The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1913-03-27
WASHINGTON BRlEFLErs

A petition has been started in Little
Falls asking the governor to veto SEN
ate bill No. $40. changing the name of
the town to Vader.
Through a hole smashed in a $3.50
plate glass window. q tray containing
Is diamond rings, valued at $1,000,
was stolen from an Olympia jewelry
store.
In order that they may get more ef-
fective evidence against auto speeders.
members of the Walla Walla police
force have been equipped with stop
watches.
Herbert M. Ostroski. Of Spokane,
has been commissioned a second lieu
tenant in the army on appointment
from civil life and detailed to the First
cavalry.
G. w. Lightfoot. who sets great
stress on his name. left Seattle for a
hike of 10000 miles during which he
says he will set foot in every state
in the union.
The buildings owned by Harrigan
brothers at Pasco. were destroyed by
fire. The postoffice, the Pasco Drug
company and the Bank Of Pasco also
were slightly damaged.
Russell Golithon. q fireman ON the
Bellingham & Northern railway, is
dead as the result of burns received
when the locomotive of which he was
left in charge at Sumas exploded.
| The Chehalis & Cowlitz railway ia
preparing to electrify its road into
eastern Lewis county, the contract for
poles having been let and extra heavy
wire having been ordered from the
east.
Nicholas Thompson. pioneer con-
tractor of Spokane and engaged in
various contracts throughout the Pa
cific northwest, was killed by a huge
rock flying from a premature dyna-
mite blast.
Timber lands of Chehalis county. or
q greater portion of them. may be re-
CIuAVcu, oCCoiuAA6 W ASoSosOA ASOScAs
A. Wiley. who says he intends making
the big corporations pay their proper
ton OF taxes.
For the first time in the history Of
the Ritzville high school the gradual
ing class has decided to limit the cost
Of the graduating dress to the girls.
They will wear q dress to cost not to
exceed $40.
Captain N. Kobayashi Of the Japan
ese liner Mexico is out $2470 for bring
ing PAS five tael cans Of opium into
Port Townsend. which were not listed
on the manifest. The fine was i'm
posed by the collector of the port.
Holding that no good can be served
| by the prosecution. Of former indict-
ments against former chief OF police
Charles w. Wappenstein and others
by the grand jury Of 1911, Prosecuting
Attorney John F. Murphy Of Seattle
signed motions for dismissal.
Clinging to a horse. which had torn
off its bride and started down one Of
the main streets Of Spokane with a
heavy wagon crashing along behind
it, Floyd Gelvin, . burly Spokane
policeman. finally managed to choke
the animal into submission.
1t took a Montesano jury Just three
minutes to find C. S. Morrow not
guilty of a charge Of arson. in the
superior court. The trial consumed
five days and was the most important
of the term of court. Morrow was
arrested in Seattle several weeks ago
on a charge Of having burned his cloth
| ing store in Satsop.
That the town council Of Roy ille-
gally juggled the towns annual budget
for 1913 and has illegally burdened
the taxpayers of that town with a T.
mill tax levy are the allegations Of q
suit filed in superior court by Nelson
Murray. a Roy taxpayer. in behalf OF
himself and SO others against the town
council of Roy and Calvin J. Carr.
county treasurer.
Grays Harbor is fact becoming one
of the most important exporting places
of shell fish, and in its crab shipments
threatens to outrival Dungeness. More
than $4,000 crabs have been caught
and shipped from that section during
the past three weeks. The crabs are
caught just outside the bar. the good
| weather Of the past month making u
! possible for the men to fish nearly
every day.
The state supreme court held that
county commissioners have no power
to review or set aside decisions Of a
county superintendent Of schools in
consolidating school districts. The
appeal comes from Columbia county.
where the lower court held the COM
| missioners did have Jurisdiction. The
consolidation was of district 4 Of Co
| lumbia county and district 3, Walla
Walia county.
Although the county assessor can
not make reassessment Of timber
land, save in the even numbered years,
1t is his duty to inform himself Is well
| as possible through his field deputies
as to the amount of timber removed.
30 that he can report the same to the
county board of equalization and have
the same adjusted. This Is the ruling
made by the state tax commission In
letter to the assessor Of Snohomish
county. 1t is also set forth that there
is no law requiring a timber land own.
er to make affidavit as to the amount