The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1917-12-20

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against Mayor Hiram C. Gill
Clarke county potato growers are
having difficulty in moving their crop
and the price being offered is 50 low
that many are reluctant to sell
Governor Ernest Lister has called
upon the residents Of Washington TO
respond as much as they are able to
the call for Red Cross members.
Pasco is enjoying 9 steady and
heaIthful growth and the population Is
increasing at a rate which makes the
housing Of newcomers problem
The Chehalis, Wynooche and Sstsop
rivers were flooded and between Mon
tesano and Aberdeen at high tide the
entire valley was covered with water
last week
Double the amount Of seed potatoes
which Pierce county loaned farmers
and others unable to buy them last
spring. have been returned as payment
Of the loan
An experiment recently undertaken
by the poultry division of the state
college at Pullman is TO work out
poultry-teetinz rations dispensing en-.
tireIy with wheat
DR.. lisa TaRimura. commissioner
of live stock for the japanese govern
ment, is in Seattle laying plans for the
purchase Of 10000, 900 head of sheep
for his government
IF. Warren, veteran northwest and
Alaska police official. was appointed
Seattle's chief of police. vice c. l.
Rockingham. who resigned at the re.
quest Of Mayor Gill
LOGS. railroad ties and shingle bolts
valued at more than 5000. 900 were car
ried out 70 the boom at the mouth oil
the Lewis river in Clarke county by
the recent high water.
One hundred and ninety-five thou.
sand silver trout eggs have been as
signed the Lewis county game com.
mission and they are to be Matched
in the state hatchery on the Tiltol
river.
Thirty-five suspected slackers are
in the Seattle Jail, taken as the result
of a still hunt made through pool.
rooms in the lower part of the city
by naval intelligence department
agents.
The Colfax commercial club discus.
sed the advisability of having schools
OF the town and county speed up work
to shorten the term, in order to release
the boys for agricultural work in the
spring.
BY a vote Of IA to 103. water users
of the Selah-Naches irrigation district
have rejected a proposition to issut
bonds to the amount of s5S5.o00 to
reconstruct their canal system with
concrete.
Members OF the Washington Cream.
cry Operators and Buttermakers' as
ISOLATION will advocate a bill before
the next legislature providing for com
pulsory pasteurization in all the cream
cries of the state.
| The Northwest College conference
meeting at Spokane, officially dropped
| wrestling as a college sport for the
/ duration of the war. and curtailed &C.
tivities in baseball. basketball and
track and field events.
w. F. Geiger. superintendent OF
/ schools of Tacoma, was appointed to
the state board of education to sue.
coed c. r. Frazier, Of Everett, who
has become head of the state depart.
ment of vocational training.
Eastern Washington stockmen are
pleased with the winter weather that
| has been experienced so far. Pastures
/ have been good and there has been no
cold weather to cut down the stock,
and little hay has been fed.
A resolution calling upon Governor
Ernest Lister to convene special
session of the legislature to pass a
law compelling every able-bodied man
in the state to accept employment and
remain at work for duration of the
war was passed by the Employers
association of Washington at its an.
nual meeting in Seattle.
The Okanogan county council Of
agriculture has been organized.
The Pacific highway is closed south
of Castlerock while a big cut is being
made.
The dates for the annual Walla
Walla poultry show have been fixed as
January to Y.
Ira W. Goodman, age about IS, died
at Walla Walla after a residence in
Walla Walla valley of 55 years.
Work has commenced on the con-
struction of the new strip of road,
S5 miles long. from Pasco to Connell.
Out of the lump sum appropriated
by congress for vocational education.
S106,S25 has been allotted to Washing
ton.
The University OF Idaho defeated