The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-09-14

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Ora NJ. West, age IS, of Cheney,
the Spokane county spelling champion,
established clear title to the spelling
championship of the inland empire by
surviving the grueling contest conduct
ed at the Spokane interstate fair with
IS county champions of two states as
competitors.
A joint agricultural and industrial
contest will be held at Pasco Friday,
when the school children of Benton
and Franklin counties will hold their
annual industrial exhibit and tryout
for places on the industrial teams to
represent each of the counties at the
state fair at North Yakima
| The second tower for the draw span
on the Columbia river interstate
! bridge at Vancouver is rapidly near
| ing completion. II is expected that
the bridge proper will be completed
by November /, but it will be some
time thereafter before the long fills
! of the approach will be ready for use.
| Four men, their fingers and toes
| frozen in a blizzard which caught
them on Mount Rainier after they had
| touched off the illumination last We'd
| nesday night, are undergoing treat
ment in the hospital at Renton. John
Lehman is in a more serious condi-
| ton than his companions, c. H. Leh.
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According to the Seattle Times, a
$22, 100000 fleet to be built in Pacific
coast ports for A. o. Andersen & Co.
of Copenhagen, Denmark. will be
| placed under the American flag and
operated in the lumber and general
cargo trade from the northwest. Sc
attic has been chosen as headquarters
for the Norwegian houses Puget
Sound and British Columbia business.
A Great Northern employe filed at
Bellingham articles of incorporation.
of the Methow Valley & Eastern rail-
road, which is to run from Pateros,
on the Columbia river, up the Methow
river valley, a distance of SO miles,
| opening great fruit and cattle re-
| mountains at the headwaters of the
river. The construction will cost ST.
900 900.
A single crop paid for his land, says
Guy Shellman, who owns extensive
interests in the Anatone country near
Asotin. Mr.. Shellman said that
year ago he bought loo acres of pillow
| land at s45 an acre. Last fall he
planted 1t to barley and this year it
yielded an average of so bushels to
the acre. At S1.60 per 100 pounds for
this crop, il amounts to more than
s45 an acre.
Figures given out by the state board
of equalization show that the total
valuation of all personal property in
the state is s124.607,643, as against
1922. 756,42s last year, while the real
estate values at this time total SOL
701 III, compared with s741. PAL ,062 a
year ago This shows an increase OF
personal property despite the big
slashes in some counties, while the
real estate in the state fell off $40,
000. 900 in round numbers.
The Portland, Vancouver G. North
ern railroad company, of Vancouver,
and which has no tracks or rolling
stock has been granted a right of
way by congress to construct street
car line through Vancouver barracks.
The company has filed satisfactory
bond with the government, which will
| compel the company to start building
on or before June %. 1917, and the
road must be completed in two years.
At a cost approximating $4,000 the
Union Meat company of Portland has
started the erection at Lyle on the
North. Bank road, 100 miles east OF
| Portland, of an extensive sheep-feed-
ing plant that will be used hereafter
in regulating the supply of stock on
| the Portland market. The plant will
cover an area of five acres and will
accommodate about 10000 head of
sheep. The animals viii be driven
down each year from the grazing dis
tricts around Mount Adams.
Commercial use of the newly com
pleted government canal between tide
water and Lake Union at Seattle will
be inaugurated by the Wellington
Coal company of Nanaimo, B. c. 1t
is announced that this company will
shortly start construction at the north
end of Lake Union of coal bunkers
with a capacity OF several hundred
thousand tons and upon their com
pletion will inaugurate regular
barge service between Seattle and
Nanaimo, where the company's mines
are located
The reconvened biennial convention
at Seattle OF District No. 10. United
Mine Workers of America, voted un-
animously to reaffirm the stand taken
! by the original commission demand
ing per cent increase Of wages.
The convention represents 5000 coal
miners. Means to enforce the demand
| for higher wages were left for the
scale committee to decide, with the
understanding however. that an order
to cease work in the mines OF the IA
companies in the Washington Coal
Operators association shall not be
delayed beyond October l II the new
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