The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-03-29

vs. the Smith Drug company Vi ooa
tle that a member of the liquor firm
having solicited the drug company
nersonally last April to buy liquor
could not collect for balance unpaid
on the stuff. The state law forbids
such soliciting.
A solid train of 80 tank cars OF soy
bean oil from Manchuria to be used
in making soap, left Seattle FOR ohio
last week. The oil is valued at $l64,
600 The Seattle port commission mas
built special storage tanks for soy
bean oil, and special tank trains have
been provided. The traffic in TINS
product has already reached enormous
proportions here.
Six members of the Spokane region
al farm loan bank organized at Spo
kane and proceeded to seek location
for offices. D. G. O'Shea, of Red
Lodge, Mont, president of the bank,
explained to the other directors the
workings of the bank as he had learn
ed them on a recent visit to Washing
ton The bank directors held an exec
utive session during which they were
advised that IL sacks of mail, mostly
Inquiries from farmers, awaited their
attention.
With the largest number of mills
ever participating in the report, the
barometer of the West Coast Lum
bermen's association for the week
shows fewer available cars for for
est products loading than at any
previous time At the association
mills there is nm unshipped balance Q.
| 1921 cars OF lumber for transcon
tinental and other markets reached by
rail delivery. For the corresponding
week one year ago there were 500
cars unshipped.
Corvallis hens continue to hold first
and second places in the all-northwest
laying contest at Washington state
college, Pullman. A pen of white Leg
horns belonging to j. A. Hanson, OF
Corvallis, heads the list with a total
of 299 eggs laid, while a pen of the
same breed belonging to the Oregon
Agricultural college stands second
with $50 eggs for February. The con
test has run four and a half months
and will continue until October Is
There are 200 entries
At the request of Vice Chairman
Thomas Brent of the federal shipping
board the Seattle chamber of com
merce has called a meeting of all the
shipbuilders of Puget sound and Grays
Harbor to be held at the chambers
rooms in Seattle, April 10, for the pur
pose of comforting with Mr.. Brent on
the subject of building merchant ships
for government service. 1t is under.
stood the government desires many
wooden vessels of 1000 tons capacity
to transport cargoes to Europe.
An interdepartmental board to in
vestigate sites for government
nitrate plant, consisting of Secretary
of War Baker. Secretary of the In
terror Lane and Secretary of AgricuI-
ture Houston has made tentative plans
for hearing. at Pasco, to consider
sites on the upper Columbia and Snake
rivers. The beard may also visit
Lewiston, Idaho, and Fall Bridge, Or,
the latter place for consideration of
the Deschutes river. Plans are in
definite as to the date since the sec
retares do not know when it will be
| possible to leave Washington.
State Treasurer Sherman has an
nounced that he will Immediately call
in the outstanding normal school
bonds, issued in 1909, and amount
/ ing to $2G6024. Funds for the retire
tent of these bonds were appropriate
ed by the recent legislature and will
| become available April 1. The out
standing Wenatchee bridge bonds, to-
! falling $4,000, have already been call |
/ ed in Retirement of these two last
remaining bond issues against state
/ funds will place the state on a strictly
cash basis, excepting the special
funds, such as the A, Y. p. e. and |
capitol building funds, which have
outstanding warrants.
Three were killed and Great North
ern train No. 4 partly buried by a
snowslide near Embro, station on
the Great Northern near the summit I
of the west slope of the Cascades John I
Hoff and j. Ross, laborers employed |
by contracting firm which is com
pleting snowsheds near Embro, were
walking along the track and We're
struck by the slide and killed. Reese |
Wolfe, telegraph operator, had left the |
station and was walking to the train |
to give orders to the trainmen. His F
body WAS found buried under 20 feet T
of snow. The mail, baggage and smok-
ing cars were buried by the snow.
The remainder of the train was in a
bni