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The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13

Iowa already has 100000 members
and Nebraska will have as. many in
ftw months. 1t is reported that the
business men are backing the move
ment seeing in it more stable and
conservative organization than the
movement wnlcn gave
them many sleepless nights prior TO
the recent election.
Unlike most other movements this
had its inception in an effort OF the
Department of Agriculture at Wash
ington to stimulate organization and
cooperation among the farmers. THE
leaders of agriculture in the West
quickly saw in it an opportunity to
wage a more successful battle than
they have in the past against the
forces that they believe prevent them
from securing just returns from their
labor.
The farm bureau movement is also
aiming to take controlling part in
the determination of a nationwide
policy with respect to agriculture, and
to secure equal treatment at the Fed
eral Reserve and other banks with
business men.
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farm BUREAUS
GROWING RAPIDLY
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY PRO
DUCERS JOIN ORGANIZA-
TON BY THOUSANDS TO
CONTROL MARKETS
Would Promote Beneficial Legisla-
ton and Get Better Help From
Federal Reserve Banks to Han
die Crops

To bring the forces of the farmers
in the middle west into more agrees
sive action for better farm legislation
both state and national and to work
out system of marketing that will
give them a controlling hand in fixing
prices the farmers of Iowa, Nebraska
and the surrounding states are join
ing the farm bureaus by the thou
sands. Organizers are covering the
country in automobiles, picked teams
working the counties Systematically,
and with the aid of the state and fed
eral funds provided for the farm bu-
reau movement are completing an or
ganization that is to be to the farmer
what the chambers of commerce are
to the business men in the cities.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13

OLYMPIA: Appropriations running
up to approximately $1,5OO.0OO are asked
by the State Board of Control for i'm
provement and maintenance of the II
state institutions for which the board
is responsible.
SEATTLE: Maintenance of free
public school clinic was made illegal by
decision of the supreme court revers-
ing Judge Calvin S. Hall of the superior
court and denying the statutory powers
of officials of a school district to equip
or employ at the expense of the district,
physicians, dentists or nurses for treat
ing pupils.
SPOKANE: DIR. l.. M. Sims of Kalama
was elected president of the State
Board of Medical Examiners at a meet
ing here. DR.. CT. H Davis of Kirkland
was elected vice-president DR.. ]. w. In
gram, Walla Walla, treasurer, and Dr.
VIII O'Hhea, Spokane, secretary.
OLYMPIA: OF all natural resources
in this state water is the greatest, says
State Hydraulic Engineer Marvin Chase
in his annual report He recites that
water irrigating $4,000 acres of land
in the state produces an annual wealth
of $4,000, 900 to 100000, 900 The state
has additional water more than suffi-
cient to supply it's 2,526,60O acres OF
arid and nonproductive, but irrigable,
lands.
In addition to the irrigation water the
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13

state controls the use of water develop
ing more than 100000 horsepower in
sixty or more hydroelectric plants. This
is only per cent of the 100000 horse
power in the waterfalls of the state
The water resources of the state for ir-
rigation are 17.6 per cent developed.
CENTRALIA: To avoid running down
young boy who was crossing the street
Mrs Julia Eshom drove her car up over
the curb at the corner of Fourth and ID
Streets and crashed into a tree. Mrs.
Eshom's daughter, Helen, whom she was
taking to school, was thrown from the
car and badly bruised Mrs. Eshom es-
capped injury. The automobile was bad
ly wrecked.
SPOKANE: Six per cent net was
earned by the Federal Land Bank of this
city during 1920, according to an an
nouncement of d. G.. O'Shea, the presi-
dent Semiannual dividend checks total
ing $62,417 were mailed yesterday to H.
047 stockholders, he said. Loans now
total approximately 100000
CENTRALIA: According to an an
nouncement received by the county COM
missioners, Mr.. Fowler, graduate of
the School of Agriculture University of
Minnesota, also a graduate of agricul-
ture, Oregon Agricultural College, has
been appointed Lewis County agricul-
tural agent to take the place of A. L.
Flagg.
TACOMA: Before a gathering of citi-
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13

