The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-08-29
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETS

ped to Vancouver as souvenir to be
kept by the city.
The Oregon and Washington Inter-
state Laundrymen's association met
In regular annual session in Tacoma
August 10. 20 and 81.
Mountain batteries d, e, and F left
Vancouver barracks Tuesday for q
1O-weeks' drill and tarket practice at
the Warm Springs reservation in Ore
gon.
For hitting horse in the head with
q biscuit and causing runaway which
resulted in smashed rig and injured
horse, Clay Keaton, a Centralia man,
was fined $40 and costs.
X. Thaeishi, of Los Angeles, JAP
anese aviator, was badly bruised at
Liberty Lake, when his biplane dashed
into a grove of trees as he made q
landing from practice flight.
Fire, starting in sawdust In the
Clark County Box e. Lumber COM
pany's mill, at Vancouver, destroyed
the plant and caused total loss OF
about $4,000, with no insurance.
Ernest Fippola of Ainslie. was killed
by train near Winlock while riding
a bicycle home from Veness where he
worked in a mill. Fippola was about
30 years old and had been married but
a month.
N. w. Durham of Spokane, congress
sional candidate for eastern Washing
ton, has withdrawn his fling in the
republican primaries and will 60 be.
fore the preferential primaries OF the
new progressive party.
N. b. Coffman, of Chehalis, has been
appointed a delegate from this state
to the Northwest Products Exposition
to be held in Minneapolis November
IL to 20. The appointment has Just
been made by Governor Hay.
A man believed to be G. w. Johnson,
80 years old, logging foreman. was
struck by a.Northern Pacific passen-
ger train between Hillhurst and Lake
view, on the Portland road. sustaining
injuries that caused his death.
Dr. Alice H. Chapman, Of Woodland,
has announced her candidacy for re-
preventative in the Washington state
legislature on the democratic ticket,
and being the only candidate for the
office on that ticket will get the NOM
ination.
Trailed by bloodhounds from the
state prison. Wilbur Toner and Frank
Grove, Walla Walla attorneys. lost in
the Blue Mountains since Friday, were
found on Salmon River Monday, so
miles from Walla Walla. The men
were almost exhausted.
General Leonard Wood, chief of
staff, has submitted to Representative
Hawley tentative plans and detailed
estimates for making Vancouver bar
racks a brigade post. The necessary
expense aggregates $1,160.000 for in
fantry and $1.158,OOo for cavalry.
Although Albert H. Young, law
student at the University Of Washing
ton, is a subject of the German EN-
peror, he cannot become q citizen of
the United States because his mother
was a Japanese, was the decision Of
United States District Judge Edward
Il. Cushman.
In a statement issued at Walla Wal
la, Governor M. E. Hay, in answer to
a challenge issued by J. G. Lawrence
for a joint debate on state issues, de-
clines the challenge on the ground
that since Lawrence has withdrawn
from the republican party the two
candidates have nothing in common.
At least 10000 sacks of barley are
said to have been pooled In the vicin-
ity of Dayton, not to be sold until a
more favorable price is offered. 1t is
thought the farmers are counting on a
rise in the price Of barley such az was
offered and accepted last year. At
present only $1.00 to $1.10 is quoted.
There will be no bands in the labor
day parade at Seattle unless the mu-
sicians' union recedes from its refusal
to join the boycott of certain estab-
lishment that is under the ban of or
ganized labor. The musicians not on
ly refuse to cooperate in the boycott,
but permit their members to play In
the offending house.
The managers Of the anti-saloon
fight in Lewis county who are just
now busily engaged in circulating To-
cal option petitions in the various pre-
cincts of the county. are confident that
many more than enough signatures
will be secured to enable them to have
the question submitted to the voters
at the coming election in November.
Mrs. Harriet e. Balch, wealthy
Boston widow, was robbed Of hand
bag containing jewelry valued at $4,000
to $4,000 at the Canadian Pacific wharf
at Seattle. on the arrival of the steam
ship Princess Charlotte from Victoria.
Two hours after the robbery the police