The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-06-28
COURT LETS COUNTY
DESTROY WHISkEY
State Supreme Judges Issue Decision
Permitting Confiscat,on OF Liq-
uor in Bellingham; Other News

ne state supreme court QeclQUS, II
the appeal of the Great Northern Rail
way company against an order of the
Whatcom county court authorizing the
confiscation of Is casks of whisky
seized at Bellingham because permits
were not displayed on the casks. that
shipments of liquor into prohibition
states lost all interstate characters
tics under the United States supreme
court decision UNFOLDING the Webb
Kenyon act.
Seeing that only per cent of the
pupils of the rural districts are given
agricultural instruction in the rural
schools, that the teachers are not
properly trained to teach the subjects
and that the equipment is deficient.
the state educational board proposes
to urge that the instruction be made
more general, that teachers be re-
quired to have had two years training
and that school districts provide bet
ter facilities.
The first step toward the delivery
of from 100000 to 100000 feet
of lumber for immediate delivery by
the West Coast Lumbermens associa-
ton for the construction work at the
American Lake cantonment was taken
when the Hurley-Mason company
placed its order, subject to the approx
al of the war department. The con-
tract figures are $3.50 per thousand.
i the figures quoted the government fol-
+ lowing the meeting of the association
+ in Tacoma on June A.
Appointment of special committee
/ of grain men of Washington and Ore
gon to make recommendation on
standards and dockage charges to be
used by the commissions in drafting
rules, was announced by the Washing
ton public service commission at Spo-
kane, following joint hearings with
the Oregon commission on grain
standards The committee includes:
L. NJ. LETTERS; George R. Hyslop, farm
crops department, Oregon Agricul-
tural college; Frank Randall. Portland
dock commission; s. c. Armstrong,
grain dealer, Seattle; Almar Nc
Curtain, farmer. Davenport, Wash; p.
j. Sweeney, chief grain inspector,
Washington; c. (. Porter, chief grain
inspector. Oregon, and John T. Bib,
miller, Spokane An additional mem
Der from Pendleton and one from
North Yakima a~e TO be named. The
committee VIII meet at Seattle June
20 to prepare its report.
Dennis H. Waterman, age 45, was
shot and killed by Noah o. Hoyer at
?enrith, three miles west of Newport.
After a shutdown of more than five
years the old Clark Creek Lumber
company mill at Kelso will be in oper-
al:on.
Michael Scott, - years of age, and
"arence Duby, Il, were drowned
while al play on a raft in a pond at
Seattle.
The annual session of the Citizens
league of eastern Lewis county con-
yened in Randle Friday and Saturday,
June % and %.
The second annual picnic in com
memoration of the completion of the
Yelm Irrigation cOmpany's project will
be held in Yelm Friday.
Actual production of lumber in 144
mills affiliated with the West Coast
Lumbermen's association for the week
ended June 16 aggregated S7,723,7O0
feet.
The Washington State Medical So
ciety in session at Spokane, selected
Tacoma for the 1919 meeting, Seattle
having previously been selected for
the 1918 session.
DIR. A. Stark Oliver, of Spokane, was
elected president of the Washington
State Dental Society in session at Ia
coma. The convention next year vii.
be held in Spokane.
The bodies of Mr.. and Mrs. J. p
Booth, who disappeared from Seattle,
were found near the Sunset Highway
at North Bend by deputy sheriffs.
Both had been shot.
Professor Thomas P. Clarke, super
intendent of the Washington state
school for the deaf at Vancouver for
the past u years, has been asked BY
Governor Lister to resign.
Captain John See of Aberdeen
heads the Washington and Alaska en-
campment OF the Grand Army of the
Republic, as commander. having beef
chosen at the annual election.
If sufficient tonnage of low grade
and Gull potatoes can be assured at
prices not to exceed SO a ton, a
starch factory will be added TO North
Yakimas manufacturing industries.
Anonymous letters are reported to
have been received ty Walla Walla
farmers intimating that their wheat
crops would be burned this year. Re
ports have been made to the authori.
ties.
Attacks upOn the Government OF