The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-09-21
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation Of Our Readers.


was held Friday
Whitman college opened its doors
for the fall term on Wednesday.
A forest fire burned half million
feet of logs belonging to the Westfork
Logging company near Morton.
The plant of the Everett Box Man
ufacturing company was destroyed by
fire. causing a loss estimated at $50,
900.
Members OF the crew Of the Arctic
schooner Great Bear, wrecked on Pin
nacle rock August 10, have arrived in
Seattle from Nome.
The special train bearing the pas
sengers of the steamship Congress,
which was burned off Coos Bay, Ore
gon. arrived in Seattle all well.
Building in North Yakima for the
month OF August shows an increase of
80 per cent over the amount OF build
ing done during the same month in
1915.
John W. Lewis, farmer. was shot
and killed near Mason Lake, eight
miles from Shelton. when Thomas
Booth. his hunting companion. mistook
him for deer.
Washington now is able not only to
supply its own markets with poultry,
but soon will have surplus to export.
according to Information and data
gathered among Seattle cold storage
houses.
The Wenatchee commercial club has
filed protest against the proposed
Oroville to eastern points. which
would cripple the infant industry at
Oroville
Seattle's imports from Alaska In
August were nearly 100000, and
exports over 81 300. 600, making total
business OF more than $1,000, 900, &C
cording to a report of the Seattle har
bormaster,
Less partisanship and more fighting
spirit is needed by foes of the saloon
to make the United States dry, prohi-
bition campaigners aboard the coast
to coast special in Washington last
week told audiences.
After three days in which fires in
several of the logging camps OF Grays
Harbor county threatened equipment
and did cause some damage, the blazes
were brought under control and the
loss has been comparatively small
Unexpected difficulties arising last
week prevented the floating out of
the three spans of the interstate
bridge at Vancouver into position as
scheduled. but the latest time set for
moving them is Friday, September %.
Suit was filed in the Lewis county
against George B. Mason. ex-city treas
urer, to recover s67,915.78, which
amount was lost by the city in the fail
ure of two Centralia banks two years
ago.
Half a carload of whisky, consigned
to a drug store at Maple Valley, which
officers say does not exist. was seized
by deputy sheriffs The shipment,
valued at several thousand dollars, in.
cluded eight 50-gallqn barrels and 115
dozen quart bottles of whisky.
Deposits in Spokane banks on Sep
TENDER u. caught by a call of the
controller of currency, broke all rec
ords and set a mark OF $39,459, $50 as
the latest apex of year of consistent
increase. An increase of not quite
$4,000, 900 is shown since June 80.
After IA months of a national inves.
tigation as to the mysterious owner
ship of a cargo of rifles and ammuni.
ton brought to Hoquiam by the
schooner Annie Larsen, German Am.
bassador Won Bernstorff has made of
fetal claim for his government of the
cargo.
Inmates of the state school for girls
at Grand Mound last week were pre-
scented with 100 individual cakes by
Judge King Dykeman, of King county.
while the boys at the state training
school were given 200 cakes. Eighty
pounds of candy was also distributed
among the inmates.
The prune harvest In Clarke county
is on full blast and nearly 1000 people
are engaged in picking the largest
crop the county has experienced in
several years. 1t is estimated at l40
cars, which will net the growers about
price received this year.
For the first time in the history of
the university of Washington, a Chi
nese girl, Maggie Chin, has been en-
rolled in the fine arts department of
the university Miss Chin Is the first
Chinese girl TO seek the higher educa-
ton at the university, and has her
heart set upon college diploma.
The marketing problems of dairy
men and farmers of Washington will
receive special study from Asher Hob
son, an expert on marketing, who has
arrived in Pullman TO teach agricul-
tural economics and rural sociology
st the state college of Washington
this year. Marketing by parcel post
and express has been the subject of
considerable investigation by Mr..
Hobson.