The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-08-24
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

will open at Chehalis Monday. Appps
IS.
public golf tournament will hs
held in Spokane on September
and T.
More than 100000 trout fry will
be planted in Chelan lakes ant
streams this season.
Farmers of Clarke county are pre
pairing to harvest the biggest prun.
crop Of the last 10 years.
The Ridgefield volunteer fire depart
ment will hold its first competitive
drill and contest August rs at Ridge
field.
paper pulp mill will be located IN
north central Washington If raw ma
terials for the manufacture of pull
can easily be obtained.
The Waterfront Employers associa
ton of Seattle has refused absolutely
. and finally to consider any mediation
In the longshoremen's strike.
Jusaku Togomori, quartermaster
on the Japanese steamer Nichiyo
Maru. leaped overheard and was
drowned while the vessel was nearing
Seattle.
AS result mainly of the dry law
the cook at the Aberdeen county jail
has been laid off. There are no pris
oners to require meals. the first time
in the history of the county.
Edward Msyberry was bound over
to the federal grand jury at Spokane
under $4,000 bond. charged with the
killing of his Indian sweetheart Alice
Vivian. on the Colville reservation.
AS sugar beet growing is being ad
vocated In several parts of the state
the experiment station of the Wash.
ington state college at Pullman will
soon issue a free bulletin on the sub
ject.
A Christofferson, of Tacoma. was
elected president OF the grand lodge
seventh district, Scandinavian Frater-
nifty OF America. at the closing meet
ing OF the 18th annual convention al
Spokane.
A shark closely resembling the
variety which terrorized the Atlantic
coast recently was captured after a
two-hour fight in the Tacoma harbor
by members of the crew of the yacht
El Primero.
A Naehes Valley farmer complained
to the Yakima county commissioners
that one of the bull elk imported from
the Yellowstone park herd. had taken
possession of his clover field and re
fused TO leave. He asked S25 damages
David s. Troy, eY-state senator, and
we'll known throughout the Pacific
northwest as a stockraiser. is dead
as the result of injuries received when
the automobile which he was driving
somersaulted off the end of the city
dock at Port Townsend.
North Yakima fruit shippers are re-
celving kilograms from eastern deal
ers urging them to rush pears and
peaches because of the fear OF rail-
road strike. Cool weather has retard'
ed the growth of fruit, and farmers
can do little to satisfy the eastern
dealers.
James Hansen, private in Third
company, United States coast artii
lery. suffered severe cuts on his hands
and the governments old hospital
building sustained $4,000 damage by
fire which partly destroyed the build
ing at the United States barracks al
Vancouver.
Frank Won der Heider, said TO De
the owner of a hotel at vancouver
B. c.. shot and killed j. A. Collinson
and probably fatally wounded Coiiih
sons wife, at Seattle. when ne me'
them on the street near hospitai
where he had been patient After
the shooting Won der Heider fled.
The fruit and vegetable cannery oil
the Lewis County Canning association
at Chehalis is running full force anu
wartime 10 take care of the immense
crop of vegetables and fruits Deihs
delivered daily. Additional room VIII
have to be provided to take care o'
the bis mack that ID being processed
Assistant Forester E. A. sherman
is expected by Forester Graves 10 o'
In Seattle August "a, to CONFER win
the university regents and sta'e LAho
Commissioner Savidge in regard u
the request of the university OF WASH
,nxton 70 be allowed a tract OF ishc
we'll within the Snoaualmie natioha
forest in the land exchange now goini
ON between the federal and state gov
srnmeuts. The university desires tn'
land in connection with Its schoos U
forestry.
State Highway Commissioner 'Ane'
Allen will ask the state Legislature "
appropriate $4,000 at the coniin'
session to complete grading ana sls'
cling or macadsmiz' ng the facli''
highway between Vancouver anu
coma A large amount OF improve
mept work has been done on the roAo
which is the principal main hisn"a
in western Washington. during I'M
past four years. There are nov ou
ss miles of road which have not ses'
improved.