The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-07-19
WORK TO PREVENT
LOSSES OF GRAIN
To Stop Burning of Crops; Other
Washington News

burned in Washington and that after
grain in warehouses or elevators is to
be destroyed by fire if preaching pre-
vention can stop it, is the announced
plan of HI. o. Fishback, state insur-
ance commissioner The last legisla-
ture granted $4,000 to carry on fire
prevention work and made him state
fire marshal He has engaged the
services of Captain w. A. Groce, for
merly of the coast arson committee,
and Groce is now in eastern Washing
ton. He is instructing the farmers III
removing fire hazards by having dan
gerous strips along the roads cut, by
showing how to make fire breaks and
organizing them into squads for fight
ing fire, as well as seeing that they
have the necessary fire apparatus
In addition, he proposes, if possible,
to have lookouts stationed on COM
handing hills with telephones, and
these guards will watch at night to
see that no fires break out and to
head off any "frebugs" that might try
to start series of fires.
The French government has award.
ed contract to the Duthie shipyard
of Seattle for the construction of two
8S00-ton steel steamships at cost OF
more than $3.0000O0. The United
States shipping board has approved
the contract.
United States District judge Neterer
handed down a temporary injunction
at Seattle restraining drivers of scent
auto buses from operating on the
streets of Seattle until they comply
with the bonding law or until theif
case is heard in court upon its merits.
Authorities at North Yakima ar
waiting the decision of the war de
partment as to whether !. w. V.
charged with violation of the federal
espionage law and held under arres,
shall be proceeded against by civil pro.
cess or dealt with as prisoners of waf.
Cargo lumber shipments from Grays
been over 20 per cent heavier than
those for the opening half year Of 1916
To July l of this year water shipments
of lumber had totaled ISL, 791, 900 feet
as against 142,Oc5, 900 feet for the
same months of 1916.
Fourteen logging camps, II of them
in the west end of Grays Harbor
county, one lumber mill and one shin
gle mill were closed as the result of
strike call issued by the Industrial
Workers of the World, calling out all
the loggers in the camps of the courty
and all the workers in the mills.
In an opinion to the prosecuting at
torney of Clarke county, it is held by
l.. l.. Thompson, assistant attorney
general, that Oregon auto trucks which
80 to Vancouver to pick up loads and
return to the Oregon side of the river
do not need to have Washington state
licenses if they have Oregon licenses.
Troops were rushed to Tye, in north
eastern King county, the highest point
on the Great Northern railway in the
Cascade mountains, after word had
been received that the l. w. w. would
attempt to force a strike in lumber
camps near Tye. They will also assist
in protecting the Cascade tunnel and
the miles of snowsheds along the rail
way.
I IF a o.
partment has left for a trip of inspec-
ton over the McClelland pass and Sno-
qualmie pass highways to determine
whether or not the federal government
Allen, state highway commissioner.
The state wants $4,000 for the Sno-
qualmie pass and $4,000 for the Me-
Clellan pass.
The homesteaders of the Colville res
ervation are signing a petition adj
dressed to the secretary of the interior
and congress asking that the secretary
defer the time of payment Of each of
the five annual payments to become
due on the homestead entries made
last fall for one year, making each
annual payment coIle due one year
later than the time due under the en-
try.
While the industrial insurance law
proyides for the payment of claims of
injured workmen for medical attention,
nothing in the law requires payment
for mechanical attention. hold the
Industrial insurance commissioners,
who rejected the claim of Frank
Grooge, of Aberdeen, for compensa-
ton for a broken wooden leg. A log
rolled on his wooden leg, breaking it,
while he was at work.
The constitutionality of the amend
ment to the state fisheries law forbid
ding purse SEEMING in the Columbia
river will be tested before Judge Gil
bert of the United States circuit court
of appeals and United States District
Judges jeremiah Neterer and Edward