The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-04-27
WASHINGTON STATE
news Of INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation Of Our Readers.

The Whitman county w. c. T. u.
| convention will be held at Endicott
April % and 29.
The first tree census Of the Spokane
district in five years will be under
taken this season by the Spokane
Fruit Growers company.
More than 500. 900 bushels of wheat
or one-third of the total crop having
Mansfield as its natural shipping
point still is In the hands of the grow
ers.
Forty three steamers, with q net ton
mage OF 13s.s46 tons. cleared from
Puget Sound during January, Febru-
airy and March for ports in the far
east.
The senate has passed q bill author
izfng the construction of two fish
hatcheries on the Columbia river in
Oregon and Washington, to cost not
exceeding 100000.
More than 100 representative insur-
ance men met In Seattle and organ
lied the Washington Insurance fedora
ton to bring together the buyers and
sellers Of insurance.
The body Of q man with both arms
and both legs almost severed from the
body and mangled almost beyond rec
ignition was found on the Great North
ern tracks at Chiwaukum.
A 119mile motorcycle road race. the
course for which extends from Aber-
deem to Centralia and return. is being
planned for the Grays Harbor Motor
cycle club for Decoration Day.
The Great Northern railroad has un-
dertaken to quadruple the size of its
warehouse facilities at its Smith Cove
water terminals at Seattle. The pres
ent warehouse is 800 feet long.
The Aberdeen city council has
awarded the Vance Lumber company.
Of Malone, an order for 1000 900 feet
Of pipe slaves for use on the Wish
T. O. b. Malone.
With his face horribly battered and
Q bullet hole through his head. Ira
Thomas. Wenatchee attorney, was
found lying unconscious on q side
street of Leavenworth. revolver
with an empty shell was lying near
his side.
The so-called cooperative areas In
which the state and federal govern
ment cooperate in fighting forest fires
and maintaining . patrol force, will be
considerably enlarged this year. &C.
cording to An agreement for 1916
which has just been drawn up.
Continued wet weather during the
greater part of the past week has fur
Their delayed reseeding operations in
Walla Walla localities where the fall
sown grain was winter killed. and the
farmers are beginning to become some
what discouraged as q result
President Henry Suzzallo. OF the
University of Washington. was elected
president of the Inland Empire Teach
ers' association at the annual conven-
ton At Spokane. J. A. Burke. of Spo-
kane, was reelected secretary. and J.
e. Buchanan. OF the Cheney state nor
NAL, treasurer.
A parasite that may seriously en-
danger the fresh water trout in Wash.
ington. and that in one year killed H..
| 900 of II, 900 fish In q Wisconsin
hatchery, has been noticed on Wash
inston species by DIR. Nathan Fasten.
instructor in zoology at the Universe
ty OF Wisconsin.
If a friend sends for liquor under
q permit and has 1t shipped to you in
| trust for him, and you are caught with
this liquor and some OF your own, you
are guilty Of having an oversuppiy in
your possession, according to the de-
cision rendered by Police Judge Glen
Snider at Aberdeen.
County Game Warden ]. NJ. Hoff and
Deputy State Game Warden J. p. Bur
cham, Of Kelso. are installing fish
trap at the dam across the Washougal
river at Washougal to catch steelhead
salmon so that the eggs may be taken
for Matching at the Clarke county fish
hatchery on Cold creek.
! H. Il