The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-09-07

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streets, Tacoma, by unknown men,
Tilmon w. Bethel, a colored strike.
breaker. was instantly killed when
shot three times in the back.
According to an opinion given by
Attorney General w. V. Tanner to
Secretary of State Howell the names
OF candidates for the supreme and su-
perior bench must be rotated on the
ballot the same as all other names.
The Seattle Construction & Drydock
company announces that a drydock
with tonnage of 1900 will be con-
structed at the plant of the company
in Seattle, work to be begun during
the present month, and the cost Of
the dock to be about s45O.000.
Pay increases affecting nearly 500
men in the employ OF the North Bank
system at Portland and Vancouver
were announced last week, the in
ereases ranging from to 10 per cent
Of former salary allowances. The in
crease is in effect as of August l.
The military training camp which
was established at American Lake,
near Tacoma. has been transported TO
Fort Lawton, in Seattle, so that the
camp ground at American Lake might
be used for the Washington regiment
ordered home from the Mexican Dor
der.
The chamber of commerce at Pull
nishing students for harvest hands in
the vast Wheatfields of the Pullman
country. But the chamber has fallen
short OF the mark and there is more
demand for student help than is avail
able
Misfortune came thick and fast for
Mrs. Joseph Govenelli, widow living
near Seattle. Within an hour she
lost a son-inlaw by drowning, fire did
$500 damage to her home and while
receiving the condolences of friends
she fell from the front porch and
broke her legs.
Reports from Sprague indicate that
wheat is giving the best average yield
since the record crop of 1907 Farm
ers south OF Sprague toward Lamont
are getting from 80 to 40 bushels an
acre. while the average crop north OF
Sprague toward Harrington and Ed
wall is even better.
Broder Brothers, Gamers and pack
ers of Nanaimo, B. c., are considering
Walla Walla as a location for a can
ming plant and have already secured
from the O-W. R. & n. railway COM
pany the promise of an important
freight reduction on canned goods to
Spokane, it is stated.
Allen J, Martin, alias P. F. Phillips,
who has a string of aliases and who
was wanted in Portland, Everett and
numerous other cities on charges of
forgery, was shot twice by Chief of
Police Miles McGrail, at Centralia,
while endeavoring to elude capture.
Martin died in hospital later.
After an all-day hearing at Olympia
the state public service commission
announced that the railroads would
be permitted to put in a 36,000-pound
minimum on carloads of potatoes or
potatoes and onions mixed from No
vember / to April /, but that from
April to November ! the present
80, 0OO-pound minimum would govern.
Last Of the u adult members of the
party of pioneers which landed at Alki
Point, November 10, 1851, and hewed
out of the wilderness the beginnings
of the city of Seattle, Mrs. Louisa
Boren Denny, widow of the late David
T. Denny, died at her home in Seattle.
Mrs. Denny was SO and had lived in
Seattle 65 years. Her death resulted
from a stroke of paralysis.
The state of Washington is entitled
to approximately 250,00O acres of land
within the national forests of eastern
Washington, in place Of sections 16
and SO within the forests. Under a
cooperative agreement with the sec
rotary of agriculture the state land
board will select blocks of about 10000
or 10000 acres in each from the vari-
GUS national forests in the state.
Unless II. T. Maroon, fifth viee-pres-
ident of the Order of Railroad Tele-
raphers, and George 7. Slade, first
ce-president of the Northern Pacific
railway. agree on settlement at their
next conference. to be held in st. Paul,
1900 telegraphers on the Northern Pa
ciric will go on strike, according to
the announcement of an official of
the telegraphers living in Olympia.
King county will not use the 200
voting machines. purchased last year
at a cost OF $4,000, in the coming
primaries. After two weeks time had
been spent by experts in setting up
| the machines for use, the county com
missioners adopted resolutions In
structing the carekeeper to box up
the machines again and the county
auditor TO distribute the usual number
of paper ballots Action of the COM
missioners came about through a pro
test made by republican candidates
for governor and congress at meet
ing held in Seattle. 1t was found that
the rotation ct names provided in the
paper ballot system could be provided
for on the machines, but that to make
the change would require SO much
time that the new voting devices could