The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1914-05-28
WASHINGTON
STATE NEWS
OF INTEREST

May 81 the business district of
Lebam. sawmill town, suffered a
fire loss of half a million.
Wool clips are going off ct prices
surpa ssed but twice in the last %
years.
SEEMING at the mouth of the Co.
lumbia river has been stopped by
order of the War Department as an
obstruction to navigation.
A 100000 stock company will
erect sanitary cannery at Ana
cortes.
The Pacific Coast Steel Co. will
supply 600 tons of structural steel
for the new port commission ware
house at Seattle.
Stanwood and Arlington will
each get q mile of concrete road
constructed this year.
The surveys of the Alaska rail
road are to be rushed this summer
and arrangements made for con-
structiOn next year.
The canneries and fruit industries
generally are asking to be exempt
from the operation of rhe minimum
wage laws. This is done in Cali
fOrnia, and If not done here these
industries will be crippled, it Is
claimed
The railroads are making plans to
furnish 10000 freight ears to
handle the Yakima Valley fruit crop
this year.
The Puget Sound navy yard ut
Bremerton receives $4,000 in APP
preparations from Congress this
year.
TIE North Pacific Fruit DistribG
ters corporation with headquarters
1T Spokane has opened a branch of
flee at Portland.
Clallam county Is to have work
begin on IL new $4,000 court house
II Port Angeles within thirty days.
There is general opposition uf tax
payers to having all road contracts
forced to an eight-hOur day by
State Labor Commissioner.
A new fruit cannery will open
June LIST at North Puynllup.
The Sumner Fruit Growers AS
sociation will install plant to make
fruit juice from blighted fruit.
Lodge pole pine from the Cas-
cade Mountains treated by y new
process is to be substituted for
cedar in construction of telephone
lines. Petitions are being filed with
the secretary of state for an eight
nour law To apply to the whole
state.
A contract has been let for the
erection of Masonic Temple ut
MORTON.
Davenport, Iowa capitalists will
install Il sawmill ut Index.
Delay in shipping machinery make
1t impossible TO open ,he Pacific
iron and Steel Co. plant on time rs
planned at TecOma.
Reports show the opening of 81
new factories in the Pacific North
west during April--m"stly small
concerns and many co-Operative.
Kennewick strawberry growers ex-
pect to ship out $4,000 crates.
The Skagit River is 10 be treated
to D. 100000 Improvement.
The Tacoma Home Consumers
League, is asking that one day in
the year be set aside 10 emphasize
the importance OF home industries.
The Public Service Board has Civ
Ell the Puget Sound Electric Co.
operating interurbans the right 10
advance rates to Il profitable point.
Northern Pacific lands in the
Tieton and Mabton irrigated tracts
have been reduced to half price to
induce settlers to locate.
The Seattle city utilities commit
tee has decided to raise the power
dam on the Cedar to 1900 feet,
tue
The Great Northern will place
orders for 10000. 900 feet of lumber
for new cars. with Puget Sound
mills.
The Puyallup Fruit Growers AS
ISOLATION is enlarging its plant and
installing more modern machinery.
The minimum wage fixed for
girls and women over Is is $3.50
per week.
Ridgefield has donated ground for
\ 100000 farmers cooperative
starch factory.
The first unit of what the city
of Seattle hopes will grow to
great municipal street car system
was put in operation last week.
Austin Corbin II, vice president of
the Spokane International railroad,
and George H. Martin, general
freight and passenger agent of the
rOadl, were fined $1,000 each by
Federal Judge Rudkin at Spokane
ON Saturday on pleas of guilty of
violation of the interstate commerce
law. They were indicted on II
counts and compromised 10 OF them.
The violations consisted In COrbin
shipping by the Spokane Interna-
tional from his ranch in Idaho to
his home in Spokane wheat, wood
and a cow without paying the es-
tablished freight rates. Corbin and
Martin later yeturned to court and