The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-11-02
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

comprising nine schools of the county
has been organized.
Twenty silos have been built this
season on the Tieton project and Il
are planned for next year.
Box cars are being used in great
numbers by fruit shippers in the Yak.
ina valley in moving fruit to market
The government bar dredge Colonel
P. S. Niche is to be sent to Grays
Harbor for work on the Grays Harbor
bar.
The 2-year-old daughter OF Mr. and
Mrs. B. A. Dickerman, of Selah, was
drowned in a lateral OF the Selah
canal.
DR.. w. E. Cass. OF Vancouver,
charged with illegally issuing a pres.
cription for whisky, was found guilty
by jury.
The university of Washington open
ed her 1916 football season with a
37-to-6 victory over Whitman college
at Seattle
Expenditures for public improve,
ment in Pome-oy and Garfield county
have exceeded 100000 since the first
of the year.
John Hildebrandt, aged Sc. who was
shot by policeman at Seattle Sep
TENDER after he had robbed a man
on the street. has died.
The safe of the O-W. R. & N. sta
ton at Grandview was blown by yegg
men and completely demolished.
small sum of money was obtained.
The annual session of the Oregon
Washington mission conference of the
African Methodist Episcopal Zion
church was held last week at Walla
Walla.
The Pacific Fruit & Produce com
pany of North Yakima has an S0-acre
field of potatoes on the Tieton project
from which it will take this year a
minimum crop of 500 tons.
The movement to secure a pardon
for C. S. Gilchrist, former manager of
the United States National bank in
Centralia, has been vetoed by the
federal department of justice.
TEX" Vernon, well-known north
west boxer, was arrested at Aberdeen
by Deputy United States Marshal Sc
crist. of Tacoma, on a warrant charg
ing him with white slavery.
IS he 20 Of lyff fnr
which he was trying to drown. j. w
Mawson. a well known farmer of Che
halls. is in a Chehalis hospital at the
point of death, suffering from blood
poison.
Wells hall. the new 1900 dormi
tory to be erected for st. Pauls
school, an Episcopal institution al
Walla Walla, will be started soon. II
IS planned that the structure be com
pleted by winter.
Nearly 200 logging operators of the
Pacific coast were guests of Hoquiam
last week 1t was the closing day OF
the annual session of the Pacific Log
ging congress, and the delegates ar
rived in Hoquiam on a special train
from Portland.
The Warren Construction company
is laying from $50 to 400 feet of pave
ment daily on the interstate bridge
approach at Vancouver, working south
from the plant set up on the south
bank of the Oregon slough. There is
$4,000 feet of approach to be paved.
Spokane and the inland empire are
facing the most acute fuel famine IN
history. A Today cold snap would
place thousands of people in posi-
ton of actual suffering, according to
Spokane fuel wholesalers. and the
pinch will be felt most in the towns
outside of Spokane.
Legal difficulties encountered py
promoters of the plan for a joint
tuberculosis hospital for Yakima. Kit
titas. Benton and Klickitat counties
are likely to cause the project to be
dropped. 1t is declared Illegal for any
county to appropriate funds to be
spent in another county.
Yakima apple growers and shippers
feel they have at least half million
dollars in the balance in the issue
that has been raised concerning the
shortage of refrigerator cars to handle
the crop. II is conceded that II there
is no substantial relief soon that 1000
carloads will never be marketed.
With prices for potatoes holding
steadily around $40 and $3.50 hun
dredweight farmers of Kelso and vi
cinity are getting their spuds out Oh
the ground as rapidly as possible
Many carloads of potatoes nave al
ready been shipped from Kelso for
middle west and California delivery.
Last weeks rain put an entirely
new expression upon the countenance
of the walls walla valley wheat farm
er. Cominl after 47-day drought
during which practically no precipita
ton occurred, the downpour served
to put ground in condition for lai
r,ou,;ro and seeding operations, anc