The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-04-20

Commissioner Floyd L. Daggett of
the industrial insurance commission
and Governor Lister have both en-
phatlcaiy denied that Daggett had re-
signed or intended to resign as a re-
suit OF findings made in the report of
the bureau of inspection on his ex-
pense vouchers.
Mayor Gill and Chief of Police Beck
ingham of Seattle, personally took
charge of 1000 cases of confiscated
beer, took it out into Elliott bay and
dumped it overheard from police pa
trolboats. The beer was seized by
the police as it was being loaded from
scows onto an abandoned pier.
To be used ultimately as the chief
ingredients in hot ''mulligans" for the
British soldiers in northeastern
France, between 5000 and 5000 tons of
| California and Oregon onions have be-
gun to move from Seattle under con-
tracts recently placed by the Ladner
Vegetable cannery of Ladner, B. c.
A call for the farmers of the Inland
empire to meet in Spokane Saturday
April 20, to discuss the high prices of
grain sacks, and whether the sack sit
uation justifies a general turning to
the bulk handling of wheat and other
grain, was issued by the agricultural
committee of the Spokane chamber of
commerce.
United States customs reports show
that imports and exports during
March increased $50 per cent over a
year ago in the Puget Sound district
Imports were s12.197.42O last month.
Exports were $14,s92,613. Seventy
five per cent of the trade was with the
allied countries in the European war,
including Japan.
A wheat tank manufacturing con-
Germ will open a plant at Aberdeen
within the next few weeks. The con-
Germ will be the only one of its kind
in the United States. The tanks are
to be made of wood and will replace
sacks as the receptacles for wheat in
the fields. They will be built with
capacity for 1000 bushels.
D. w. Porter, farmer living in the
mountains in the neighborhood of Ar
zina, settlement 20 miles west of
Colville, was arraigned before United
States Commissioner Katherine S. Ide,
charged with illicit manufacture of al
coholic liquor He waived examina-
ton and was held in $1,000 bail to
answer to the next federal grand jury.
Whether the jute mill at the Wash
ington state penitentiary or the state
rock quarry at Dixie must be operated
with short crew is one of the ques-
lions to be decided by the state board
of control at its next meeting. War
den Henry Drum of the prison has an
nounced that there are not enough
men to operate both enterprises at
full capacity.
Wounded in a knife battle between
crews of ] lgarian and Italian work
men on tn Great Northern railway
near Snohonish, three men are in hos
pitfalls and a hundred more are nurs
ing bruises received in a freefor-all
fight. The trouble arose over drink
of water Discussion of the war had
brought relations between the men
to point near breaking.
Plans for extensive harbor improve
ments, which will be submitted to the
voters, are being formulated by the
| Port commission of Kennewick fol
! lowing the discovery that the opening
| of the river has greatly increased the
amount of river traffic. The plans
call for additional units to the $1,000
| dock, a large warehouse and better
! facilities for handling freight.
C. p. Dole, purchasing agent of the
Alaska Engineering commission, says
that more than 100000 will be ex-
pended by the commission in the Pa
cific northwest within a few weeks.
The material called for include rails
and angle iron, 100000; groceries and
supplies, 100000; bridge lumber,
s15O,O00; marine supplies, 100000;
/ flatcars and other rolling stock, $780,
| 900.
Governor Ernest Lister has offered
a reward of five hundred dollars for
the apprehension, arrest and convict
ion of the assailant or assailants" of
Miss Kate Swift and her aged sister,
Mrs. Corinne Wheeler, who were
beaten to death with an axe and a
hammer at their home in Seattle the
night of April 5. The murderers are
believed to have stolen two thousand
dollars from the women.
Since the prohibition law closed
the saloons the demand on merchants
for the eashing of pay checks on Sat
urday nights has become so great
that the members of the Business
Mems association at North Yakima
have asked the Yakima Clearing
House to make arrangements to keep
one East Side bank open Saturday
evenings. One West Side bank is now
open Saturday to O'Clock.
Active campaigning for recruits for
the military instruction camp to be
held at American Lake August IA to
September 9, will begin in Seattle in
a few days with an elaborate speak
ing campaign, the dissemination OF
thorough information concerning the
objects of the camp and consistent