The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-09-14
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events Of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor.
nation of Our Readers.

A dahlia show was staged in Cen.
tralia by the Women's Civic club.
The 1916 assessed valuation of Lew.
is county real estate is s15.412,544.
The Wilbur council has passed an
ordinance to build concrete sidewalks
costing s3440.
The Washington state school for
the deaf at Vancouver opened the an
nual school session Wednesday.
Despite adverse conditions, lumber
business among the mills of western
Washington continues to increase.
Yakima county products are expect
ed this year to return nearly $4,000
600, or 100000 more than in 1915,
After two weeks of closed season,
salmon gillnetters operating on the
Columbia river resumed work Sunday.
August cargo shipments from Grays
Harbor totalled more than 26.000.o 900
feet of lumber. carried in SO bottoms.
After few days trial of ten-cent
loaf of bread, the majority OF Tacoma
bakers have gone back to the five
cent loaf
Charles Johnson, of Castle Rock,
was struck by falling tree while
working in logging camp at Littell
and fatally injured
Plans for the Pullman knife factory
have been completed, and actual con-
struction work is expected to begin
within the next few days.
approximately $4,000. Chelan coun-
tvs share of the auto license fund, is
being used to grade and surface one
mile of road near Wenatchee.
A joint institute for the teachers of
Franklin and Benton counties is to
be held at Pasco, beginning October
3 and continuing until October 6.
One million bushels of wheat this
year have been shipped from Waila
Walla to the east, and there are 500
cars of grain now awaiting shipment
in the warehouses of the valley.
Community fairs were held last
week at Tenino, Rochester, Grand
Mound and other towns in Thurston
county. The best exhibits will be dis
played at the Thurston county fair.
Two of the five forest patrolmen
in the Weneha reserve have been laid
off because rains have cut down the
liability of fires There have been
fewer fires this year than for many
seasons.
W. Douglas Hofius, 16 years of age,
son of the late W. ID. Hofius. a steel
manufacturer. who left an estate worth
more than 100000 to his two young
sons. died at hospital in Seattle of
blood poisoning.
Twenty-three persons, believed to
be members of the |. w. W, who ap
preached Everett at night in launch,
were intercepted by Sheriff McRae in
the harbor. taken to the city dock and
herded en- masse in the county Jail.
committee appointed by President
Graham, of the Grandview Business
Mems association. to secure acreage
for sugar beet raising is at work and
reports gratifying success. 1t is hoped
to sign up 400 acres in the district.
Eva Holmquist aged 4 years, was
shot and killed at her home near Bell
ingham by a rifle held in the hands
OF her 9-year-old brother. The boy
had just taken the gun from its place
on the wall when the accident hap
pened.
Work on the Grandview irrigation
pumping plant project is under way.
Construction of the camp was begun
last week and as soon as this is COM
pleted a large crew of men will be
put to work. There are 1000 acres in
the project.
Acting District Forester F. +. Ames
has approved a timber sale agreement
executed by Norris & Blackstone of
Wenatchee for the purchase of 6,725.-
900 board feet OF saw timber on SQuill.
chuck creek on the Wenatchee ma
tional forest.
Twenty-six entries have been re-
ceived for the late closing harness
races for the Washington state fair
at North Yakima. This brings the
total for the harness entries to So for
the five days racing beginning Tues
day. September 19.
The second annual Hay Palace fair
opened at Mabton Tuesday. The un-
iuue feature of this fair is a large
hay palace as its main building which
houses the agricultural and machinery
exhibits. This palace is constructed
of 500 tons of baled alfalfa hay
Angry over the arrest of an |. w. w.
speaker. a crowd of sympathiZers es-
timated at between 500 and 1900 in
number, attempted to break into the
Everett jail and were dispersed only
when a number of special deputies and
citizen volunteers with billies charged
them.
Fires were started in nine different
localities, church roofs splintered,
homes put in darkness and traffic on
downtown streets stopped when one
of the most violent electrical storms
in the citys history visit / Seattle.
The entire Ballard district was put in
darkness on account of the bresktns
of the 13,0O0-volt line Of the city's
municipal power plant