The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-07-06
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

from the lighthouse and lifesaving
station at North Cove to South Bend
At depth of SIS feet, artesian wa
ter has been struck on the Wal!a
Walla county poor farm, making some
80 wells of the kind in the valley at
present.
Admiral Togo, hero of the late war,
has notified the chamber of Com
merce of Seattle 1t will be impossible
for him to visit Seattle on his return
bone from the coronation.
The Goldendale Fruit & Produce AS
ISOLATION has established a free in
formation and employment bureau for
the benefit of the farmers and fruit
growers of the Klickitat Valley.
. The new state industrial insurance
commission, which will administer the
employers liability law, will go on
statewide trip next week to explain
the working of the law and invite CO.
operation of employers.
Rains which have been general
throughout the eastern Washington
wheat belt have improved the crop
prospects 20 per cent, say grain deal
ers and millers in close touch with
conditions throughout the Northwest.
Based on carefully compiled re-
ports by all of the agents of the
Northern Pacific Railway in eastern
Washington. J. C. Roth, superintend-
ent of transportation of the Northern
Pacific. predicted that the wheat cror
OF Washington will be 2S.6 per cent
larger than that of 1910.
Harry Osdiek. captain of the Spo
kane ball team, after playing at thu
game of love for two years. ha:
knocked home run, and within fe, |
weeks will enter the "Bened &
League" with Mabel Bender, a We.
known and popular Spokane grl
the younger social set, as his playin;
partner.
The decision of tie IEterStat |
Commerce Commission in the Spt |
kane rate case and all allied case
affecting rates to and from ints:
mountain and Pacific Coast point
which was to have been announce
before the commission adjourned fo
the summer on Saturday, probabl.
will be delayed until September.
That the jury system of the Arlsrj
IAN courts is failure is the state
opinion of Judge Boyd j. Tallman, o
the King county superior court, VIII
in its place a jury sys
tenn in which two judges shall appoin
four competent, capable and broadl,
educated men, the six to hear all jur.
cases and decide the merits By ma
jority vote.
Washington will have a total Of 2
postal savings banks open for bus
ness July Is, as follows: Aberdeen
Bremerton, Central a, Che
halls, Colfax, Colville, Ellensburg
Montesano, Mount Vernon
Olympia, Port Townsend, Prosser, ,
Pullman, Puyallup, Ritzville, Sedro |
Woolley, Snohomish, South Bend, Sun
nyside, Vancouver and Wenatchee.
Out of the three hundred and some
odd teachers now in attendance at
the summer session for teachers a.
the state college, there are about so |
high school principals and superin
tendants whose especial purpose |
seems to be to acquire as much in |
formation upon subjects pertaining to
agriculture, horticulture, domest c art
manual art and kindred subjects, as
possible.
John Johnson, who has tied up traf
fic on the Chicago. Milwaukee & Pu-
get Sound Railroad spur in Cherry
Valley by tearing up the rails, remOv
ing a culvert and threatening to an
initiate the company's employees ii
they attempt to put the track in place
and reopen traffic to gravel pit, was
enjoined by Judge Bell from interfer.
ing in any way with the company's
line or track.
The Seattle Publicity Club, recog-
nizing that Seattle's once boasted
civic spirit had sadly fallen by the
wayside, arranged a unique celebra-
ton for the public destruction Of the
hammer" typ.fying the average
mans tendency to KNOCK" The idea
caught and the affair took place
Saturday night in the presence
of big crowd which wildly
cheered the burning Of the Knockers
weapon. The handle Of the tool meas
ured 20 feet, while the head alone
Uas seven feet from end to end.
Senator Jones and l.. NJ. Rice, of
Seattle, who have been in consulta-
ton with Secretary Fisher for some
time, urging approval of application
of the Klickitat 1rr cation & Power
Company for right of way across the
Yakima Indian reservation for an ir.
rigation canal, succeeded in having a