The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-03-01
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS OF INTEREST
important Occurrences of Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

into the CowlitZ river, but there is
no extraordinary run of them to date.
Lumbermen and shingle manufact-
urers of Grays Harbor district have
organized to obtain partial relief in
the car shortage.
membership campaign which, it
is hoped, will add $50 names to the
chamber of commerce roster. has been
launched at Aberdeen.
Tacoma restaurants have taken po-
tatoes from the free list, and baked
potatoes are being sold at 10 cents
and German fries at a nickel
The second of the big 100000
foot capacity auxiliary lumber car
riers was launched at the Grays Har
Dor shipyard Sunday afternoon.
Spokane was selected as the scene
of the northwest conference of Rotary
clubs for next year by the delegates
at the conference at Vancouver, B. C.
During the first six days of the
operation of the interstate bridge at
Vancouver tolls taken in aggregated
approximately s2535. or over $500 a
day
A free night school for loggers and
mill workers has been established in
the Veness district, south of Winlock,
the district paying the salary of the
teacher.
Two hundred and fifty teachers and
educators of Clarke county assembled
in Vancouver Monday for the thirty
fourth annual Clarke county teachers
institute.
The baby show feature of the Grays
Harbor fair will be abandoned this
year and auto and motorcycle races
will be placed on the programme as
a substitute. Z.
The entrance OF $50 grammar school
children in the potato growng con,
test, to be conducted at Aberdeen this
summer by the chamber of commerce
is assured already.
A silver fox measuring four feet
from tip TO tip was caught recently by
Irvie and Claude Crumb. who are en-
gagged in trapping in the St Helens
and Spirit Lake country.
The bone-dry legislation enacted
resulted in one of the heaviest runs
on the courthouse permit room al
Spokane that has been experienced
since the permit system was started
Troop B. Washington cavalry. mus
tered ont of the federal service at
Vancouver barracks after more than
six months duty on the Mexican Dor.
der was given a rousing welcome on
its return to Tacoma.
A cooperative meat market conduct
ed By members OF Pullman branch
No. of the farmers union. the mer-
chandise for which would be supplied
by farmers of the vicinity. is under
consideration at Pullman
A movement to obtain rate con-
cessions from the railroads on the
shipment of purebred livestock for
breeding purposes was begun at the
Northwest Livestock conference in
session at Spokane last week.
The Sullivan e Consdine corpora
ton, which formerly operated a chain
of vaudeville theaters extending from
coast to coast and into Canada. flied
voluntary petition in bankruptcy in
the United States court at Seattle.
1t is rumored at Seattle that the
Skinner Eddy corporation. local
shipbuilders, have taken an option on
Is acres of land on the east waterway
adjoining the plant and owned by the
Centennial mills for price in the
neiehborhood of 100000.
The Grays harbor country is now
undergoing inspection by pulp and
paper mill man who says he is looking
for a suitable site for a mill to turn
out 1000 to $500 tons of paper daily.
There is no mill in the world at pres
ent producing this quantity of paper.
Running through a binding snow
storm at Seattle, Edward Kangas of
Seattle defeated Harry Floeter of
Portland in the semi-marathon annual
classic of the Seattle athletic club.
The distance, nine miles, up hills
and through the snow was made in
the record time of 52:45.
Bids for an addition to Seattle's
grain elevator have been asked by the
Port of Seattle commission. The pro-
posed addition is to consist of 80 new
circular bins of reinforced concrete,
with an aggregate capacity of 100000
bushels. 1t is estimated that the i'm
provement will cost 100000.
Senator Chamberlain. of Oregon, at
the suggestion of j. n. Teal, has re-
quested the secretaries of war, inter-
ior and agriculture to examine water
power possibilities ~en the Columbia
and Snake rivers when investigating
to determine to proper site for the
proposed government nitrate plant
Northbound O.-W. r. G. N train No
564 ran into a large boulder that had