The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-07-27
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation OF Our Readers.

Walla wallas great wheat harvest
will start in earnest this week.
Ridgefield's new $1,000 munich
pal water plant has been put into
service.
The Odd Fellows of Okanogan coun-
ty will hold picnic at Conconully on
August 49,
Work on vancouver's new $4,000
postoffice building probably will be
started within 80 days.
The Columbia river has fallen suffi-
GENTLY for the cable ferry at Kettle
Falls to resume operation.
The mile of paving recently com
pleted on the Pacific highway west OF
Centralia has been thrown open to
traffic
Spokane county this year has q re-
duced real and personal property yalu-
alton of nearly $S.000,000 below that
of last year.
Present indications are for better
demand, and consequently better
prices. for Yakima soft fruits than for
several years past.
Plans are under way for the organi-
cation of a cooperative creamery com
pany among the business men and
farmers of Oakville.
Harry W. Hale. of Ellensburg. re-
publican. has filed for the secretary
of state as a candidate for congress
from the fourth district of Washing
ton
By unanimous vote of the ranehers
whose farms will be covered by the
system, an irrigation district was
formed in the Underwood fruit dis
trict
Delegations from the various Lewis
county oranges called on the county
commissioners last week relative to
the appointment of a county agricul-
turist.
August 4 to IA have been announced
as the dates for the annual reunion
VI lhC Latter LAY odiulo vi the WI III
west. in the North End Park In Cen
tralia.
The Lewis county treasurer's force
has just completed checking up the
tax lists and finds that ss00.12s.3 was
paid in up to July /, 1916. This is IS
per cent
The Washington state grand lodge
of the Sons of Hermann voted to re-
deem with cash the insurance policies
when the policy-holders become 20
years old
The strike of halibut fishermen
which began four and half months
ago and which resulted in tying up
more than 20 halibut schooners, has
Jeen settled.
Ira Richards, H. n. Wilcox, H. c.
Sutor and C. V. Ogle have pooled their
interests and will build an elevator
in Waterville to take care of their
grain this fall.
Practically all plans have been com
pleted for holding the second annual
convention of the Washington Auto
mobile Chamber of Commerce in Tia.
coma on August 5.
Richard Hart of Zillah has contract
ed to deliver his entire crop of about
10000 boxes of apples and Bartlett
pears to the Producers Fruit company
at 81 a box, all grades.
The state tax commission has re-
ceived from the estate of E. c. Burke
of Seattle the inheritance assessment
of s1.02793 The valuation Of the es
tate is set at s203.1s3.O5.
Railway pay checks amounting to
$3.50 and some cash In the safe were
taken by a holdup from the Great
Northern railroad station at Marcus,
100 miles north of Spokane.
Six carloads of steel for the track
of the Cowlitz. Chehalis & Cascade
railroad, which is being built from
Chehalis to Salkum, 22 miles south
east of this city. has arrived.
Plans for the immediate construc.
ton of a s1.00O.000 cement plant &c
cover one square mile at Darlington,
in Snohomsh county, 50 miles north
east of Seattle, were announced.
Whitman college authorities In
,harge of the summer student cam
paign say that the enrolment. when
college opens this fall, will probably
break all records at that institution.
At a meeting of the Chelan county
oar association the question of the su-
erior judgeship was taken up. and
Fred Kemp. Frank Reeves and c. B.
hughes wers indorsed as candidates.
Four trunks, filled with 240 quarts
f bottled In bond whisky. which, It
believed, cost the purchaser more
han $3.50. were seized by the Spokane
police, but they failed to locate the
,wner.
Charles f. Claypool, of Seattle, has
| filed with the secretary of state the
announcement of his candidacy for
the state supreme court, long term.
The supreme court election is non
| partisan.
Op:ak has been chosen as the loca.
ton for the map ROOM" where all
| winners In the coming Colville land
| irawing will have to go to make
Known their selections of the land
| hev wish.
| An orT-nano count OF petition sig.
/ natures in favor of initiative measure