The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-11-09

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men, some OF the records being among
the largest ever made on Grays Har-
Dor.
Three hundred and twenty-four out
OF 4ss members of the Washington
State Pharmaceutical association. rep
resenting practically the entire drug
trade, by mail referendum voted in
favor of state law prohibiting phar-
maeists from selling intoxicating liz
uors for any purpose whatever.
The enormous apple crop of the
Wenatchee district, unprecedented in
size and which will run at least 1000
cars more than in 1914. the previous
record year, is not more than half
shipped, in the opinion of shippers and
the railway company. The number
OF cars shipped so far total 37OS
The movement on foot to move the
Asotin county seat from Asotin to
Charleston has assumed business like
tone at the latter locality, where an
amount of sl100 in excess of the
amount required has been placed on
deposit for the erection of county
buildings if the change is made.
]. NJ. Perry & Co., of North Yakima.
will Immediately increase the capac
ity of their cold storage warehouse
from 100000 to 275.OOO boxes of ap
Piles, or 600 carloads. When this ware
house is completed the Perry com
pany will have the second largest
fruit cold storage house in the valley,
Pacific coast hockey teams will get
into action on Friday. December l.
according to official announcement
made by Frank Patrick, president of
the Pacific Coast Hockey association
Spokane will open the season in Port
land on that date, and on the following
evening Seattle will mingle with Van.
eouver al Vancouver
After a lingering illness from par
alysis aggravated by An automobile
accident last August. Allen Weir. of
Olympia, ex-United States commits
sioner. a member of the legislative
council of Washington territory, and
of the constitutional convention in
1889 and the first secretary of state
for Washington, died at Port Town
send
The decrease in the number OF pris
oners committed each month to the
state penitentiary and reformatory
is due to the enforcement of the dry
law in the opinion of w. H. Cochran.
member of the state board of control.
In an address to the students OF the
state university Cochran stated that
than at any time during the last Ia
years.
Consummation of a shipyards and
steel steamship construction enter
prise involving between $4,000, 900 and
100000 was announced at Seattle
with the organization Of the. Ames
Shipbuilding & Dry Dock company.
whose management Monday morning
broke ground for shipbuilding plant
in which construction is to be com
menced on three sSO0-ton steel freight
carriers for foreign owners.
Teaching prisoners in the Washing
ton state penitentiary how to raise
Chinese pheasants and grouse is the
work that has been entrusted to L. ].
Esses. Chehalis county game warden.
Mr.. Esses was asked by state officials
to undertake this work in an effort
to solve the problem Of preparing pris-
oners to become better citizens and
80 they will be better able to face the
world once their terms have expired.
Rapid and far-reaching expansion of
the public service work of the univer-
sity of Washington as well as vital
internal development has made it nee
essary, according to Comptroller Her
bert T. Condor, for the university to
ask the state legislature to increase
the biennial appropriation which it
will vote next spring for the mainten-
prepared by Comptroller Condor to
cover the expenditures of the univer-
sity for the next two years specifies
4 total of s1,sS4.910. The legislature
ut its last session voted an appropria-
ton of s1.110,000 for the biennium of
1857. The budget is based largely
on the findings of the state commits
sion of educational survey. appointed
by the legislature of 1915 to investi-
gate the state institutions of higher
learning.
Reclamation of thousands of acres
of land in Washington, and the sup
plying of power for a large strip of
territory is the promise of proposed
project by which the water of Lake
Chelan will be raised IA feet high by
means of huge dam 10 feet high.
1t is planned that the capacity OF the
hydro-electric plant be 10000 horse
power Work will start on the project
some time during April, 1917. Hugh
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