The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-08-31

than $50 firefighters were at work at
tempting to bring the fire under con
troll.
Inc largest annual encampment in
the history of the coast artillery corps
national guard of Washington. opened
at Fort Worden near Seattle last
week. -Four Seattle companies, two
Tacoma companies, two Bellingham
companies and one company from Sno.
homish, in all $50 officers and men.
make up the camp.
Mrs. Frances C. Axtell. of Belline.
ham, progressive candidate for con.
gress from the second Washington dis.
trict, has announced her resignation
as state chairman of the COMPRESSION.
al Union for Woman Suffrage. now
known as the woman's party, and her
determination to support President
Wilson for reelection.
20 per cent horizontal cut in the
valuations of all Grays Harbor county
! property vas made by the county
equalization board after a long fight
for reduced values. The object of
those asking the reduction was to cut
the amount of taxes available for mu-
nicipal purposes to force the city ad-
ministrations to spend less.
According to figures which have
been made public Seattle's foreign
commerce during July amounted to
S1S,205.954 Collector of Customs
Drumheller said imports amounted to
S9.76s,520 and exports ss,437.434. The
total exports and imports for the dis
trict were s24.72s.0sS. of which s14,-
| l51,s64 represented exports.
Information that in all probability
the increase in railroad rates between
the Atlantic and Pacific coasts on
commodities embraced in class C, as
contended for by shippers in the Spo-
kane and intermountain districts, and
granted by the commission, will be
| delayed until December Is before 60
ing into effect has been received.
In an effort to save her 7-year-old
sister Ethel from drowning in the Co
lumbia river near Lyle, Miss Myrtle
Gutcher. IA years old, sacrificed her
! own life. Ethel was rescued by
farmer working near the scene of the
tragedy. and resuscitated, but the cid
er sister could not be revived when
pulled from the water As minutes later.
The Women's college of the north
west at Tacoma, which the board of
trustees and others who are actively
interested hope to make the greatest
educational institution for women on
the coast and second only to the great
schools of similar nature in the east,
was started on the road to success
last week by the adoption of articles
of incorporation.
Miss Lucy Case. secretary of the
joint legislative committee of the
Washington state grange, the farmers
union, the state federation of labor
and the direct legislation league, has
announced that the committee has de-
cided to give its Endorsement TO
Judges Mark A. Fullerton. Emmett n.
Parker of Olympia and Edgar G. Mills
of Seattle for six-year terms on the
state supreme court, and Elihu F.
Barker of Walla Walla for the four
year term.
Robert T Hodge, candidate for the
republican nomination for governor.
and sheriff of King county, had mar
row escape from death when the auto
mobile in which he was touring the
state caught fire and the Prest-o-lite
tank exploded A piece of flying metal
narrowly missed Hodges head. The
near the Snake river, north of Walla
Walla. The automobile was a total
loss, but none OF the party was seri-
ously injured.
A call for the convention of the Uni
ted Mine Workers of America, district
No. 10, comprising the state of Wash
ington, to reconvene September at
Seattle to consider the report OF the
wage conference, which adjourned al
ter two weeks unsuccessful negotia-
tons. was issued by President Martin
FIyzik. The convention will decide
whether to modify the demand for a
5 per cent wage increase and an eight
hour day from bank to bank or to
order a strike.
For the second time on record
Mount Shuksan, one of the most rug
ged and difficult peaks in the Cascade
range. has been assembled. party OF
% members OF the Seattle Mountain
GERS club reaching the summit after
a three days climb from the camp at
Austin Pass. The first ascent of the
peak. which lies 10 miles northeast OF
Mount Baker, was made in 1906 by
Assbel Curtis and W. NJ. Price during
the outing of the Portland Mazamas
on Mount Baker.
For a period of six weeks, begin
ming in about a week, more money
will come into Spokane and vicinity,
from wheat and other grain shipments,
than ever recorded from a wheat belt
In the history OF the world" This
statement was made by r. Lewis Rut-
ter president of the spokane a. East
,, ern Trust company, in response to
question regarding Spokane's part in