The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-08-09


strike, the mill owners refusing to
arbitrate the question of hours and
insisting on the 10-hour schedule.
Aberdeen's school census shows
2s5s children of school age in the city.
The Pend Oreille County Council of
Patriotic Service has been organized
at Newport.
For the first time in the history of
Whitman county prairie chickens will
be protected by law this fall
1t is estimated that 5000 men are
idle as a result of the logging camp
and mill strikes on Grays harbor.
The County Clerks association OF
the state of Washington, will meet in
Stehekin and Chelan August 1918.
Artesian water has been delaying
work ON the foundations for the ele.
vator plants at Goldendale and War
wick
Tolls on the interstate bridge at
Vancouver in July for pedestrians,
automobiles and vehicles aggregated
$11,425S7.
No fuel famine is expected on Grays
Harbor as a result of the closing OF
the mills unless the strike should con
tinue for another month.
John James Higgins. chief of the
pure food division of the state depart
ment of agriculture, died at Seattle
following a surgical operation, aged
Ga years.
Labor conditions in the northwest
lumber industry will be normal within
a week, is the belief of Charles Perry
Taylor, secretary of the state fedora
ton of labor.
herd of elk has wandered from the
ranges where it was released last
year and is doing considerable damage
vicinity of Zillah.
The American Lake cantonment
will haze the largest army hospital
ever built in the country, the cost of
which. when completely equipped, will
be close to S1,000,000.
prize of $50 has been offered by
the management of the southwest
Washington fair for the best grange
exhibit at the 1917 fair, which opens
August IS at Centralia.
Combined harvesters have been OPP
Grating in the Klickitat valley for the
last week, and reports are that grain
threshed thus far is running from
eight to L sacks to the acre.
Leo F. Bruno, of Grand Dalles, a
prominent Klickitat sheepman, says
that much damage has been done to
flocks this season by raids of carni-
vorous animals, especially bears.
Fred C. Morgan, former superintend-
ent of the Flathead Indian reservation
in Montana, las relieved ]. N. John
son as superintendent of the Colville
Indian reservation at Nespelen.
\ colony of Is families of Slavonians
frcm Gle Elum has purchased a tract
Ct 1000 acres of land three miles south
Of Humptulips, and expect TO locate.
on and begin the development Of the
land within a short time.
Two Representatives of the Farmers
Non Partisan league, an organization
having its chief field of activity in
North Dakota, have arrived to begin
a months campaign in Washington
state, to assist in a similar movement
here.
Farm crop specialists and inyesti-
gators from experiment stations and
agricultural colleges of II western
states met in Pullman for the discus
sion of problems affecting farm pro-
duction in the western part of the
United States.
Sawmills in the Simcoe mountains
tributary to Goldendale are operating
shorthanded and it is likely that many
of them will have to shut down before
getting out their cut for the season
as many employees are quitting lumber
ing for the harvest fields.
Shipments of wheat by water from
Puget Sound ports during July were
ing to 600.560 bushels. Total ship
ments of wheat and flour from Puget
Sound during the fiscal year ending
June 80 were 17,40S,00O bushels.
Freight and traffic officials of the
north coast lines, at meeting held in
Seattle, decided to ask the public serv-
ice commission of Washington for per
mission to increase the carload rates
on potatoes from Spokane to Puget
sourd from Il cents to 20 cents per
100 pounds.
Normal streetcar service was restor-
ed in Seattle after a Today inter
ruption due to the strike of the 1900
motormen and conductors of the Puget
Sound Traction, Light & Power COM
pany for the right to join national
union The men won this point, but
conceded the open shop.
Rail and water shipments from
Grays Harbor in the past two months