The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-08-24

american Revolution and the Sons OF
the American Revolution dedicated a
concrete monument at Olympia Fri.
day. marking the old Oregon trail over
which the first settlers reached Turn.
water in 1874.
l. X. Horne, resident agent at North
Yakima of the Utah-Idaho Sugar COM
pany, who is directing the Campaign
TO obtain contracts for the growing of
1000 acres of sugar beets there, says
that after a campaign of 10 days, de-
voted almost entirely to preliminary
presentation of the subject to farmers,
assurances of 1000 acres have been
given.
With onions selling at better prices
than have prevailed for many seasons;
with prune quotations soaring to al
most unheard of heights. and with the
market for nearly everything that
grows stronger than for years, the
gardeners and fruit growers of the
Walla Walla valley are in a fair way
to realize record breaking returns.
The stock judging schools of in
struction which are being held at va
rious centers in Lewis county are at
tracing much interest. The work is
one which, according to Professor A
B. Nystrom. of Pullman, has never
previously been attempted in the
northwest Glasses OF 100 Lewis coun-
ty boys are being trained by experts
in the work of stock judging.
The engineer of a Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railway company
freight train brought his train to a
standstill within sixty feet near Mar
engo. when he thought he saw the
headlights of two trains approaching
on the same track on which he was
running. Six cars were derailed and
q tramp and a farmland who were
riding on the train were killed.
In condemning the present method
of paying fourth-class postmasters one
fourth of the tolls collected on par
cells delivered, II. G. Dahlby. postmas-
ter at Kirkland and president of the
association, recommended that fourth
class postmasters be placed on a regu-
lar salary, in an address before the
Washington State League of Postmas-
tiers, which met in annual convention
at Seattle
C. w Wiley, vice-pres'dent and gen
eral manager of the Seattle Construc-
ton & Drydock company. has an
nounced that he has closed contract
with Norwegian interests for three
7500-ton steel freight steamers, rep
resenting an investment of $3.50, 900.
The order placed with the Seattle
plant is the largest single contract for
merchant craft ever awarded to a
North Pacific shipbuilding firm.
Announcement of the purchase by
the reclamation service of the John
Russell ranch of 100 acres as part
of the storage basin of the Clear creek
dam at McAllister's Meadows is taken
at North Yakima to indicate that the
storage unit at an early date. The
Clear creek storage will impound 1885,
600 acre feet OF water when completed
and is necessary TO the carrying out
of plans for development of the
Northern Pacific high line lands" as
well as extension of development in
the Yakima reservation.
Mrs. Eliza Spalding Warren, OF
Walla Walla. the oldest living white
child born in the Pacific northwest,
has presented to Whitman college the
diary of her mother, Mrs. Henry II.
SpaIding. who as a bride came across
the continent in 1886. In the pioneer
party were Mrs. Spalding and her hus-
band, a noted pioneer missionary. and
the Rev. and Mrs. Marcus Whitman.
The diary of Mrs. Whitman was pre-
scented to whitman college years ago
and the diary of Mrs. Spalding has
been sought by historical societies.
The diary, among other things. relates
the building of the first christian
home in Idaho at what Is now known
as Lapwai.
In a decision setting forth that none
of the provisions of the statewide
prohibition law have been affected by
the decision in the Eden liquor case,
the supreme court has denied the pc
tition of the prosecuting attorney OF
King county and 16 other prosecuting
attorneys for a rehearing in the case.
In the Eden suit action was brought
to recover certain liquor seized from
a priyate apartment by the sheriff OF
King county. Says the court in the
decision: "All the provisions of the
law are preserved and offenders are
still subject to prosecution to the
same extent and for the same cause
now as at any other time since the
law became effective"
Alleging conspiracy on the part OF
1h of Seattle's big banks in their ef-
forts to dissolve the clearing house
association, the Peoples Savings bank
of Seattle obtained a temporary re-
strainine order prohibiting any such
action. The Peoples bank and the
Northwest Trust g. Savings company
are the only two of II banks at Seattle
who wish to pay four per cent inter
est on deposits. They ailege that, on
their refusal to cut to three per cent,
they were asked to retire from the