The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-11-16
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

A Thanksgiving fair or land prod
ucts show has been proposed for Van
couver.
The Washington Irrigation institute
opened its sessions at North Yakima
Monday.
Mrs. E. N Bronson and a 6-weeks-
old child burned to death when the
Bronson hotel at Copalis burned.
Walla Walla voters have approved
bond issue of $33s,O00 to be issued
to take over the water bond issue.
Green Hunt, a resident of Rife.
was sentenced to 80 days in the coun-
ty Jail at Centralia for wifebeating.
The Alfalfa Dairy Products com
pany disposed of about 200 Holstein
and Jersey cows at auction at Alfalfa.
The Gonzaga university football
team defeated the Montana state col
lege eleven at Spokane by a score
of TO 6.
Alfalfa residents are endeavoring
to organize an irrigation district. If
this is done, 1000 acres WILDE put
under water.
The university of Montana football
team defeated the Whitman college
eleven at Missoula, Mont, by the
score of Il to 0.
The university of Washington foot
ball team defeated the oregon Agri
cultural college eleven at Seattle by
the score of 35 to 0.
County and city authorities are en-
deavoring to work out plan so that
inspection can be had of meats sold
for consumption in Ritzville.
At a conference of business men,
labor officials and members of unions
the Everett single weavers' strike,
called May /, was called off.
Four of the l. w. VS. imprisoned
in Seattle were released having con
WINGED the authorities that they took
no part in the Everett trouble.
The government dredge Col P. S.
Niche has arrived at Grays Harbor
and begun the work of dredging the
channel across the Grays Harbor bar
The farmers extension school at
Chehalis, which has been conducted
for the past few years by Pullman
officials, is to be held the week of
November 20 to %.
Rev. William Shaw Harrington, for
So years one of the leading Methodist
preachers in the northwest, died at
his home in Seattle of heart disease
He was 81 years OF age.
Six of the Il Camas young men, ar
rested November on charges of con
tributing to the delinquency of a
minor, have entered pleas of guilty
and the cases have been continued for
sentence. pending good behavior
Fruit growers of the Zillah district
at the annual grade and pack confer
ence for the selection of delegates to
the state conference at Spokane in
dorsed the plan for elimination of the
fancy grade and having but two apple
grades.
The order of United States super
vising inspectors. compelling steam
boat owners of Puget sound to put in
metal lining about the firerooms and
lower parts OF their vessels and auto
matte sprinkling systems will not be
enforced.
Charges that Everett deputies used
a machine gun in their battle with l.
w. VS., when seven persons We're
killed and 80 were wounded, were in
cluded in a request wired President
Wilson to urge federal investigation
of the disaster.
II. L. Harries, manager and vice
president of the North Coast Power
company, which owns public utility
properties in Vancouver and other
cities of the northwest has won
commission as major in the officers
reserve corps of the army.
W. H. Englehardt, of Tacoma, who
was convicted of manslaughter last
month for careless driving of an auto.
mobile. whereby Mrs. Minnie Hogue
was killed on the Pacific Highway
was sentenced to one years imprison'
nent in the state penitentiary.
C. e. S. Wood of Portland, Or, has
agreed that he will take charge OF
the defense of the Al members of the
L. W. W. who were taken to Everett
to face a charge of murder. +. Z
Moore of Los Angeles will also be
one of the attorneys in the case.
The last steel erection work on the
interstate bridge at Vancouver is now
under way. Three weeks will be re
ouired to complete the spans, but this
will be in time so that the entire ap
proach~Seay be opened when the man
bridge is completed and the approach
paved.
With more than an inch of rainfall
m mt the ground in perfect CONDITION
for farming operations, the Walia
walla wheat growers are bending al
| eea,.s tovrard getting their fal plOW