The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-09-28
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for lnfor.
nation of Our Readers.

Gently.
A patent egg carrier for use in ship
ping eggs has been invented by c. F.
Doll, of Aberdeen.
The Seattle Anglers club will hold
a casting tournament between Seattle
and Tacoma next Sunday.
State Chairman Harrison called the
republican state central committee to
meet in Seattle Wednesday.
John WEIGH. aged 81, is dead at
Leavenworth. He came to Walla
Walla county nearly 60 years ago.
Friday and Saturday, October s and
Z, have been chosen for holding Day
tons second annual Blue Mountain
Rodeo.
A young man. % years old, was
killed at the logging camp of the Har-
vey Mill company, on the north fork
of the Lewis river.
While giving exhibitions at the state
fair grounds at North Yakima, George
Rolla, Spokane aeronaut, fell 300
feet and was killed.
Bank deposits in the five institu-
tions of Walla Walla now exceed by
nearly a million dollars the highest
mark ever reached before.
The board of county commissioners
of Klickitat county has adopted a sys-
TEN of road signs and mile posts, to
be erected throughout the county.
Whitman college at Walla Walla op-
ened its doors last week to begin its
51st year with registration already
beyond the high mark of 204 set last
year.
A proposed increase in prices was
discussed at a meeting held in Cen
tralia by southwest Washington lum-
bermen No definite action was ia
ken. however
All under classmen at the university
of Washington, whether taking the
required course in military training
or not, are required to take at least
one hour of physical training during
the week.
A modern shipbuilding plant, with
ways for constructing five wooden YES
sells at once, is to be built on the
waterfront just below Vancouver by
the Vancouver Shipbuilding company,
recently Incorporated.
A heavy volume of inquiries from
eastern lumber dealers last week
served to tighten up the market for
mills in western Washington and to
improve the prospects for continued
operation through the fall and winter.
The whaling season for the Grays
Harbor whaling station is practically
over for this year and the last of the
fleet will be laid up in few days, it
is expected. This years kill of whales
amounts to about 260 against a record
last year of over $50.
The Walla Walla county game COM
mission is considering having the en-
tire county closed to prairie chicken
shooting for three years. So many
chickens were killed by the cold last
winter that there practically are none
to be found in the county,
Representatives of congregations
from five states, and the presence of
national figures in Methodism. marked
the opening OF the Pacific Swedish
mission conference and the Pacific
mission conference of the Norwegian
Danish churches at Tacoma.
A resolution pledging each member
to work in behalf of bill recognizing
the legality of their profession on the
same basis as other medical practi-
toners was adopted at the closing SEES
sion of the convention of the Washing
ton Drugless physicians at Seattle.
Four hundred out of the first 1000
names called out at the map room at
Omak filed on Colville reservation
lands. The $500 names drawn are
expected to be all called out by Octo-
Der 3. October Is the reservation will
be thrown open to general settlement
With practically all prospective stu
dents registered. with the exception
of so students serving in the guard
at American Lake, the enrolment
books at the university of Washing
ton show a total of 1853. This num-
Der exceeds last years registration by
an even 200.
The British steamer Crown Of Sc
Vile, which sailed from Seattle for
London, carried 100000 feet of
spruce lumber consigned to the Brit
ish government. The lumber is to be
used for constructing military aero
planes. The shipment was one of the
largest ever made from Seattle.
When it was learned that the state
had no intention of placing on the No
vember ballots the popular" titles
given proposed initiative and refer
endum measures, together with GER
tain instructions in regard to voting,
Attorney France of Seattle, represent
ing H. l.. Hughes Of Spokane, dropped
the suit he proposed against Secre-
tary of State l. NJ. Howell. Without
consulting the state France secured
q temporary Injunction to have this