The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-11-08
WANTS SCHOOLS USED
MORE BY PEOPLE
Head of State Instruction Urges OPP
ening of Buildings For General
Use of Public; Other State News

terest in the erection of cottages for
teachers, Mrs. Josephine Preston,
state superintendent of public in
struction, has sent out circular to
all of the county commissioners in
the state and the school directors OF
the second and third class districts
calling attention to the laws on the
subject The schools have been called
upon because of the manner in which
they reach into every community and
every home where there are children
to do much work in connection with
the war.
In formal reply to charges of cor.
poration intrigue, coupled with de-
mands upon Governor Lister that all
three members of the public service
commission be removed, the commits
sion accuses Charles A. Reynolds, for
mer member of the commission, and
Hugh M. Caldwell, corporation counsel
of Seattle, of uttering intentional
falsehoods. Governor Lister has made
no public statement on the question.
but the statement of the public service
commission is understood to be the
administration stand. The present
fight on the administration is based
on the commissions recent action in
granting the Seattle Lighting company
authority to increase gas rates and
fix a ready -to-serve charge of % cents
| oil To-
whether gas is used or not. The Seat
tie city council adopted a resolution
asking the governor to dismiss the
three commissioners, e. f. Blaine, OF
Seattle; Arthur A. Lewis, of Spokane.
and Frank r. Spinning, of Sumner.
Lieutenant D. H. Harden, the first
American soldier wounded in the
trenches in France, is Seattle man.
Soldiers of the national army at
Camp Lewis have begun bomb-throw
ing practice under the direction of
eight officers of the French army who
have come direct from the first-line
trenches in northern France to act
as instructors.
Declaring their willingness to turn
over the entire output of their plants
to the government, if necessary, the
Association of Pacific Fisheries met
at Seattle to discuss plans for CO
operation with the government in
food conservation measures.
Washington coal operators and
miners have agreed upon an increased
wage scale to apply in Washington
mines as soon as it is approved by the
federal fuel administrator. The agree
ment will run during the period of
the war or until September 1, 1920.
William Hislop, head of the division
of animal husbandry at the state col
lege at Pullman, received a cablegram
George Hislop, had been killed. in
action. Sergeant Hislop was mem
Der of the 159th brigade of the British
expeditionary force in France.
Tacoma, the largest tea port in the
United States, maintained its record
of increase in October over the same
month last year Total pounds of tea
examined by Tea Examiner Fenton
was 5,649,646, or 1,192,1 S9 more than
October, 1916. With tea importations
growing less elsewhere every year
and Tacoma's share growing larger,
her supremacy as a tea port should
show a marked increase by the end
of the year.
There is prospect that the north
bank highway, undertaken by Ska
mania county three years ago, will be
completed next season. The two I'M
completed sections between the Clarke
county boundary and Underwood will
be finished through the cooperation
of the state of Washington and the
United States forest service. The
work to be done is at Wind mountain
and between Cooks and Collins. The
total cost is estimated at $4,000.
What is declared to be one of the
most important decisions given in the
west since the war began was rem.
dered by Judge Neterer of the United
States district court at Seattle, when
he granted motion of the govern
ment to dismiss the application of
Peter Bonisaci, an Italian, for ex-
emption from service in the national
army on the ground that he is not a
citizen. Judge Neterer held he had
no authority to interfere with the
board. and Bonisaci will be sent to the
Camp Lewis cantonment.
The Aberdeen chamber of COM
merce has taken action which agrees
with the opinion of Adjutant General
Thompson that for the period of the
war no action be taken with respect
to building an armory in Aberdeen,
for which the legislature made an ap-
preparation of $4,000. The chamber
instructed it's secretary to so inform
the adjutant general and also ask that
the same action be taken with respect
to the prOposed armory at Walla