The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-08-03
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

Thirty-nine cars of apricots have
been billed from Wenatchee this sea-
son.
Three carloads of cattle from Pat
eros were shipped to the Seattle mar
kets recently.
branch of the Lewis County Tax
payers association has been organ
lied at Toledo.
Governor Lister was the principal
speaker at the annual picnic of Lewis
county farmers.
The committees for the Richland
festival have decided to hold the fair
September / and g
Several new cases of measles have
been reported at Northport and also
several cases of whooping cough.
The cool weather has caused the
grain to ripen slowly, and thus far no
harvesting has been done around En-
dicott
Charles p. Stanley. a contractor, of
Spokane, is dead at the Lane hospital
in San Francisco, following an illness
of 10 days.
The Latter Day Saints of the Seattle
their annual reunion in Centralia Aug
ust to IA.
The store. warehouse. residence OF
Peter Ahola, leading Centerville resi-
h,r ,tif rf
mately $4,000.
The cruiser New Orleans. carrying
the Washington naval militia on their
annual practice cruise, visited Port
land last week.
About 80 candidates for offices in
Clark county were entertained at La
Center at campaign picnic held by
the local grange.
Walter Holt, principal OF the Rich
land high school, has undergone a
successful operation for appendicitis
at North Yakima.
Peach growers of the Parker dis
trict, the heaviest shipping district
of the Yakima valley, began picking
Carmines Monday.
There are 1862 persons who own
74.445 shares of stock in the "a banks
in Spokane county, the shares having
value of $1.97S.270.
The first full carload OF early ap-
pies was shipped last week from Wal
la Walla. The car went by express
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The first steamer to pass through
the Lake Washington canal from Sal
mon Bay to Lake Union is expected
to make her trip this week.
The two regiments of the Washing
ton and Oregon Uniform Rank Knights
of Pythias will be encamped in the
Vancouver city park this week.
Mrs. Laura Osborne. aged 80. who
came to Walla Walla in 1873 from Sa-
lem, Or, where she resided several
years. is dead after brief illness.
Six capitol building fund warrants,
whose total value is $4,000 will be re-
deemed at the office of State Treasur-
er Edward Meath after August 6.
The ]. H. Cullom box factory at KEEL
so is being enlarged and also elevated,
as the recent high waters put the plant
out of commission for several days.
Nine thousand sacks of the new
barley crop were sold at Pomeroy by
George and Harvey Light to NJ. H.
Houser for s1.25 hundredweight.
L, -hn
of the Colville lands, is pastor of the
Kennewick Methodist church and a
veteran of the Spanish American war.
II. B. Gilbert has sold his entire
first cutting of alfalfa from his ranch
near Mabton to a buyer representing
a Sound firm. for SO per ton in the
stack
The annual convention of the Wash
ington Society for the Prevention and
Relief OF tuberculosis held at Ever
EFT. reelected DIR. c. Quevil, Tacoma,
president.
John F. Miller. former mayor OF
dacy for the office of congressman
from the first district on the repub-
| lican ticket.
I The arrest of NJ. Rhinehart, paint
| er. at his home in Spokane, ends what
the police say was a four-year hunt
for a convict who escaped from the
| Oregon penitentiary.
| County Prosecutor John B. White
of Spokane denied he had ever author
lied any express company to bring in
LIQUOR in wholesale lots and distribute
it when a person appeared with his
J permit
Gale weatherly of Peola, Garfield
/, county, and Miss Elizabeth Primer. q
member of the Lewiston normal fac
ulty. were married last week and viii
reside on Mr. weatherly's homestead
VI Peola.
II Chef of Police A. s. Cation was ar
rested at Olympia for driving on ths
wrong side of the street The arres
1 was made by Patrolman Campbell OF
II warrant which the chief himself
II swore out. The chief was seen b!
Campbell ard was told good-humored
II Nv of the incident Cation declared tina
| he had absent-mindedly taken thu
wrong side OF the street.