The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-11-07
WASHINGTON BRIEFS


Hiram Cox, a veteran of the civil
war, died at his home in Vancouver,
aged rs years. Gangrene was the i'm
mediate cause of his death.
The Seattle city council has engag.
ed an eastern expert to make an esti-
mate of the cost of establishing a
municipal telephone system.
The home of Frank Hill, near
Springdale, caught fire while the fam
lily was away, and his little daughter.
11s years old, was burned to death.
The steamship Northwestern, the
last vessel OF the season from st.
Michael, has arrived at Seattle with
600 passengers and 100000 in gold.
Edwin F. Meyer former principal
clerk in the Puget Sound navy yard
storekeeper's office, is charged with
defrauding the government out of $780,
900.
The annual meeting of the overseers
of Whitman college will be held No
vember 10 in Walla Walla, when Of
ficers will be elected and vacancies
filed
The Washington Oregon corporation
will install sub-station at Ostrander,
a small town north of Kelso, and fur
nish the place with electric light from
the Kelso plant.
The body of Charles Brandt, 40
years old, of Everett. was taken from
Elliott bay Wednesday. Thirty days
ago he took out policy insuring his
funeral, since which time he had been
missing.
County commissioners of the state
of Washington will hold their annual
convention in Everett on November
10 and 20. A. l.. White of Snoho-
mish county, president of the organi-
cation, expects 100 to be present.
To convert the Asotin county poul-
try show into a Northwest show of
poultry to be held Independent of the
Northwest livestock show, but con-
temporaneous with it. is the plan of
the chicken men of that section of
the inland empire.
One of the largest contracts for
railroad ties made in several years
was closed when an order for 100000
900 feet of ties was placed with the
Lewis River Tie & Lumber Mills as.
sociation by the Oregon-Washington
Navigation company.
Work has commenced on a canal at
Priest Rapids on the Columbia river,
to cost $1O,OOO,OOO and which will gen
crate $4,000 to 100000 horse power.
Eastern capitalists are furnishing the
money and the machinery will be ship
ped from Keokuk, Iowa.
A municipal loan office for the ben
eft of city employees was favored by
the city commission at session in
Tacoma, as a relief from loan sharks.
The commissioners decided to put a
stop to the practice of employees sell.
ing their time" to loan officemen.
A. Zearen, who died at Arden, was
buried at Addy Friday. AS mining
prOspectOr he was a familiar charac.
ter in the community. In the gold
rush to the Black Hills he was one
of the early arrivals and located sew.
eral claims. He was IS years old.
New distributing rates out Of Spo'
kane will 60 into effect November %,
according to an announcement made
by local railroads. The distributive
rates show an increase on every COM
modify in every direction in the ter
ritory commonly known as the "Spo'
kane territory"
The Spokane & Inland railroad will
have to pay the government $1,000 for
IL violations of the "handhold" law
as a result of an opinion filed in fed
eral court at Spokane by United States
Judge Rudkin, who denied the motion
of Graves, Kizer and Graves. counsel
for the Inland for new trial.
Abe Coffman, a capitalist of Cheha'
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Washington-O Oregon corporation, who
recently received much notoriety
through the fact that he was practi'
cally able to buy the line for which
he collected fares, was arrested in
Centralia on nuisance charge.
Hens around Tacoma are on a va
cation and egg prices have been climb.
ing steadily until the best ranch eggs
are retailing at so cents a dozen
straight, with eastern storage eggs at
35 cents. Jobbers predict a retail
price Of IS cents to 60 cents a dozen,
5 cents an egg. II present conditions
continue.
R. F. Parkhurst, formerly assistant
cashier of the First National bank of
Seattle, who was convicted in 1909 of
embezzlement of $4,000 from the
bank and sentenced to ten years i'm
prisonment, has been paroled and will
take a position with business house
in Seattle. Parkhurst's record in the
federal penitentiary at McNeil's Island
has been flawless and most of the