The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-03-23

jumping on van as II moved Atoms
residence street, a stranger believed
10 be B. Beero, Of Portland whipped
put razor and slashed his throat IN
view OF many pedestrians at Seattle
The forestry department, acting on
the success Of the lookout station
which was erected on Mount Hood
last summer, has decided to build q
similar one on the summit of Mount
st. Helens during the coming summer
Governor Lister has granted q plea
made by Judge Everett Smith in be-
half of Paul Schuman, former Seattle
policeman, and modified Judge Smith q
sentence of Schumann two to five
years in the reformstory at Monroe
instead of in the penitentiary.
The Kelso commercial club is seek.
ing to interest the w. B. Mcpherson
company Of Portland, in the estab.
lishment of fruit and vegetable dry.
Ing establishment there. John Bogart
of Woodland, is also looking over the
field, with an idea of establishing q
cheese factory.
Planning to extend their present
logging railroad further into their
timber tract about twenty miles up
the north fork Of the Lewis river,
the DuBoise Lumber company at
Ridgefield is transporting necessary
equipment and material to their camp
along the river.
Governor Lister has appointed
James Allen state highway commits
sioner to succeed w. r. Roy, resigned.
Allen at once appointed George F. Cot
terill, ex-mayor of Seattle, chief en-.
gineer for the state highway depart
ment, the position Allen left to become
highway commissioner.
Bankers of Washington will foster
and promote excursions from all parts
of the state to the Washington State
college at Pullman for two-day SEES
sion some time in September, II
the recommendations of the agricul-
tural vocational education COMMITTEES
of the association are adopted.
Secretary Frank Meredith has pre-
pared the program of horse races for
the forthcoming Washington state
fair which will be held at North Yak
ina September Is to %. There will
be but five days devoted to horse ckc-
ing this year, as automobile races will
be held Monday, the first day Of the
fair.
Six white men and II Chinese and
one Japanese are under arrest in and
near Seattle, accused of being the
principals in an organized gang of
smugglers charged with bringing into
the United States opium valued at 81
OSO, 900 and enough Chinese laborers
to net the gang s2sO,OOo in four years
work.
Identified by an old photograph
found in the rogues' gallery at police
eadquarters, James Mariana. a clerk
in stall at the Pike Place Market at
Seattle, was arrested and Is held in
the city Jail as the man who murdered
another foreigner in San Francisco in
April. 1905, and dismembered and bur
led his victims body.
The Blewett Pass. road will be con-
structed this spring by Chelan
county, in accordance with the agree
ment with Kittitas county, which built
four miles of new road on the west
slope last fall. The county commits
sioners have appropriated $4,000 from
the road and bridge fund subject to
any emergencies that might arise from
floods.
Railroads operating in the state OF
Washington, in statements made to
the interstate commerce commission.
DENY that the car shortage on the Pa
cific coast is caused by the shipment
OF munitions of war. This informa-
ton was brought out as the results Of
a complaint filed by Senator Jones.
The congested condition was caused
by the stoppage of traffic through the
Cascades.
Prospectors who have located de.
posits of anthony, copper or tuns-
stem and who are grubbing away In
an endeavor to erect mills and es-
tablish perfect mining methods before
marketing their product are making a
sad mistake, in the opinion of Dean
Minor Roberts, of the college OF
mines. He advises them to get what
they can to market at once. while
prices are particularly advantageous.
A movement to boost live stock
raising in the Inland empire is to fol
low a conference between Professor
William Hislop and Professor A. B.
Nystrom, of the state college at Pull
man. and Professor Brannon, Dean
, Iddings and Professor Ellington Of the
University of Idaho. 1t is planned to
have started through the extern.
sion department of each school
movement to assist farmers who are
slready breeding live stock and to en-.
deavor to get many others. interested
/ in the industry.
Community fairs will be held at Gal
vim, Dryad, Doty, Glenoma, PeEll, Ad'
win. Dryad, Doty, Glenoma, Pc Ell, Ad'
Napavine, Kopiah, District No. 8. To
ledo, Mossyrock, Alpha and Morton
the coming season as result OF the