The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-04-05

ference was the formation. OF the "a
rife Coast CRANBERRY Exchange. The
exchange will have Charge of the mar
keting of the entire crop OF its mem
hers The newly formed exchange
g,ill handle about 5000 barrels of Gran
berries this year.
Edward Mayberry. halfbreed
Indian, convicted in the federal court
of first degree murder. must hang at
Fort George Wright on April H. ac-
cordfng TO information received oy
United States Marshal A. McGoVerh'
from Attorney General Gregory at
Washington. Petitions sent 10 the
president from Spokane, asking com
mutation Of sentence to life imprlsoh-
ment, were denied.
Gone suddenly insane, it is believed
A. Lindsey, aged 40. saw fiier at
Camp I, OF the Simpson Logging COM
pany in the northeast section OF Grays
Harbor county, shot and killed I'D
Gosselin, camp cook, aged 90, and
then armed with a high powered rite
and a revolver, wandered about the
camp for three or four hours until
wounded in the arm and overpowered
by Sheriff Jeff Bartells and posse
which had arrived on the scene.
Except for scientific, sacramentai,
medicinal and mechanical purposes
Washington will be bone-dry after July
l. with the permit system invalidated
even if the Halsey bone-dry law is
amended by referendum petitions until
the next regular election in 1918, &C
cording to an opinion by W. V. Tanner,
attorney general. He holds the federal
law applicable in Washington on the
date of it's going into effect, in max
ing it a crime punishable in federal
courts to order, purchase, or cause to
be transported in interstate COM
merce, into any state or territory,
intoxicating liquor, where the sale and
manufacture Of such liquor for bever-
age purposes is prohibited by the laws
of such state or territory, except for
the purpose specifically mentioned.
In it's first session since the legisla-
ture authorized highway appropria-
tons for this year and next, the state
highway commission adopted budget
of expenditure designed to insure
completion of the Pacific highway,
particularly with reference to uneom-
pleted sections between Chehalis and
Vancouver. Although details have
not yet been worked out, the commits
sion authorized the expenditure of
$24S,S7S on construction work between
Chehalis and Vancouver. This appro-
priation includes bridge across the
Cowlitz at Toledo and bridges across
the Kalama and Coweeman rivers,
with construction or improvement
from Forest to Toledo north and
south from Toutle river. north and
south from Castle Rock, north from
Kelso, from Martins Bluff to Wood
land, and from La Center to Pioneer.
Salmon fishing, except with hook
and line, is closed above tidewater on
practically all streams emptying into
the Pacific between the mouth OF the
Columbia and Cape Flattery in the
state fisheries code as amended by
the 1917 legislature. The head of tide
water for the purposes OF the act, is
established largely by section lines.
BY an emergency clause the fish
code amendments became effective
April l. Rivers named in the Wiliapa
Harbor district in this restriction are
the North Willapa, south fork of the
Willapa, Nasel, Palix, Nema, Bear,
Cedar and Smith Greek. Rivers fall
ing within the prohibition in the Grays
Harbor district are the Chehalis,
Humptulips, Elk and John rivers.
Erection or operation of fish traps,
pound nets or fish wheels in Grays or
Wilapa Earbor streams are forbidden,
except on locations existing in 1914.
Gill and set nets are banished from
streams between Grays Harbor and
Cape Flattery. Kalama, Lewis, Wind,
Little White Salmon, Big White Sal
mon, Wenatchee, Methow, Little Spo-
kane, Colville and Yakima rivers are
closed to salmon fishing except with
hook and line, as the Columbia is also,
within one mile below the mouths of
the rivers named above. Exception
is made in the Yakima river, which
the state fish commissioner may open
to point below the Prosser dam to
fishing by white men and Indians
for food for themselves and families
under regulation. A closed season is
fixed on clans when dug for canning
or sale from June / to March l of the
following year along Pacific ocean
or Grays or Willapa harbor beaches
and they may be dug only by hand
with fork or shovel. CLAIMS may be
dug any time for personal consump
ton.
How Willie Won.