The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1912-07-04
WASHINGTON BRlEFLETs

The Lutheran Pacific Synod held
three-days' session at Chehalis.
The national conference of charities
and corrections will hold its next con.
vention in Seattle.
Fire destroyed the plant Of the Spo
kane Paint & Oil company, causing a
loss estimated at 100000.
An unwonted amount of rain fell
in the Walla Walla valley this year
and farmers are beginning to worry
over the outlook
Late heavy rains have damaged the
first cutting Of alfalfa hay in the Hud.
son bay district. and from 5000 to TO-
600 tons Of hay will be unsaleable.
Five flremen were severely injured
by the falling walls of a two story
frame building in Ballard, a suburb of
Seattle, when the building burned.
Because he started a camp fire that
he was unable to put out, G. Stevens.
prospector, was fined $500 in the
United States district court at Seattle
A heavy rain which fell for two
days, extinguished the numerous small
fires throughout western Washington.
No considerable damage had as yet
been done by the fires.
The Toledo lodge of Eagles dedicat.
sd its new $4,000 lodge hall with appro.
pirate services Saturday. Visiting del.
legations were in attendance from ev-
cry Eagle lodge in Lewis county.
After two sets of checkers had failed
10 find any inaccuracies in his books,
Harry A. Bringolf. teller in the city
treasurer's office at Tacoma. has con-
fessed to populations approximating
$4,000.
Figures just compiled by Postmas-
ter John Benedict show an increase of
IA per cent In the Centralia postal re-
ceipts for the year just closed over
the previous year. The average yearly
increase for the past 15 years has been
"a per cent.
Jack Johnson, aged 30 years, mar
ried, with two children. was instantly
killed in the Creech Brothers plant at
Raymond. Johnson was working on
the carriage and log rolled back,
catching him between a lever and cut.
ting the top of his head off.
None of the Alaska antitrust cases
in which several transportation CON-
panies and their officers are
charged with conspiracy in restraint
of trade in violation Of the Sherman
law. will be tried this summer, accord
ing to word received from Washington.
At a meeting at Aberdeen, perma.
nent organization of the Pacific Coast
Loggers' association was effected. The
organization Is for the purpose Of
keeping its members posted on mat.
!, ters pertaining to the logging industry
- the states Of Oregon and Washing
ton.
Under the leadership of the Indus.
trial Workers of the World, PAP men,
employed by the Stone & Webster
company constructing the power dam
on the White Salmon river struck for
an increase of 25 cents day and bet.
ter accommodations. The men have
been getting $2.25.
To give them a chance to manage
the property while he was yet alive
and could help them, Thomas Lyons,
a pioneer of Walla Walla distributed
$500 acres Of the finest farming land
in the valley to his six children. The
deeds give the value of each tract and
the total is $4,000 as a conservative
estimate.
Spokane shippers have introduced
before the public service commission
of the state mass of figures in an eff
fort to amend the general freight tar
IFS Of all railroads operating in the
state Of Washington. They contend
that the present rates place them at
a disadvantage In shipping to points
in their territory.
The Pacific county superior court
was reversed by the supreme court In
the case of Thelma Olson, appellant.
against J. ]. Haggerty. Georgiana Hag-
gerty and Florence Swanson, an action
for alleged malicious prosecution. The