The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-10-18

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offices of the Fir Emergency CON
mittee at Tacoma.
Pharmacists licensed in other state
will be licensed in Washington with
out passing a new examination here
ii was announced by E. B. Garrison
of Connell, secretary of the Washing
ton state board of pharmacy.
The Washington Galleries company
capitalized at $780, 900, plans to de
velop a field said to contain approx
mately 100000 tons of coal, which
lies in the neighborhood of Lake Wash
ington, near Seattle's city limits.
Seattle is making a strenuous cam
paign for new factories, having raised
$4,000 to make a survey of wha
kinds of factories are needed; $3.50,
600 will be spent in forming a corpo
ration to encourage new manufactu
rers to come to that city.
A serious wheat congestion IL
threatening grain terminals of the
northwest The limit of storage ca
pacity in Spokane has almost beer
reached and mill and grain men art
advising farmers not to ship Their
grain directly to terminal points.
Commissioner Younger announces
that the state welfare commission has
under way an investigation now rela
tive to the wages and conditions under
which women work as car cleaners
and engine wipers for the railroads
If the conditions justify ii a formal
conference will be held to investigate
this matter and to fix by formal order
the wages, the hours of labor and the
conditions under which the women
may work.
Practically all of the right OF wa!
for the new route for the Pacific high.
way between La Center and Pioneer,
has been secured and the contract
for grading this piece of road, three
and one-half miles long, was recently
let to Tacoma man. Work is ex-
pected to be started soon.
Prosecuting Attorney A. H. Lundil,
has asked the King county commits
sioners for four assistants to help
him in his task of Kidding Seattle OF
several undesirable dance halls and
resorts. Charges have been made by
military authorities that liquor is be.
ing sold to soldiers in the resorts.
The problem of suppressing i'm.
morality, bootlegging, gambling and
other obnoxious parasites at Camp
Lewis will be handled in cooperation
by the federal, state and military au.
thorities, according to a statement by
Colonel M. E. Saville, in charge OF
military police at the cantonment
Secretary Paul Clagstone of the
ceived wire announcing that Clifford
Pinchot, chairman of the live stock
department of the national food ad
ministration, will address the north.
western stockmen during the annual
show and meeting at Lewiston No
vember SIS.
Seven natives of Finland, arrested
at Aberdeen as slackers, had Jail
sentences imposed in trials in the
federal court at Tacoma. Two of the
men, who were /. w. w. and were
charged with opposing the draft, were
sentenced to six months each, foul
were sentenced to six days in Jail and
one got off with six hours. All are
married men.
Cheney patrons of the Cheney Lighl
& Power company are to get lower
rates under public service commits
sion order on the proceedings started
by the city of Cheney against the com
pany, alleging it was making excessive
profits. The commission finds tina!
the company was getting return az
high as 35 per cent at times and under
the new rate this will be cut to abou
81 per cent.
The selection of 800 acres of land
three miles north of Prosser, as o
site for the state irrigation expert
mental farm, provided for by the legis
lature last winter, is announced. The
committee named by the regents Of
the state college inspected severa
sites in the Yakima valley, in the Wen
atchee and Walla Walla districts an6
elsewhere before making its report tC
the regents.
At least five crews of axmen will
be at work in the green timber of the
Quinault district soon, cutting out
rived spruce stock for use in the con
struction of airplanes. Several crews
each of five men, are at work now
and others are to start. Each creS
will average about 1000 feet of goot
airplane timber daily so that the daily
production of five crews will bt
around 10000 feet.
That it is up to the state authorities
at Olympia whether or not fedora
funds shall be allotted to build anothel
highway from Tacoma to Camp Levi!
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