The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-04-19

word per minute by Harold H. Smith
head of the department Of steno-
graphy and typewriting of the state
college at Pullman.
The dairy herd at the state prison
is being increased steadily, and by
fall Warden Drum hopes to have about
50 Holstein cows. A butter plant
will be put in and butter supplied
other state institutions.
All crops in Washington are fully
reports just issued by w. c. Wilkes.
assistant general freight and passen-
ger agent of the Spokane. Portland &
Seattle Railway company.
Six hundred miners. demanding the
removal of Mine Superintendent John
Mcdowell on the ground that he is
unsafe" to work under. struck in
the Carbon Hill Mine company's mines
Nearly 400 acres of the land near
American lake. which will be used for
the new officers training school, has
been offered to the Government free
perty is condemned for the army post
site.
The amalgamation of two of
Seattle's shipbuilding companies. L. H.
building company, was announced at
Seattle and the company will be known
as the Anderson Shipbuilding corpora
ton.
Odessa will have a big day April
20. when delegates from Lincoln,
Adams and Grant counties will as
semble there for a joint meeting of
the different commercial clubs of those
counties and the annual Lincoln Coun-
ty Press association meeting.
Erick Johnson, president of the
Seattle Machine Works. one of the
largest companies of its kind on the
coast. has announced that the com
pany will build branch plant for the
purpose of constructing heavy oil
semi-Diesel engines for northwest
demand.
The second batch of petitions ask
ing congress to take steps for for
tifying Grays Harbor were forwarded
from Aberdeen to Washington. These
bore approximately 1000 names, max
ing q total of 5000 signatures secured
to petitions urging that the harbor be
fortified.
So successful has been the food
preparedness campaign of the Ore
gon- Washington Railroad & Nayiga-
ton company through its first week
touring central and eastern Oregon
that the educational work will be
carried into the communities of east
ern and central Washington.
American Lake will be the site OF
great training camp for prospective
officers of the officers reserve corps
Of the army in the western depart
ment. Men who are accepted for at
tendance at this camp will be obligated
to accept any commissions that are
offered them at the end of three
mouths training.
If prices for materials are salts
factory the shipyards of the Pacific
northwest will build one-half of the
thousand wooden ships whose con-
struction the government contem
plates. according to word received at
Seattle by the West Coast Lumber
mems association from the shipping
board in Washington, D. C.
Governor Lister appointed Harley
L. Hughes. of Spokane. a member OF
the State Industrial Insurance commits
sion, to succeed E. w. Olson, who
was shot dead in his office at Olympia
by a demented man who had a fancied
grievance against Olson. Hughes is
a member of the legislative committee
OF the state Federation of Labor.
A state conference on agricultural
defense met at Seattle last week. The
conference agreed that state bureaus
must take the lead in organization
work and maintain close touch with
the national council for defense and
the federal department of agriculture
The state bureaus will cooperate with
county, city and town organizations.
Pierce county is not going to make
a cheap" patriotic display if four su-
perior court judges can prevent 1t.
This developed when County Commits
noner Bellingham wanted to know why
flags purchased by the county for
draping in the superior court rooms
were not up. He was told that the
superior court judges had turned up
their noses at the cotton banners pur-
chased.
The Washington state commission
for food production has requested Sec
rotary of the Interior Lane to expedite
the issuance of certificate of title on
Indian lands sold to whites who wish
to place the land under cultivation but
whose deeds have not yet arrived from
Washington. The delay is clerical