The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1913-07-10
WASHINGTON BRIEFLETs

Louis Peterson, who is wanted In
Prosser on a charge of horse stealing,
was arrested at klamath Falls, Ore
Harry Davidson and w. H. Head
rick killed rabbit at Othello that was
almost entirely black, the first Ut its
kind ever seen there.
Lowering the worlds record on
road race course, Bob Burman drove
his Blitzen-Benz No. 2 a mile in 81 3-5
seconds at Tacoma in practice.
Prosecuting Attorney Ramsey has
stopped the issuance of cash register
coupons by Klickitat county mer-
chants under the trading stamp law
passed by the last legislature.
Before an estimated audience Of TO-
900 Governor Lister at Aberdeen de-
clared that war is to vanish soon and
that sensible and peaceable settlement
10 bound to end disputes.
Spokane's new criminal code was
adopted by the city council after a
strong provision prohibiting unneces-
sary noises in the city had been In
serted.
Wilbur Kelly, a business man of
Centralia, was probably fatally injured
when his auto overturned while driv-
ing very fast on the road west Of
Grand Mound.
Grain bags have gone to 10N cents
and the farmers fear higher prices.
Prison grain bags are quoted at 81
cents. The jute mill is being run at
capacity and 10000 sacks are being
turned out daily.
Earl Morgan, of Seattle, was so bad
ly injured by the explosion of toy
cannon which he was holding between
his knees while loading, that 1t was
necessary to amputate his right leg
above the knee.
A cloudburst in Scotch coulee has
washed the road out for two miles.
Rocks weighing a ton were carried
down the hillside. Gardens were wash
ed out and the alfalfa covered with
mud.
A federal grand jury at Tacoma has
begun an investigation Of McNeill's
Island penitentiary to determine the
truth or falsity of the numerous SEN
sotional reports concerning that insti-
tuition.
While the streets were crowded with
merrymakers at Tacoma July 4, two
members of the Stampede company OF
cowboys were shot by an unknown
negro after a short quarrel. One of
them, a Mexican known as Joe Moon
light, was fatally wounded.
Some one threw stone through
the window Of the home Of Mrs. Mary
Borst, in Centralia, about supper time,
the rock shattering cup from which
she was drinking and sending piece
Of the china into her forehead just
over the eye.
At a meeting of the Centralia com.
mission a resolution was adopted pro-
hibiting the sale of suggestive hat
bands in Centralia, the Mems Brother
hood having submitted petition to
the commissioners objecting to "Ev-
erybody's DOM 1t" you're My Baby"
and others of the same character.
Marion d. Egbert, who has the uni
que distinction of holding nine offices
and drawing a pension for total dis
ability, has been reappointed deputy
customs collector of South Bend,
position which he has held for the last
~ years under the continued Repub-
ncan ascendency.
Mayor Jared Herdlick and City Clerk
A. Holmes of Hillyard were ordered
committed to the county jail and or
dered to pay a $40 fine each by Judge
Bruce Blake, because the municipal
authorities failed to obey citation
issued for their appearance in the
superior court. The two officials were
taken into custody by the sheriff.
M w. Whitlow, county commission
er and president of the First National
bank of Pullman, opposes the plan OF
Whitman county to bond the county
to construct 300 miles of good roads.
saying that road building in this coun-
ty is still in the experimental stage.
and that 1t would be unwise to con-
struct such a large mileage Of good
roads until the best type of roads and
the best method of construction has
been determined by experience.
President Wilson has sent to the
senate the nomination of jeremiah
Neterer, of Bellingham. to be federal
Judge for the western district of Wash
ington. filling the vacancy due 10 the
failure Of the last senate to confirm
Judge Howard. But for the protest
made by Senator Poindexter the presi-
dent would have given this appoint
ment to Judge Chadwick. who was
supported to the very last by Attorney
General McReynolds. but Chadwick's
speech. in which he dealt lightly with
the initiative and referendum. proved
his undoing.
The child labor law will be enforced
relentlessly in this state. according to
State Labor Commissioner Olson.
Commissioner Olson and Assistant
Commissioner Headlee, of Seattle,
have started war upon theatrical COM
panies which have children In their
troupes The law provides that it
shall constitute misdemeanor 70 en-
ploy any boy or girl under the ages Of
II and Is respectively at any employ
ment indoors except on q farm or In
the regular course Of housekeeping.
A superior Judge may grant permit
&AaA nhaM hn hindinH In INV lNaOial