The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-03-16

oP0ioIiAe out Vi fuEet SOUND.
approximately 30 per cent of the
1915 wheat yield of Washingtsn re-.
mains in elevators and granaries In
this state at the present time, accord.
ing to the estimate of P. J. Sweeney
chief deputy grain inspector.
The senate has passed Senator
Chamberlain's bill for exclusive juris-
diction of lands within Mount Rainier
national park, and Senator Jones bill
appropriating $4,000 to establish a
fish cultural station on Quiniault lake
By a score of Al to IL, Washington
state college swamped the university
of Idaho basketball team at Pullman,
thereby winning undisputed title to
the northwest conference basketball
championship for the season of 1915.
1916.
Heavy rains in the lowlands and
warm winds in the mountains where
the snow is melting rapidly caused
floods in all parts of western Wash
ington, completely tying up the three
transcontinental railroad lines across
Washington.
Floods from melting snow in all
parts of Chelan county are washing
out roads and orchards. 1t is estim-
ated the damage to roads alone will
reach $4,000. and possibly more. 1t
10 inn noCihln IN "a ha 40, 70
to orchards.
The Skamania county commission
ers have let the second contract for
the north bank highway to the General
Construction company of Spokane.
The contract covers the distance be-
tween Cooks and Underwood, a dis
lance of II miles.
Bert Robertson and Ernest Samples,
two clamdiggers of Ilwaco, made re-
Gently what may prove to be an ex-
tremely profitable find, when they
picked up on the beach lump Of a
substance thought to be ambergris.
The find was made near LOOMS
Though the number of men being
received at the state prison is consid-
erably below the normal the officers
of the institution say it is yet too
early to attribute this altogether to
the prohibition law, though they think
it has had it's effect and will have
more as time goes on.
Failure of the state of Washington
to accomplish any notable benefits or
attain any success in the employment
of inmates of state institutions has
led the state board of control to seek
information from other states along
this line in the hope that practical
ideas may be obtained.
Through an agreement reached by
the Olympia chamber Of commerce.
and H. E. Lounsbury, general freight
agent of the O.-W. R. & N. at Port
land, readjustment of rates favorine
the company has been effected on
various classes of freight between
Olympia and Tenino and Olympia and
Centralia.
County Game Commissioner E. j.
Merryman is in receipt of letter from
Captain F. T. Arnold, acting superin-
tendant of the Yellowstone National
park, in which he states that so elk
promised to Kittitas county have been
trapped, and that he is awaiting in.
structions from Mr.. Merryman before
shipping them.
To discuss questions of national pre-.
paredness as they would affect the
northwestern states, the Spokane
chamber of commerce has issued a
call for q convention to be held in
Spokane March 81 and %, under the
auspices of the chambers of commerce
of Spokane and Calispell, Mont, and
the Astoria naval base committee.
The Milwaukee railway has an
pounced the sale of a large area OF
timber, known as the Twin, River
tract, on the Olympic peninsula, 40
miles west of Port Angeles, to the
Puget Sound Mills & Timber com.
pany, which owns large sawmill at
Port Angeles. The tract contains $780,
oOO. 900 feet of fir and cedar timber.
Prospects for bumper crops of fruit
and wheat in north central Washing
ton are bright, and can be attributed
to the thick blanket of snow that has
covered the district for more than four
months. The fruit crop is expected
to break the record of 1000 cars for
1914. The average yield Of wheat to
the acre is expected to be far above
the normal production.
John F. Gillies, former claim agent
of the state industrial insurance com
mission, who was convicted Of forgery
In connection with the footing of the
state insurance fund by the writing
and cashing of fraudulent claims, was
sentenced in the Thurston county SUI
perior court to serve four years and
a half at hard labor in the state peni-
Tertiary at Walla Walla.
Within a few years the states OF
Washington and Oregon may be fur.
uishing the world with large percent
age of it's supply of plant drugs and
herbs, according to recent investiga-
ton completed by Arthur w. Linton
professor of pharmacy at the univer-
s,ty of Washington. The heavy de,
mands of eastern drug manufactur'
ers now cut off from supplies former.
A.a.naa from Eurnne and the result.