The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-09-06

] AaA 6cSl No1uy anu OioSoil pioheo a.
/ Seattle, closing the factories. The
strikers demand higher wages and
recognition of the union.
Reasonable utterances prohibited
by the recent espionage act caused
the arrest of F. A. Wolf. shoe mer'
chant; A. T. Lindstrum, orchardist
and G. A Parks. walking delegate OF
the l. w. W.. at Charleston.
The first considerable sale of pota-
toes of the new crop was made at
North Yakima when Bennett & De-
sellem sold two carloads at 1872 ton
to Ray Paddock for shipment to the
cantonment at American lake.
Major Henry A. Roberts, command
er of the Fourth regiment, engineers,
committed suici1e at his quarters in
the new cantonment al Vancouver
barracks. Depression due to i'll
health is believed to be the cause.
Commercial organizations of Grays
Harbor county are expected to unite
in request to Sheriff Bartell that
picEeting in the camps be brought to
to work without fear of molestation.
w. NJ. Round. acting or the cram
berry growers on the Washington side
of the Columbia river, has made ar
engagements to have the Indians of the
Puyallup tribe come to the Ilwaco
peninsula during the cranberry pick
ing season and help harvest.
Muzzling coyotes being impossible,
as no method has been devised as yet
to make such a scheme effective, and
believing that coyotes spread rabies
Benson, state agricultural commits
sioner has lifted the quarantine on
dogs in eastern Washington counties.
Announcement of a contract for %,
100000 feet of Douglas fir, to be used
by the Italian government as sub
stitute for spruce in the construction
of aircraft, was officially made at the
monthly meeting of the West Coast
Lumbermen's association at Seattle.
The Pacific German Methodist Epis.
copal conference was held at Ritzviile,
with Bishop Matthew S. Hughes OF
Portland presiding. There were "a
ministers in attendance, coming from
Idaho Oregon and Washington, as
well as a large attendance of laymen.
F. W Sullivan. president of the Pa
cific Coast Commissary company,
which is feeding the civilian builders
at Camp Lewis and the officers who
have arrived, estimates that 5000
pounds of meat are consumed daily
by the men, who number more than
10000
Speaking before the Yakima county
commercial club. Edgar c. Bradley,
assistant secretary of the interior de-
partment, said that it was the depart
ments plan, as soon as the work could
be done, to greatly improve the high
ways through the Yakima Indian
Il servation.
The governme nt's price of $500 for
No. / wheat at Chicago does not
please the Walla Walll valley wheat
farmers and to a number who have
refused s235 and s240 for this years
crop, expecting the market to rise to
levels OF $40 or SO, the governments
price is particularly bitter.
While the campaign for securing an
additional 5000 acres on the Yakima
reservation for sugar beets next year
to get the building of a second fac
tory is in progress, the company has
taken an option on 160 acres for a
site and has an engineer working on
drainage and water supply.
With the wheat harvest in the
Walla Walla valley about half com.
pleted, there has been very little
wheat sold. An estimate by dealers
is that less than a quarter of mil.
lion bushels have been sold. The
total yield in the county will be A.
100000 bushels CT little better.
Fermentation of grape or berry
juice strictly for home use is held by
the supreme court to be violation OF
the prohibition amendment. The
point was decided on appeal by Mi.
chael Fabri, of Tacoma, convicted in
the superior court for fermenting IA
quarts of grape juice for his own use.
Two hundred carmen in the service
of the Traction company at Spokane,
who have organized a local union OF
the Amalgamated Association OF
Street Railway Men, have served no
tice upon the company OF their inten.
tion to demand a general increase in
wages and adjustments of working
conditions.
Two juries sitting concurrently in
condemnation suits to bring land into
the military reservation at American
Lake probably will be the method to
be pursued when the case is called in
the superior court at Tacoma on Sep.
TENDER "a. The reservation embraces
1000 acres. but $4,000 are represent.