The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-07-26
ISSUE FINAL REPORT
ON RED CROSS FUND
All Sections Gave Literally To Sup
port of Work of Mercy In Army I;
Other State News

ington taking part in the Red Cross
$100,000,000 campaign, compiled by the
Red Cross war council, show the fol
lowing subscriptions to the war fund
to July 8: Aberdeen $27 ,497, Boiling
ham $4,000, Brewster $3.50, Colfax
$1,000. Chehalis s14,500, Ellensbure
s23,264, Everett 5000, Hoquiam $40,
267. No. Yakima STA, Olympia $780,
600, P. Townsend $1,000, Raymond Sc
0O0, Ritzville 1886. Seattle $4,000,
Spokane $4,000, Centralia s13,s34
Sunnyside $9,700, Tacoma 100000
Wenatchee $500, Vancouver $1,000,
Walla Walla S51 ,ooo, Waterville $4,000.
Total s1,O42,914.
Whether or not the l. w. w. mem
bers are actually responsible for q
series of mishaps in the Wenatchee
valley, they are getting the blame for
most of them and the tension is acute
Recently the Wenatchee river bridge
was burned; a few days ago the Co
lumbia river bridge was discovered on
fire; number of pumping plants have
been burned; 800 feet of fluming on
the Frank Reeves place was leveled;
numerous attempts have been made to
damage the bitches; miles of timber
is burning in the Okanogan; a box
factory was burned in Leavenwortb
and the jails are full of the |. w. w.
Fruit growers and business men alike
are urging that steps be taken at ono;
to put the country under martial law.
1t is likely that some definite request
will be presented to Governor Lister
in the course Of few days, looking &c
that end.
Fire is now the grave danger threat
ening the state because of the con
tinued dry and hot weather. AS a re
suit H. o. Fishback, state insurance
commissioner. is making an appeal in
the grain districts to have not only
the growers but all persons join in
watching against fire Every timber
county in the state has reported small
fires. So far they have been confined
clearing fires and little damage has
been done to green timber. Fishback
has issued, in his capacity as ex-ot
ficio state fire marshal, rules and reg
ulations for the protection of grain
crops. Hay strips Is feet wide are to
be cut along the roads and through
the center of big fields and are to be
plowed if possible and grain from
combined harvesters is to be taken to
warehouses as soon as possible, and if
not is to be protected the same way
as around settings, where Is foot
strips are to be plowed around the
grain piled in the field
Acknowledgement Maurice Thompson
has ordered the organization of IS in
fi.ntry militia companies, to be known
as the Washington state guard, to
take the place of the present state
troops when the latter are drafted
into the federal army on August 5.
The new state militia organization
will be of strength equal to United
States army standards for infantry or
CARNATIONS in peace. The troops will
not be subject to federal draft and
will not constitute a part of the pres
ent national guard, which is recog-
nized by the government. The new
troops will be exclusively state troops
and will be subject to the laws and
regulations of the state of Washington.
The Washington state guard will con-
sist of peace strength companies in
the following cities Seattle and
Spokane, two companies each, with
one company each at Tacoma, Everett
Centralia, Raymond, Eilensburg, Col
fax, Bellingham, Snohomish, Aberdeen
North Yakima, Weritchee and Walla
Walla.
At Newport, a number of l. ". W.
pickets were assembled to block rail-
road work where a strike had been
called. Citizens of the town held a
massmeeting, following which the
pickets were invited to leave the dis
trict. No further action was taken.
but the pickets all left.
The Yakima Tieton irrigation dis
trict has been established by action OF
the Yakima county commissioners, fol-
lowing a canvass of the returns of an
election July I. The organization
takes the place Of the water users as
ISOLATION, which has represented the
farmers in their dealings with the
government.
That continuance of the strike in
the logging camps and lumber mills of
the state may seriously interfere with
the construction of the American Lake
army post cantonment on schedule
time was apparent when the arrival
of lumber on the cantonment spurs
was about one-fourth what the con
tractors were able to use.
General Goethals has requested the
Seattle chamber of commerce to adjust
differences between the wooden boat