The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-03-16
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation of Our Readers.

February were S13,750,607.
Judge Irwin of the superior court
died at his home in Montesano.
A rifle club has been organized
among the business men of Pasco.
The corn acreage in Okanogan coun.
ty will exceed 24OO acres this year.
The one-man system of operating
streetcars has been introduced into
Vancouver.
landslide at La Grande seriously
damaged the 100000 Tacoma munic-
ipal power plant
George Yakich, who knitted six men
during a war argument in Seattle, was
sentenced to six months in the county
Jail
An increased demand for county ag-
ricultural advisers is reported from the
extension department of the state col.
lege.
Accidentally shot while playing
wild west" with his chum, William
Dulin, Is years old, died at North
Yakima.
The district Sunday school conven-
ton for northeastern Washington and
northern Idaho will be held at Colville
May to 10.
William R. Roy, of Spokane, state
highway commissioner since Deem
Der 8, 1918, has resigned on account
of illhealth.
The Cashmere Fruitgrowers union
has distributed to it's members an av-
erage Of 9712 cents on all fruit sold
by it this year
All streams in the Kittitas valley
emptying into the Yakima river went
out of their banks and the lower part
of Ellensburg was flooded.
The supreme court has ruled that
the act of the legislature imposing
tuition fees upon students at the state
university is constitutional.
Constant pain from a cracked jaw
bone caused by the extraction of a
molar tooth. drove Mrs. Eugenia Ora
ham, of Tacoma, to end her life with
poison.
The Grays Harbor Rose association,
which is aiming to rival Portland in
the quantity and quality of roses
grown, has started a campaign to Sc
lect a slogan
Centralia light consumers will eff
feet a saving of about $500 month
in their bills as the result of an ordi-
nance passed by the city commission
reducing rates.
A bill providing for the erection OF
$4,000 armories at Aberdeen and
Walla Walla will be introduced at the
next legislature by Adjutant General
Maurice Thompson.
Seattle police records show a steady
increase in the number of arrests for
drunkenness in February, over Janu-
airy, the first month of the dry year
in Washington state
AS a result of the investigations of
two committees appointed in January
petitions are now in circulation to
move the county seat of Asotin county
from Asotin to Charleston.
A special train of 40 cars, carrying
$4,000 bushels of Washington wheat
destined for London, left Seattle over
the Great Northern for Halifax, where
1t will be loaded on steamer.
The faculty for the fifth annual SEES
sion of the Centralia summer normal,
which will open June II under the
auspices of the Ellensburg normal,
will be twice as large as last year.
Professional golf players of Lewis
ton. Baker, Pendleton and Walla Walla
may meet at Walla Walls in May to
settle the golf championship OF the
southern half of the inland empire.
An Inland Empire Development lea
que to secure new settlers for that re-
gion was organized by nearly 100 dele
gates from all parts of the surround
ing territory in conference in Spo'
kane.
Plans for a state armory, to De
erected at Centralia, have been drawn
for the approval of state military au-
thorities. If the plans are approved
the structure probably will be erected
this summer.
Bids for the erection of the van
couver postoffice will soon be called
for and the preliminary work, Tor
which an emergency appropriation OF
$4,000 has been made, will be under
way in a short time.
Charles j. Stuart, widely known as
a fruitgrower and who was president
of q company that owned the largest
berry farm on the Pacific coast, al
Puyallup, died suddenly at Monroe
He was Sc Years old.
The senate has confirmed as post
masters in Washington, George ID
watrous. Bellingham; Charles l.. NC
Kelvey. Cosmopolis: William Sample
Roslyn; S. F. Patton. Waitsburg; VIII
liam L. Adams, Zillah.
Thanks to snow and lots of ., pros
poets for a record breaking fruit crop
in the wenatchee district are bright
The trees weathered the severe colo
smell of January successfully, and only
a few buds were killed. The winter
kill. which always appears to some
extent. is appearing in the minimum