The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-01-29
WASHINGTON BRlEFLETS


1t Grandview. Saturday, to discuss
matters pertaining to their business.
The recent public service commits
sion order requiring the sale OF six
tickets for a quarter or 20 for 81, on
the Seattle carlines, was set aside by
the supreme court.
Word has been received from SedrO
Woolley of the resignation of DR.. Will
liam E. Cass as superintendent of the
Northern Hospital for the Insane at
that place.
Public utilities commission of Wash
ingtOn will be asked to furnish means
OF grading corn in accordance with
the standards set by the federal az
ricultural department.
]. J. Tracey, who is said to have
wounded the notorious bandit Harry
Tracey, is under arrest as lazy hus-
band, at Tacoma. He is charged with
mistreatment Of his wife and four
children.
County Treasurer Bliss Phillips at
Colville is issuing notice Of sale of
5000 tracts of land in Columbia irri-
cation district for delinquent assess
ments. Most of the descriptions are
Of town lots and small tracts.
Members of the Yakima, Klickitat
and kittitas tribes on the Yakima res
ervation have decided to reject a plan
to enlist regiment of rough riders
to volunteer in case of United States
Intervention in Mexico
The supreme court at Olympia. de-
cided that Indians living on Yakima
reservations have no right to mort
gage cattle supplied them by the gov
ernment. but may mortgage or SCI.
crops which they raise on allotted
lands.
ID. c. Crank, carpenter for the Pa
cific & Eastern road, at Raymond,
beat his wife over the head, causing
scalp wounds and then shot himself
through the temple with a revolver.
The couple had Quarreled over the
question Of buying some intoxicants.
The three express companies oper-
ating at Kelso are taking an interest
in finding new markets for the Colum-
bia river smelt, and already a marked
improvement Is noticed by the local
shippers. Many express orders are
being sent to the middle west already.
Not guilty was the plea of IL de-
PENDANTS charged with burning the
home of Mrs. Margaret M. Ross, and
driving her and her two sons from
their claim near South Bend under
threat of bodily injury. A joint bail
bond of $1,000 was fixed.
Two hundred and fifty-eight acres
of donation land claim, taken up by
Richard Ough in Hudson Bay times,
before the civil war, was sold for $780,
900. by John Ough, son of the original
owner. This comprises part of the
townsite of Washougal, and is the first
time the property has left the family.
Traffic on a portion of Fifth avenue,
Seattle, including the section where
the city hall is located, was blocked
by a landslide which was caused by
the recent heavy rains. Windows of
the city hall on the side where the
slide was feared, were boarded up to
save the glass from being broken.
The state oyster commission. for the
first time in the history of the state.
has contracted to sell oysters for COM
mercial uses instead of for seed About
800 sacks of 120 pounds each were
sold to the highest bidder at $3.50 a
sack. When sold for seed they bring
only 25 cents sack under the law.
The Supreme Court has upheld the
constitutionality of the act passed by
the last legislature giving logging COM
panies power to condemn right-of-way
on the theory of private way of ne
cessity." Unavailing attempts have
been made for many years by legis-
lative acts and proposed constitution.
al amendments to gain such privileges.
Sheep and cattle men of the north
west will have representative in
Portland when the federal locating
committee visits that city. to urge
that one of the reserve banks be g.
tablished in the northwest and that
Portland be given the preference, as
most easily accessible to all of Ore.
gon, Washington and Idaho.
Governor Ernest Lister, Hugh C.
Todd, democratic state chairman; ].
A. Sloan, president of the democratic
state league, and Ashton Dovall. chair
man of the third congressional district
democratic state league. are to be
guests Of honor at an old-time Jeffer-
sonian Democratic banquet to be held
In South Bend Friday evening, under
the auspices Of the democratic organi-
cation of Pacific county.
Quite number of people who
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