The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-06-01
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS Of INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

The third annual horse and cattle
show will be held at Ridgefield on
Saturday. June 3.
The reunion of the Washington
State Pioneer association will be held
in Seattle June 81.
J. F. Rooney. q farmer near San De
Fuca. shot and dangerously wounded
his wife after q quarrel, and then
killed himself.
The logging and sawmill industry
on the north fork Of Lewis river il in
the most thriving condition that 1t has
been for the past three years.
The West Coast Lumbermen's as
ISOLATION has begun work on the for
mutation OF a series of density rules
for grading Douglas fir structural tim.
bers.
Fire at Tacoma destroyed the pat.
tern plant of the Puget Sound iron and
steel works. The damage was placed
at 100000. The cause of the fire is
unknown.
The Wenatchee general hospital will
probably be taken over the first of the
month by the Catholic sisters and will
be operated under the name of st. 10.
sephs Hospital.
By unanimous vote the growers of
the newly formed Otis Orchard irri-
CATION district Endorsed a bond issue
of s125.000 for the improvement of the
irrigation system.
Mrs. Lettie Hoyt. wife Of Judge John
p. Hoyt, former territorial governor
of Arizona and later supreme court
justice of Washington. is dead at Seat
tie She was sc years old.
Mrs. w. B. Hall, widow of DR.. Hall.
superintendent OF the Washington
state school for the blind, of Vancou-
yer. has been made permanent super
intendent OF the institution.
William T. Forrest. former state
land commissioner and former mem
Der OF the state legislature for Lewis
county. died at the state asylum for
the insane at Steilacoom, aged 81.
President S. B. l.. Penrose of Whit
man college has accepted an invitation
to deliver the baccalaureste sermon
to the graduating class of the Univer-
sity of Oregon on June 4 at Eugene.
The main structure of the Sol Due
Hot Springs hotel and sanitarium in
the Olympics. built by Michael Earles,
q wealthy lumberman. in 1912, at a
cost of $500, 900, was totally destroyed
by fire.
Forest fires are reported from Ska
git county, where hundreds Of acres
OF logged-off land near Sedro-Woolley
are being burned over. The state fire
warden has force of men keeping the
fire under control.
Three steamers carrying q total OF
$1,000 tons of railroad equipment and
war supplies consigned to the Russian
government and valued at more than
$15,00O.O00 sailed from Seattle last
week for vladivostok.
Whitman college, Washington state
college, and Idaho university met at
Walla Walla In the first annual trf-
angular tennis tournament on Mon
day and Tuesday. Each school was
represented by three players.
The University of Washington eight
cared crew upheld Its title to the Pa
cific coast collegiate rowing champion
ship by defeating the University OF
California crew by Is lengths over the
three mile course on Lake Washington.
More than $4,000 persons have been
enrolled a. participants in the great
preparedness parade at Seattle, to be
held on the afternoon OF June 10, and
the promoters OF the demonstration
say they expect to have At least $4,000
In line.
Close to q hundred instructors will
make up the summer faculty OF the
University of Washington offering to
the undergraduate and graduate stu
dents. many OF whom are school teach
ers, In the neighborhood OF 175 differ
ent courses.
The Washington district OF the OHIO
SYNOD of the Lutheran church Will
hold Its annual meeting at Endicott
from June IA to 20. inclusive. The
district includes Washington, Idaho,
Oregon and parts Of Montana and Brit
ish Columbia.
Three aged pioneers of Walla Waiis
and the northwest died At Wsiia Waha
within q period of eight hours tneir
combined ages being 23o years. They
were: oliver C. Gailaher, aged IS;
George R. Grove. aged ~. and Mrs
Mary Taylor, aged Sc.
william Burke was instantly killed
st the county rock crusher. about TWO
miles north OF Woodland, when an iron
crow bar that he was using In feedine
the crusher was caught by one OF the
buckets on the conveyor and crashed
against the left side OF his head.
The Columbia river conference o'
the limited Brethren AT Spokane voted
down a proposal from the general con
ference that it join with the oregon
conference In naming joint superin
teudent for the two districts Aite'
this decision w. A. Nicoles was chosen
sunerinteudent Of the Columbia rivei
di.,rtct The conference will meet u
Weston. Or. -nsxt year