The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-02-24
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.


Franklin county jail is empty.
The Stevens County Livestock asso-
citation held its meeting at Colville.
The big coal mine at Tono, operated
in conjunction with the O.-W. R. & N.
company, is running full blast.
The Grays Harbor Fair association
will award s250O in purses for horse.
races at the county fair this fall.
The fourth district convention of
the Women's Missionary Society of
the Christian Church was held at Che
halls.
Suicide and death by industrial =
cidents were tied for first place in the
causes of death in Spokane county in
1915.
Mrs. Virginia Lanbrath, aged so, of
Wenatchee, was killed at Seattle by
being struck by an automobile driven
by Miss Hilda Jolly.
Puget Sound exports in January
were valued at $500, 900 and imports
at s7,S00.000. according to report of
Collector of Customs Brumheller.
Neil c. Jamison of the Jamison Mill
company Of Everett, announced the
completion of plans which will give
Everett the largest single mill in the
world.
Five hundred members of Rotary
Clubs from cities throughout the Pa
cific Northwest attended the north
west conference of Rotary Clubs a.
Seattle.
Logging operations in the forests
of western Washington, expected to
be resumed on an extensive scale last
week, are still held back by snow in
the hills.
Porter Mccall of Sumner, driver OF
an automobile which collided with a
locomotive at Sumner and caused the
death of George T. Campbell, died of
his injuries.
Y. U. Park, Korean, was shot and
instantly killed in front of his lodging
house in the Chinese quarter by two
men, believed 10 be Chinese. The as
sassins escaped.
Five dead and 20 injured is the
known result of a snowslide which
descended upon 35 members of a
Great Northern railroad section crew
at Leavenworth.
1t is announced that from March "a
to rs Centralia will act as host to a
conference of Sunday school girls of
southwest Washington, between the
ages of 16 and 10.
The University of Washington will
engage Whitman and State college in
Q triangular debate, February 25, the
subject to be President Wilson's pro
gram of preparedness.
The Tennessee hotel, three-story
brick building collapsed at Colfax, de-
molishing the rear half of the build
ing, which forms the channel wall OF
the south Palouse river.
Most of the lumber mills in Clarke
county are operating and orders are
more numerous than for several years
past. All lines of business feel the
improvement of the lumber trade.
The United States lighthouse tender
Rose, built at a cost of $4,000 for
the Seventeenth Lighthouse district
headquarters at Portland, was launch
ed at the Anderson shipyard in Seat
tie.
Southwest lumber mills are organ
king to fight before the interstate
commerce commission the efforts OF
Portland lumbermen to secure a re
newal OF the freight differential on
lumber to Utah territory.
Between 100000 and 100000
will be spent by the Great Northern
railroad for concrete snowsheds in the
Cascades, in accordance with an un
Outstanding reached with the state
public service commission.
The democratic state central com
mittee met at Everett and decided
that the state convention for nomina
ton OF II delegates to the democratic
national convention shall be held 81
North Yakima, Tuesday. May ..
Palouse will probably have paved
streets this summer. A plan is VI
that calls for IL blocks Of paving on
the business streets. and will come
before the council for final hearing
on March 7. The estimated cost Ii
about $4,000.
Announcement has been published
ut North Yakima that the Northern
Pacific will this season extend lts
Sunnyside branch to Gibbon, on its
main line; will extend its Reservation
branch several miles and its Cowiche
branch q mile.
The cornerstone of the state scnoo
for the blind was laid at vancouver
r. l.. Sebastian, grand master OF the
Grand Lodge of Masons, and cover
nor Lister. the state board OF contro
members and the Grand Lodge OF Ma
sons officiating.
Firmly wedged between logs In tne
Wenatchee river. his leg protrudlns
out of the water. ia the BODY O.
Thomas Miller of Portland, who wal
thrown into this position by q snow
Aide in the Tumwater canyon en'
mile west of Leavenworth. All effo5ti
20 sxtricats the body have been fussls