The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-07-05
r. G. Lester and M. Nichols, Seattle,

Wash.
Ceremonies in connection with the
cornerstone laying of the federal build
ing at Wenatchee will take place July
20. The Masonic lodge Will nave
charge of the exercises.
The mysterious disease which mas
made its appearance among children
in Missouri is reported as having ap
peared at Chewelah. The symptoms
closely resemble enterocolitis.
United States Labor Commissioner
Henry NJ. White says there is no
labor shortage in the state, and the
nrospect is that there will be suffi-
cient labor to harvest the crops.
Elaborate plans for the purchase by
the city of Spokane of enormous 1000
and fuel supplies and the retailing
of these to citizens at cost have been
set in motion by the city council.
Arrangements are being made by
Mrs. Lon NJ Diven, state librarian, to
provide six travelling library outfits
for the benefit of the soldiers who will
be assembled at American Lake.
The Jeanette Skinner, another $500
ton steel cargo carrier, was launched
at Seattle from the shipyards of the
Skinner G. Eddy corporation. She IS
the seventh steel vessel sent down the
ways from the plant since May z,
1916.
Claims for unpaid predatory animal
bounties amounting to $685. are tied
up at North Yakima because State
Auditor Clausen has raised the ques.
ton that since Yakima county has not
paid these claims, he doubts whether
the state is liable.
An estimate of 23,500 cars of apples
in the principal apple districts of the
four northwestern states for the 1917
season was made public at Spokane
by l.. J. Blot, secretary of the Fruit
growers agency, a cooperative mar
keting organization.
Mayor Gill, of Seattle, discharged
five members of the police dry
/ snuad, whose chief, Sergeant Nicto:
Putnam, was removed from the force
because he set trap for Michael
Powers, police inspector, and accused
i him of taking bride.
Work on the foundations of the II
barracks of the first infantry unit of
the great cantonment, being construct
ed at American Lake in preparation
for the coming of a division OF the
CONSUMPTION army, has been started
by the Hurley Mason company.
One hundred and fifty veterans of
! the civil and Spanish wars
and members of the Womens Relief
i corps are in Pullman this week for the
goth annual encampment of the vet
Grams association of Whitman and
i Latah counties, which opened July B.
/ &, Dean Arthur S. Hagett of the college
of liberal arts of the University of
Washington died at his home in
Seattle after an illness of many weeks.
He caught a severe cold while at his
summer home on Bainridge island
early in the spring and it is believed
this developed into a combination OF
grip and other diseases. Dean Hagett
Joined the state university faculty Is
years ago. He leaves widow and
two daughters.
Referendum petition No. 10, the last
liquor referendum, appears to have
sufficient signatures to make it legal,
The navy department has awarded
to the Sound Construction & Engi-
neering company, of Seattle, the con-
tract for the erection of building
dock at the Puget Sound navy yard,
to cost $4,000. On this dock cruis-
ers and other warships will be built
That the new budget law passed by
the 1917 legislature applies to expendi-
lures of public funds this year is the
ruling made by Attorney General Tan
ner in an opinion to the state bureau
of inspection. The law limits eXpendi
lures to per cent in excess of the
revenues, all other warrants drawn in
excess being Illegal
The organization of the Washington
State Bakers association by the an
nual convention of Master Bakers of
the Pacific northwest at North Yaki-
ma, discontinued the latter organiza-
ton except when separate state or
/ CARNATIONS meet together Frank
Rueth, of Seattle, was elected presi-
dent by reclamation.
An appeal for federal aid in dealing
with what is characterized as the In
dustrial Workers of the World men
ace against the lumber mining and
agricultural industries of the north
west, was forwarded to representa-
tives in congress of Washington and
Idaho by the trustees of the Spokane
chamber of commerce.
Extinction of the smut evil in Wash