The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-02-08
WASHINGTON STATE
NEWS Of INTEREST
important Occurrences OF PaS
Week Briefly Compiled tor
Our Readers.

1t is estimated that 2.eoa, zoo bushels
OF wheat are held in Liacoln county.
Potato stocks left In all hands in
Washington are estimated at 500 cars.
The Younger Girls conference held
a three-say session at Chehalis last
week.
The Yakima county commissioners
have decided to appoint & county asri-
eulturist.
The wslls walla copper company is
planning to develop It's mine near
Keller in real earnest
The annual presnysery OF north cen
trail Washington Presbyterian churches
vas held at wenstohee.
Aberdeen is JubilsRt over the sssur.
snce that 6 $1,000. coo paper and pulp
mill viii be erected there
The Southern Pacific railway will
open 8 Joint freight and passenger Of
flee in Spokane on March /.
Yakima county viii attempt to es.
tsblish an efficiency system OF road
Fire starting In the boiier-room
; OF the Carnegie hilary at South Bend,
did damage OF $4,000 to the building
and books.
April 2. S. and 4 have been selected
as the dates for the annual Whitman
county teachers institute, 70 be held
in Pullman.
Riparian rights owners OF Yakima
county propose TO send & delegation to
Olympia 10 fight the water code In its
present form.
Contract for erecting the public
building AT Wenatchee VAS awarded
to the Sound Construction company. OF
Seattle, al s120GO.
Foreign cargo lumber shipments
from Grays Hareor promise to be tie
heaviest OF any month since the on
break Of the war
The annual conference of SUNDAY
school boys OF Western Washington
was held in Centrslia with about $50
delegates in attendance.
The cornerstone OF Nancouvers new
SI20 600 federal building WIS LAID Sun
DAY afternoon with appropriate cere-
monies by the Elks' lodge.
The receipts OF the Aberdeen water
department showed II per cent In
crease during the past six months
over the preceding six months.
Farmers of the Kelso district ron
} tinue to ship potatoes al lively rats
Prices Of from 1926 10 $3.50 per hun
dred have been paid for most OF them,
J The Aloha club. Of Tacoma. has de-
cided TO adopt al least one French war
orphan, and other organizations of the
like in Tacoma are considering serious
" taking similar action
II is estimated that the snowfall last
week threw 1000 people in Grays Hsr-
Dor county. mostly woodsmen. in
idieness The loss In payroll alone
was placed at $4,000 day.
Cargo lumber shipments from Grays
Harbor In January were heavier than
those OF any month since the wal.
During the month - vessels cleared
with 81. sa3 00O feet OF lumber.
A coroner.s Jury at Auburn returned
a verdict holding 5. A Hewitt guilty
OF the murder OF his four children Al
their home there last Sunday. Hewitt
declined to testify al the inquest.
Orders were issued at the Puget
Sound navy yard putting the mechan-
ical force al the yard on q 24-houT
basis. beginning Sunday morning.
Work on ships under repair will be
rushed.
Two work trains and a steam shovel
. arrived at Grandyiew te begin the
Standardization OF the Northern Pacific
right OF way at that point More than
100 men viii be employed for nearly
80 DAYS.
Coyotes are becoming bold of late,
and It is reported that they have visit
ed ranch houses on the Okanogan
reservation and attacked and fought
with dogs Several of them have
been shot.
The board OF county commissioners
OF Clarke county has been asked 10
joiu with Cowlitz county In the con
struetion OF a bridge across Lewis riv-
er at Cresaps ferry. 80 miles from
Woodland
That cider is being used TO & greater
extent since the prohibition law went
into effect in Washington is the In
formation received by the Charleston
commercial club. according to compii-
alton by II. W Samson. horticultural
inspector There were 5000 tons OF
apples In Washington manufactured
into by-products during the year 1916.
of which the bulk was marketed as
cider
A survey Is in progress for the de
velopment OF d power plant al Priest
Rapids In Washington that will gen
aruts r,,o~e mower than al the existing