The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-11-16

In spite OF the fact that The vote
In its favor stood 1893 to 1897, the
township organization proposition lost
at the election in Lewis county. The
law provides that the issue must carry
with a majority Of all votes cast in
the county, whereas less than half
/ the voters cast ballots on the PROPOSE
+ ton.
The twentieth annual short session
/ Of the college of mines of the univer-
Bity of Washington will open January
2, 1917, and continue to April /. This
course is offered for the benefit OF
persons interested in prospecting,
mining. milling. assaying and smelt-
ing who are not able to enroll for
regular college work.
Forty-one of the Industrial Workers
of the World, involved in the shoot
ing at Everett, have been removed
from Seattle to Everett. They were
taken to Everett on an interurban
special in charge of the authorities
of Snohomish county. A charge Of
murder has been preferred against
each of the forty-one removed.
Agriculturists for the Utah-ldaho
Sugar company, who are engaged in
examing the acreage pledged to beet
culture at North Yakima and the con-
tracts which gave the company the
privilege of rejection if the land the
farmer expected to use was untitled
for growing beets. report that so far
not a single acre has been rejected.
Policewomen have been added to
the dry squad of the Tacoma police
department. Their identity kept Sc
cret even from the officers with whom
they come in contact, two women de-
tectives have been devoting their
time to trapping the better class OF
liquor dealers. AS the women pur-
chase liquor from their victims, dry
squad officers step in and make the
arrests
Purchase of the steamer Tacoma,
operated for years by the Northern
Pacific Railroad company as ferry
between Goble and Kalama. On the
Columbia river, in transferring trains
on the PortlandPuget sound line, has
been negotiated by the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St Paul Railroad company.
The vessel will be repaired and taken
to Puget sound to be operated as a
froy, efa tn nnir1fc fharl
Determined to bring to a halt the
alleged illicit liquor traffic between
Vancouver, B. c.. and Seattle, now
declared to amount to many thou
sands of dollars a week by the most
drastic action possible, the federal
government henceforth will charge
persons caught in this trade with a
violation of the smuggling laws, pun
ishable by fine of $4,000 or imprison-
ment in the penitentiary for two
years, or both.
AS the result of a Halloween prank
Winlock's sewer system was damaged
last week. Some boys filled a gaso
Fne tank with 40 gallons of water
End the prank was not discovered un
til the consumers complained of the
quality of the gasoline. A hose was
attached to the tank and the gas and
water run off into the sewer. A curl.
Gus passerby. smelling gas and desir-
ing to know if the liquid would burn,
lit a match. The fire followed the
gas into the sewer and when it struck
gas fumes there was an explosion
that shook several buildings.
Twenty republican legislators al
ready have pledged their support to a
bill to put teeth" in the Washington
dry" law and enough others have sig
nified their intention to help to assure
its passage, it is said by James H.
Davis of Tacoma. Mr.. Davis was re-
elected state representative from the
twenty-seventh district in Tacoma.
Jail sentences would be made com
pulsory for bootlegging and for issu-
ing fake doctors prescriptions, under
the terms of the proposed measure.
Provision probably will be made also
for a state dispensary, Mr.. Davis said,
or for some other effective means of
state supervision of all alcohol and
liquors brought into the state for
mechanical or medicinal purposes.
The striking feature of the Wash
ington election result was the enor-
nous majority of Miles Poindexter
republican candidate for senator, over
George Turner, democrat. With 222
precincts missing, Poindexter leads
by more than $4,000 votes. Wilson's
plurality continues nearly $4,000, and
tat of Governor Lister, democrat,
over Mcbride, republican, more than
II 900. Returns from all the districts
indicate the following division in the
next legislature: Senate = republi-
cans SO, democrats 4; house-republi-
cans 81, democrats 10. For congress
Senator Miles Poindexter, Represen-
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