The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-01-31

WHISKY, lnCludiuB CopPei "oi'"' w"
heaters, gasoline pressure tank, watts
and boiler, together with materials
for making applejack, and several
bottles of the finished product.
The present season promises to wit
ness considerable activity in building
operations at Pasco.
Active construction on the great
steel shipyard plant to be built at
Vancouver has begun.
The first Yakima corn show was
held at Yakima last week, with about
600 ears of fancy corn on exhibit.
Tom Drumheller of Walla Walla was
elected president of the Washington
Wool Growers association, which held
a three days session at North Yakima.
The s1S5,OO0 of bonds recently voted
at the Vancouver port election have
been purchased by the state and VIII
bear interest at the rate Of Az per
cent.
improvements made by the North
Coast Power company to its water
distribution system in Vancouver dur
ing the past year cost approximately
100000.
Vancouver will ask the government
to provide 3O-foot ship channel from
the military post on the Columbia to
a point of union with the Portland
ship channel.
A man who held up the Little Falls
State bank at Vader, binding and gag
cling Cashier A. N. Cheney and get
ting away with about $4,000, was cap
tured at Winlock.
Construction of the war depart
ments aviation products saw mill at
Vancouver is proceeding so rapidly
that it will be completed and ready to
operate by February Is.
A woman prowler preying on dental
offices only is suspected by the police
to be responsible for a number of bur-
glaries in the business district of Ia
coma during the past few days.
Four million dollars worth Of silk
was unloaded last week at Seattle from
the Japanese liner Hawaii Maru. This
was the most valuable cargo of Its
kind ever received at Pacific port. !
The rate of mortality at the Ameri-
can Lake cantenment is the lowest of
any in the west, according to Governor
Burnquist of Minnesota, who has COM
pleted tour of western army camps.
Tum-a-Lum Lumber company man.
ayers and their wives met at Walla
Walla, to attend the annual meeting
of the company, which occurred from
the 25th to the 9th inclusive.
Through the combined appeals of
President Wilson and Governor Lister
school teachers of this state were call
ed upon to undertake the work of max
ing an occupational index Of all men
registered for military service.
There were heavy shipments of spin
ach and green onions from Walla
Walla during the past week, which was
one of unusual temperature for this
time of the year, and which permitted
the growth and harvesting of green's.
Preliminary steps have been taken
by the Aberdeen council to have Aber-
deem become city of the first class,
these being in the form of orders to
have a census of the city taken to as
certain whether it has 10000 people.
From indications one item at least
in the fruit growers bill of expense
will be less in 1918 than it was in
1917. The cost of fruit wraps, apI
parently. will average about 81 less
hundred pounds than it did last year.
Washington farmers are responding
to the call to supply more foodstuffs
for this and the allied nations by
planting a larger wheat crop than ever
before, according to P. J. Sweeney, Of
Tacoma, chief grain inspector for the
state.
Fear that enemy agents are plotting
to destroy the armory or other uni
versity of Washington buildings led
to orders calling upon student men,
bers of the reserve officers training
corps to stand guard every night from
z p. m. to a. m.
A clearing house for the west coast
lumber industry, with a capital of ST.
100000, was proposed at the annual
dinner of the West Coast Lumber
mems association at Seattle by E. e.
Hartman and referred, for 30 days,
for report in detail.
Officers were elected by the county
assessors of Washington, meeting at
Olympia in their ,20th annual state
convention, as follows: President, w.
P. Elliott, Jefferson county; Vice-presi-
dent Ernest G. Spencer, Chelan coun-
ty; secretary, L. I'D. Luce. Yakima
county.
Seattle's municipal fish market open
ed last week, but fdid not remain in
business long, as Fits stock of 1891
pounds of salmon twas disposed Of as
\