The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-01-17

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wv II Cochran of Spokane chah
man of the state board OF controi' nos
,ust issued a statement in conhec'ion
with the criticisms that nave Deon
directed against the soldiers nome a.
orting. About once year tha' in''
tuition gets into the limelight, ana ol
late Tacoma papers have been fiiieu
with charges about the manner III
which the institution has been coh'
Quoted. In the statement issued Wy
chairman Cochran he courts fair III
vestigation, asserts that the nome Is
admirably and economically conduc'eu
and all reports to the contrary are
false. :. 20 no onened on the
North river in Pacific county by the
Case Single & Lumber company "
get out spruce logs.
The output of jute bags at the s'a'e
prison this year will be little uhoer
a million, about 25 per cent less IMAM
the output last year.
Farmers union men from Washing
ton Oregon and Idaho gathered al
Spokane to work out plans which nau
to do with the elevator question.
That members of the Tacoma ponce
force Immediately will organize into
union as a means of negotiating FOR
an increase in wages is predicted.
Engineer Brashear of Yakima coun-
ty has announced that the total dam
age to roads and bridges in the county
wrought by the recent floods will not
exceed $4,000.
Chairman E. N. Hurley, of the ship
ping board, has assured Senator Wes-
ley L. Jones that additional contracts
for wooden ships to be built in Puget
Sound yards will be forthcoming reg
ularly.
An initiative petition which aims to
place law providing for an universal
eight-hour day in Washington before
the voters at a state election next
November was filed with the secretary
of state.
The Seattle German Press, the only
German daily newspaper in Seattle,
will suspend publication soon, accord
ing to an announcement by the Ger
man Newspaper association, which
owns the paper.
]. F. Donovan of Seattle, one of the
big lumber men of Washington, states
that six mills already have been closed
owing to the shortage of cars and more
will be forced to shut down unless re.
lief is furnished.
Unless a wage increase is forthcom-
ing, at least 20 members of the Taco
ma police department will quit as in
dividuals to seek work in shipyards
and other industrial plants, where a
higher scale is paid.
United States District Attorney
Clay Allen of Seattle has announced
he intends to petition the attorney
| general to modify recent war orders
SO as to permit Austrians to fish in
Alaskan waters under certain condi.
lions.
Damage to county roads and bridges
aggregating about $4,000 resulted
from the two big floods which swept
the upper part of Chelan county dur
ing December, according to hasty esti
| cr,hvr,iftnd IN
missioners.
Piles are being driven for the 500,
900 machine shops and engine install
lation plant to be built at Aberdeen
by the Grays Harbor Motorship cor
poration, which will be in operation by
March 1, according to M. B. Ward
manager of that plant.
Work of grading the five-mile sec
ton of the Pacific highway between
Pioneer and La Center, which is being
built under state and federal appro
priation on new route which will
have maximum of per cent grade
instead OF 10 per cent, as at present
is proceeding steadily.
Uncle Sam wants number oil
skilled men to assist in operating his
spruce cut-up mill at Vancouver Bar
racks and has advertised that com
petitive examinations will be held al
once for positions of foreman, band
sawyer, band saw filler, electrical en-
gineer, stationary engineer, machinist
blacksmith and oiler.
All previous records for Grays Har
boris lumber output were smashed in
1917 when $2O,500,0OO worth of wood
products were shipped from the coun
ty. The export of lumber totaled /.
100000 feet. The value was So.
100000 greater than that of any pre-
vious year and the shipments were
800, 100000 feet heavier.
Six hundred and fifty dollars has
cen raised by the farmers living be
tween the Upper Bridge and Thrall In
Kittitas county, to get temporary re
lief due to the Yakima river cutting Its
banks and threatening to change n.