The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-09-06
STATE HAS MUCH
LAND FOR SALE
department Issues Booklet Telling
Location And Details About Ac-
reage; Other State News

mas issued descriptive catalogue Of
the logged-off lands which belong te
the state, the terms upon which the
lands may be had and other informa
ton, including methods of clearing
methods of procedure in order to OBJ
tain the lands, time of payment and
many other things of interest to the
intending settler.
According to Mrs. Josephine Pres
ton. state superintendent of public in
struction, the records in her office
Snow that the rural districts are being
hit harder by the war in the matter
of teachers going to serve the nation
in one capacity or another than are
the schools in the larger city districts
She explains this by saying that the
younger men teach in the rural dis
tricts, and many do not get into the
city schools until they are older.
After a series of consultations the
Metal Trades council, embracing the
business agents of the Is trades un-
ions employed in the Seattle ship
yards, issued an order postponing the
date of the walkout ordered for We'd
nesday and Dan P. McKillop, presi-
dent of the council, accompanied by
James A. Taylor, representing the
machinists, and G. Sanferson, of the
shipwrights' and joiners' unions, have
gone to Washington to confer with the
shipping board on the questions at
issue
On September l the new federal
child labor law relative to the manu-
facture of interstate commerce com
modities goes into effect, and c. H.
Younger, state labor commissioner,
1000 child workers in this state. The
state authorities are the representa-
tives of the federal government in
the enforcement of this law, and they
call attention to violations for federal
prosecutions. The penalties range
from a maximum of 500 for first Of
tenders and a minimum Of 500 for
second offenders up to heavy fines
and Jail terms for chronic offenders.
Walla Walla county's budget fol-
this year will be about $780, 96.
The seventh annual Grays Harbol
county fair opened Wednesday at
Elma
A meeting of the state association
of county treasurers was held at Ia
coma.
Grays Harbor real estate has an
aggregate value of more than $4S,
100000.
The Grays Harbor pioneers held
their annual meeting last week at
Oakville.
H. A Actor, sc, one of the earliest
pioneers in the Walla Walla valley
died at Walla Walla.
During the month CT August. 153
couples, twothirds of them from Ore
gon, were married in Vancouver.
Fifteen men, most of them members
of the l. w. w. were arrested at Wa
patio by a detachment of Oregon
troops.
twenty-five alleged l. ". w. were
arrested at Spokane when they ar
rived from Troy, Mont, ON a Great
Northern train.
One hundred and fifty union ship
carpenters in the three largest steel
shipyards at Seattle struck for higher
wages.
A crew of so men is at work on the
31a-mile extension being made to the
O.-W. r. g. n. line in the North River
valley.
Picketing of Aberdeen mills has
practically ceased following the plac
ing of federal troops in charge of the
situation at the request of Mayor Roy
Sargent.
A restaurant famine faces Spokane.
Unless food prices are speedily fixed
many restaurants will be forced out
of business, according to City Food
Inspector Minehart.
C. e. Huston, of Vancouver, and A.
]. Johnson of Prescott, about 60 years
old and a member of the /. o. o. F.
lodge, were killed near Hood River,
Or, in an auto wreck
After 20 years, 3 months and II
days of continuous service in the Uni
ted States army, Color Sergeant Hugh
P. Friel has been retired and Will
make Vancouver his home.
A conference of representatives of
the employers and the LABOR unions
of Spokane will be held soon to try
to work out a solution of the l. w. w.
problem, satisfactory to both.
John Z. McHugh, his father, j. A.
McHugh, and James Gordon, all of
Auburn, were arrested, charged with
conspiracy TO violate the draft act by
swearing to a false exemption affi-
davit.
Concrete footings for 10 towers are
being built to sustain a double cable
tramway between the quarry and the
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