The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-10-26
An increase of STA. 200 in the bi.n.

Va euieion sno rental money toward
new buildings, is asked in the uniyer.
slfy budget, recently completed for
submission to the next state leRisls.
ture. The appropriation asked is ST..
sS4.910.
Night classes in the Chinese Ian.
guage will be offered at the university
OF Washington this semester for the
benefit of those business and faculty
men who are not able to attend the
day classes. The Chinese language
Is taught in the United States only
at Columbia university, the university
| OF California, and the university of
Washington.
Acting Secretary of the Navy Roose.
welt, having announced that one of
the new dreadnoughts would be named
Washington, commercial bodies of
Seattle have set afoot a movement for
the purchase of a silver service for
the ship by public subscription. At the
same time the navy department was
urged to give the name Seattle to the
present cruiser Washington.
Mrs. Edwin C. Sobel, a handsome
woman, 80 years old, shot and killed
Leo G.. Pratt, 19-year-old bank clerk,
in the banking room of the Canadian
Bank Of Commerce at Seattle and
then shot and killed herself because
Pratt had carried tales to her hus-
band. formerly publisher of the West
ern Motor Car Magazine. rejecting
on her character, according to the
police.
Contracts for six auxiliary schoon-
ers, four to be built at Aberdeen and
two in Olympia. were secured in New
York City by A. Schubach. principal
owner Of the Grays Harbor shipyard.
All the vessels are to be 100000 feet
capacity lumber carriers, and will be
290 feet long over all. Schubach says
that four of the vessels are for Nor.
wegian owners and two for New York
shippers.
Fifty North Yakima business and
professional men have left their stores
and offices for 10 days to go into the
country and solicit acreage for the
cultivation of sugar beets. After a
conference they entered into a written
guarantee with T. R. Cutler. vice-pres-
ident and manager of the Utah-Idaho
Sugar company to furnish him the
acreage needed to secure the location
of a $1.0O0.000 sugar factory at North
Yakima.
contract for the construction of
two 9O00-ton steel freight steamships
was let by Louis Hannevig and l..
Harboe Jensen, capitalists. ship own
ers and ship operators Of Christiana,
Norway, to the Anderson Steamship
company of Seattle. The vessels, the
contract price of which are between
$2,25O,O0O and $2.50O.000. are to be
built on the shores of Lake Washing
ton II is stipulated that both vessels
are to be completed within Is months.
An advisory board has been ap.
pointed by the governors of the states
of Oregon, Washington and Idaho for
the purpose of considering a co-opera-
tive plan for marketing the fruit prod
ucts of these states. Governor Lis
tiers appointees are Captain Paul H.
weyrauch. president of the Fruit
growers agency. inc; Gordon c. Cor
bailey. managing secretary Spokane
chamber of commerce, and T. o. Nor
rison, assistant commissioner of agri-
culture, division of horticulture, Olym.
pia.
c. w Johnson, secretary Of the Kit
titas reclamation district, commonly
known as the High Line Canal dis
trict, has announced that the directors
had granted an option on the $4,000
900 bond issue to a syndicate consist
ing of contractors in the Pacific north
west and banks and bonding houses
of the Pacific coast and in the middle
west The syndicate is headed by the
Twohy Brothers contracting firm of
Spokane and Portland. The option
calls for the construction of the entire
canal project by the syndicate. which
is to take the bond issue as pay.
Announcement is made that the
Great Northern railway will undertake
a gigantic plan of development of all
its lines in the Pacific northwest at
an estimated cost Of $16,00O,O0O to
$50 eco 900. The Chelan river and Lake
Chelan hydroelectric power scheme,
long dormant, for identification of the
road between Seattle and Spokane, is
included in this development. Off
Gals say they will also, in all prob
ability, electrify the road from Van
couver, B. c., to Portland. Or, dis
lance of 500 miles. Work will COM
mence on the power site at once.
The Sons and Daughters Of the
American Revolution on Wednesday
and Thursday will dedicate the last
five of the monuments placed by the
societies to mark the old Oregon trail