The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-03-15

.xs.rv. the organization o. growers
ard shippers OF tie northwest states
xsre discussed 81 a meeting OF tne
board OF trustees at Spokane
An order for the condemnation and
sale Of s7-s cases Of arms and annu-
milton seized BY the government on
the shooner Annie Larsen, when she
nnr into Grzys Harbor. was made by
Federal Judge Cushman Al Tacoma
The Asotin county commissioners
have awarded a contract for the con
structiou Of q bridge over the Granoe
Roude river at Rays Ferry This
opens the highway between Asotin
county and GslloNa county. Oregon
One Thousand individual fruit cakes.
prepared by the dining car department
~ the Northern Pacific railway. were
distributed TO guests a. the exercises
Incidental TO the formal opening OF
the Northern Pacific depot al Pull
man
Alfred GuIlieksen. 80. foreman and
John Dahl. rigging singer. died AZ
St Joseph's hospital in Tacoma as the
result OF being crushed between q
locomotive and q runaway flatcar IN
TIE Manley Moore Lumber company
yard at Fairfax
Lozzn Billingsley. chief witness for
the government in the trial Of Mayor
Hiram c. Gill and others At Seattle,
charged With conspiracy 10 violate the
United States statutes by inporta-
ton of Ueusr into the state OF Wash
tngtor. sxo-e that he gave orioe
Of 5000 in bills TO Mayor Gill in the
MAYORS otfite On August 30, 1915.
and that the mayor turned over to him
documentary evidence against Bill
IussIey seized in the latter's drug
stn-e.
Real estate dealers OF every town In
the inland empire will receive special
invitations to attend 2 luncheon 10 be
given by the Spokane realty board
Monday, March ls. the day Of the
meeting o. the Inland Empire Desei-
opment league in Spokane.
. An excursion train bearing $50 resi-
, dents OF the Big Bend on the
first trade iunket under the auspices
} OF the Mansfield Commercial club
J travelled over central Washington last
week. The iunket was undertaken
70 advertise the Big Bend towns.
} Orson Bennett Johnson. professor
emeritus OF zoology az the University
Of Washington. and known all over
} the world as An eatomologist and dis
coverer OF many new species of in
sects, died AZ Seattle, aged IS years
; He had been an invalid many years
The dam across the Washougai
river at Washougal will be used by
: The state and county fish authorities
10 collect salmon spawn TO be used
; 10 the various hatcheries along the
r Columbia, and particularly for the
Z Clarke county hatchery. on Cold
Greek :
? Ruth Lindsey, OF Olympia ard Mary
Carson. Of Nsbton. each Is. won the
first and second prizes. respectively,
: in the statewide spelling contest con
? Quoted at Olympia for the pupils Of
I the seventh and eighth grades. Thirty
. six counties were represented in the
contest
All bonded Indebtedness of Lincoln
r county. amounting TO $4,000. will Be
refunded and the commissioners have
arranged with the Spokane & Eastern
? Trust company for new issue at Al
per cent, which is three-quarters OF
? one per cent less than the present
: issues draw.
Inland empire farmers estimate that
about Il per cent OF the winter wheat
will have TO Be reseejed this spring
With wheat at $50 bushel this
means q huge sum for seed. The fall
wheat was sown in dust in many
places and this caused the work to be
necessary now.
August NehlhOrl. wealthy owner
Of real estate and president of the
German Newspaper association. which
publishes the Seattle Daily German
Press. the Washington Stats Zeitung
the Everett Volksblatt and the Bell
ingham Bay Post. died at his home in
! Seattle aged IS years.
Contract for furnishing 10000 tons
of 70-pound steel rails; $500 pairs of
angle bars; $40 kegs of track bolts and
400 kegs of track spikes was awarded
last week TO the United States Steel
Products company of Seattle by the
Alaskan Engineering commission for
a total price of s4s7. 800
Judge W. o. Chapman. OF the Pierce
county court. has denied the motion
for new trial of Elias Pierson, con-
victed cashier of the defunct First
international bank OF South Bend. and
sentenced him to serve from one to
ten years in the state penitentiary
His attorneys have started their ap-