The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-12-14
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

the incorporation of Lacrosse.
Conrad Ray. a resident of the Wal
la Walla valley for &c years, died of
tuberculosis.
The opening debates in the Lewis
county debating league will be held
on December Is.
The annual convention of state
game wardens opened at Tacoma
Monday for two days.
The $50 200 brick building recently
destroyed by fire at Elmira, will be
rebuilt by the owners.
An epidemic of measles prevails in
Oroville and adults are victims as
well as many children.
Joseph X. Legard died at Tacoma
aged liz years. He was said to be the
oldest man in the northwest.
Mrs. Isabel McCown Brents, widow
of Judge Thomas H. Brents, who died
six weeks ago, died at Walla Walla.
Unless serious fires occur in
December, North Yakima's fire loss
for 1916 will be only about half that
for 1915.
The Seattle central labor council
has passed a resolution demanding
that Congress place an embargo on
expectation of all food.
Frank Dergan. coal miner shot
and killed his wife, his 4-year-old son
and himself in their home at lssaquah,
a mining town east of Seattle.
The annual business meeting Of the
executive board and committee chair
men of the State federation of Wo-
mems Clubs was held in Pullman.
Twenty cases of diphtheria have
developed in Shelton. The public
schools. theater and public assem-
blies of all sorts have been closed.
The public service commission has
authorized the North Coast Power
company to install water meters at
Vancouver at the rate of $50 monthly.
Logged-off land is to be thrown
open to actual settlers by the Clarke
County Timber company, a Weyer-
hauser corporation, near Yacolt in
Clarke county.
Children's movie shows will be con-
Quoted at Aberdeen every Saturday
afternoon throughout the winter un-
der the auspices of the Parent-Teach-
er association.
George w. Mills died Friday at
Olympia at the age of SO. He was one
of the earliest pioneers of the north
west. having resided at or near Olym-
pa for 81 years.
The house of representatives has
passed the omnibus fish hatchery
bill, which carries $4,000 each for
hatcheries on the Columbia river ard
Lake Qunault, and in Idaho.
The cornerstone for the Aberdeen
$4,000 Federal building, now under
construction. was laid Saturday after
noon with appropriate ceremonies
conducted by the Aberdeen Masonic
lodge.
A new courthouse for Benton coun-
ty has been authorized by the board
of county commissioners at Prosser
A bond issue of s125,000 will be float
ed to furnish money to purchase the
site and construct the building.
The attendance at the fourth an
nual farmers school at Chehalis sur
passed those of the last three years,
and the instructors sent out by the
state college assert Chehalis had the
best school of its kind in the state.
The West Coast Lum bermen's as
sociation reports that Pacific north
west lumber mills are turning away
orders and curtailing production on
account of car shortage. Production
has been reduced nearly % per cent.
Seventy carloads of northwest ap-
plies were sent to the bottom of the
Atlantic ocean last week as result
of the operations of a German sub
marine. according to word received.
The fruit was being shipped to Eng
land.
Fixtures and furnishings valued at
SAC. 900 in the barroom and dining
room of the Hotel Cecil in Seattle.
were destroyed with axes by the dry
squad of the Seattle police department
for alleged violation of the prohibit
ton law.
Less than 40 per cent of the $500,
600 voted by Aberdeen citizens for
the construction of new gravity
water system so far has been spent
and indications are that the project
will be completed by City Engineer
Kelsey on a day-labor plan for less
than the estimated cost.
That Grays Harbor and Willapa
Harbor have great futures as cram
berry producing sections is the opin-
ion of W. c. Mumaw, former presi-
| dent of the Aberdeen chamber of com
merce, who for three years has been
studying the farming and dairyine