The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-11-09
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

ely league this season.
Snow has stopped the construction
OF the scenic highway in Chelan coun.
ty until next spring.
Playing through rain in a field of
mud, the Washington state football
team defeated the university of Idaho
team at Pullman, 81 to 0.
Rollo Evans, 81, was shot and in
stantly killed by Walter Hansen at
the home of the latter at Swauk
prairie. Is miles northwest of Ellens.
burg.
The bar dredge Col. P. S. Niche
will arrive in Grays Harbor about No.
vember u from Coos bay to begin
work of dredging the channel across
the Grays Harbor bar.
Eleven young men and boys of Che
ney were arrested on warrants eharg-
ing them with trespass following a
Halloween raid on a girls dormitory
at the state normal school.
c. B. Blethen, editor of the Seattle
Times. has been commissioned a lieu
tenant-colonel in the coast artillery
corps, national guard of Washington.
He formerly held the rank of major.
The aggregate of the deposits In
the Pomeroy banks totals $2,133 ,54710.
Never before in the history of the
town have bank deposits grown so
rapidly as this year, the bank officials
say.
Sealed bids will be received at Fort
Simcoe by Don NJ. Carr, superintend
ent and special disbursing agent OF
the Yakima Indian agency, until De
cember Is. on large area of Indian
lands.
Part of the big crop of potatoes ex
pected this season in the Pacific
northwest may find its way to Swift
zerland. The Swiss department of
agriculture has announced a big pota.
to shortage.
Frank Martin, pioneer merchant
of Ellensburg and formerly postmas
ter at Gle Elum for eight years, com
mitted suicide at his home in Ellens
burg by shooting himself through the
head with pistol.
Because voters of Camas at the re
cent school election voted down spe
cial seven mill school tax for the gen
eral fund. it may be necessary to close
the schools next February, when the
existing funds will be exhausted
Seattle was named at the conclud
ing session of the 18th triennial as
sembly of the general grand chapter
of the Order of the Eastern Star at
Louisville, Ky. as the place for hold
ing the next meeting of that body III
1919.
The second annual apple show OF
the horticultural club of the state eel
lege at Pullman opened Friday. Elk
hibits were on display from the lead
ing fruit districts of the northwest
and there were two displays from
eastern states.
Arrangements for the financing Of
new hospital for Walla Walla are
being considered by civic organiza
tions of that city. The city has only
one hospital, St. Mary's, which of late
has been unable to care for the mum
Der of applicants.
Contract for another Ss00-ton steel
cargo steamer has been awarded to
]. F. Duthie & Co, of Seattle, by
Hannevig & Johnson, of New York,
representing Norwegian interests. The
cost of the vessel is said to be approx
imately s1,25O,00O.
The first tri-state conference of the
special commissions appointed by the
governors of Washington, Idaho and
Oregon to make study OF the frult
marketing situation will be held in
Spokane November % and "a, during
the national apple show.
With the closing of the apple pick
ing and packing season in about
week, Kennewick will have finished
one of the most successful fruit years
In its history. Two hundred cars OF
apples have been shipped to date
with about so more to go.
The prosecuting attorneys office re
fused to permit the rabbi of an ortho-
dox Jewish congregation in Seattle to
import So gallons of brandy each 90
DAYS for sacramento purposes, hold
ing that the amount asked for was far
in excess of actual needs.
Following admissions made by four
school girls. all under IS years OF age
70 young men of Camas were arrested
ON charges of contributing to the de-
linquency of minors. The arrests ere
ated a sensation in Camas, where the
Young men are well known.
The Utah-ldaho Sugar company VIII
spend 100000 in the erection OF a
plant TO convert beets into sugar at
North Yakima, and will have the plant
in full operation next year, according
10 a statement made by T. R. Coulter