There 1000 laying hens are expected
to produce just so many eggs each
month, enough to pay for their feed
and the hired help and nice little in
terest on the investment not to men,
ton the upkeep of the flock, main
tenance of the plant and other over
head expenses that were not counted
in the case Of the red hen and her egg
for the bread pudding.
Lady of the Valley" a leghorn
Matched at the Yesterlaid ranch and
now the property of George c. Black
mar, of Kent, laid 1872 eggs in the 1873
days between August Is and January
3, and sister of hers laid Ill eggs
in 1879 days of about the same period.
Another Of Mr.. Aliens leghorns laid
81 eggs in IS days, skipping the forty
eighth day.
These are not so much out Of the
ordinary production of the up-to-date
plant for Mr.. Allen is turning out 1885,
600 dozen eggs every year which is
an average of 200 eggs year for the
hens, good and poor alike.
From small plant Mr.. Allen has
built up his business until he has
forty acres devoted exclusively to
poultry and nearly an acre of floor
space in his poultry houses. His in
cubator house is one of the most mod
ern on the coast and has capacity OF
$4,000 eggs all of which can be turned
automatically in about two minutes,
process which formerly took hours in
the large incubators.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13

ropean police system, under which ev-
cry resident and transient is compelled
to register with the police. is possible
innovation in Chicago.
WASHINGTON: Between 10000 and
II 900 government clerks are cut off in
the executive, Legislative and judicial
appropriation bill, completed by House
subcommittee on appropriations, yester-
day. Members of the subcommittee said
last night this was the first definite step
in the Republican program of economy.
The average pay of the clerks Is ap-
proximately $1,1O0 year, which makes
the saving 81 100000. The bill will be-
come effective July !.
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah: A snow
slide, one mile wide, is reported from
the Alta mining district, Utah. Two
cabins of the Emma Silver Mining Com
pany and tunnel at the Michigan tab
mine were destroyed. The slide passed
over bunk houses built into the hills
and scores of miners miraculously es-
capped as a result.
WASHINGTON: An amendment to
increase the item of the sundry civil
bill for the care of disabled soldiers and
sailors from s33,OOO,OOO to $4,000, 900
was defeated in the House.
WASHINGTON: The Pnited States
on December 81 had a trade balance in
it's favor of at least $2.722, 955,008. the
department of commerce announced.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13

town lots. You were rich.
Maybe!
The man who bought the Anacortes
lot for $4,000 in the early eighties
lives on his ranch overlooking Lake
Washington and smiles as he thinks
of those rushing days.
Gets the Fever
81 got into the real estate game
through the townsite of Hamilton"
he said. 81 had been living in Sno-
homish and watching the growth of
the country as long as could stand
it. I heard that there was to be a
town at place where man named
Hamilton owned a ranch and started
out to buy his place.
There was a seam of high grade
coal in one of the mountains there
and in another was magnetic iron.
The town was to be the location of a
steel plant. Nothing was simpler than
that.
$50 1 got control of the town of
Hamilton. At one time or another
with my partners l paid Hamilton
about 100000 for the townsite and we
were all going to be rich.
Title Not Good
"Then we discovered that Hamilton
had a wife living back in Kentucky
and we did not have her signature to
the papers deciding us his homestead.
That looked bad, but I got on the
train and went back there into the
mountains looking for her to get her
to sign up the deeds.
at was a real mountain community
and the people were suspicious of me.
l think they must have made moon
shine and suspected me of being
revenue officer, anyhow l couldn't get
any of them to feed me or keep me
over night.
Too Late
"And l didn't have any luck get
ting Mrs. Hamilton to sign the papers.
She and her folks got it into their
heads that there was large fortune
awaiting them out here and we could
MT get the title to our land cleared up.
"Well, l came back and we got to-
gether and took it up with the terri
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13
WASHINGTON CROPS REDUCED

