The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-10-25
WHALE MEAT PLEASES
PEOPLE OF STATE
Another Big Station To Supply De-
mand To Be Established In WASH
ington; Other News

So heavy is the demand for whale
meat that another whaling station. It
is said, is to be established by the
American Whaling company, which
has plant at Bay City ON Grays Har-
Dor. A big storage plant has been
built at the Bay City station. but the
company has been unable to keep up
with the demand. Two hundred
whales were captured the first sea
son. Only since the war has whale
meat come into its own as an article
of food. Experiments also prove tha
splendid leather, suitable for wo
mems gloves or shoes, can be made of
\ the skin of the intestines and stomach
of the whale.
October % the new Franciscan mon
astery recently completed on Cowlitz
Prairie, near Toledo, will be dedicated
with appropriate ceremonies.
The Lawrence Employment agency
of Spokane was found guilty by the
/ city commissioners on a charge OF
sending men to Astoria to act as
strikebreakers under misrepresenta-
ton The agency must refund about
/ $1,000 to the men.
/ The Wishkah water project fund
of 100000, which will supply water
/ to Aberdeen, has only $4,000 left, but
/ the project is so near completion that
/ this will be sufficient to see ii
through The cost of construction is
/ still LOO under the estimate.
/ The Sperry Flour company of San
I Francisco, will start work next month
on the construction of its plant at
4 Spokane, which will represent. with
the installation of the first unit of
/ $50 barrels of flour a day, an invest
ment of approximately $1,500.00O.
| Military and civil authorities have
combined to keep Tacoma clean of
/ vice for the protection of the soldiers.
/ Major Mark Y. Croxall announced
that abatement proceedings would be
started under the Washington law
against places where vice is found to
exist
On account of the heavy fire losses
+ on property at the south and north
/ beach summer resorts on Grays Har-
Dor the insurance companies declare
+ they will cancel all policies and take
no more risks. During the last two
years the losses have amounted to
! 100000.
/ That liberty loan bonds are ACCEPT
able as security to cover state depos
its for rs per cent of their face value,
according to law, in lieu of security
/ bonds is the announcement made by
w. w. Sherman, state treasurer, whJ
is sending a letter to that effect to
all state depositaries.
Seattle telephone operators struck
at two o'clock Saturday morning, but
voted half an hour later to return to
work on a .telegraphic promise from
w. F. Delaney, their business agent
in San Francisco, that their demands
would be settled by October q. They
Immediately returned to work.
Upon his return from a trip to Spo-
kane and other eastern Washington
points. c. H. Younger, state labor
commissioner, reports that there is a
/ general shortage of skilled and un-
skilled labor in all sections of the
/ tot 10 he ic oottinS
more and more pressing for men.
/ Petitions asking that an election be
/ called to organize an irrigation district
/ on Fords and Waunch's prairies near
/ Centralia probably will be presented
/ TO the Lewis county commissioners
i November 5. About 60 per cent of
the property included in the proposed
/ district is represented by the sigma
/ lures to the petitions.
Captain o. A. Hastings, well
known pioneer steamboat master,
/ died at the United States marine hos
pital at Port Townsend. as a result
! of a paralytic stroke several days
/ ago. He is a native son of Washing
/ ton and member of a pioneer family,
/ his grandfather being among the first
settlers on Puget Sound.
Lynn Markey, principal of the
Easton school, was fined $50 in jus
tice court at Ellensburg upon his con-
viction of using language calculated
to provoke an assault in connection
with verbal attack he was alleged
TO have made in the county teachers
institute upon a speaker asking for
support for the liberty loan.
Hazard Stevens, son of the first
territorial governor of Washington,
sent a piece of cedar from the foun
dation of the first executive mansion
which his father built in Olympia in
1853, to Mrs. William A. McAdoo to
be burned in one of the Liberty fires
started all over the nation on October
20 to help boost the liberty loan
bonds
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