The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-12-28
WASHINGTON STATE
news OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

to install a gravity water plant.
The Davenport civic league has been
organized. The league is to be com
posed of women only.
The first carload of potatoes ever
shipped from Morton to the east has
been sent to Minnesota.
Walla Walla city commissioners
have taken steps to clap lid on cigar
stores and soft-drink places.
The convention of the Washington
State Horticultural association will be
held at North Yakima January to 6.
The Federal grand jury at Seattle
has begun to investigate alleged com
binations to increase the price of food
products.
Albert S. loops, pioneer resident
OF Asotin county, died at Charleston
following a stroke of paralysis at the
age of 80.
The fifth annual poultry show held
under the auspices of the Chelan
County Poultry association, was held
at Wenatchee for four days.
Judge Ben Sheeks in the Superior
Court at Seattle decided that storage
company may neither receive nor store
more than the legal amount of liquor.
The Great Northern railroad de-
clared an embargo on fruit shipments
to points east of Spokane because of
the cold weather in Montana and
North Dakota.
roundhouse at Pasco. was electrocuted
when he came in contact with high
tension wire of the Pacific Power &
Light Company.
| Contending that she is fully capable
for the job, Mrs. H. L. Tucker. wife
of a government trapper at Richland.
has applied for appointment as full
fledged government trapper.
| Legislators of Benton, Kittitas.
Chelan and Yakima counties are ar
ranging a meeting in North Yakima
during the meeting of the State Horti-
cultural society, January 8, 4 and S.
| Lumber has advanced 81 per thou.
sand feet throughout the northwest.
All mills quoted the new prices. All
grades are affected Further advances
were predicted by lumbermen gener
ally.
Patrick Mullins, aged 60, builder
and owner of the Washington, Mich.
gan and Montana hotels at North Yak
ina, and owner of several hundred
acres of highly improved ranch land
in the Selah valley, died of apoplexy
Oscar Lowe, arrested at Tacoma on
suspicion of having been one of the
robbers that held up the state bank OF
Bothell, December 6. confessed his
guilt, according to the police, and i'm
| plicated in the crime four other men
War prices have hit the coyote. His
pelt year ago was bringing from 81
to $3.50, and now furriers are offering
hunters from IS to 81 for coyote skins
This is making the hunting of coyotes
more profitable and squirting the hunt
ers on.
The honey crop of the Yakima valley
for the last season brought $4,000 to
bee keepers. according to statements
made at the opening session of the
Washington State Bee Keepers asso
iation, which convened at North
Yakima.
The State Beekeepers' Association
in session at North Yakima elected
J. D. Ramage, North Yakima, presi-
dent; J. B. Espy, Chehalis, vice prcsi-
dent H. L. Hart, North Yakima. trea
surer; G. W. Powlin, White Swan
secretary
Trustees of the Spokane chamber OF
commerce voted to withdraw from
membership in the Associated Cham
bers of Commerce of the Pacific Coast
on the ground that the work of the
coast association is not in sympathy
with the interior cities.
Joseph Wilson, contractor of
Camas, was arrested on a charge of
destroying public property while incar-
cerated in the Camas City Jail. 1t is
charged he destroyed the bed. Mr.
Wilson was in the Camas Jail on a
charge Of being drunk.
The Centralia commercial club has
appointed a committee to work with
q Joint committee of the Citizens club
of Chehalis to urge before the coming
legislature sufficient appropriation
to complete the Pacific highway paving
from Chehalis south to Vancouver.
Superintendent w. M. Kern of the
walla Walla city schools plans to have
each pupil put in a years actual work
in some line of agriculture upon a
small plot OF ground at his home or
somewhere In the city in connection
with his regular course at the high
school.
The keel for a 290-foot auxiliary
schooner for Henry Saether, of Nor.
way, is being laid at the Aberdeen
shipyards and will be in readiness for
the start on framing by January /,
When 1t is laid. eight vessels-four of
them of 1000 900 feet lumber capacity
will be under construction on Grsys
Haybor.