The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-02-21

amusement zone az the American Lake
cantonment- The hotel is to have 500
rooms in the first unit. being so con
structed that two similar additions can
be added if necessary.
A legal battle for the control OF 49,
0O0. 900 assets and the affairs OF the
10 900 stockholders OF the New World
Life Insurance company has been pre-
cipitated at Spokane. Three directors
Of the corporation filed with the SUI
perior court demands for the legal IN
seating Of John J. Cadigan, its presi-
dent for the last two years, and Ed
ward J. O'Shea. secretary.
Forestry soldiers employed at Schaf-
/ fer Brothers camp just east Of Aber-
/. deem gave ten /. w w loggers just
/ 10 minutes in which to leave that camp
/ and the "wcbblies" got away inside
+ The limit set. They had shipped into
the camp as timber fallers and were
I ordered out by the soldiers as soon
as they discovered they were |. W. w.
members. No force was used.
At meeting OF number of the
leading farmers and fruitgrowers of
I Clarke county at Vancouver it was
voted that steps should Immediately
be taken toward the establishment OF
cooperative potato warehouses at Van
couyer Ridgefield, battle-ground. Fish
ers and possibly Orchards. Ware
houses were held to be necessary TO
T properly care for each years crop.
The Ostrander Railway e. Timber
company recently purchased a section
of timber land close to Silver Lake in
Cowlitz county and is extending its
logging railway over the divide be-
/ tween Ostrander creek and Silver lake.
/ This section is one Of the finest in the
northwest, cruising about 60.000,o00
feet OF big yellow fir. and will supply
large quantity of big timbers and
ship timbers.
With no prospect that the Yakima
health department order closing
schools, theaters, Red Cross work
headquarters and other places OF as
semblage would be rescinded soon. the
Yakima city commission authorized
the health department to rent suitable
| lodging house as a detention place for
transients who might be quarantinei
/ for diphtheria, and 20 employ such ad-
ditional help as might be needed to
cope with the situation.
With the discovery near Riverton of
two big whiskey stills. together with
hundreds of gallons of fresh liquor and
mash, deputy sheriffs believed they
had located the source OF supply for
Seattle's Illicit liquor dealers. Two
Japanese who lived in the house
where the whiskey plants were located
were arrested. Each still had capa-
city of a gallon an hour Account
books containing the names of Gus
toners were seized. A large quantity
of liquor was destroyed.
Bakers may use potatoes as flour
substitutes in purchasing foodstuffs,
Charles Hebbard, federal food admins
traitor for Washington. has announced.
The ruling was made. Mr.. Hebbard
said, to insure increased consumption
of potatoes. The ruling extends to
hotels and restaurants where bread is
baked. AS potatoes carry food value
OF about one-fourth that OF other sub
stitutes the quantity of potatoes pur-
chased must be four times the quantity
of authorized substitutes to enable
bakers to get full credit for substitutes,
Mr. Hebbard explained.
University of Oregon wrestIers were
ington in a dual meet at Seattle by
score of 81 to IA.
Yakima growers of potatoes and
apples face a car shortage, according
to estimates made by officials of the
Yakima Valley Traffic association.
G.. w. orion. of Sumner, was elected
president OF the Western Washington
Horticultural association at the close
of the associations eighth annual con-
vention at Seattle.
Officials of the Spokane, Portland &
Seattle railway have been required by
the railway wage board in Washington
to prepare a classification of all en-
ployes on the pay roll of the system.
The Chehalis Potato Growers asso-
citation was organized last week. 1t
will be incorporated to encourage
growing of farm products and will en-
gage in general marketing business.
Scott Mullens delivered the largest
cougar hide ever turned in at the
Lewis County auditors office at Che
halls, receiving 500 bounty. The ami
NAL measured over nine feet from
tip to tip.
The Pacific Highway bridge over
the Cowlitz River at Toledo, a part
of which was washed out during the
recent floods has been opened to traf
fic. Six hundred feet of new approach
has been constructed.
Officers of the Selah District Fruit
growers association have taken up