The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-07-20
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD


the present season.
Pullman grain dealers are guessing
On the opening price OF grain at that
po MT, and the one getting nearest the
mark is to receive a S. hat.
Northwest millers plan Immediately
to take steps to enlarge the demand
for Northwest flour. A committee
named at Tacoma is expected shortly
to make some recommendations
Deputy Sheriff James M. Bennett
was instantly killed at Chelan by
the accidental discharge of his revolt
yer. He was STOPPING over a spring
to drink, when the weapon was dis
charged.
L. NJ. Guyton, aged 81. single. son
of John Guyton, of Sullengent, Ala,
acting as relief operator on the Spo-
kane Inland Electric line at Cakes
dale, was found electrocuted at his
keyboard.
Reports from all parts of Stevens
county say the hay crop this year is
the heaviest ever known. Many val
ley fields yield as high as four tons
of timothy to the acre and in other
reg ons three tons.
1t cost Aberdeen just SIS to bring
Richard A. Ballinger, ex-secretary OF
the interior, to that city to deliver
the Fourth of July address. That is
all Mr.. Ballinger says he spent and
that is all he would accept.
That the famed freak anti-treating
ordinance is not yet dead letter in
Tacoma became known when it was
announced that within a week war
rants are to be sworn out for 80 sa-
loonkeepers accused of violating the
law.
A convention of officials of cities of
the first class in Washington, to be
held in Spokane, to frame measures
for passage by the Legislature which
will lead to Home Rule" for cities,
is project of the city commissioners
OF Spokane.
What purports to be an affidavit
signed by John l.. Dwyer, admitting
perjury in the recent trial OF c. E.
Mitchell, the Spokane mining promo
ter, was filed in the federal court at
Spokane in support of the motion OF
Mitchell for a new trial.
The Seattle police department as
we'll as the sheriff's office are looking
for Finn Frolich, sculptor and former
resident OF New York City, who is
charged with kidnapping his three.
months-old daughter from the home of
its mother. Mrs. Helen NJ. E'rolich. on
Alki avenue. West Seattle.
Captain ]. e. Guptn, master OF the
wrecked steamer Spokane, was cited
to appear before United states
Steamboat Inspectors, Captains WHIT
ney and Turner, at Seattle and an
swer charges of unskilled navigation
: Should he be convicted his license
may be suspended or revoked.
Fifty thousand dollars will be ex'
pended by the city of Seattle in con-
structing a railroad three niles IN
length from the Chicago, Milwaukee
& Puget Sound station at Raglan TO
the vicinity of Cedar Lake, where the
municipality owns approximately
100, 900 900 feet of standing timber.
Everett G. Griggs, president OF the
NYo+;one, Iumbermen's Association,
has been notified from Washington
that the government wants the books
of the association thrown open to n
spection and has agreed to turn the
hooks over to the governments rep
resentative and to assist in every way
possible the investigation which has
been started.
Unless the receiver concludes tc
undertake it with the courts permls
sion there will be no more annual
events given by the Western Wasn'
irgton Far Association. Upon the
representations of Oliver c. McGilvra
and Charles L. Denny, as executors
of the McGilvra estate. Loren Grin
stead was appointed receiver OF the
fair association.
In a decision handed down Friday
the supreme court affirms the King
county superior court in the case OF
the State ex rel. ]. A. Denn'son
against the Seattle, Renton & South
ern Railway, in which the lower cour'
issued a writ of mandate directing
tire streetcar company to haul pas
sengers inside the city limits OF Sc
attic for scent fares.
Engineer Trail of the reclamation
service is engaged with party O
engineers on the reservation side o
the Okanogan River, making surve!
for the 23OO-acre extension to the gov
eminent irrigation project. waite
f)r the new unit will be pumped D!
electric power from the Okanoga'
River. All land under the lOo-foo
level is to be watered.
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