The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-11-22

TO meet the emergency caused by farm
ers selling grain faster than 1t could
be absorbed at the terminals.
Because of failure to load cars to
their maximum capacity or to unload
cars promptly, five North Yakima
fruit shippers have been cut off from
further cars. by orders of the railroad
war board of the Oregon Washington
Railway & Navigation company. In
four of the cases the complaint was
failure to load to capacity and in the
fifth case delay in unloading was
charged.
The wheat crop of Washington this
year was only about so per cent of
normal, according to an estimate of
P. J. Sweeney. chief grain inspector.
Oats and barley also were below nor
NAL. Wheat production is estimated
at 27,000,000 bushels as compared
with $4,000, 900 bushels a year ago
Oats are estimated at 100000 bushels
compared with 4s72,O last year. and
barley at 2,050,00 bushels as against
100000 last year.
Mrs. Dora Miller, OF Seattle, and
Mrs. Hilda Sandberg. of Kirkland, will
be deprived of their mothers pensions
from the state of Washington because
of their alleged disloyalty as the re-
suit of an order issued by Judge King
Dykeman, of the King county juvenile
court. The court further recommend
ed that the women be deported because
of their alleged pernicious influence
in this country. They are charged
with being openly pro-German.
Extensive deposits of lime have been
discovered at Sundale.
Ole Nevdick, sailor, was killed in
a street brawl In Seattle.
The annual convention OF the Pyth
ian Sisters of district No. 2 met at
Harrington.
By a score of rs to the Washing
ton state college football team beat the
University of Montana at Spokane.
Thomas ]. Hickman, aged 50. Civil
War veteran and pioneer of the West.
died at Walla Walla after an illness OF
several months.
The Motorship Construction com
pany of Vancouver has secured con
tracts TO date for the construction OF
over 600 lifeboats.
Members of the l. o. o. F. from
southeast Washington gathered in
Walla Walla for the 18th semi-annual
district convention.
A total net profit of $95,1s4.00 was
realized on the interstate bridge at
Vancouver from its opening in Janu
airy until November /.
An agricultural council has been or.
ganized in Walla Walla for the pur.
pose of endeavoring to solve agricul
tural problems as they arise.
Nearly 100 girls of the state college
at Pullman have joined the girls rifle
club, and instruction under the direc
ton of Sergeant W. N. Pickett has
been started.
The American casualties with the
Canadian forces reported recently in.
clude T. G. Mclean, G. Martin and R.
W. Since, of Spokane, and Stuart Nc.
Kenzie, Snohomish.
Farm women of the North River
country are giving 1000 quarts OF
canned fruits and vegetables to the
Aberdeen Red Cross as their CONT l.
button to the cause.
AS a result of a wreck a mile east
of Hillside, small station in Yakima
canyon, 20 miles east of Ellensburg,
a Northern Pacific engine and II cars
of freight are lying on the bottom OF
the Yakima river.
Charged with having presented for
payment to the board of Okanogan
county commissioners a false voucher,
with intent TO defraud the county,
County Treasurer F. w. Plessinger was
placed under arrest.
A three-day drive for sugar beet
acreage on the success of which de
pended whether the Utah-Idahof com
pany would build a factory at Top
penish, ended with $500 acres signed.
The required acreage was 5000.
Authority for trial by military court
of the IA members of the l. w. w.
arrested at Camp Lewis, American
lake, has been requested of the depart
ment of justice by Major General
Greene, commanding the division.
outplaying their opponents, but lack
ing the punch to score, the University
of Washington football team held the
Oregon Agricultural college team to a
scoreless tie in one of the hardest
fought games ever seen on University
field.
When pay day came for beet raisers
at the office of the Utah-Idaho Sugar
company in North Yakima, some 5000
growers received amounts aggregatine
1925 900, representing returns on 1s.
900 tons of sugar beets harvested in