The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-11-02

forest. The tract of timber which is
put on the market at this time covers
700 acres on Bacon creek a tributary
OF the Skagit river, in whatcom coun-
ty.
Prune growers in the Zelda section
of Clarke county are receiving large
returns for this years prune crop. c..
j. Nichols has an orchard of five
acres and from this he harvested &c.
900 pounds for which the French pack
ing plant at Ellsworth paid s2340.19.
Others have realized much more for
their prunes.
The Seattle Construction & Drydock
company has awarded to the McAlee
Shipbuilding company the contract at
a cost of $685. 900 for constructing the
first four hull sections of $4,000 ton
floating drydock addition to its big
shipyards plant at Seattle. Later two
additional sections are to be added,
giving total capacity OF 10000 tons.
The third annual state grade and
pack association meeting will be held
at Spokane November rs. to set the
grading rules for 1918 as provided by
the state law The total number of
delegates to the conference will be
IFS. The districts and the votes given
are: Wenatchee, 50; Yakima, so;
Walla Walla, 80; Spokane. 10. and
White Salmon. 2.
The government biological survey
will make war on the timber wolves
of the Olympic peninsula this fall
and winter The action is taken pri-
marily asa means of protecting the
elk and other game animals of the
peninsula, but also to prevent the
wolves becoming so numerous as to
be a menace to people and livestock
of the peninsula settlements.
A celebration unique in the history
of the northwest took place at Vail
latpu on Wednesday The bodies OF
William H. Gray and his wife. the
famous missionaries of 1886, have
been removed from Astoria, Or, to
Waiilatpu, the Whitman mission, and
have been buried by the side of DR..
and Mrs Whitman, thus, after so
years, reuniting lifelong friends.
With more than 100000 salmon
eggs in the Matching troughs. the Ka
lama river hatchery at Kelso has com
pleted one of its most successful takes
of spawn in the history of the plant,
despite an exceedingly light run of
salmon this fall. Last year 100000
eggs were procured. but that was the
record run. and this seasons work
has been the second largest in the
history of the hatchery.
One of the largest deals in orchard
land in the Wenatchee district in
some time was the sale of the Golden
West place. owned by George 5 Mer
riam. of Peshastin, to w. H. Lanphere.
of Wenatchee The orchard comprises
40 acres of land in full bearing ten
year apple trees, the crop from which
this year was about 10000 boxes. The
consideration was approximately $1,000
per acre. according to report
The Yakima Valley Fruit Growers
the trade and brokers saying that. on
account of the car shortage and the
fact that bookings are so heavy, 1t
will be impossible to accept more or
ders. The circular says that buyers
will have to accept the assortments
available and the association reserves
the right to cancel orders and extends
to buyers the privilege of canceling
previous orders if they desire.
A nonpartizan election initiative bill
which is practically duplicate of one
filed last spring, but which did not
contain sufficient signatures to give
II a place on the November ballot, has
been filed with Secretary of State
Howell. Oliver T. Erickson, Seattle
city councilman, representing the di-
rect legislation league. the nonparti-
zan league and the Washington refer
endum league, made the filing. The
measure will be known as initiative
No. %. The measure proposes to do
away with partizan elections for all
offices but congressional offices, pres
idential electors and party committee
men.
The Washington Educational asso-
citation at the final session of its an
nual convention at Spokane voted In
favor of raising the requirements for
school teachers in Washington. The
state educators decided to ask the
legislature to repeal the state law re-
curing IL consecutive weeks vacation
between July and September. The
teachers wan. to lengthen the school
year beyond the present eight and a
half months. The legislature will be
asked to repeal the law making school
districts liable for accidents occurring
on school Fairgrounds. Tacoma was.
selected as the next meeting place
of the association.
THE industrial welfare commission