The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-02-07
FORMER BLAINE MAN
is KILLED IN WRECK
v. V. Schumacher, well known in Iyn-
Dead As Result OF Train Collis-
ion; Other State News


Sedro Woolley, as the result of a rum
away Northern Pacific freight train
crashing into coach of Great North
ern passenger train, which was stand.
ing on the crossing of the two lines
al Sedro Woolley. The dead are: C.
Z, Patten, of McMurray, manager of
the Atlas Lumber company, of Seattle
Henry Thompson, Birdsview, commits
sioner of Skagit county; V. V. Schu-
maker, Portland, a lecturer; Melvin
Best, Kent Wash; G. G. Tilford,
Seattle.
Proceedings to disbar Attorney
Edgar G. Mills, candidate for the state
supreme court in 1914, because of his
connection with the Richards-Thomp-
son blackmailing case at Port Angeles
in 1916, were begun in superior court
at Seattle by the Washington State
Bar association. Mills is charged with
unprofessional conduct and violation
of his oath as an attorney admitted to
practice in that he acted as attorney
for Frank ]. Richards in the latter's
attempt to blackmail D. E. Thompson,
a wealthy resident of Port Angeles and
former United States ambassador to
Brazil. Mills case will be held on Feb
ruary a.
Fifty bankers and bond dealers, rep
resenting every section of the state
met at Seattle to make plans for rails
ing Washingtons quota of the third
Liberty war loan, the call for which
is expected within the next month
Declaring newspaper advertising the
most potent form of appeal to the
people, the convention adopted res
olution recommending that the treas
ury department set aside $25,000,000
to be spent for this form of publicity
during the forthcoming campaign.
Another resolution directed the county
chairmen to compile a card index in
each county of every man and woman
deemed a possible Liberty bond pur-
chaser.
Announcement Of Washington's farm
survey to be completed during the
month of February, has been made by
Farm Help Specialist J. c. Scott. The
Washington state survey will include
estimates of labor needed for 1918, both
seasonal and year-around; the amount
of livestock on hand a year ago, and
now; the amount of livestock to be
bought and sold. Mr.. Scott says that
one important function of the survey
will be to facilitate the exchange of
commodities, such as livestock and
seed, between farmers Of different
states and different regions within the
same state, who now are handicapped
by not knowing what may be bought
or sold in other regions.
Not only are grain bags higher this
year under the price fixed by the state
board OF control at 10 cents per bag,
but the output is only about four-fifths
as much as last year. Scarcity of
jute. the high price paid and the de-
crease in the number of men at the
prison are the combined causes of the
changes. Last year the price was 1012
cents per bag, compared with 10 cents
this year, while the output last year
was LIPS 900 bags. compared with $780,
600 this year. California recently fixed
the price of bags at 20 cents, and in
the local market they are selling at
22 cents each. OF the state peniten-
tiary output Spokane county gets 49,
600, while the largest appointments
20 to Whitman AID Walla Walla.
A strong committee representing the
grain growers of the Inland Empire
left Saturday night for Washington
D. c., to try and persuade the gov
eminent to name Spokane as one OF
the primary interior shipping points
for grain handling this year and to
secure, If possible. an early announce
ment on the price of wheat for the
1918 crop.
d. C. Richardson, a well-known resi-
dent of Riverside, has an invention
which he hopes will help Uncle Sam
win the war against the kaiser. He
has submitted the plans to the secre
tary of war for a device to be known
as a torpedo deflector. 1t will defleci
the course of torpedo when sighted
at a reasonable distance, not allowing
Il to strike the ship.
Eastern Washington farmers are pro
testing against the publishing of re
ports of men being wanted at big
wages for work in the shipyards OF
the coast, declaring that these reports
are injuring both the farmers and the
laborers. Whitman county men who
have sought work in the yards say
that the reports Of shortage of men ii
coast cities are exaggerated.
The fight over permitting smoking
In streetcars in Seattle reached eli
max when Attorney John Mills Day
who on October 8, 1914, obtained al
Injunction forbidding the practice, Sc