The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-07-13
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
SrIefly Sketched for Infor.
nation Of Our Readers.

construction work on Aberdeen's
100000 water system has been start.
ed.
movement to recall CITY Commits.
sioner McBroom is under way at Spo-
kane.
according to the census bureau
washington has 350746 potential sol
diers.
Cherry growers of the Walla Walla
valley just now are in the midst of
their annual harvest.
Ninety-four pheasants have been
Matched at the state game farm at the
penitentiary at walla Walla.
The 18th annual encampment of the
Clarke county veterans will be held
At Orchards. July II, Ii and "a.
Work of ballasting the &c miles of
the Northern Pacific's line from Ho-
GUAM to Pacific Beach and Moclips
has been begun.
Four hundred members of Pomona
grange from Spokane. Stevens, and
Pend Orielle counties were present at
the annual grange convention at Chat.
taroy.
the summit of Mt. st. Helens will
serve as a means OF locating forest
fires by the forest patrol service EN-.
ployes.
N IA
commissioner, has announced that
steps will be taken Immediately to
prevent the spread Of infantile paraly-
sis to this state
An exceptionally high birth rate and
exceedingly low death rate has been
maintained in Aberdeen in the past
six months. only "a deaths occurring
as against ia births.
Sixteen of II counties where Wash
ington rural letter carriers are organ
lied were represented at the annual
convention at North Yakima. Thirty
delegates were present
Only 200 of Pullman's voters have
so far qualified for participation in
the primary election by registering,
and an active registration campaign
soon will be inaugurated
The Rev. Oliver Hover of the Con-
gregational church at Toppenish is
organizing a community church en-
campment. He will fit up camping
ground near Fort Simcoe.
Theodore Tobiason. owner Of . mil
linery store, was shot and killed at
Spokane in his store by Alphonse Pan
sierra, who, according to the police,
said that Tobiason owed him $4,000.
The Washington state geological
survey is cooperating this year with
the United States department of agri-
culture in the soil survey of Benton
county, which was commenced last
year.
The sum of more than $1,000 has
been subscribed by friends of the Lin
coin county fair at Davenport, and ten
tative dates for the 1916 exposition
have been set for September q TO 80,
inclusively.
message from the chief OF con-
struction OF the reclamation service
announces that the president has sign
ed the bill appropriating s7sS.0OO for
Yakima reclamation projects during
the fiscal year
The Yakima County Bar association
has sent an invitation to Charles f.
Hughes. republican nominee for pres
ident. to address the state bar associ-
alton meeting at North Yakima Aug
ust 10, IL and IL.
8. C.. Erickson. Tacoma contrac-
tor, has put the finishing touches TO
the new addition TO the state school
for girls at Grand Mound 'and the
structure will be occupied as soon as
1t has been accepted.
That liquor is being sold In Spokane
on q wholesale scale, and that the
LIQUOR permits issued by the county
are being used as a blind to cover up
the Illegal sales, was the declapetion
OF County Auditor Anderson.
Mrs John B. Allen, Seattle. has an
nounced that she would run for UNIT
ed States senator from washington
ON a platform that will be fundament-
ally republican and include national
roman's suffrage and International
peace.
There is now one automobile Tor
every "a persons in the state OF wash
ispton. according to figures computed
nv tho secretary of states office, ana
4s1o1 licenses have been issued 10
owners of automobiles used solely for
pleasure.
Falling from a lift bucket in the
shaft of the abandoned mine NO. lo
of the Northwestern Improvement
company Mt Roslyn. Tony Stanfei, as
sistspt foreman at No. mine, los'
bis life. He fell $50 feet to the bot
tom OF the pit.
A,thoueh the prosecuting attorney
office declares its hands are tied os
the decision OF the supreme court I'D
the Booming Eden attack on the state
dry law, Mayor Gill and Police CHIEF
Breckenham OF Seattle announce they
will not be deferred in their metnods
of enforcing the prohibition act ano
sheriff Robert t. Hodge OF King
county 10 openly defiant