The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-01-15

made of the regents to invite MT
Roosevelt to the head of the uni
versity.
Esta blishing record in North
west parcel post shipping, $500
pounds of timothy seed have been
handled by mail from Paradise, Or
egon, to Lewiston, Idaho. The roads
were in bad condition between Par
adise and the nearest railroad con-
nection, and the shipper found
that the parcel post rate of $l.o4
per hundred weight WAS cheaper
than he could haul the seed himself
John Graham, honor convict, on
the Olympia highway at Hoodsport
is the first to seek to escape. He
made a break for liberty, rather
than remain on the job.
One million five hundred thous-
and acres of state and railroad
lands, one-third of which is in the
state of Washington. have been re-
leased by an order of the general
land office of the United States.
The shipments of lumber from
the port of Seattle, including the
entire district of Washington. to
foreign ports for 1918 were given
out this week as amounting TO So
sos, ,40S, representing shipments 20
falling 431, 1,411,000 feet. For the
fiscal year ending June 80 the lum-
Der exports for the district "a
mounted to s5,730,6S2.
According to figures compiled in
the office of the states minimum
wage commission, it requires approx
imately $40 q week to meet the
necessary expenses of a girls liv-
ing The average of the 19S esti-
mates made by that many employers
of female help is $9.s1 a week. Pre-
vious reports showed that not 10
exceed 25 per cent received more
than $40. week in the various .n-
dustries of Washington that employ
women, while nearly so per cent
receive less than $40.
John M. Boyle, for the past 23
years a practicing attorney in Ta-
coma, has been appointed tempora
~ United States Marshal for the
district of Western Washington.
The appointment was made by
Judge Neterer. and it is expected
that it will be made permanent uH-
on the return of President Wilson
to Washington, D. c.
The tax rate i'll Spokane this
year under the commission form of
has been reduced one
mill-a saving of $4,000.
Advices from Pullman state that
many unemployed men from Seattle
Spokane and other cities of the state
are seeking enrolment at The coll
ege for the six weeks winter course
in agriculture, horticulture, forestry
home economics and other practica
subjects.
A vast saving in shipping rates
between the Pacific Northwest and
the Mississippi. Missouri and Ohio
river valleys is anticipated as the
result of an announcement made by
the American-Ha waiian Steamship
Company, that with the opening OF
the Panama Canal, steamships of
that organization will carry freight
from New Orleans through the ca-
nal to Pacific Coast points.
The strike Of the United Mine
Workers in the coal mines at Rem
ton. near Seattle. stands called off
following a mass meeting of the
miners Saturday, in which the ac-
tion of the district executive board
and the national organization was
ratified after heated protest. The
strike has continued without ces9a-
ton for IS months. According TO
the proposal of the Puget Sound
action. Light & Power Co.. the
strikers will be reinstated although
the company refuses to recognize
the union or agree to a closed shop
policy. 1t has, however. agreed not
to discriminate against union men.
Several hundred masts are being
made and shiIred from lumber mills
in the state of Washington for the
Panama-Pacific International Expo
sition. They are of fir, some of
them 125 feet high, and they will
be placed around the grounds and
buildings, to fly the decorative flags
standards and pennants that will be
parts of the general color and dec
oratiou scheme of the exposition.
Protection from forest fires last
year cost in this state s14.5 .537.61,
us against s20,15199 in 1912, >
saving of $5.616.3S. The loss last
year from forest fires was much
less than for the preceding year.
Rev. Fred Alban We'll, of the T.
nitarian church, of Bellingham, will
hold services at Hawley's hall, III
Lynden. next Sunday evening. JAN
uary Is, to which the public is cor
daily invited. Mr.. Wells subject
will be Wireless Religion" They
made the gold into thin mates and
cut it into wires" Unitarian SER
vices are being held regularly at
Hawley"s hall, every third Sunday
evening of the month.