The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-08-31
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS Of INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

age in Garfield county.
Don Brown, 20, was drowned in the
Columbia river at Paseo while bath.
ing.
The Dryad Floral association held
its annual exhibit last week in con.
nection with the Dryad school fair.
1t is not far from a 10000, 900 crop
year for Walla Walla county and if
wheat keeps going up the figure will
be nearly reached
Fire at Spokane caused SIS. 900 dam.
age TO the stock of the Spokane Hard.
ware company and the building occu.
pied by the company.
The Columbia highway and the Lin.
coin transcontinental highway are to
be connected by route running
through Walla Walla.
Hundreds OF Seventh Day Advent.
lists from all points in western Wash.
ington are gathered at Tacoma to at.
tend the annual conference
A riot in which 5000 people took
part occurred at Everett when 20 /.
W W. agitators were driven out OF
town following street meeting.
The Valentine country in Garfield
county was visited by heavy frost
last week, the first occurrence OF the
kind at this period of the season with
in the last 80 years
The first grapes shipped from
Grandvlew this season, shipped out
last week. brought 40 cents a basket
to the growers. which is about double
the price usually paid
Announcement has been made that
Jewish synagogues are to be establish
ed in North Yakima and Ellensburg,
as part OF extension work of the Seat
tie congregation of that faith.
Robert Maloney. 20. mechanic
was instantly killed. and Joseph Grote
was gravely injured in an automobile
accident near Dixie. The men were
pinned under an overturned car.
A lemon weighing one pound and
six ounces has been raised in Clarke
county by D. w. Stearns of Vancouver
This big lemon measures 1874 inches
in girth the shortest way around.
Young women from Portland and
Vancouver modified at Vancouver
barracks last week for the national
service school training camp. conduct
ed under the auspices of the depart
ment of war
The business men of Pasco, under
the direction of the Yellowstone Trail
association and the Franklin County
Automobile club, made a business ex-
tension and trail marking tour Tues
day from Pasco to Wallula.
The sixth annual OakviIle and com
munity fair will be held at Oakville
from September II to Il inclusive.
The communities participating consist
of Gate, Rochester. Cedarville, Gar
rard Creek and Independence.
There is likely to be shortage OF
spinach. one of Walla Wallas early
staples. this year, unless orders for
seed are filled soon. All the seed
available has been planted and so far
none has been secured elsewhere.
While arresting an Indian ON
justice court warrant near White
Swan, Ralph Bailey, deputy sheriff of
Yakima county, was struck in the
back by squaw with the blunt side
of an axe He is partially paralyzed.
In a gun battle with police just out
side the Empire hotel in Spokane,
where he had gone to clean up
companion with whom he had quarrel
ed 8 short time before, James II. Nc
Bride, a railroad man. was shot in the
breast
James A. Urquhart, Chehalis
banker, was killed and his mother,
Mrs. w. NJ. Urquhart. was badly in
tured when his car went off bridge
on the Randle-Lewis road between
Blankenship and Scales creek, In
eastern Lewis county.
More than a ton Of liquor, consist
ing OF wines, WHISTLES and beer, was
seized by deputy sheriffs at the North
ern Pacific warehouse at Auburn. The
sheriff said, shipping permits for the
liquor had been taken out by eight
persons. but that II WAS consigned to
one man
At Seattle q runaway light automo-
bile truck. racing down University
street from Third avenue. driveriess,
struck Mrs. w. d. Swan. of Halleck.
and hurled her through plate glass
window Of a clothing establishment
before which she was standing. she
was only slightly injured.
Two Vancouver physicians have
been charged with violations OF the
liquor law. They are Or. r. G. Black
and DR.. w. E. Cass. DR.. Black Is
charged with having Illegally issued q
prescription for one pint OF whiskey
and DIR. Cass with having Illegally Is
sued one for "a ounces OF brandy.
Marine engines of the semiDiesei
type are being built at the Puget
Sound Iron L Steel works at Tacoma
for the II. W. Sumner company, OF
Seattle, at a cost of s40. 900. They will
engine two new lumber schooners now
being constructed for Swayne & Hoyt,
San Francisco, at the Aberdeen yards.