The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-06-29
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS Of INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation Of Our Readers.

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The police at Pasco are having an
unusual amount of trouble with
drunks.
The ChehAlis Mill company has in
corporated and will erect a 60 900 foot
capacity mill in South Chehalis.
The twelfth annual reunion of the
Bozorth Family association was held
this year at Vancouver Saturday. June
"a
Grays Harbor county this month has
been taking out permits to ship in
liquor at the rate of more than 100 a
day.
Fire destroyed four dry kilns of the
Sobey Manufacturing company's shin
gle plant at Ballard. The loss was
$4,000.
About, $500 persons marched in a
preparedness parade staged by Cen
.tralia business men as a testimonial
~ Company NJ.
The twentieth annual convention of
the Christian Endeavor union of
Washington and northern Idaho was
held in Seattle.
The school board has called an cleo
ton July / to vote on bonds in the
sum of $4,000 for high school build
ing at Fruitland.
Hundreds of tons of hay. not yet
cut on the Columbia river bottoms
near Vancouver, were destroyed by
the high water flooding it.
With the selection of North Yakima
as the next convention city the Wash
ington State Federation of Womens
Clubs adjourned at Everett
1t is estimated that between $1,000
and $4,000 persons will register in
Wenatchee between July and q for
Colville Indian reservation land
The Lewis county automobile deal
ers' association has just been organ
lied, with six firms of Centralia and
Chehals included in the membership.
The Cascade Construction company
has completed the laying of 13 blocks
of concrete pavement at Ritzville at
cost to property owners of almost
$4,000.
Initial steps were taken to form a
Yakima branch of the state employers
association at a meeting of employ
ing farmers and fruit growers at North
Yakima.
party of IL students. nine of
whom are young women, from Oberlin
college. Oberlin, o.. left Moclips for
an extended camping trip in the Olym
pic peninsula.
Seven carloads of stock cattle were
shipped out of Chehalis last week to
Great Falls. Mont. C. H. Campbell. OF
that city, is the purchaser, the value
being over $4,000.
Herman Fielder. chemist at the state
hospital for insane at Medical Lake,
has left for Detroit. Mich. to fill
similar position there, and later to at
tend medical college.
A bill giving permission for the
Portland, Vancouver Northern Rail
road company to build line through
Vancouver barracks has been signed
by President Wilson.
Patrolman lyman was fatally shot
at Spokane when he attempted to ar
rest Earl H. Jones. a negro, who had
q few minutes before shot and killed
another negro, Joseph Jackson.
Lieutenant Ernest Austin of the Ca
madam army, was arrested in Seattle
by special agents Of the department OF
justice on charge of violating the
United States neutrality laws by re-
cruiting men for the Canadian army.
One-half Of the Mutual Lumber COM
panys camp near Tenino is closed
down as the result of fire that swept
through the company's timber hold
ings. Three donkey engines and
number of small houses were con-
sumed by the flames.
A recommendation that no changes
be made in the laws governing the
sale of liquor by druggists, but that
the laws be strictly enforced, was
adopted by the Washington State
Pharmaceutical association at its an
nual meeting at Seattle.
]. E. Doughty. Pasco architect
has been commissioned to draw plans
for q new $4,000 concrete school
building to be erected at Ethiopia, and
also to furnish plans for the new $lo.
900 high school building to be erected
At Hanford, in Benton county.
Three men, after cutting all the
telephone wires leading out OF Ridge
field. robbed a store. bound and gag
Eed two citizens. Drove others away
ut the point OF revolvers and fled after
failing in an attempt to blow open
the vault of the Ridgefield state bank.
At q meeting of the state highway
board 1t was decided to spend the
$1,000 appropriated by the legisia-
ture on state highway No. 10 from
Chelan City north to the Okanogan
line instead of between Chelan City
and Chelau falls on the Columbia rfv-
or. There was q bitter local fight
over the location OF the road. The
appropriation will build and improve
about three miles of road.