The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-02-12
WASHINGTON BRlEFLETS

| ted at Montesano.
Nearly so convicts al Walla Walla
stood up and expressed willingness 10
lead better lives, following an appeal
| by Evangelist X. J. BuKin.
At the request of the Washington
branch of the National Congress OF
Mother and Parent Teachers associa-
/ tions Governor Lister has designated
Tuesday. February II. to be observed
as Child Welfare Day"
! II was given out at Vancouver that
1 the receipts for January of the United
! States land office totaled SlS.664.l9.
/ In this amount is included payment
on six coal claims in the Centralia
country.
The right of the city Of Seattle to
condemn the property Of the Seattle
Benton and Southern railroad within
| the city limits, for a municipal rail-
road, was upheld by the Washington
supreme court.
Value Of grain ard hay produced in
Lincoln county the past year totaled
more than $1,000, 900. while livestock
and other products brought the aggre
gate above the $4,000, 600 mark, or
more than $500 for every man, woman
and child in the county.
War on English sparrows has been
declared by the chamber Of commerce
Of Pullman, which has taken up the
matter of devising means of eradicat-
ing the pests with the Spokane cham
Der, and through il with other COM
mercial bodies throughout the Inland
Empire.
Charles Hodges, an Englishman "a
years old, who arrived in Seattle re-
Gently from Canada, and who received
$50 from the Bank OF Montreal branch
at Calgary, Alberta, was found dying
in a japanese hotel in the southern
part of the city. His skull had been
fractured with bed slat.
Governor Lister is expected to name
in the near future representative OF
the state of Washington on the joint
commission of the federal government
and the state of Oregon TO investigate
the possibilities OF the use of power
from Ceiilo Falls On the Colum bia
river.
A desk used by Isaac Stevens, when
of in OF n 7ASg
has been pensioned after more than
so years of active service. The State
Historical Society in Tacoma gets it
now The desk was brought around
Cape Horn in 1853, when Major Stew
ems was sent as first governor OF
Washington territory.
Although he ate the documentary
evidence against him while on the wit
ness stand, in full view OF the court
attaches and spectators, according to
officials, Sam Matheson, Seattle con
tractor, was bound over to the grand
jury by Municipal Judge Stevenson al
Portland. on charge of passing bad
check for $35.
Articles of incorporation have been
drawn up for the Richland Northern
Railway company, capitalized at ST.
100000, to build line from Richland,
Benton county, northerly TO a connec
ton with the Milwaukee railroad. II
is presum ed that the connection point
will be at Hanford, 10 where the Mil
waukee already has built. The Mil
waukee is known to have surveys be
tween Hanford and Kennewick.
Mrs. Rose Manley, Of South Aber
deem, has filed as q candidate for the
office of councilman, being the second
woman to enter the race for political
honors. She is the wife of woods
man and has been prominent in South
Side club circles. Mrs Manley is the
socialist candidate At present she is
| head OF the South Side branch of the
W. c. T. U.
With so men and three women en-
rolled Roslyn opened the first free
night school in Kittitas county. The
school is supported by public subscrip-
ton and the instruction is given by
teachers of the grade school. Nearly
all of the students are men and women
past middle age Many OF them are
foreign born and are striving for the
qualifications necessary to obtain citi
zenship papers.
John w. Barker, a special agent OF
the United States land office, who
reached Seattle from Alaska, after an
absence of nearly three months, was
marooned for more than month on
a remote volcanic island in the Aleu-
tians. with only natives for compan-
ions, sea-lion steaks for food and the
occasional rumble of volcanoes and
the culver of earthquakes 10 furnish
diversion.
At the end of the wheat marketing
season figures from the 80 shipping
points in Lincoln county show thai