The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-01-11


erecting a monument on the site of
the old Spokane house, the first white
settlement in Washington.
Financial transactions of Washing
ton during the last four years, count
ing both moneys received and dis
bursed, aggregate more than $780,
100000, State Treasurer Edward
Meath of Tacoma announced.
FL. Mahoney of Salt Lake has been
in Charleston investigating the outlook
for establishing a cooperative vege-
table canning plant. If the market
gardeners become interested an effort
will be made to organize company.
| A tract of 2099 acres in Lincoln
county, at a reported price Of $4,000
has been sold by the Western Empire
Insurance company of Spokane to
William II. and George McNew, wheat
growers and stockmen of Davenport.
Tunnel improvements to cost close
to $45O,00O on the lines of the Great
Northern and Spokane, Portland &
| Seattle railways in the Butte division
and near Pasco, respectively, have
/ been announced by the two COM
| panies.
! Prices for steelhead salmon have
opened this season at higher level
than for any previous year. Indica-
/ tions are the demand will force the
quotations still higher. The prices
offered at the beginning of the season
were nine cents a pound.
/ Despite a restraining order issued
! by Judge Burt Linn Of the superior
/ court, the commissioners of Benton
/ county entered into a tentative con-
! tract with the Ferro Concrete COM
pany for the construction of the court
house at Prosser for 100000.
| Poultry raising has big future in
Washington. according to P. w. Har-
/ ries, editor OF the Pacific Poultryman.
| Harries says Washington spends ST.
/ 100000 a year for dressed chickens
and eggs, all of which he contends
| should be produced In the state.
! Lumbermen and shingle mill ship
| pers in this state are meeting the car
shortage problem by turning flatcars
I into boxcars. The most difficult prob
! lem now is to get boxcars to to hold
/ high-grade planed lumber and shin
/ giles. There are many flatcars.
/ Iooic-
lation forbidding railroad strikes
| pending federal investigation was
/ adopted at the closing session Of the
Washington State Horticultural AS
/ ISOLATION at North Yakima. Another
resolution adopted opposed proposed
legislation limiting cold storage Of
/ fruit
! Garfield county leads in the number
Of automobiles per capita, according
to the secretary of states figures, that
county having one more motor vehicle
/ for every 80 persons. In Wahkiakum
county one machine serves 126 people,
the county having but 2S motor We
hicles.
Henry Jones, the Bickleton bank
robber. pleaded guilty to an informa-
/ ton charging him with robbery in the
superior court at Goldendale, and was
sentenced by Judge Darch to an in
determinate term of five to Is years
at hard labor in the state penitentiary
at Walla Walla.
Receipts of the state insurance Of
flee for the year 1916 reached the
highest point ever attained since the
800. while the expenditures for the
same period were $30.S73, according
to the biennial report of Insurance
Commissioner II. o. Fishback.
Grays Harbor lumbermen are put
ting every possible effort to speed up
the loading of cars in order that they
may help in decreasing the car short
age. In the past so days many cars
have entered the harbor with loads,
been unloaded and lumber loaded and
sent out in less than "a hours.
A. J. Rounds, Walter Mcdonald and
Oscar Lowe pleaded guilty in the SUI
perior court at Seattle to having rob-
bed the State bank at Bothel Deem
Der 6. and on recommendation of the
prosecuting attorney, were each SEN
fenced to the minimum term for the
offense. five to Is years in the peni-
Tertiary.
Delegates to the National Wool
growers association at Salt Lake
January IL. IL and 10 from the Wash
ington Woolgrowers' association are
T. j. Drumheller, DR.. Robert Prior, T.
H. Smith, Alex. McGee. Anderson
brothers. X. o. Kohler. William Nc
Guffir, Angus Mcpherson. John Smith
son and F. NJ. Rothrock.
Four members Of the Spokane board
OF education have expressed them
selves in favor of establishing city
markets at grade school buildings,
as recommended by city commission.
ers, farmers oranges. farmers unions,