstrel show given by the lodge last
summer.
Rowing was SO popular with Wash
ington University women last year
that faculty ruling forbidding 1t has
been annulled and the girls will again
go out on the water as soon as quar-.
ters may be arranged for them.
Every woman juror who has served
Spokane county was asked to join a
committee which waited upon the
county commissioners Monday to de-
mand a public retraction of the state
ment that they stole the county's tow
els.
The Tacoma Club IN the Northwest
baseball league is to be taken over
by Dugdale of Seattle and McCredie
of Portland at the coming meeting. 1t
is announced. and Fielder Jones. the
former White sox leader. will be
elected president of the league.
The heirs of Mrs. Elizabeth Bell. OF
Harrodsburg, KY. obtained a verdict
for $4,000 against the Seattle. Renton
& Southern Railway for injuries sus-
tained by Mrs. Bell on April 30, 1910,
in a collision, when her husband,
Judge w. c. Bell, was killed beside
her.
Walter E. Lyman, the Seattle expo
liceman arrested charged with pass
ing worthless bills Of state banks,
confessed to a secret service officer
that he had cleared up nearly $4,000
in the past. two months by setting
afioat the currency in Seattle and Ia
coma.
Washington lumbermen have de-
cided to consolidate the four informa-
ton bureaus which have been in op-
GRAFTON in Washington for about two
years. The Centralia. Seattle and
Everett offices will be closed. The
work will all be done through the Ia
coma office.
The official report of the National
Lumbermen's Association for October,
lust issued by Manager Leonard
Bronson, of Tacoma, shows q slight
improvement in the general lumber
demand and slight excess OF ship
ments over the cut in Washington and
Oregon, SO far as the mills reporting
are concerned.
So extensive is the work before the
state supreme court for the October
term that each of the nine justices
will be required to hear nine argu-
ments every three days, read nine
briefs, take part in other discussions
and write one opinion himself, IN or.
der that the calendar may be cleared
nv the close of the present session.
Because of the fact that rates On
all railroads in the state must be re-
adjusted to conform to the order OF
the Interstate Commerce Commission.
the state public service commission
has requested the Interstate Com
merce Commission to postpone until
March 1, 1912. its order on east-bound
rates from Pacific Coast terminals.
commonly known as the back-haui
| rates.
After less than four months OF
welded life, Anthony w. Presley,
civil war veteran at the Orting Sol
| diers' Home, is more than ready to
quit. He sued for divorce An
thony is 80, his wife so. They were
married August IA after long-dis-
tance courtship. Presley's son in Colo
RADIO being the matchmaker. Presley
vows his son is DANCED poor Judge
of women"