The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-03-09
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

miles north of Camas, was destroyed
by fire together with about 100000
feet of lumber. This is the third time
they have lost their mill by fire with
in year and each time carried no
insurance.
The Oregon-Washingto Railroad &
Navigation Co. placed an order last
week with the Lewis River Log Il
Boom Co. of Ridgefeld for 3O,O00,O0o
feet of railroad ties. Deliveries will
begin this month and the shipments
VII all be made from Ridgefield.
The University of Washington bas-
ketball team crawled up from behind
in the first of series of two games
to decide the Northwest College
championship and won from the Uni
versity of Oregon five in sensational
game in the varsity gymnasium at
Seattle, score % to IS.
Material for the new whaling sta.
ton to be located near Ocosta is now
going forward, and work on the plant
will soon begin. AS an outcome OF
the establishment of the station, it is
probable that a big fertilizing plant
will be established somewhere on the
harbor, for the utilization of the
waste.
More than three million dollars
4 DVa1In Conn,
ty real estate during February, the
best second month in years. While
this includes a satisfaction of mort
gage for two million, there is without
this clearings of the county auditors
office on deeds and mortgages at the
figure of s1,122,SS2.
The Citizens club of Chehalis has
decided to spend several thousand
dollars fitting up quarters second to
none in the Northwest. Chehalis
business men are expecting the big
gest year in the history of the city.
there being already about 100000
worth of improvements in sight, more
than 100000 of which will be new
sewerage and paving.
The Doty Fish Company of Kalama
shipped their last shipment of sal
mon The house will be closed until
May l. Manager Ruckles reports
doing over S150,000 worth of business
during the year, handling as many as
40 tons of fish in one day. The last
month, however, was the poorest ex-
perienced in years, owing to shortage
of fish. The company employs over
100 fishermen.
The House agreed to the confer.
enee report on the Indian appropria-
tion bill, which had been in dispute
between the two houses for some
time. The Senate withdrew its
amendment, indirectly recognizing at
torneys' claims amounting to 100000.
against the Colville Indians, and the
House accepted the Senate's amend
ment authorizing the payment of GER
ldlH u SldiluS ooaiAoL
Indians.
The coyotes are killing the deer in
the mountains back of Trout Lake at
the headwaters of the White Salmon
River. In two instances ranchers
have had to violate the game laws by
killing deer so torn by ravenous CO.
votes that they could not live. Poison
is now being laid for these enemies
of the deer, but if the latter are to
be preserved the bounty must be
raised high enough to induce hunters
to wage war on the coyotes.
Stores at White Salmon closed Sat
urday afternoon to enable business
men to attend mass meeting to con-
slider the proposal to build steam
railway from the North Bank road,
opposite the Columbia DOCK up four
per cent grade to White Salmon, a
distance of about one mile and half
The White Salmon Short Line is pro
NOTED by c. d. Moore, rancher. He
has obtained free rights of way and
has $4,000 to finance the road, if the
people of White Salmon will take
$4,000 in stock.
With the water gushing forth at the
rate of 400 gallons per minute, all
efforts to cap the well on the A. A.
Kelly ranch close to Walla Walla,
have so far proved futile. The we'll
is one of three struck on the same
day, February 23. in the same vicin-
ity by A. A. Durant, well-digger.
No difficulty was experienced in cap
ping the other two, but this well,
which is 535 feet in depth, cannot be
shut off, every piece of pipe driven
into the hole being quickly tossed into
the air when an attempt is made to
shut off the flow.
Word has been received of the pro-
posed change on the Moscow branch
of the O.-W. R. & N. from Colfax, by