The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-02-24

sewage into the Yakima river.
Contract for buildings and elevators
for increasing the capacity of the
plant from 1000 barrels to 5000 bar
rels of flour a day and making the
mills the largest west of Minneapolis
was let by the Fisher FIGURING Mills
company at Seattle.
Breaking all records for silk ship
ments in the trans-Pacific trade, the
Nippon Yusen Kaisha liner Sado Maru
reached Seattle bringing $3.50 bales
and cases of raw and manufactured
silk goods, having valuation Of sp-
proximately 100000.
Construction of what is eventually
intended to be drydock capable of
accommodating the largest vessel
afloat is to be started at Tacoma as
soon as Stag breakwater is complet-
ed by the Tacoma Smelling company
off Point Defiance park.
Tatsuo Takano, a Seattle Japanese,
proprietor of drugstore and recently
convicted of manslaughter for selling
wood alcohol labeled as grain alcohol
to Tom Shannon, who drank the fluid
and died, was sentenced to two to 20
years in the state penitentiary.
The Seattle chamber of commerce
has filed with the interstate commits
sion brief to support the permanent
suspension of proposed increases in
railroad rates on bridge, wharf, struc-
tural iron and steel from Pacific coast
terminals to the Inland Empire.
Edward G. Emigh, of Walla Walla,
has resigned as secretary of the state
board of control, effective March /.
His resignation was accepted by the
board and o. A. Torgerson, of Cheha-
lis, who has served as auditor, was
appointed as Mr.. Emigh's successor
John Pierce Moller, assistant man
ager of the Ford Motor companys
branch at Vancouver, B. c., came to
Seattle from Vancouver to spend Sun
day with his uncle, but when he sought
to Renter British Columbia the immi-
grafton authorities refused him admis-
sion.
Just as a mudslide near Samish, on
the Great Northern Coast line be-
tween Everett and Bellingham, which
had blocked traffic two days, was be-
ing cleared away. a second slide COW
cred the track. Three thousand yards
of mud were removed before the line
could be opened.
The Yakima county game commits
sion has arranged for Importation of
25 additional elk from Yellowstone
Park this spring. They will be re-
| leased in the mountains in the north
ern and western part of the county,
where a number of bands now range
as a result of planting several years
ago.
! Convicted of failure to support Mrs.
Margaret Gaffney," under the lazy
husband act, and sentenced to term
! in the stockade, Robert A. Gaffney,"
A years old, admitted to the police at
! Seattle and to representatives of the
prosecuting attorneys office that he"
is a woman and has been masquerad-
ing as a man for 20 years.
That apples picked at the proper
stage of maturity, promptly cooled and
properly packed can be kept until Feb
ruary or March in as good condition
by common storage as by cold storage
is the general conclusion reached as
the result of experiments conducted
at North Yakima this winter by repre-
sentatives of the federal department
of agriculture.
Division Engineer Koren, of the
Northern Pacific railway office at Spo-
kane. while surveying flood damage
along the railway line near Ethiopia,
had to doff his clothes and swim an
lev stream when a submerged bridge
was encountered. He carried tow
line and drew across a gasoline speed
er with which he had brought squad
Of men from Pasco.
Members of the Mining Mems club
of Spokane have appointed a commit
tee to prepare protest to congress
against the provision of the Ferris bill
which permits miners and prospectors
to develop free only 25 horsepower.
They also protested against the action
of the house committee in congress
which has refused to consider the SEN
ate bill revising the federal mining
laws.
In response to requests from l3 rail
road and steamship companies, includ-
ing the Great Northern, the Oregon
Washington Railroad & Navigation
company and the Northern Pacific,
charity officials of Yakima county
hereafter will make exhaustive in
ouiry into the cases of persons apply
ing for half rate transportation to 9th.
pr points on the ground that they are
Gadigent
Officers of the law have the right
to raid private homes in search of in
toxicoting liquor, but cannot confis-
cate liquor held in excess OF the
amount permitted by the prohibition
law unless there is evidence that the
liquor was kept for the purpose OF
sale. This Interpretation of the new
prohibition law was made by Superior
Judge ]. r. Ronald at Seattle, who
also held that the owners of intoxi
cants in excess of two quarts Of spir