The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-07-12

rapidly, and the Stevens county roads
that were under water are in good
shape, and auto traffic to the lone and
Metaline country is again open.
Attendance OF over 1000 delegates
and their wives is assured at the Sec
ond annual convention of the Inter
state Realty association, TO be held in
Grays Harbor. August 9. 10 and IL.
Arthur Schwandt, an l. w. w. agi-
tator and organizer at Gle Elum,
where he was arrested for failure to
register for conscription. is now held
in the Ellensburg city jail as an in
termed German.
Were this normal year, harvest
would be well under way, in the Walla
Walla valley. but owing to the IN
usually late spring II will probably be
three weeks before a great many
crews are in the fields.
While more than 100 farmers of
the Kittitas Valley were meeting at
Ellensburg. members of the l. W. w.
took advantage of their absence from
home and proceeded to cause trouble
in the Denmark district
Demands for an eight-hour day in
the mills, with a minimum wage of
So, and for a nine-hour day in the
camps, with a minimum wage of $3.50,
were made on millowners and logging
camp operators OF Grays Harbor
county by the International Union of
Timber Workers.
In common with other large univer-
stiles throughout the country, the Uni
versity of Washington will offer six
weeks intensive course of training
preparatory to service in the quarter
masters reserve corps of the United
States army. The course will open
Monday. July 16.
The completion Of the yards of the
Pasco Union Stockyards company, at
cost of $4,000; the building of the
new permanent highway known as the
Rattlesnake Flat road, at cost of APP
proximately $4,000, and the stationing
of a company of Idaho National Guards
at Pasco has caused that city to boom.
That Spokane county has lost prob
ably $4,000 eggs as a result of re-
cent raids made on the fish tank
at the hartford hatchery was the dis
covery made by the county game COM
missioners when the prosecutors Of
flee found that school boys were re
sponsible for the loss of some of the
fish.
Differences between telephone opera
tors of Crays Harbor and the Pacific
Telephone and Telegraph company.
which threatened to cause a strike
among employees of the company along
the entire Pacific coast, have been
settled. Under the terms of the agree
ment reached operators returned TO
work with wages increased 25 cents
a day.
The finding of oyster and clam shells
in the east end of Grays Harbor coun-
~ upon lands 1000 feet above sea
level seems to demonstrate that this
county-perhaps all of western Wash
ington-was once the bed of the
Pacific ocean. The shells were &C.
mented in rocks and were found on a
ridge between the Satsop and Wynoche
river, fully 35 miles from the present
Pacific coast shoreline.
Not only are shippers Of this state
directed to load freight cars to their
fullest carrying capacity, but by a
circular issued to the shippers and
railways by the public service com
mission the carriers are invited to
change their minimums so as to force
compliance with the commissions sug-
gestions. This revolutionary plan is
frankly declared a war measure and
the circular announces il is to be eff
fective only during the tendency OF
the great struggle unless sooner set
aside by the orders of the commits
sion.
Figures given out by State Land
Commissioner Savidge show that col
lectiops in each department on leases
of state land for the six months ended
April 80 amounted to $94,S54, while
s11.349 is still outstanding and unpaid.
The great bulk of this money comes
from eastern Washington, were the
agricultural lands belonging to the
school children are located. Lincoln
county leads the list with s17.294,
while Whitman is second with s16,02S,
and Adams county is third with S7423.
Twenty-Five of the 80 counties pay in
to this fund.
By official announcement, Governor
Lister informed the state that federal
troops stationed at American Lake
post will be available for use in the
event of l. w W. trouble in harvest
time, or any other disturbance that
may threaten food production and
manufacturing during the war period.
This assurance is given in reply to a
report ON l. W. w. conditions tele
graphed TO the war department by