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


fled checks.
Seventeen carloads Of sheep and
two carloads of cattle have been ship
ped recently from North Yakima &c
the Frye e. Henry packing houses OF
Seattle.
= experimenting his farm income by
selling wine without a license proved
disastrous to Peter Pieri. He paid
$50 into justice court for selling re
wine at his home near Walla Walla.
By the employment of vigorous and
| efficient effort, officials of Centralia
are getting the typhoid fever epidemic
under control and it's abatement is
confidently expected now.
Five more miles of macadam has
been completed on the boulevard pro
posed from Walla Walla to Pendle
ton. The section will be finished tc
Athena by spring.
The Milwaukee railroad will soon
begin its extension of the Tacoma &
Eastern from Norton, its present east
ern terminus, it is reported from Che
halls.
A bird cage made of evergreens and
bearing a Christmas card was placed
on the desk of Assistant Secretary OF
the Treasury Hamlin by Lottie Lester
Seattle school girl.
ic mn nm nor
sons in IS eastern cities during thu
last six weeks have seen the prize
winning apples exhibited at the Fail
Hesperides and National Apple show
Governor Lister has appointed Rev
NJ. H. Marvin of Sunnyside as a mem
Der of the industrial welfare commits
sion to fill vacancy, and Mrs. w. H
Udall of Tacoma was appointed &c
succeed DR.. Theresa Mcmahon, term
expired
The state of Washington starts the
new year with general fund over
draft of S726,64743, while the total
balance in all other funds is $1,352.
962.25, according to the report OF
State Treasurer Edward Meath, after
balancing the books for the year 1913
Husbands and fathers to the number
of 80 earned s9O1.50 for their families
at the King county stockade, near Bal
lard, during the month of December
according to the report of Sheriff Ed
ward Cudihee, filed in the county
commissioners office.
The state capital is to have new
Carnegie library within a short time
The Carnegie corporation has promis
ed $25, 5000 and the plans are already
approved for the building. 1t will be
within a stones throw Of the state
house.
In order that every boy and girl
who works eight years for a certifi'
cate of graduation from the eighth
grade in this state, shall receive an
original autograph of the state super.
intendent, Mrs. Josephine Preston is
now signing her name to 5000 such
certificates.
At the suggestion Of the attorney
general of the United States Judge
Frank H. Rudkin appointed Francis
W. Garrecht of Walla Walla temper.
airy United States attorney for the
eastern district of Washington to sue
coed Oscar Cain, whose resignation
was accepted by President Wilson.
Charges that the state of Washing
ton is interfering with government
work on the Sunnyside portion of the
Yakima reclamation project by with
holding school lands for speculation
are made by Secretary Of the Interior
Franklin X. Lane in letter to Cover
nor Lister.
Cooks and flunkies working for lum'
Der and logging companies, who, as
a general rule, have been figured with
other employees in assessments made
by the industrial insurance commits
sion, do not come under the work.
mems compensation act, the attorney
generals office holds in ruling given
the commission.
That Maiden for the last two years
has been without a treasurer is the
report of the state bureau of inspec-
ton after an examination of the Whit
man county town. The failure of the
man chosen for this office to file a
bond, a requisite before he can legally
take up his duties. is the cause OF
this strange condition.
Colfax and Whitman county have
had a prosperous year and a number
of new records have been established
for the town and county. The value
of farm products shipped from Collar
in carload lots alone is placed at
SS3O,72O and il is believed that the
value of small shipments, including
butter, eggs, fruits. dressed veal and
hogs, poultry and other products, will
place the total at s1,o00,000.
An investigation of the wages OF
female factory employees in the state
of Washington, just completed by the