The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1911-02-16
STATE NEWS
BRIEFLY TOLD

Stlllaguamish River, four miles noftA
of Granite Falls.
The Wenatchee Horticultural AS.
ISOLATION will hold annual meeting on
February IS, at which time officers
for the coming year will be elected
and the general business of the as
sociation transacted.
To cut hundreds of acres of foot
hill farms into small acreage tracts
business men of Walla Walla are
forming an organization, and they
will in the spring plat nearly 1000
acres of new orchard.
The contract for the erection OF Il
commercial club building at South
Bend has been awarded to Townsend
& Gilbert, the contract price being
$3.50 Six bids We're submitted. al
ranging from $6,450 to 1920.
Fifteen more convicts have arrived
at the state rock quarry at Meskill.
1t is stated that there are now 81
men at Meskill. This state quarry is
the most successful of any that the
State of Washington has undertaken
to operate.
May 20 has been officially set as
the date for the inauguration of the
Seattle Chicago through passenger
service of the Chicago, Milwaukee &
Puget Sound Railway. according to an
announcement made by General Pas
senger Agent Hubbard.
Chelan County paid the Great Nor
thern Railway approximately $1,000
900 during the last year for freight
on nearly $500 cars of fruits. Ship
ments of lumber and merchandise
make the total freight bill OF the
county about $1,60O,000.
Convincing proof of the age of this
part of the globe was unearthed when
e. NJ Hubbard, superintendent for the
Coweeman Driving & Rafting Com,
pany, discovered the tooth of a mas
todon jutting from the bank of the
Coweeman a few miles above Kelso.
Fred Lozier, alive and well, walked
in upon his mourning mother, Mrs.
II. l.. Smyser. The tears which had
fallen since the body of drawned
man had been positively identified
as that of Loziler at Bellingham, Sun
day, were replaced by glad rejoicings
Under the auspices of the Develop
ment League, an apple-packing school
has been started in the old school
house at White Salmon, with an en-
rollment of 25. w. G. Seton, who
packed Walla Walla's prize winners
at the National Apple Show, is in
charge.
That Preston Durbin, brought back
to Spokane from the coast to stand
trial as an accomplish of E. H. Har
rison and son in the robbery of three
men at the points of guns at Harri
sons poolroom, is the descendant OF
the notorious Durbin boys, partners
of Jesse James, is an assertion of the
police.
The county commissioners have ap
propriated $4,000 to be applied OF
the construction of a steel bridge
across Lewis River at Woodland
Cowlitz County, through it's board Of
commissioners, appropriated like
sum. Either through the state OF
through private subscription another
$4,000 will be raised until the esti
mated $4,000 has been secured.
Whether an undertaking establish
ment is a general nuisance or no
is the question that will be determined
in the superior court when the cast
just filed by property owners in The
exclusive residential districts at Sc
attic is heard The suit seeks to Gus
two undertaking firms from a two
story building in the residential dis
trict for use as an undertaking es
tablishment. The complaint filed de
clares that such an enterprise is ;
nuisance and must be abated.
ut was all because l tried to spanl
my boy" said Albert Darling, O
White Salmon, as he placed his arm
under the X-ray and then submitte,
to an operation which laid open tn,
wrist to the bone. AS he swung o,
the lad the boy instinctively threw
his hand behind for protection, an,
the indelible pencil he held penetrat
ed the fathers wrist and the pom
broke off, starting blood poison in
few days, which may necessitate an,
putation.
There is to be marked revival o
the cattle industry in counties soutl
OF the Snake River, according to cat
tlemen and others who intend to en-
gage in this highly profitable busi
ness. Depleted Tukanon, Snake Riy
er and Blue Mountain ranges are t.
be restocked; the cowboy, once ia
miliar figure, is again to become cor
spicuous in the industrial life of thi
section and the fall roundup, an ar
nual affair of bygone days here, !
to be revived Instead of three o
four cattlemen owning 200 or 80
apiece, there are to be scores of theL
with herds numbering thousands.
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