The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-05-18

A' a. tOO idte 10 justify an dpprOprl-
alton in the pending river and harbor
bill, and will have to lie over a year.
Nearly all of the employees of the
Crown Willamette paper mills at Ca
mas went out on a strike, rejecting
the company's offer of 10 per cent
advance in wages and demanding that
a minimum wage of $225 be paid
with 10 per cent increase up to 81 a
day.
B. L. Swezea of Seattle, an employ
ing printer, filed an initiative bill in
the office of the secretary of state pro-
viding for the appeal of the statewide
prohibition law Filing of the bill is
necessary to obtaining signatures to a
petition requesting submission Of the
bill to a vote.
Major II. W. Patton, president Of the
Washington State Press association,
has announced that July 10, IA and Is
had been selected as the dates upon
which the 1916 session will be held.
This period was decided upon because
it is agreeable to the people of Ellens-
burg, who this year will entertain the
editors
The second battalion of the Twenty
first Infantry and Company c, of the
first battalion. left Vancouver for bor-
der points, in compliance with orders
received. The second battalion went
to Yuma, Ariz.. and Company C to
Nogales, where it will probably be
joined by the other companies of its
battalion.
Four interscholastic records were
broken at Pullman in the ninth annual
track meet participated in by 20 high
schools of eastern Washington. North
Central of Spokane won the meet with
Sc points; Colfax was second with 81
Lewis and Clark, Spokane, third, %;
Davenport, fourth, IS, and Walla Wal
la fifth, 10.
Seattle's waterborne commerce for
April was the greatest in the history
of the port, according to records COM
piled by Port Warden A A. Paysse.
The total value of the ports April
commerce was $2&S94 ,124, an average
of s1,213,137 per day and an increase
of more than s5,OOO,OO0 over the rec
ord of any previous month
Saturday, May 20, has been named
"Kennewick Strawberry day through
out the state and northwest by the
Kennewick commercial club and the
kennewick- Richland Strawberry I'm
ion. The governor has been asked to
make a proclamation setting that day
aside as a special day when everyone
throughout the northwest will eat
strawberries.
Another attempt to bar the jitneys
off the streets of Seattle is heralded in
a petition widely circulated through
out the city. If enough signatures are
obtained, the petition will result in the
in the city council of an
ordinance forcing the jitneys to re-
main off the streets on which street
cars operate, thus eliminating all bus
traffic in the downtown section.
The police at Seattle seized on
steamship pier Is barrels and six
cases containing 1868 gallons of whis-
ky consigned from Louis Taussig &
Co, San Francisco, wholesale liquor
house, to James ]. Kelly, whose drug
store occupying Kelley's former saloon
room, was demolished by the police
last week This is the largest seizure
of liquor made since the prohibition
law became effective.
Consolidation of the Olympia, Sa-
lem, Or, association and the Belling-
ham breweries into the Northwest
Fruit Products company, for the man
ufacture of fruit juice beverages sal
able in Washington and oregon under
the prohibition laws is announced at
OLYMPIA by Peter G. Schmidt, head OF
the Olympia Brewing company. The
new organization carries out an idea
of the late Leopold F. Schmidt, found
er of the three breweries.
immigration Commissioner White OF
Seattle has received a second commu-
uication from Terence Y. Powderly,
chief OF the division of information, bu-
reau of immigration, warning Ameri-
cans against going to Canada in quest
of employment. The letter says there
are more than 1000 men unemployed
in Vancouver. B. c., and that many
ahlebodied men in British Columbia
are dependent upon public charity be-
cause they can find no work.
While drilling the last few feet OF q
well abandoned by an owner as for
lorn hope a deposit of platinum was
discovered on the farm of Lester
Smoot, a few miles south of Tonasket
Drillers obtained permission to pro-
coed on the well. and in few feet
further encountered a bed of gravel
through which water rose TO depth OF
az feet, and a sand pump brought up
metallic nuggets which we're found
to run high in platinum. Farmers are
becoming prospectors.
Seventy-fite thousand dollars worth
of liquor was seized at Seattle by the
notice in the most sweeping raid since
the statewide prohibition law went in
m effect January /. Two large ware
houses and nine drug stores were
saorched hut no arrests were made