The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-10-26
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETs

Building amounting to $4,000 has
been completed this year at North
Yakima.
Olympia may yet have woman can.
didate for mayor. There Is now a
woman candidate for city treasurer
ON the Citizens ticket.
Fire destroyed the sawmill plant OF
the Chehalis Lumber Company at Lit
tell, four miles west of Chehalis on
the South Bend branch.
A relic of pioneer opium smuggling
DAYS came to light when e. Olson was
clearing land between Port Townsend
and Port Discovery and unearthed
cache of opium valued at $500.
The residents Of Castle Rock are
living in a daily state OF perturDatioh
over the fact that many Italian labor
ers working on the Northern Pacihc
improvements at that place are
armed.
Effective November 1, the Great
Northern will remove the offices ana
force of General Superintendent +.
L. Brown from Spokane to Seattle
and complete the consolidation OF all
its general offices in this city.
In an effort to sell Snohomish mer-
chants goods. Isaac w. Soils. travel
ing man, dislocated his jaw and II
took the combined efforts OF MS
friends and acquaintances to restore
him to his usual working capacity
I'D. Laidlaw, banker of Waitsburg'
was crushed to death beneath his
heavy automobile, when the machine
refused to respond to the slow-speeo
clutch on a steep hill near Prescott.
and turned over against an embank-
ment.
Puget Sound made a great gain IN
-four exports. increasing from 74s'So4
barrels in the nine months ended Sep
TENDER, 1910, to 1.364.628 barrels in
the past nine months. Puget Sound
is the second heaviest exporter OF
flour thus far this year.
Walla Walla Is to have a 100000
hospital. The hospital will be erected
by the Sisters of Charity OF the House
Of Providence, the same Roman Cath
Ollie organization that owns and oper-
ates a majority of the hospitals OF that
denomination on the Pacific Coast.
Plans are being completed by New
York landscape gardeners for the re-
arrangement and Identification of the
University of Washington campus.
One of the biggest items will be
;5OO.OOO administration building. to
be erected in the most central loca-
ton on the campus
The lumber trade In the Pscinca
Northwest shows marked Improvement
according to reports from mills gath
cred by the West Coast Lumber Man.
ufacturers' Association, which in
cludes virtually all the large rail and
cargo mills in Western Washington
and Oregon, as we'll as many in Brit
ish Columbia.
The annual report Of the Great
Northern railroad. Just filed with the
public service commission, setting
forth the business done In Washing
ton in the year ending June 80, 1911.
shows that in that period the total
operating revenues Of the entire line
in this state. including interstate
business. amounted to 39.509,281.
A third drydock at the Puget Sound
navy yard virtually is assured by a
letter from George Won L. Meyer, Sec
rotary of the navy, received by Rep
resentative Humphrey. The second
drydock. declared to be the largest liz
the world. is nearing completion and
third dock 1000 feet long will equip
this yard as the largest one the Pa
cifc Coast.
There arrived in London last week
q first consignment Of 1000 cases OF
peaches from the Wenatchee country
The peaches were packed In ice cars
attached to the mail train, and sent
to New York. whence they were
shipped for England. They were de-
livered at Vovent Garden within 10
days from the date Of dispatch, which
constitutes record for American
fruit.
John II. Giblin. a well-known gro
Ger, and A. E. Judd, = prominent real
estate and insurance agent. have filed
their petitions as candidates for city
commissioners of Chehalis, under the
proposed commission form of govern
ment. There are three candidates for
mayor, DR.. John T. Coleman, w.
Green and II. Gabel. There are seven
candidates for two places as commits.
sioners. as follows: A. e. Judd. John
II. Giblin. William Brunswig. Edward
Deggeller, s. F. Townsend, J. A. Baker
and William Cohee. The primary cleo.
ton will be held November 4.