The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-07-26

ard in the foothill sections it probably
will be two weeks before there is
any activities at all.
council for home defense has
been organized in Elma.
The 1917 session of the Centralia
summer normal school closed Satur-
day.
Wheat harvest has begun in both
the Rattlesnake and Horse Heaven
districts.
Rural mail carriers of the state met
at Colfax Friday and Saturday for
their annual convention.
Peter Vagelos was killed in the
Northern Pacific switch yard at Top
penish, while cleaning cinders from
the track.
Four generations were represented
at recent family reunion at the home
of W. F. Byars, a Goldendale city
councilman.
The work of repairing the damage
done to the Vancouver approach to
the interstate bridge is rapidly near
ing completion.
Floyd Howell, %, resident of Sequim,
employed at Selah, was accidentally
killed while unloading a car of pipe
for a cold storage plant
Rev w. J. White, who went to Cali
fornia in 1s49 and two years later en-
tered the Methodist ministry, died at
Spokane at the age of 80.
The state bar associations of Wash
ington, Oregon, Idaho and British Co
lumbia will meet in joint session in
Seattle July &c, q and 2S.
The peach and pear crops in Yakima
valley will come into market fully two
weeks late this year, is the estimate
made by prominent growers.
Vandals in the Cedar creek terri
tory near Toledo have burned desert
ed shacks, destroyed mail boxes and
committed other depredations.
Fourteen boys who struck at the
North Yakima cannery for higher
wages have been discharged and their
places have been filled with girls.
Farmers throughout the Walla
Walla section now are cutting wheat
hay and getting their fields in readi-
ness for the entrance of the combines.
Plans for extending the promotion
of permanent Red Cross work to all
parts of Klickitat county were put
under Roadway by Klickitat Red Cross
chapter at Goldendale.
AS a result of a meeting of the ex-
ecutive members of the Franklin coun-
ty council of defense, home guard
was organized at Pasco, composed of
over 100 men and boys.
There is 100000 in sight to COM
plete the Mcclellan pass highway to
the summit from the Yakima side, pro-
vided present plans are approved by
the federal government.
State Representative John w. Sum-
mers, of Walla Walla, has announced
that he will be candidate to sue
coed Representative William La Foil
cite, whose term expires next year.
Fire, attributed to l. w. W., is rag
ing in the timber Of the West Fork
Logging company, north of Morton. 1t
has burned large quantity of felled
timber and is working into standing
timber.
Hop contracts filed at North Yakima
contain a prohibition clause which
cancels them in case national prohibl-
ton is declared on or before Septem-
Der l. In one case the contract speci-
fies prohibition of beer brewing.
Twenty persons were injured in
riot at Seattle when a mob of men
and boys hurled stones and sticks at
q streetcar operated by employees of
the Puget Sound Traction, Light &
Power company, whose 1900 carmen
are on strike.
One hundred and fifty Seattle police
signed up for membership in a police
mans union following an address by
L. w. Benjamin, one of 13 members
CT the force discharged for refusal to
ride on street cars and wagons with
strike breakers.
The first railroad work in the
Grays Harbor district in several
years, outside of extension of yards,
has been begun by contractors for
the Oregon-Was hington Railroad &
Navigation company in the extension
of its North river valley line.
Quick action to suppress strike agita-
tors was taken at the plant of the
Page Lumber company, Eagle Gorge,
near Seattle, when a detachment of
Washington infantry arrested IL |.
w. w. agitators who had prevailed
upon 40 of the mill employees to strike.
Conditions in the numbering camps
of the Cascade Lumber company at
Gle Elum have so much improved
since troops were brought in and the
leaders of the l. w. w. arrested that
sufficient supply of logs is now ar
irving to warrant resumption of