The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-08-09
NEED LOTS OF FOOD
FOR CAMP LEWIS MEN
government VIII Use Millions of
Dollars Worth OF Food For Sold
iers; Other State News

NhAiiioAS Vi pOuDuS Oh 1000 StuftS are
wanted by the government for the
$4,000 soldiers of the national selec.
tive army who will be modified at
/ Camp Lewis, American Lake, next
month. One of the largest calls is
for 4,500,602 pounds of flour, SOC. 600
pounds of sugar end 1856. 667
pounds of Irish potatoes. The neces.
stiles range from razor strops to sugar
cured ham. Bids will be opened at the
quartermaster's department, Seattle.
August IA
Forty-six steel vessels with a total
tonnage of 100000 and Is wooden ships
with total tonnage of 42.5O0 or a
grand total tonnage of 44S 500 build
ing in Seattle shipyards, were auto
matically taken over by the govern
ment in its Communicating order is
sued from the national capitol through
the United States shipping board. The
list includes contracts for l6 great
steel steamships awarded by the
emergency fleet corporation for the
government.
The United States forest service
has the material on the ground at
euler ranger station near Trout Lake
for a steel cable suspension bridge
across the head of Lewis river in the
Columbia national forest reserve on
the main trail across the divide from
Trout Lake to Morton. The move
ment is thought to mark the begin
ing of policy by the forest service
of doing away with all rustic bridges
on main trails across mountain
streams that cannot be forded.
Harvest is on in earnest through
out the Charleston district, and wheat
fields which formerly were pronounc-
ed practical loss are producing from
25 to 80 bushels to the acre. The
drouth throughout the inland empire
during the past spring and this sum
mer has reduced materially the pro
duction of small grains. The yield q
both wheat and barley is of an VI
usually high grade. The grain is wei
developed, clean and free from sia ut
The first wheat sold brought $2C5 g
bushel
Walla Walla's 1917 wheat market
opened last week with several sales
made at prices which are records for
the section. Threshing operations are
generally under way, and as the new
crop begins pouring into the ware
houses, unusually early because Of
desire for centralized protection from
incendiaries, many owners are tempt
ed to let go. A, n. Saxton disposed of
5000 bushels of club at s2.25 and Ste.
wart Brothers sold 5000 sacks of bar
ley at S4125 Adrian Magallon sold
a small lot of club az $215.
Harold jerks, aged 8, was drowned
N a wash boiler at the home of his
parents at North Yakima.
In a circular announcement sent to
all students who attended the state
college last year President Holland
announces that the regular college
year of 1918 will begin October /, in
stead of September L, as announced
in the college catalogue, which wa
in print prior to the war.
Sawyers in the mills at Tacoma sa'
the output for eight hours has falie-
a little below that fer ten hours d.
ing the last few days but they belieN
that the men will speed up as soon
/ they become accustomed to the ne
routine, and production under t '
shorter work day viii equal that l.
ten hours in the not lar distanc
future.
II is announced by the industria
insurance commission that the cia1l
/ Of Joe Lestrange, who was injured
Mansfield on the night OF July 4, VINE
no fell into a mass Of exploding fire
works from a scaffolding, is not ell
titled to collect damages under tht
| law. II is found that the accident was
not one of the hazards OF his regula'
occupation.
surveys are being made by the
limited States reclamation service foI
a. new storage reservoir at Heils cross
ing on the American river, where {
dam leo feet high would inpound 5o'
600 acres feet of water. Should the
reservoir be constructed it Will make
necessary a new survey for the Nc
Clellan pass highway, which now
runs through this canyon.
Emil Pietilla. of Monroe, deputy
sheriff of snohomish county, is dy'
ing in a Burlington hospital his VIE
is probably fatally injured daughter
? wears old is dead and another dausht
or wears old is badly injured as a
result of the P,etila automobile De
ing struck by Great Northern tram
two miles northwest of Burlington ana
90 miles south of Bellingham.
p J. Sweeny, chief grain Inspector
of the state of Washington, says tAa'
tho cooler weather now prevailing III
/ v,r-tf,oton wheat sections,