The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-01-18

and Z. camp of the South Bend Mills
& Timber company at Chehalis, was
killed by tree while working in the
woods.
The fifth annual institute of news
paper editors of Washington convened
in Bagley Hail. on the University of
Washington campus, with an attend
snce of 149
Stockmen from the upper Asotin
country report that the mountains in
that vicinity are practically one sur
face Of frozen ice, due to a recent
chinook and hard freeze
L. B. Menefee. president of the
Menefee Lumber Company, of Port
land, has purchased the Veness Lum-
Der Company's mill at Winlock. The
consideration was approximately $780,
900.
After being in use for 26 years the
Tacoma Railway & Power Company
has sold approximately four miles of
railroad steel used on the Steilacoom
line at the same price for which 1t was
purchased.
Springlike weather that prevailed
in the Walla Walla section during the
past week has given wheat growers
an opportunity to catch up with their
blowing operations, and great progress
has been made.
Mrs. Deborah Frost, of Everett, en-
ployed as 4 cook at the Apex mine.
near Skykomish, Snohomish county,
in the Cascade mountains, is thought
to have persisted in a snowslide In
Money canyon January 1.
The use OF day labor in building
Aberdeen's big new water system thus
far has proved successful. City Engi-
neer L. D. Kelsey having completed
half the work at a cost considerably
under the bids of construction compa-
MES.
governor Lister nonore1 requisi
ton papers for the return to New Mex.
leo of Albert NJ. Blancett, 10 years old,
of Friday Harbor. who is accused of
having murderd Clyde Armour of Sioux
City, Iowa, at Albuquerque
The Union Pacific Railway system
will build a dock and warehouse of
modern construction on its waterfront
property at Seattle including terminal
tracks and dredging to a sufficient
depth at cost of 100000 to $500
The Citizens club of Chehalis has
passed resolutions asking the legisla-
ture of Washington to make an ade-
quate and sufficient appropriation to
improve the Pacific highway between
Chehalis and the Columbia river that
1t may be travelled the year around.
The Utah-Idaho Sugar company,
which is erecting a $1,250,000 sugar
mill at North Yakima, will build in
connection Herewith the first plup
drier to be erected in the Northwest
and first to be erected by that
company in connection with any of
its plants.
tttliOuS arc DCiuS CiiCuldtCu OOth
in Chelan and Douglas counties, ASK
ing the boards of county commissioners
to consider the establishing of free
ferry across the Columbia river be-
tween Orondo and Entiat, and to make
appropriations for the maintenance
of the same
ir,vu OF El1on annI1itfad
Walter Hansen of murder of Raleigh
Evans on November l at the Hansen
home at Swauk Prairie. Hansen shot
and killed Evans as the latter was en-
tering the front yard the morning
after he had given Hansen a beating
in fist fight
Naturalization of seamen is easy on
Grays Harbor, for Judge George D.
Abel has adopted the rule of admitting
them to citizenship with out witnesses,
United States examiners have protest
ed against Judge Abels view. He
bases his right to admit them without
witnesses on a law of 1872.
A rate war is on in South Bend be-
tween the WiIlapa Electric company,
serving the twin cities Of South Bend
and Raymond with light and power
and operating the electric railway be-
tween the two cities, and the Willapa
Power company. an organization own
ed by South Bend capitalists.
Logan, Fred and Ora Billingsley,
brothers. and w. H. Pielow, pleaded
guilty at Seattle to several counts in
indictments returned against them by
the Federal grand jury. charging vio-
lation of the Federal liquor laws by
importation OF large quantities of liquor
into the state of Washington from Cal
ifornia Sentence was deferred in each
case.
The United Republican League of
Spokane county has adopted de-
claration of principles favoring state
marketing commission. Presidential
preference primary, bill prohibiting
tho aIanatiop of wnter mower and other