The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-03-09
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation OF Our Readers.

The annual meeting of the Clarke
County Good Roads association was
held Tuesday.
Construction work on Ridgefield's
$1,000 municipal water system ia pro-
crossing rapidly.
A land products show will be held
IN or near Vancouver one week in
October or November.
Lewis. the town farthest east in east
ern Lewis county. has q woman score
airy for its commercial club.
The state Of Washington was the
highest of 10 bidders for the Pomeroy
school bond issue Of $4,000.
The commission form Of govern.
ment under the Allen law was lost at
a special election at Aberdeen.
Mrs. Fannie D. Latham, IS years
old, was cremated in q fire which de-
stroyed the home of her son. A. H.
Latham, at Toledo.
The Ridgefield commercial club is
hard at work on plans for big horse
and cattle show, which will be held
some time in June.
Clarke county has obtained iron
road signs, which will be mounted on
pipe set in concrete at all important
intersections throughout the county.
Three auxiliary lumber schooners
will be built on Puget Sound by J. H.
Bloedel, president of the Bloedel- Don
ovan Lumber company. Of Bellingham.
In a head-on collision near Winton,
Is miles west of Leavenworth. be-
freight west. three of the crew were
injured.
Sixteen miles of closed drains are
to be laid this spring and summer In
drainage districts in the lower Yakima
valley, chiefly in the vicinity of Sun
nyside.
A petition has been filed by M. B.
Kies. receiver of the defunct Com
mercial bank. of Vancouver. asking
that he be allowed to sell the assets OF
the receivership.
w. G. Preston. q pioneer miller Of
Waitsburg. left property worth be-
tween $780, 900 and $150.000 to Whit
man college, subject to q life interest
left to his son.
The Quiniault Lumber company's
mill at Raymond, which has been idle
for nearly year and . half. has
started up. giving employment to
about eighty men.
Ground will be broken within .
month or six weeks for the science
building, the second new building
which the University Of Washington
is to have this year.
Mrs. H. H.. Taber. Miss Elizabeth
Taylor and Ernest @. Clarke. all OF
Tacoma, were the first motorists to
register at the entrance OF the Rainier
National park In 1916.
The senate naval committee has
fsvorably reported Senator Poindex-
ter's bill appropriating $2.0oo.00o for
equipping Puget Sound navy yard for
battleship construction.
The state of Washington reduced
in 1914 over 5000 .000. 900 feet Of Doug
las fir, or approximately over S. per
cent Of the Douglas fir produced by
the five northwest and coast states.
Sixty lumber mills were represent
ed at a meeting Of manufacturers at
Tacoma. Reports on conditions show
ed continued strength in the markets
with shipments hampered by lack OF
cars.
The county commissioners are
advertising for bids to be opened
March 20 for the grading, bridging and
crawling of l2k miles of permanent
highway, which will connect Lind and
Ralston.
The City Beautiful" campaign OF
the Aberdeen Civic improvement asso'
citation was revived with the announce
ment that thousands OF flower bulbs
would be distributed there free on
March Is.
Jacob ]. Schlee. a wealthy stock
raiser and rancher of the Unionsown
section, fell from the haymow OF MS
barn in Charleston and fractured his
skull, death resulting in two hours
afterward.
The Seattle Construction DRY
Dock company was awarded the con-
tract for the construction OF . $l.ooo''
900 steel steamship to be built for the
Luckenbach Steamship Company oil
New York.
According to w. r. Jsrrsll. CHIEF pa
role officer of the state reformatory'
that institution Is already feeling the
good results Of prohibition In the oe'
crease of the number Of men sent to
shat institution.
The Improvement of more than two
miles of the streets OF Washougal
with crushed rock Is nearly completed.
The work has been carried on since
September, except for Interruptions
curing bad weather.
The Kennewick commercial ciup
passed q resolution favorable 70 the
Shields navigable stream power
measure now pending In the senate
and sent kilograms TO Senators Pom
dexter and Jones, urging them to sup
port the bill without amendments.