The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1919-01-23
U. S. SENDS HOLSTEINS
TO FRANCE & BELGIUM
Use Famous Cows In Devastated Dis.
tricts; Other News From Over
State

Cettle ATOm tuO OultSu StateS AS u
foundation for rebuilding the live
stock industry of northern France and
Belgium, according to q letter received
at Yakima by George A. Cue from Of
ficials of the Holstein-Friesian ascot
alton in this country
approximately 500 persons leaving
an open air mass meeting and start
ing a parade through the city's bust
ness district. singing I. w. w. songs,
were dispersed at Seattle by 20 mount
ed police officers, supported by five
automobiles containing police armed
with carbines, and behind these a pla.
toon of police with clubs.
Five members of the Washington
state council of defense, who subscrib-
ed $500 apiece to help finance the
council when other funds were ex-
hausted. are to be reimbursed. The
five are J. T. Heffernan, Seattle; c.
j. Lord. Olympia; George Donald,
Yakima; w. A. Lowman. Anacortes.
and w. ]. Patterson. Aberdeen.
Under the direction of Colonel T.
J. Lewis the war department is con-
Quoting an official investigation Of the
charges made by X. S. Sanborn, an
instructor at the Spokane north cen
trail high school. in regard to condi-
tions at the student training camp at
Washington state college. which he
alleges brought about the death of his
son from influenza.
Eighty-five delegates to the seventh
annual Institute of the State Press as
ISOLATION, held In Seattle, adopted a
resolution placing themselves on rec
ord IS firm supporters of = construc-
tive American policy. The editors
pledged themselves to deny publicity
to any agency seeking to embarrass
or destroy the true principles of gov
eminent and democracy.
According to information from the
Denver construction office Of the rec
lamatiOn service. the government is
willing to give its surplus N. T.
for use In blasting operations in con-
nection with reclamation construction
and other similar work. Reclamation
officials at Yakima think 1t likely that
a large quantity Of the explosive will
be stored there for use on projects
in the northwest.
Five and one-half miles of concrete
paved road connecting Olympia with
the permanent surfaced roads to the
north of the Nisqually river were
thrown open to traffic last week by
the governor and members OF the leg
islature assisted by state highway Of
ficials. The new stretch begins at the
end of the paved road four and one
half miles out Of Olympia, and contin-
ues north to within 1000 feet of the
new reinforced concrete Thurston-
Pierce county bridge over the Mis-.
qually river.
Whatcom county is out to curb the
flood waters of the NOoksack river
and prevent the future loss of scores
of acres of valuable farm land that
are annually washed into Puget Sound
and the sea- 1t is prepared to spend
$4,000 itself this year and has asked
$500 from the state and authority
to create assessment districts that will
care for the remainder Of the cost Of
permanent improvement. Approx
mately $3OO.0OO will have to be spent
in removing obstacles from the upper
river bed, in Strengthening the course
In some places and in diverting the
force of the stream in others.
L. NJ. Holt. supervising engineer at
Yakima of the Indian reclamation
service. has been informed that wat.'
charges against reservation lands are
not such as to preclude granting rea-
sonable loans on land of the Wapato
project. The matter has been held up
several months while the federal loan
bank at Spokane consulted the federal
loan board at Washington. Loans es
timated at 100000, for which appli-
cations have been made, will now be
granted. The applications are all from
the neigh borh0od of Toppenish, who're
farmers are eager to improve la.Se
holdings and purchase machinery to
handle more acreage.
The Yardley cannery Of the Puyal'
lup and Sumner Growsrx' association
may not be in operation in 1919, w. H.
Paulhamus, general manager, told the
stockholders at meeting in Spokane.
The contracts signed up for 1919 were
not sufficient to justify the association
in running the cannery this year.
Pullman again came under the in
fluenza ban when orders were issued
by City Health Officer L. G. Kinney
closing theaters, churches. lodges and
all public assemblies. The order does
not include pool rooms and bowling
alleys, but it is expected that these
will be closed il spread Of the disease
continues.
Union electricians, numbering, &C.
cording to their leaders, between 400
and 500, went on strike in Seattle
shipyards following a jurisdictional
fight in the Seattle metal trades coun-
Gil The dispute, it is said, Is between