The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-02-01


association, will be held in Chehalis
February 2, 8 and 4.
A third shipyard will start opera
lions in Aberdeen this spring, accord
ing to announcement made by Presi-
dent T. B. Bruener of the Aberdeen
chamber of commerce.
The Winlock cooperative creamery
smashed all previous records, both for
output and cash returns last year.
when 262.419 pounds Of butter was
made and sold for $S2,366.
Governor Lister announced that E.
F. Benson, of Tacoma, had been Of
fered and has accepted appointment
as state commissioner of agriculture.
He will take office on April 1.
Construction work on Vancouver's
new $4,000 Federal building is going
forward rapidly and indications are
that the building will be ready for
occupancy by the last of the year.
At a special meeting Of the Seattle
city council a bill was introduced pro-
viding for the submission of a 100000
bond issue for a municipal market
and storage plant at the March cleo
ton.
Because the seizures Of liquor by
police at Seattle were overlooking the
rooms set aside for its storage, Chief
of Police Rockingham supervised the
destruction Of 1000 gallons OF all
kinds.
The Grays Harbor Credit associa-
ton, composed of Aberdeen business
men. has gone on record as favoring
state appropriations to complete the
Willapa- Grays Harbor highway. About
$4,000 is needed.
Representatives of Libby, Mcneil
& Libby met officers of the North
Yakima commercial club last week to
examine data gathered in connection
with a plan for establishing a cannery
at North Yakima.
With an outlay of $40 for ground
rent Erwin Wickersham farmed 20
acres on the Tieton project last sea
son and took off crops worth 1926.
making a high record for season of
general prosperity.
! Two thousand quarts of whisky.
rum and brandy, and about 100 cases
of beer, shipped to Seattle under per-
mits, were seized by the police. The
seizures were made at wharves and
warehouses, In fact wherever any
liquor could be found without the fill
ing of any specific complaints. The
liquor will be held by the police until
claimants prove their right to it. Most
of it had been consigned from San
FrsncSsco to ALASKA.
Organization o! three naval militia
divisions on Grays Harbor In place of
one is in progress.
More than 500 acres of valuable bot
tom land, unusually adapted to the
cultivation of onions, located in the
Sifton onion district. seven miles
northeast of Vancouver. will be drain
ed and placed in condition for cul-
tivation this year.
Mayor Fawcett of Tacoma said that
when the Tacoma Railway & Power
company's franchise on q large part
of the South Tacoma line expires next
year he favors taking over the line
and operating a municipal street rail-
way to the army post.
Judge ]. T. Ronald at Everett named
March for the beginning Of the trials
of 70 men, most of them members of
the Industrial Workers Of the World,
charged with murder as result of the
municipal dock riot of November 5,
when seven men were killed.
Ralph A. Hood, photographer, was
found guilty of murder in the first
degree by jury in Superior Court at
Spokane. Hood, the state alleged, kill
ed and robbed Mrs. Margaret Braun.
a lodging house keeper, last November.
The penalty is life Imprisonment.
The following have been commits
stoned provisional second lieutenants
in the regular army, after competitive
examination. the appointments being
made from civil life: Edward s.
Moale, Seattle; Ray M. O'Day, Pull
man; Stanley M. Mucklestone, Seattle.
Because of a fight attacking the
validity Of the election of County Com
missioner Claude Ramsay of King
county is being persisted in by Paul
I. Hutchinson. his opponent in the last
election, a 100000 bond issue Is held
up, and there is no chance to get the
money.
The milk dealers of Washington.
Oregon, Montana. Idaho and British
Columbia In attendance at the fifth
annual convention of the Pacific
Northwest Dairy and Milk Inspectors
convention at Tacoma formed the
Pacific Northwest Milk Dealers as
ISOLATION.
Four thousand cases of Chinese
eggs that have been on their way to
CeatfIe since August 1914 when they