The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-10-26
WASHINGTON. STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for infor.
nation of Our Readers.


was held at Prosser last week.
In railroad accident in the Pasco
yards Carl Robinson, q switchman.
was killed.
A national farm loan association in
being organized in Clarke county un.
der the recent act of congress.
The Walla Walla Valley Contest.
ing association has been reorganized
for the year with SO members, owning
500 cows
The 2Sth session OF the Lewis coun-
ty teachers institute is being held
this week in the high school building
in Centralia.
The Chehalis National bank is to
hold vegetable. fruit and grain ex-
hibit in the lobby of the bank for one
week, commencing Monday, October
80.
A search following investigation by
the federal government of the recent
smuggling into Aberdeen of 22 cases
of whisky in salmon boxes is now be-
ing Nude.
A strike of Industrial Workers OF
the World closed three fruit ware
houses at Ziilah. but work has been
resumed, the places of strikers having
been taken largely by women.
William Elson. q years old. grocery
salesman of Seattle wholesale house,
was killed when his automobile left
the road and turned over on him, Is
miles northeast of Bellingham.
Alfonso Panziero, who shot and kill.
ed Theodore Tobiason at Spokane on
July 6, was found guilty of second de-
gree murder by jury. A jury last
month failed to agree on a verdict.
Whitman college at Walla Walla is
to publish directory of former stu
dents. and the directory will include
all students to the college, the early
seminary. the academy and the con-
servatory of music.
When a moving picture machine ex-
ploded in the Palace theater at Re.
public, Mrs. Hubbard, wife of the film
operator. was burned to death and the
flames spread SO rapidly that three
buildings were soon ablaZe.
Milwaukee railroad officials at Ia
coma are awaiting the order for build
ing 800 freight cars at the Tacoma
shops. The order, it is said, already
has been given in Chicago and work
is expected to start within two weeks.
1t is said that the federal depart.
ment of justice is about to begin pros
ecution of a large San Francisco
wholesale liquor house which is &C.
cused of making large shipments of
unlabeled liquor to Seattle. in viola
ton of law.
Ruel Chandlee, a 15-year-old stu
dent at the Ridgefield grammar
school. received high honors from T.
]. Newbill. state organizer OF boys
and girls clubs, as having the best
garden OF any club member in the
state of Washington.
William R. Thomas, president of Sc
attic local No. II of the Electrical
Workers union. was killed while work
ing at the top of city power line
pole when his arms came in contact
with two high-tension cables carrying
$500 volts of electricity.
In a raid on an apartment house IN
the fashionable Queen Anne residence
10 ho
% cases of whisky and other liquor
having a total estimated value OF
$1,000, besides gambling paraphernalia
and several opium smoking outfits
found in the basement and worth
$4,000.
Figures gathered in Hoquiam show
that the mills of that city have ship
ped more lumber by rail for the first
half of October than they did during
the same period last year, in spite OF
the car shortage. which has been cur
failing shipments to only small per-
centage of business offered for sever
al weeks.
E. T. Hearron, a Granger rancher,
has contracted to deliver 1000 tons OF
potatoes to A. P. Peterson, produce
dealer of that place. The price stated
in the contract is $50 ton on board
cars at Granger. This is the highest
price actually known to have been
paid for potatoes in the Yakima val
ley this season.
Injunction proceedings against the
city of Spokane we're begun in the
federal district court by the Home
Telegraph & Telephone company TO
restrain the city commissioners from
carrying out a resolution recently
adopted to cancel the telephone COM
pany's franchise for alleged violations
OF its provisions.
With a deficiency in precipitation
of nearly two inches. dating from the
first of September, wheat farmers OF
the Walla walla valley have almost
-, Aana IF occom pliahiuR their