The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-10-12
WASHINGTON STATE
NEy!S OF INTEREST
principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation of Our Readers.

an agricultural and Industrial
school fair will be held at Northport
Friday.
October 23, "a and 25 the annual
Lewis county teachers institute will
be held in Centralia.
The fourth annual agricultural and
industrial fair will be held at Pasco
Friday and Saturday.
The state convention of the Wash
ington Retail Grocers' association was
held in Wenatchee October 1O-11.
Permits to ship liquor into Yakima
county are being issued by the audi
tor at the rate of SIS each day the
office is open.
One hundred and fifty delegates at
tended the Baptist convention for east
ern Washington and northern Idaho
at North Yakima.
Forest fires, famed by high winds,
threatened homes in several parts of
Whatcom county last week. Hundreds
OF volunteers fought the flames.
Lloyd Owen, dairyman living in
the southeast part of Centralia, has
just harvested SO tons of corn ensil-
age from two acres of ground.
The hay and grain dock and the
gravel bunkers of Galbraith, Bacon &
Co., at Seattle. were destroyed by fire,
causing loss estimated at $4,000.
Ten 5-tael tins of opium and several
tins partly filled, representing value
of 5000. were seized by federal officers
at Seattle in a raid on a Chinese res
taurant.
James Couch, laborer working for
the Libby Sawmill company at Tekoa
was instantly killed while unloading
lumber. A plank fell on his head and
crushed it.
Mrs. Carrie NJ. Barr of North Yaki
ma was reelected president of the
w. C. r. U. of eastern Washington
and northern Idaho, in convention at
North Yakima.
The first annual banker-farmer con-
vention, under the auspices of the
Washington Bankers association, was
held at the state college, Pullman, Oc-
tober and z.
George Macomber, Clarke county
farmer, 40 years of age, was instantly
killed when the brakes on the wagon
in which he was riding broke and he
was thrown out on his head.
Members of Catholic, Protestant and
Jewish denominations have formed an
organization for the censoring of mo
ton pictures and the cleaning up of
public dancehalls in Tacoma.
Polk county, Oregon, was awarded
first prize of $500 for the best county
display at the land show in Seattle
Pierce county, Washington, won Sec
ond and Morrow county, Oregon, third
prize.
Travelling at a speed of 40 miles an
hour, a limited Tacoma-Seattle inter
urban train crashed into open
switch at Willows Junction, seven
miles from Tacoma, injuring 20 per
sons, eight seriously.
Provision for the purchase of $1O,-
900 armory site in Aberdeen has been
made in the county and city budgets,
with the understanding that this mon
ey is to be used if the state votes $751;
900 for the building of an armory.
The strike of longshoremen on Pu-
get sound, which has been in effect
since June 1, has been called off. Fed
eral Mediator William Blackman an
nounced that an agreement satisfac-
tory to both sides had been entered
into.
A dam costing approximately $1O,-
900, built on the east fork OF the Lewis
river, east of Yacolt, was recently
blown up by ]. M. Hoff, Clarke county
game warden. and Sheriff Biesecker
When the dam was built, no fish lad
der was provided.
The 45OO-acre ranch in the Palouse
country owned by the heirs of the late
James Gilbert, of Lane county, Or,
has been sold for $249,S24. The ranch
was purchased by syndicate of bank
ers in the Palouse country. The prop
erty is located in Whitman county.
With $500 in cash premiums, more
than so ribbons and silver loving
cup standing nearly two feet high,
Richard Hanna, herdsman at the state
college, has returned to Pullman from
his tour of the three principal north
west fairs with 20 head of college
livestock.
Goods exported from Puget Sound
to Asiatic Russia during the first
eight months of 1915 were valued at
$4,000, 900, according to the United
States bureau of foreign commerce.
This is three times as much as the
whole United States exported to Asia
tic Russia in 1915.
High bred hens of many breeds and
;llustrious lineage are arriving at the
state college at Pullman from all parts
- xha Pacific northwest to participate