The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-12-21
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.


causing loss of 100000.
Alexander Miller, real estate
agent, was shot and instantly killed
by H. NJ. Stokes at Seattle.
A $4,000 playhouse will be erected
in Walla Walla as soon as weather
permits of building operations.
The Treasury department has pur
chased for $1,000 site for the pro
posed public building at Colfax.
Boycott on potatoes, butter and
eggs, has been started by Seattle wo
men members of the Homekeepers
club
Outdoor athletics will receive a
great deal of attention in the Aber
deem public schools starting with the
new year.
II is estimated that between $4,000
and $4,000 damage resulted from a
fire at Centralia that Quilted the Ian
ders building.
According TO a report issued by the
state board of health there were 81
births and q deaths in Lewis county
in November.
The annual session of the Wash
ington State Creamery Operators
and Butter Manufacturers association
was held at Seattle.
Ten thousand dollars worth of fix.
lures were destroyed by the dry
squad of the Seattle police department
in the American Cafe barroom.
One thousand birds. 1t 10 expected,
will be entered in the ninth annual
Grays Harbor poultry show to be held
at Aberdeen from January 2 to Z.
George P. Templeton, aged IS, resi-
dent of Aberdeen was instantly killed
at the Wilcox single mill when he
lost his balance anil fell on the drag
saw.
Courses in forestry. logging and
lumber and its uses will open at the
University of Washington in Seattle
on January and will continue to
March 80.
Carl English, q Clarke county fsrm-
Or, this year planted Is acres to pota-
toes which Melted $4,000 above all ex-
penses, or $500 an acre. This is as
much as many made from Their prune
orchards.
The North Pacific Surgical associ-
alton, at it's annual convention in Ia
Cd ~ nfF ~
cash to the surgeon in the northwest
who does the most original and useful
work in surgery.
A law permitting Washington cities
OF the second class to adopt the
manager form of government is being
drafted by A. E. Graham. represent
ative-elect, of Aberdeen, and will be
submitted to the coming legislature.
The Clarke County Farm Loan as
ISOLATION was organized formally at
Vancouver by more than 100 farmers
loan of 100000 will be applied for
under the federal farm loan system
at once.
An order for 400 freight boxcars at
a price of $3S0,000 was received at
Seattle by the Seattle Car & Foundry
company from the offices of the Union
Pacific railroad in New York City.
The contract calls for the delivery of
these cars in April and May next year.
Not an alcohol drunk has been
brought to the police station since
Judge Preble handed down his de-
cision unfolding the right of the city
| of North Yakima to regulate the sale
of alcohol. Previous to this the num-
Der of alcohol DRINKS averaged from
five to ten a day.
A campaign to raise $4,000 to be
| spent in bringing new factories to
Grays Harbor has been launched by
the Grays Harbor Realty association.
| The money is to be used to hire a
/ factory expert who will travel about
the country to inform capital Of the
/ advantages offered.
Resolutions urging a national mar
/ keting system, the establishment of
a municipal market and cold storage
house and a Federal grand jury in
, vestigation of food prices were adopt
ed at a mass meeting of men and wo-
men called to consider the high cost
of living at Spokane.
The Puget Sound Traction, Light &
Power company. operating streetcar
| lines in Seattle, has announced an in
crease in the wages of 1000 conduc-
| tors and motormen. On January !,
1917, the men will receive an increase
of / cent an hour. and on July l,
1917, another increase of / cent an
hour.
Game wardens of 20 eastern Wash
ington counties have been instructed
by L. H. Darwin, state game warden,
to direct a general slaughter of coy
otes, following reports OF a wide
spread epidemic of rabies among the
rowing bands of marauders. Accord
ing to information received by Oar
win, the hydrophobic attack is becom-
ing q menace, many domestic animals
including dogs, horses and cattle, hav.
Ing been bitten recently.