The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-03-16
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD


court judge of Snohomish County to
W. p. Bell, encouragement of the
state of Washington
1t was announced by Governor Hay
that B. w Huntoon, of Bellingham,
would succeed II. l.. Bowlby as state
highway commissioner on March IL
when Bowlby's term expires.
Mrs. George NJ. Savage, one OF the
most prominent equal suffrage work
ers in the state, dropped dead OF
heart disease at a meeting of the
Women's Century Club at Seattle.
Oscar Cain, United States district
attorney for the eastern district OF
Washington will be removed from Of
fee by Attorney General Wickersham,
according to a dispatch from Wash
ington, D. C.
Governor NJ. f. Hay announced the
reappointment of John l.. Riseland
of Bellingham, state fish commission
er to succeed himself. The formal
announcement was made following
the close of the Legislature.
General Wood, chief of staff, noti-
fed Senator Jones that on account OF
the movement OF troops to the Next
can border, it will be impossible 10
hold a military tournament at Tacoma
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by people Of Washington.
Five hundred and fifty children
Seattle in one minute and two sec.
onds in response to the regular fire
drill gong, when flames had been dis
covered issuing from the cupola and
roof CT the frame structure.
Spokane attorneys will tender re-
ception in honor of Ballinger, ex-sec-
rotary of the interior, on his arrival
soon. Representatives may also be
sent to the demonstration at Seattle
in Ballingers honor by the Spokane
bar.
The Association of Master Brewers
of the Pacific Coast held its annual
meeting in Seattle Sunday afternoon,
the election of officers for the ensu-
ing year, transaction CT routine bust
ness and banquet with speeches by
prominent men engaged in the indus
fryr pcO1p,iS tho ,,rCpron,
A man giving his name as Lloyd
Cummings and his home as Seattle
was held to the action of the federal
grand jury at Everett on charge OF
having passed counterfeit money.
Cummings is said to have passed two
$40 gold pieces made of babbit metal
and plated thinly with gold.
John w. Burns, the young outlaw
who shot Theodore Reader, dining car
conductor, at Lewiston Junction Feb
ruary 10, pleaded guilty of assault
with a deadly weapon at Colfax and
was sentenced to serve from five to
ten years in the pententiary. Burns
victim is in a critical condition at a
Walla Walla hospital.
The county assessor of Snohomish
County reports that logs held in
storage in the rivers of the county
now number three times as many as
at this time last year. Local lumber
men are going to British Columbia for
logs and paying the towage thereon
to Everett rather than pay the prices
demanded by log owners.
A test case to decide whether the
fees collected by county clerks for
registration of naturalization papers
belongs to the county clerk who col.
lects them or to the county, suit
was filed in the court by Attorney
General r. p Bell for Franklin
County and the state to collect $45
from A. A. Barnes, county clerk OF
Franklin County
That there is going to be no dearth
of candidates in the field to oppose
Tacoma's present five city officers al
the coming recall elections, was indi
Gated this week, although there still
remains the lack Of the prominent and
able business men of that class the
charter commission had in mind wher
it framed Tacoma's present plan Of
government.
r. p Dunno of Spokane has leased
Is acres near Kennewick which he
will plant to watermelons. Last sum
mer Mr. Dunn carried on extensive
experiments and on a single half acre
produced S156 worth of melons. Mr.
Dunno is confident that with the
knowledge thus gained he will be able
to make the entire tract produce $500
an acre. Many of the melons pro
duced last year weighed so pounds
and more.
The Yakima Reservation Land Com
pany, promoted by Seattle people, ha!