The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-11-15

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cattle. belonging TO one of the biggest
stockmen in Kitttas county, have died.
Indications are that the loss of the
cattle is due to rabies. Kittitas county
has suffered a loss of about $4,000 be-
cause of rabies. according TO Dr.. Fred
P Calkins, veterinarian. who has been
deputized by the state at various times
to investigate conditions.
Seven crews of rived airplane
spruce cutters are at work in the tim
Der of Grays Harbor county and are
turning out approximately two car
loads of rived spruce stock weekly.
Other crews are being organized.
Tests of shipments of rived spruce,
the rived spruce men say, show that
so per cent of the timbers arc suitable
for airplane use, while sawed spruce
gives only about SO per cent of lumber
which can be used in an airplane.
To aid the keep-a-pig movement mi
tiated by the national food admins
tration and carried forward in Wash
ington by the field extension workers
of the college, with Barnard E. Smead
assigned to eastern Washington ter
ritory, the animal husbandry division
of the state college has determined
what, under present conditions of mar
kets and prices, farmers may expect
by utilizing the cheaper mill feeds for
hog feeding as a main feed, rather
than as supplement
A municipal ownership league has
been formed at Pasco.
Walla Walla high school won the
football championship of eastern
Washington.
The Inland Empire retailers conven-
ton will be held in Spokane, Novem-
Der 20 and 81.
The following American names ap-
pear in a Canadian casualty list E.
Lamon, Newport; T. Nj. Jones, Seattle.
An election to select a commission
er for the port of Vancouver will be
held in Vancouver and other precincts
involved on December 1.
Tacoma police have arrested man
giving the name of G. F. Crawford,
whom they believe may be the much
sought Seattle "slugger."
Eight per cent increase in salaries
is sought by Tacoma's % school prin
cipals and S. a month by members of
the high school faculties.
John H. Tilsley and Charles Elem
ing were elected city commissioners
at Spokane. Fleming, who is now
mayor, was elected for his second
term.
Bean growers of the Walla Walla
section will meet in Walla Walla Sat
urday, November II. The growers are
expected to pool their crop and get a
top price.
Val Heath of Raymond, founder Of
the Raymond Herald and a prominent
Washington newspaper man, died in
Corvallis, Oregon. The body was taken
to Raymond for internment
Return to greater production in the
livestock industry of the Pacific north
west as solution of one of the food
problems brought about by the war,
is urged by Governor Ernest Lister.
Farmers and dairymen of Illinois
and Iowa have bought 1000 acres in
the Burbank project near Walla Walla
and their families have begun TO ar
rive. Others will come in the spring.
Seattle police have arrested a man
giving the name of Sam Bell, who
officers assert answers descriptions of
the "slugger," who made several day
light attacks on women in Seattle re-
Gently.
Whitman college went down TO de-
feat before the University of Idaho
football eleven in the annual gridiron
clash between those two institutions
which was held at Moscow, Idaho.
The score was 16 TO 0.
Millers will not be permitted to sell
flour in small packages after this
month, according to a ruling Of the
United States food administration.
The purpose is to keep the price down
to the lowest mark possible
Five thousand dollars is to be ex-
pended at the first opportunity in
repairing the Pacific highway between
Vancouver and Woodland, and on the
river road known as state highway
No. s, from Vancouver to Camas.
The Northwest Magnesite company
produced $4,000 tons of magnesite in
October, of which $4,000 tons were cal
cined and shipped and the remainder
shipped in the crude form and placed
in reserve at the plant near Chewelah.
The state board of control has called
for bids for the erection of another
cottage and power plant for the state
school for girls at Grand Mound. The
estimated cost of the cottage is $4,000
and the estimated cost of the power
house $4,000.
Spurred by the increasing cases of
drunkenness caused by the illegal
sale of liquor, the Aberdeen city coun-