The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-03-14


Communicated ships now under con-
struction.
February records were broken by
his office, State Land Commissioner
Sayidge reports. Receipts for the lsls
month are three times those for Feb
ruary. 1915 Demand for agricultural
lands and timber grow steadily. A
section of state rented land In WHIT
man county, now bringing in s240V a
wear. formerly rented for less than
half that amount The state finds
leasers for anything in the way OF
grazing lands. Even land with only
months feed on it is being snapped up
by the sheep men at advanced prices
owing to the high prices for mutton
and wool The receipts for February,
.our.year period. follow; 1915, slO1-
247; 1916, s1S7,7s2; 1917. s2S4,7SS;
1918, s331,179.
The St. Joe Forest Users associa-
ton. consisting OF sheep and cattle
men of southeastern Washington. and
principally of Whitman county. met at
Colfax with Forest Supervisor Roscoe
Haines of the st. Joe natioRal forest.
Arrangements are being made to per-
nit about $4,000 sheep to Craze in
the national forests of Idaho next
summer and probably 1000 cattle. In
order to increase wool and mutton pro-
duction it becomes necessary to find
summer grazing outside of this state.
1t has been found that for winter
range many more sheep can be kept
in Washington than can find summer
grazing. Government forest officers
meeting with the sheep men think
they can remedy this matter by CIV
ing grazing permits in the Idaho coun-
try.
Gray's Harbor is believed to have
over 100 men in the army and navy
now.
Tacomas first steel ship Will be
launched at the Todd shipyards on
March 26.
j Two more Tacoma school principals
have resigned to go to work in Tacoma
shipyards.
Samuel Benn, founder of Aberdeen,
will reach the Seth anniversary of his
+ birth next May.
By a vote of 1888 to 1923 o. T. Clark.
j mayor of Camas, was recalled at a
+ special election.
William Voight, Jr., confessed at
] Kalama to the murder of Earl Potruff
on November IS, 1917.
The Grays Harbor Electrical union
netted $3.50 for a soldier smoke fund
! by dance given at Aberdeen.
The state supreme court has affirm
/ ed the decision of Judge William T.
| Darch, of the Cowlitz superior court,
+ declaring the new state diking code
constitutional.
The capacity of the Libby, McNeill &
/ Libby cannery at Yakima will be
doubled this season and the company
will expend $4,000 for machinery and
additional equipment.
At as early date as is practicable
work will begin on the autmobile park
which Chehalis people expect to In
stall for the purpose of affording free
camping sites for tourists at Chehalis.
/ Twenty-Five vessels cleared from
Grays Harbor in February, carrying
22,229,000 feet of lumber. The num-
/ Der of clearances was six under Janu-
! airy and 100000 feet less of lumber
were shipped.
To meet the shortage of housing con-
! ditions in Yakima for the coming sea-
son, Libby, McNeill & Libby propose
to erect 20 modern bungalows for the
use of their employees during the oper-
ating season.
Complete returns from Seattle's mu-
nicipal election show that Ole Hanson
was elected mayor by majority of
1929 votes over his opponent, James
e. Bradford. Hanson received 32,307
and Bradford 26,678.
That the Tacoma park board is run
ming the Point Defiance park as a
money-making scheme, and that serv-
ice is not the end in view, is an asser-
ton made in the report of the state
bureau of accoun.chcy.
Private Victor Buriva, company F,
316th engineers, has been sentenced at
Camp Lewis to 81 years in a military
prison for refusing to obey an order
given by Captain Fieldon w. Wag-
goner. and for attacking the captain
with pick.
After eight weeks of active work
in the sale of war savings and thrift
stamps, the reports show that tho
pupils of the Raymond public schools
have purchased 1919 thrift stamps and
254 war savings stamps. This in
wolves an investment of over S1524.
Edwin T. Marchetti, field agent at
Spokane of the bureau of crop estim-
ates, department of agriculture, issued
the following estimates of grain stocks
on farms in Washington on March /,
1910 wi II, ioG,OuU Uu., Whcdl, O,OVO,-
600 bu.; oats, 100000 bu.; barley,
937, 900 bu.
Men who have fought under the stars
and stripes before and who are again
enrolled in the fighting forces of their
country in war, met at the knights
of Columbus building No. at Camp
Lewis and completed organization for
the Wild West Post, No. 81, Veterans
of Foreign Wars.
Another shipbuilding plant was