The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-05-04

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bowling tournament closed at Seattle
with the completion Of the singles
and doubles. G. w. Moffett, of Seattle
won the singles with a score of 673.
Walden and Conover. of Seattle. won
the doubles with a score of 1904.
Bids were opened at the Naval de-
partment at Washington, d. c., for
two steel 4O0-foot wireless towers to
be erected at the torpedo station at
Keyport, on Puget Sound. The North
western Construction company OF
Portland, submitted a bid of s46,711.
The theft of 5000 feet of seven
strand aluminium high tension wire,
which at the time ii was taken carried
1900 volts of current was discovered
at Vancouver by employees OF the
Portland Railway, Light & Power COM
pany, nearly a month after it is sup
posed to have been taken.
The Spokane chamber of commerce
has begun a movement to make the
apple blossom Washington's state
flower. Every commercial organiza-
ton in the state will be asked to as
sist in the plan to change the state
flower from the rhododendron, which
blooms in less than onethird of the
state.
Four carloads of contractors out
fits have been unloaded at Prosser,
and camps are being put up for the
construction of the extension of the
Sunnyside branch of the Northern Pa
cific from Grandview IL miles to the
main line at Gibbon. Work is to be
rushed, as officials hope to have the
line ready for the hauling of fall crops.
Garfield county shade and fruit
trees are infected with every disease
known to trees, is the assertion of
Charles C. Andrus, horticultural in
spector. He has found fungus
growth, which he is unable to name,
and an Insect, which he believes be-
longs to the louise family, that he is
unfamiliar with, never having seen it
before.
The Colville Indian reservation i'll
eastern Washington will open for set
Element this year. according to dis
patch from Washington. Registration
for land in the reservation will be be-
tween July and July %. The draw
ing will begin in Spokane on July p.
The reservation will be open for set
tiers who drew claims from September
to October IS.
After Grover Myers, fireman EN-
ployed by the N. & NJ. Lumber COM
pany at Rochester, had crawled under
logging engine to repair it, the en-
CINE started up. Myers legs were
severed between the ankle and the
knee, his right leg also being broken
above the knee. The engineer also
was under the engine, but escaped in
the nick of time.
Just as the big 1900, 000-pound draw
span was about to be placed in the
Columbia River Interstate bridge at
Vancouver, a terrific wind and rain
storm broke with such fury that the
barges carrying one end of the span
were blown far past the pier, and for
q time conditions were extremely SER
ious. An arm of a big derrick being
used by the Pacific Bridge company
opportunity caught the end of the
span and held it fast.
Seventy-eight mills of Washington
and Oregon were represented at an
informal meeting of lumbermen, held
in Tacoma to consider general manu-
featuring and marketing conditions.
The situation, as canvassed, reveals
increases showing strongly in all the
monthly cost sheets, short stock at
mills, and selling values anywhere
from so cents to 81 under the prices
prevailing in April, 1913, which mar
ket was considered normal.
The possibilities for gas and oil
finds has aroused the Kennewick re-
gion. The we'll now being drilled by
Yakima Natural Gas & Oil company
has reached a depth of 600 feet with
a log showing every indication that
gas and oil exist The log is practi-
cally the same as that of the well To-
Gated two miles from the site of the
present drilling operation and which
at a depth of 704 feet is producing
! 31O, 900 cubic feet of natural gas day.
Valuable relics of early day govern
ment have been added to the state
capitol collection in framed photo
graphs of officers and members of the
territorial legislature of 1879. The
house of representatives memento was
presented to Governor Lister by Mrs.
Angelina Steward, of Vancouver, and
her daughters, Miss Steward and Mrs.
r. E. Elwell, of Olympia, in honor OF
Mrs. Stewards husband the late Judge
George H. Steward, who was speaker
of the house.
numbering industry the greatest num-
Der of men in its history, according to
information received by the Industrial
Insurance commission and estimates
based on the number of accidents re-
ported during March. During March
100 accidents in the numbering indus
try were reported to the commission.
This is nearly 100 greater than the
highest previous record, established
In May, 1918, when the lumber indus