The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-06-18
WASHINGTON BR!EFLETS

The Washington state highway cen.
mission plans to spend S1.15C,eoo c.
good roads work in the state.
The annual meeting of the Covii;.
tribe of Indians will be held Monday
June Is, at Silver Creek.
Fishermen and lumbermen OF Wash
ington are planning to make exhibits
at the Panama Pacific exposition at
San Francisco next year.
Convicted of perjury by jury in
Seattle. Joseph Bressi began serving
sentence of one year and one day
at McNeils island.
Inmates of the Washington state
penitentiary at Walla Walla were Civ
en- a musical treat by the members OF
the New York Grand Opera company.
The report of the Tenino school just
issued for the year past shows the
total enrolment to have been 543.
while the percentage of attendance
was 97.3.
Arthur Jordan, aged 10. was instant
ly killed by stroke of lightning
while playing in a lumber yard near
his home in North Yakima. His play
mates escaped.
Senator Jones has offered an
amendment to the pension appropria-
ton bill authorizing an increase in
pensions of all widows of Civil war
veterans to from sl2 to $40 month.
F. s. Wilson, who gave whisky to
Charles Picard, a quarter breed In
dian, at Okanogan, pleaded guilty
when arraigned and was sentenced to
from six months to year in the peni-
Tertiary.
Losing his footing while crossing
bed of gravel used by contractors for
foundation work on his new home,
Mayor Hiram C. Gill of Seattle fell
and broke his right arm above the
elbow.
Agreement of the officials of the
Yakima Valley Transportation COM
pals " dDluc ny li!C oNhioiihs AtiS
has restored harmony among its en-
ployes and all danger of threatened
strike appears to have been averted.
Washington's five members in the
house voted in favor of the trade COM
mission and railroad securities bill.
Representative Humphrey cast the
ntIx rntn Of ha Cta oil
against the Clayton antitrust bill.
With the consent of the authorities
at WalIa Walla, Dan Hart. half-breed
Yakima Indian of Toppenish. who was
given an indeterminate sentence for
assault some time ago, went to the
penitentiary carrying his own commit
ment and unattended by any officer
More than 100 boxes of roses have
been shipped by parcel post from the
Vancouver office each week for the
past five weeks. Most of the pack
ages are sent to friends in the middle
west and central states. though some
are sent to the Atlantic coast.
Rev. c. E. Flanagan, of Centralia,
was elected moderator of the COwlitz
Baptist association, which closed a
successful three days convention at
Winlock
No special session of the Washing
ton legislature will be called, says
Governor Lister, to consider the fl
nancial needs Of cities of the third
class, which are complaining against
the supreme court ruling that tax lev
les for improvements must be limited
to 10 mills.
Aberdeen will be advertised at the
Panama-Pacific exposition in San
Francisco next year by the erection,
in front of the Washington state build
ing, of a 150-foot flagpole, similar to
that erected by Chehalis county at
the Alaska Yukon exposition at Seat
tie in 1909.
Olympias old city hall, landmark
for nearly a half century, was practi |
cally destroyed in a spectacular fire.
Erected originally in 1867 by public |