The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1916-11-30
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for .nior.
nation of Our Readers.

tivities of Milldale is the new flour
mill that is being erected there.
The auxiliary schooner Santino, the
largest wooden vessel yet built upon
the Pacific coast, was launched at
Aberdeen Sunday
1t is probable that the last of the
13 spans of the Columbia river inter
state bridge at Vancouver will be
floated into place on December 5.
Practically all of the mills on the
South Bend branch are suffering from
the car shortage and a possible shut
down is staring the companies in the
face.
Three cases of rabies are reported
in the White Swan district on the
Yakima Indian reservation. and the
state health authorities are investi-
eating.
Fire originating in the air-drying
room in the four-story slaughter-house
OF the Carstens Packing company at
Tacoma caused a loss estimated ct
100000.
sylvester Kohtala, rancher living
near Centralia, committed suicide by
laying his head against the muzzle OF
a 1890 Winchester rifle and pulling
the trigger
Arctic owls, among the most heauti-
full birds in the world, are visiting the
northwest in large numbers for the
first time in seven years, according
to taxidermists.
With the contract for the construc
ton in Tacoma of eight 8S00-ton steel
steamers signed, work on Tacoma
shipyards costing 100000 will begin
within a few days.
Tons of sawdust coming down in
an avalanche buried 1S-year-old Paul
Weckstrom. smothering him to death.
at the st. Paul & Tacoma Lumber
company mill at Tacoma,
The mining experiment station for
the northwest, for which congress re
Gently appropriated $4,000, is to be
established at Seattle, Secretary Lane
having announced this selection.
Underwood is the first section OF
the territory in the southern part OF
the state to organize an irrigation
district and sell. it's bond issue under
the provisions of the Washington
statutes.
Union longshoremen at Seattle have
organized a stevedoring company to
enter into competition with stevedor
ing companies now operating in Puget
sound ports, Grays HarbOr and Villa
pa harbOr.
Frank J. Richards, convicted of con
spiracy to blackmail David E. Thomp
son, formerly ambassador to Mexico
and Brazil, was sentenced at Port
Angeles to one to five years In the
state penitentiary.
Shillapoo lake, for more than two
years closed to hunting and fishing
as a game preserve and resting place
for water fowl. has been ordered open
ed to sportsmen by the Clarke county
game commission.
Aberdeen shipyard managers say
there is an opening in Grays Harpor
county for a firm that would manu-
facture ship knees, the home consump-
ton of these now being between $40,
900 and $4,000 year.
Garfield county farmers have re
ceived in round numbers for grain
this fall about $2,500,000. Approx
mately $4,000 bushels of grain have
been sold and the proceeds represent
an average OF $1,000 for each family
in the county.
The state supreme court has reyers-
ed a decision of the King county SUI
perior court and decided that a non
alcoholic drink is not malt liquor, and
therefore may be sold in this state.
The prohibition law forbids the sale
OF malt liquor.
Motorman II. S Brannan was in
stantly killed in the vestibule OF ms
car when it ran away down the East
Madison hill at Seattle and crashed
into another car. The magnetic brake
on the rear car failed to hold. Two
women were injured.
Contracts for the construction OF
seven fishing boats to comprise por-
ton of the fleet plying between Puget
sound and San Pedro Cal, have been
closed by Barbara Bros. Tacoma ship
builders. the aggregate cost TO be APP
proximately $4,000.
The westbound Oriental Limited
train on the Great Northern railway
crashed head on into an extra freight
train 10 miles west of Wenatchee Fri
day. One man, Hans Dahns, Of Leav-
enworth, fireman of the freight, was
killed. Passengers suffered only
slight bruises and cuts.
Most of the apples in the vicinity
of Wenatchee that were frozen are
coming out in good shape and show
little or no signs of spelling, is the
u.o.oroant Of Earl Rarnhart chief in