The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1918-07-18

miles.
Tourist travel to Hoquiam and the
resorts in the Grays Harbor district
particularly by automobile, is heavier
this year than ever.
A two-headed calf is one of the re-
cent contributions to the Spokane pub
lie museum. The animal was found
on farm near Wateryille.
The body of Israel Trask, a we'll
known rancher, was found in an al
falfa field on his ranch. one mile up
the Chumst, near Leavenworth.
The flour mills of the miami empire,
which have been practically shut down
for several weeks, will start grinding
on the new wheat crop shortly after
August l.
Six-cent car fare for Seattle is be
lieved to be almost certain to follow
conferences between the City Traction
company officials and employees of the
street railway
Clarke county dairymen will meet
In convention at Vancouver July II
to discuss problems brought about by
the drought making an almost total
failure of the hay crop.
The financial condition of the city
of Chehalis has been materially i'm
proved the past year, according to
report just issued by w. H. Richards,
of the state inspection bureau.
Small railroad lines in Washington
state will be investigated and those
which are needed by the federal sys-
tenn will be taken over, according to
Regional Director r. H. Ashton.
To assist the government in placing
war orders for lumber, the West Coast
Lumbermen's association has appoint
ed Dwight H. Davis, of Chicago, as its
special representative at Washington,
D. c.
Beginning Sunday, the Seattle Daily
Times raised the price of its daily
paper to cents and of the Sunday
paper to cents. Increased cost of
production was given as the reason for
the advance.
Enough students have answered the
call for the free navigation school in
Tacoma to permit Professor c. d.
Shane, formerly of the University of
California, to open a night school in
addition to his day sessions.
Mayor Ole Hanson and members of
the committee of the Seattle city coun-
Gil left for Washington Tuesday night
to press the city's request for author
ity to issue $5,5O0,000 in bonds to fl
nance a municipal power project on
the Skagit river.
The long deferred physical connec-
ton between the Milwaukee system
and the Northern Pacific system which
carries with it also an interchange
with the Great Northern and DIV. r.
R. G. y. systems has just been com
pleted at Chehalis.
The logging camp of the Portland
Lumber company on Baird creek,
tributary of the Coweenran river,
about 80 miles east of Kelso, was
completely destroyed by fire with
loss estimated by company officials
at more than $4,000.
The city of Tacoma apparently is
good landlord to have for if the renters
do not want to pay their obligations
no one bothers them. Commissioner
C. Roy Harrison has found $4,000 of
back rents on the books and the most
of these are long overdue.
vicious, cowardly and unAmerican"
were terms applied by the Yakima
trades and labor council to the action
of Walla Walla citizens in stopping
meetings of the state grange there re-
Gently because of alleged sympathy
with the non-Partisan league.
Lightning at Chehalis did consider
able damage to the North Coast Power
company's property when the trans
mission line was struck, and a 1000
horsepower turbine generator at the
Chehalis plant and 22,000-volt trans
former at Vader were burned out.
The catch of 400 fishermen at Neah
bay, which the fishermen threatened
to throw overheard because only one
cannery would bid on it, was saved
when Mayor ole Hanson of Seattle
gave them price on the haul for the
municipal fish markets of Seattle. a..
The Silver Lake Railway & Lumber
company is building a combined
dredge and pile-driver, for use in deep
ening and improving the Cowlitz river
channel for logging operations be-
tween the company's boom at kelso
and it's rollway two miles below Castle
Rock.
Even with advanced wages due to
7-cent fare, il seems impossible TO get
operatives for Tacoma streetcars, and
the hiring of women conductors may
be the next step taken by the Tacoma
Railway G. Power company, Manager
L. II. Bean told the special committee
of 25 men selected by the mayor &c
study the streetcar problem.
The salvage department of the Sc
attic Red Cross chapter turned in
$500 for the month of June. This
money has been realized from the sale
of articles usually considered common
waste, and a large assortment OF dis
cards of absolutely no value to the