The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-09-07
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS Of INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation Of Our Readers.

A picnic and farmers display will
be held at Northport September 9.
Another cinnabar ore strike is re-
ported in the prospecting about Nor
ton.
Work on Vancouver's new $4,000
federal building is TO be started at
once.
Doctors at Walla Walla reset the
back of Edward Tremblay, which was
broken in an accident
Lumber production registered nor
NAL in Washington last week, for the
first time in months.
The senate has confirmed the NOM
nation of James ]. M. OKeane as
receiver Of the Vancouver land office.
Saturday marked the closing Of the
Southwest Washington fair. The
management is pleased with its sue
cess.
Milo Thompson. of Elma, was killed
At the camp of the Fir Tree Lumber
company. 10 miles from Olympia. A
log rolled on him.
September Is and Is have been set
rs the dates for the Whitman county
exhibit by the members of the boys
and girls clubs, which will be held
in Pullman.
The wheat crop of the northwest
this year will be from 100000 to
55.000.000 bushels, according TO the
monthly bulletin of the federal re-
serve board
In attendance at the twelfth annual
conference OF the German Methodist
church at Rosalia last week were min
listers from % points in Washington.
Idaho and Oregon.
The plant of the Midland Lumber
company. about half way between Ia
coma and Puyallup. was burned with
10000 feet Of lumber. The estimated
loss was about $4,000.
The Seattle chamber of commerce
has voted to indorse the application
of Spokane for the location in that
city OF one OF the rural credits banks
to be established by the federal gov
eminent
The August business at the federal
labor agency in North Yakima was
the greatest known since the office
was opened. During the month 1915
persons secured employment through
the bureau.
Convicts at the state penitentiary
at Walla Walla last week harvested
the corn crop, one of Warden Drums
big expense reducers. Several huge
silos are being filled for stock-feeding
this winter,
The prune harvest in Clarke county
il on full blast and driers in each or
chard will be taxed to capacity for
from three weeks to a month caring
for the crop, which is the largest In
recent years.
Miss Hannah B. Berg, age 10, OF
Tacoma, who rescued a drowning man
in Spanaway lake on June II, 1915,
has been awarded a hero medal by
the Ralston Purina Hero commission
of ST. Louis.
Prohibition, which has greatly re-
duced the work in the criminal court
Of Spokane county, has made 1t pos
sible for the superior judges TO ask
for sl092 less in their budget this year
than last year.
Glenn G. Williams. one OF the large
ranchers of Pomeroy and Wsterville,
was found dead in a hotel at Spokane
with a bullet wound in his head he
had been undergoing treatment Tor 4
nervous trouble.
Fred Ludi. aged SO. the oldest white
settler in the Kittitas valley. died n
his home near Ellensburg. Mr.. Ludi
left his home in Europe in 1853. com
ing to America, and in 1863 came to
the Kittitss valley.
With all but four spans in, ana with
those spans set up, painted ana READY
for placing. the interstate bridge
which is to span the Columbia river
Joining Portland and Vancouver, 10
now nearing completion.
Leslie ]. Ayers, professor OF law At
the university of Montana, will sue
coed Professor Orville P. Cockeriii
associate professor, who recently 70
signed from the law faculty nj the
university OF Washington.
Permits to buy 11s,12s quarts OF
beer nearly double the amount OF
beer legally imported in July were
i.sued by the King county auditor IN
August. In July permits to import
73s44 quarts OF beer were issued
The paving of the spans OF the Co
lumbia river interstate bridge com
pleted on the Washington side oil the
river is going ahead rapidly. Inc
forms for the last span, next TO the
, washington bank, are being put IN
place.
washtucna. Adams county, has as
sets of $4,000 more than its iiaoiiities
and has 1858 in the bank, enough 10
nav the running expenses of the town
sor the rest OF the year. according 10
the report of the state bureau OF IN
spection Just filed with Attorney Gen
ora, Tanner The town is taken 10
,ask mildly for careless bookkeepihs'
hut ia praised for the manner in which
| a.. sn.nces have been conducted.