The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-07-19


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bers are to be added.
Express drivers in Seattle are on
strike.
Fire at Morton destroyed the saw.
mill of J. H. Richards.
Actual cutting of wheat has started
in the Walla Walla valley.
Fire at Quincy caused loss of s15,.
600 with partial insurance.
River steamer service to points on
the upper Columbia and Snake rivers
has been resumed.
The 18th annual convention of the
Pacific Coast Association of Nursery.
men was held at Tacoma.
Arrangements have been completed
for branch of the San Francisco fed
eral reserve bank at Spokane.
Toppenish building permits for June
totaled $26,5O0, and more structures
are planned for the near future.
The 10th annual encampment of the
Clarke County Veterans association
will be held at Orchards July " and
IS.
Work on the new high school at
Grandview has been commenced. The
completed building will cost about
$4,000.
p Two hundred and fifty Swedish
singers from Pacific coast and north
west points met at Tacoma for the an
nual festival.
The extreme hot weather of the last
few days is having bad effect in the
wheat belt. Spring wheat particularly
is badly burned.
The Yakima Valley Fruit Growers
association reports 1t is moving
peaches and apples to market from
lower valley points.
F. A. Degeler, in charge of grains
and grasses at the southwest Wash
ington fair at Centralia, says this
years exhibit will exceed all previous
ones.
Visitors from all parts of southwest
Washington attended the picnic at
Offuts lake, north of TeninO. Sunday,
under the auspices of the Centralia
lodge of Elks.
With the Columbia river receding
gradually every day, the bottom farms
are emerging from under water and
farmers are now moving back, as all
danger of higher water has passed.
Extra guards were placed on duty
in Whatcom county by James Kline,
county fire warden, as the result of
reports that |. w. w. planned to de-
stroy timber during the dry season.
Spokane has begun to supply tn
country with cut and trimmed mica, a
factory having been established by the
Muscovite Mica Mining company, the
owner of mines at Avon, Latah county,
Idaho.
The payroll at the American Lake
headquarters of the Hurley Mason
company, contractors for construction
of the cantonment to house $4,000 men
and $1,000 animals, has reached $751;
600 weekly.
Warmer weather and better pasture
combined to increase the average milk
production during May of each of the
AGA cows in the Walla Walla Cow
Testing association 80 pounds ovel
that for April.
Persons under 81 years of age may
operate cars on stage lines" but not
assistant attorney general, in an opin-
ion to the prosecuting attorney of
Clarke county.
Federal troops stationed in Kittitas
county arrested between SO and 60 In.
dustrial Workers of the World, charg
ed with interfering with crop harvest
ing and logging, in violation of the
federal statutes.
Forty-seven men and boys were ia.
ken from freight trains in King coun
ty by soldiers and deputy sheriffs and
lodged in the county jail. A majority
of the prisoners were bound for east.
ern Washington.
The Rev. o. B. Whitmore, of Ritz
VILE, has received word from his son.
in-law, Reginald Chapman, that he has
been seriously wounded in France. He
belongs to a machine gun corps of
Canadian regiment.
United States District Attorney Clay
Allen has announced that alien en-
emies among arrested l. w. W. will be
interned at a specially constructed
camp near American Lake, should this
step become necessary.
More than 800 streetcar members of
recently organized union struck at
Tacoma Monday. The strike came af-
ter the company refused to recognize
the union or reinstate seven old en-
ployes active in its organization.
Extended forest fires along Green
river, near Lester and Nagrom on the
Northern Pacific railroad, threatened
damage to Tacoma's water supply.