The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-01-04
WASHINGTON STATE
News OF INTEREST
important Occurrences u Past
Week Briefly Compiled for
Our Readers.

W dy e6oONldltOh 40 W bS hSAN - 1880
February 2.
A coyote drive was held by Richland
and Kennewick hunters Sunday north
of Richland
The church and parsonage of the
United Brethren church at Dayton
were destroyed by fire.
The Washington State Music Teach
ers' association held a three-day SEES
sion at North Yakima.
Carl Ableson was killed at Ephrata
while unloading a car of coal for the
Columbia Valley Lumber company
The Yakima Valley Poultry associa-
ton will give the annual show at
North Yakima January 1920 inclusive.
Miss Alzada Knutson and Miss Ruth
Claasen of Vancouver were the first
women to cross the Columbia river
interstate bridge.
Frank c. Morse, of Tacoma, chair
man of the state board Of control, has
resigned and the resignation has been
accepted by Governor Lister.
Sheep men and ranchers in the vi
cinity of Pasco report that never be-
fore have coyotes bothered stock so
much as they do this winter.
The semi-annual convention Of the
+ Industrial Workers Of the World OF
Puget sound met at Seattle, with 500
members of the order in attendance.
Steps toward obtaining lights for all
dangerous curves on roads in the Puy-
allup valley were taken recently by
/ the Alderton improvement club of Ia
coma
The ranchers of the Trout Lake dis
+ trict in northwestern Klickitat county
have organized the Trout Lake and
White Salmon Valley Farm Loan as
ISOLATION.
The conviction of Paul r. Haffer of
| Tacoma for slandering George Wash
ington, first president of the United
States. was upheld by Me state su-
/ preme court.
On account Of ice in the Columbia
river navigation by boat between Ken
newick and Richland has stopped in
definitely, and the mail is being car
ried by auto stage.
| A conference of Sunday school boys
OF western Washington will be held
In Centralia February 2, and 4, at
/ the same time as q conference of girls
i 10 held in Chehalis.
! Much Of the stock for reforestation
purposes at the Wind River nursery
maintained by the government in
Wind River valley, was destroyed by
frost during the fall
The North Yakima building report
/ for 1916 shows more than $250,000
/ spent in construction of new build
/ ings, a gain of I'll per cent over the
building done in the previous year.
/ Six farm loan associations have
been formed In the Wenatchee valley,
including two in Wenatchee. one at
+ Sunnyslope, one in East Wenatchee,
one at Cashmere and one at Dryden.
The state supreme court has affirm
ed the conviction of Tatsuo Takano, a
Seattle druggist, charged with second
degree murder for selling wood alco-
hol to Tom Shannon, who drank it and
died.
Less wheat was grown in Washing
ton in 1916 than in 1915, according to
reports just received from the federal
bureau of crop estimates. Lighter
crops, however, were made up by the
big prices received.
Declaring they could not receive an
impartial trial from Judge Ralph c.
Bell, attorneys for the "A l. w. VS.
charged with murder at Everett, ap-
pealed to the supreme court for writ
of mandate compelling a change of
judges.
A rough draft of the Graham bill,
which proposes to make the adoption
of the city manager form of govern
ment possible for Washington cities
of the second class, has been complet-
ed by Representative-elect A. E. Ora.
ham of Aberdeen.
A party of hunters, with a pack of
hounds, started fox on the upper
Touchet, and after lively run 1t
was captured. 1t proved to be genu'
inc black fox, hut the hounds had torn
the skin SO. badly as to render it
worthless. black fox pelt is worth
several hundred dollars.
The state fair will have free gate
during the next biennium If the plans
of DR.. Fl. T. Graves, state commits
sioner OF agriculture, are supported BY
,eg slative action. DR.. Graves said he
would ask the legislature for an add
tional appropriation of $1,000 to take
the place Of gate receipts.
Four proposed initiative measures
which it was planned to submit to the
legislature, were not filed in the of
ice of the secretary of state before
he time limit for filing expired. Tbs
proposed bills were the measure vest