The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-05-11
SEATTLE POLICE WRECK
SALOON DRUCSTORES

Both the Columbia and Wenatchee
rivers are rising rapidly.
1t is estimated that. so families
moved into Aberdeen during April
An effort is being made to establish
the beet sugar industry in the Yakima
valley.
Over 100000 silver trout fry will be
placed in the lakes Of Cowlitz county
within the next 10 days.
The Great Northern railway will
doubletrack its line between Wenat-
chez aud Leavenworth this summer.
The Wenatchee Milling company
will erect this summer an auxiliary
grain elevator with a capacity of 50,-
900 bushels.
Paul r. Haffer was found guilty OF
libeling George Washington. the first
president of the United States, by q
jury at Tacoma.
The third annual junketing tour Of
the Wenatchee commercial club will
leave Wenatchee Monday, June s. and
continue five days.
convention for the district between
Sapd Point. Idaho, and Ellensburg,
Wash. was held at Pasco.
Mac Bisaillon. of Portland, won the
northwest balkline billiard champion
ship at Seattle. by defeating Otto Nei-
dorfer, of Spokane, 800 to 290.
The first crate Of Strawberries for
the season shipped from Kennewick
was sold in Spokane for 500. the high
est price ever paid for first crate.
Ballard shingle mills were badly
crippled and several were forced to
suspend operations entirely as the re-
suit of a strike of shingle weavers.
The second annual celebration of
the opening Of the Columbia and
Snake rivers to navigation was held
at Pasco jointly by Pasco and kenne-
wick.
The Northern Pacific Railway COM
pany will open bids at st. Paul May
Is for the construction of a new depot
at Pullman, estimated to cost close to
$4,000
With many county engineers, COM
missioners. and road supervisors pres
ent, the first annual road builders
institute was held at the University
OF Washington.
During the first four months of pro-
hibition arrests for drunkenness by
police at North Yakima totalled "a,
compared with 372 for the first four
months Of last year.
The new Wenatchee postoffice and
federal building will be an imposing
one-story structure of brick and gran
ite, according to the plans received
by Postmaster Battles.
A total Of 216 appeals from lower
courts in the state will be heard by
the supreme court during the May
term, which commenced May and
continues until July 13.
The progressive state convention At
Seattle elected II delegates to the
national convention in Chicago and
instructed them to vote for the nom
ination of Theodore Roosevelt.
Comprehensive plans for the I'M
proyement Of the port Of Kennewick
prepared by Paul P. Whitman of Seat
tie, have been approved by the COM
missioners of the port district.
The annual meeting OF the Minis
ters' and Laymen's association Of the
Vancouver district of the Methodist
Episcopal church will convene for
three days, May %, "a and 26, At
Ridgefield.
Jail sentences hereafter will be I'M
posed ON violators of the prohibition
law instead of fines, which have been
customary since the law went into
effect, January 1, Judge Gordon an
nounced at Seattle.
Ellensburg won the annual Yakima
valley interscholastic field meet At
North Yakima. The scores were: EE
lensburg 81 points, North Yakima IS,
sunnyside 3. Selah Z. Toppenish .,
Msbton 2, Grandview /.
oliver H. Kline. former cashier OF
the Pacific Coast company, who ad-
ritted embezzling sl4s.000 from his