The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-05-31

four young cn1loren at AUBURN last
January, was sentenced to life impris-
onment in the state penitentiary.
Some 200 women will be employed
in the Northern Pacific car shops at
South Tacoma in the next two weeks,
some of them as helpers in the boiler
making and machine departments.
Sixteen thousand measurement tons
of box shocks are on the docks at Ia
coma awaiting bottoms to carry them
to Hawaii. Ne lack of shipping has
caused the piling up of immense car
goes.
Arthur Gum, president of the
Wenatchee Valley Gas e. Electric com
pany, was killed when his automobile
overturned, pinning him underneath.
The body was found by passing
tourists.
A fund of $4,000, to be used in en-
tertaining the Tri-State Realty Deal
ers' convention, which meets on Grays
Harbor August 9, 10 and IL, is now as
sured, according to the convention fl
nance committee.
Convicts of military age in the state
prison will be registered June 5 as are
all others of military age. There are
between $50 and 200 of this age in the
institution. The average age of the
inmates is SO years.
loon let rio ig
taking the lead probably of the entire
nation in applications for loans ac
cording to President D. G. 0'Shea of
the Northwestern Farm Loan Bank,
located at Spokane.
Assistant Secretary of State Adee,
in a letter to the Fruitgrowers Agency
dated May 10, gives little encourage
ment to apple growers of the northwest
deprived of their former British mar
ket by the war embargo.
The United Commercial Travellers of
Washington, Oregon and British Co
lumbia. IN closing their convention at
Everett, selected Tacoma for next
years convention at a date to be chus-
en- by the Tacoma council.
The state of Washington four years
ago adopted a state road system which
embraces 1000 miles of primary road
and 1900 miles of secondary roads.
This system is now about half i'm
proved, and there has been spent upon
it approximately $4,000, 900 by the
state.
The Libby, Mcneil G. Libby cannery
at North Yakima will be ready for
operation July ! and will begin on
Royal Ann cherries. Superintendent
r. c. Turvin says the first seasons
pack will be 100000 cases. Three hun
dred women and 100 men will be en-
ployed.
West coast lumbermen agreed at
meeting at Seattle TO sell lumber for
government shipbuilding at $40 per
thousand feet and not to raise prices
as the demand increases. At a spe-
cial meeting serious opposition de-
veloped toward attempts to obtain
higher price.
Mrs. Geneva Barley. former county
superintendent of schools OF kittitas
county and at present teacher at
Boylston, was bitten many times by
a mad dog last week. She was walk
ing across a field near Boylston, half
a mile from any building, when the
dog attacked her.
To every soldier and every man who
becomes a soldier in the state of Wash
ington will be presented a khaki col
ored pocket edition of the new tesla
ment by the Western Washington Sun
day School association, if the plans
now under consideration by the execu-
tives of the association are carried out.
Milton J. Whitson, former superin-
tendent of the Stone G. Webster corpor-
alton and one of the best known bui d.
ing engineers of the northwest, has
been offered the position of construc-
ton manager in the United States
army quartermaster's department
Whitson will have charge of building
camps for the military forces of the
United States
.7iremen, policemen and city employ
es of Aberdeen who made an appeal
for increased pay on account OF the
high cost of living have won out, the
council agreeing to a 10 and 20 per
cent raise in order not TO disorganize
the forces. The school teachers have
also appealed for an increased wage
and are also likely to win out when
the board of education meets.
A meeting of representatives OF
whaling companies and meat distrlbu-
tors was held at Seattle to consider
means of extending the market for
whale meat throughout the United
States. The market already establish
ed on the Pacific coast is regarded as
permanent. but the supply of the meat
is so large that it is proposed TO ship
II in refrigerator cars to eastern cities.
etc mo