The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-12-28
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

Half a million dollars in gold bull
ion from the Fairbanks and Iditarod
districts was brought to Seattle by
the steamer Alameda.
Insanity proceedings have been be-
gun against Malcolm c. Patterson,
who shot r. T. Seal, Port Orchard
liveryman, December 7.
The following fourth-class post
offices in Washington will become
presidential appointments January l.:
Grandview, $1400; Ridgefield, $11O0;
Sultan $1,000.
F. A. Wyman, a Tacoma census
enumerator, indicted last May IL the
federal court on five counts, has dis
appeared and it is thought has sought
refuge in foreign country.
N. w. Durham of Spokane, who re-
Gently announced his candidacy for
congress from the Third district, is
one of the oldest and best known
newspaper men in the northwest.
An increase of 72 per cent in the
number of high school teachers In
Washington in the past three years
is shown by the report o. IL. b.
Dewey, state superintendent OF pub
lie instruction.
Judge Hanford, in United States
circuit court at Seattle, sentenced
Walter E. Lay1nan, youth charged
with circulating more than $1,000
worth of bad bankuotes in Seattle, to
three years in the federal pe1itenti
ary on McNeil's Island.
In view Of the likelihood of the
new passenger station in Centralia
being completed early in the summer
that city is trying to secure the mid
summer meeting OF the Southwest
Washington Development Association
and at the same time dedicate the
new station.
Rumors that Prosecuting Attorney
w. r. Campbell intends to close uT
every disorderly place in Chehalie
county were set at rest when tina,
officer declared that he would not
take such action himself, but woulC
force the heads of municipal govern
ments to do SO.
The senate has confirmed the fol
lowing postmasters in Washington
Alfonzo f. Learned, Port Townsend
Edison 8. Phillips, Mount Vernon
Carey w. St$wart, Quincy; Maud'
( Noizf Wasbiuana; Lewis c;T'~ wefi
Odessa; Anna Arnold, Waitspufg
and John L. Gruber, Winlock.
Notices of a petition for the con
demnation of a right-of-way for IT
canal were filed in the superior cour
at North Yakima by the Yakim'
Highlands Irrigation & Land Com
pany. The petition states the com
pany has located and partially con
structed canal eleven miles lont
with its intake on Wenas creek.
The indictments against Colone
| Alden Blethen, G. B. Blethen, thu
| Times Printing Company and Captain
| of Police Michael Powers, charged
with conspiring to shield gambling
and the maintenance of disOrderl!
houses in Seattle, were dismissed IL
| the criminal division of the superior
| court, on the motion of the prosecut
ing attorney.
Among the guests at the conven
| tion of the Southwestern Washington
| Development Association and the
Olympic Peninsula Development
League, to be held in Olympia Jan
uary 1921, may be Governor Wes
of Oregon Governor Hawley of Ida
no. and Governor Norris of Montana
Personal invitations have been sen
to them by Governor Hay.
In it's report on the condition o.
Kalama, Cowlitz county, from Jan
uary 1, 1909, to November IA, 1911
the state bureau of inspection says
that all receipts prior to 1909 have
been lost and that it was impossible
| to make an audit of the accounts be
/ fore that time. The report shows
| that Kalama has assets OF $S,447.65
and liabilities of only $289.89.
To avoid an 80mile trip by stage
through the snow and prevent Brit
ish Columbia official from seizine
him as a prisoner from Oroville te
Spokane for safekeeping, w. E. Alex
ander, charged with robbery in Can
ada, was sealed In an express cal
with Deputy United States Marshall
Pugh until after he had passed
through the dominion territory.
A decision has been handed down
by the state supreme court that will
affect proposed improvements in con
solidated school districts in all parts
of Washington. The court holds that
under the constitution of the state
no consolidated district, composed OF
smaller districts, can create an In
debtedness which would mean a
greater indebtedness In any constitu.
ent district than s per cent Of the
taxable property in that particular
| unit.