SPOKANE: Washington's 1920 farm
crops, with the exception Of potatoes,
were smaller than those of 1919, both
from the standpoint of value and
acreage, according to the annual crop
report of C. S. Ray of the Federal
Bureau of Crop Estimates, made pub
lie here yesterday. The 1920 acreage,
as stated in the report, is 3,745,OOO,
approximately 10000 acres less than
in 1914, and based upon prevailing
farm prices, December 1, the 1920
crops were valued by Mr.. Ray at $685.
073,O00, while the 1919 production
amounted to $162, 100000.
Winter wheat production for 1920
was reported as 2O,120,0O0 bushels,
compared with 20,42s,0OO the preced-
ing year; spring wheat, 1920, 40 $685.
900 bushels, compared with 1S,S77,OO0
in 1919. The total wheat crop of the
state for 1920 was given in the report
as S7,S02,OOO bushels, nearly 100000
bushels under the 1919 total.
Other crop totals for 1920 were CIV
en- as follows; Oats. 37,SO2,OOO bush
els; barley, 3,SS3,OO0 bushels; rye,
$4,000 bushels; corn, 2,S0S,O0O bush
els.
Potatoes, s,6SO,OOO bushels; (1919
total 1880, 900 bushels).
Tame hay, 100000 tons; apples,
13,42O,000 bushels; pears, 2,240,0oO
bushels.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13
BUYING UP THE TOWNSHIP OF HAMILTON
Only the Wife Wouldn't Sign the Papers
ON FAITH in A COAL MINE AND STEEL PLANT

torial legislature and got law put
through making mans signature
good to transfer property without his
wife's consent when she didn't come
out here with him.
"You would have thought that would
have helped us, wouldn't you? WeA'
guess it would have all right, but II
was too late. The boom had busted.
They had, tunnelled into the mountain
below that seam of coal and found
out that there had been fault ana
the seam played out. That was the
end of that Then the iron ore WASH I
what it should have been, though
some people are still interested in 1t.
$50 our steel plant and townsite
and fortune and everything went glim-
mering."
Another Boom
"Then, there was Anacortes. l
couldn't make up my mind that that
was going to be town. For three
days worried about it and then went
to buy a lot. l had to buy way back
on the hill just because had delayed
those three days. But got lot and
paid SOCIAL I had-dOwn on 1t. A
few weeks later sold it for $4,000 and
bought another lot, down town. /
guess l held that one too long.
There was a whole lot in rumors
in those days. We would hear that
there was to be town in one place
and would buy up what we could and
then wait for the railroad men to an
nounce that there was to be town
there. If we had heard right, or
guessed right we made money, but
more often We were wrong.
Unload Quick
"The fellow who bought last was
out of luck AS long as a place was
growing, or expected to grow the mar
ket for lots was good, but let cold
blast of suspicion start to blow and
the market died so quick that you
couldn't give lots away. A man would
be rich one day and poor the next, like
was with the Hamilton townsite.
Very few got out of it with anything
and those who did lost it when the
hard times of the early nineties came
on"
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13

81 bought it for $4,000 and sold it
eighteen years afterwards for $780,"
Yes it was town lot. And the
city? Well, it was Anacortes.
There used to be good deal of
gambling in this part of the world be-
fore Washington became state and
gambling became a felony. But there
were other games besides roulette and
faro and men still lay out townsites
and other men still buy town lots.
The coming of the railroad. Ask
any man who lived in Washington in
those days the magic of those words.
You owned a ranch. 1t was poor
ranch, a long way from anywhere.
Neighbors were scarce, living poor.
They're going to build THE rail-
road up here" Your ranch became
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13

Exports, the department said. will prob
ably total $S,191 ,00S,46S, while imports
will amount to at least $5,46S.0 53, AGO.
Exports for December, it was said,
would probably exceed $675,000,000 and
imports would be in excess of $500. 000,-
900.
CHICAGO: Motion pictures portray
ing criminals at work have been barred
in Chicago. Chief of Police Fitzmorris
announced that three weeks ago he had
issued orders to the city motion picture
censors not to issue permits for any
photoplay that showed commission of a
crime
WASHINGTON: Labor unions or
their members are accountable under
antitrust laws where they depart from
their normal and legitimate objects
land engage in an actual combination OF
conspiracy in restraint of trade" the
supreme court held today in an opinion,
on which it divided six to three.
KNOXVILLE, Tenn: Indictments
were returned by federal grand jury
against so local coal mining and broker
age concerns charging exaction of I'M
just and exorbitant prices in the pro-
ducing and handling of coal. The in
dictmentS embrace more than 500
counts. Some defendants are charged
with making profits of as high as $3.50
ton.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13
EGG PRODUCTION
ON LARGE SCALE
KENT PLANT TURNS OUT 1876
900 DOZEN EVERY YEAR
FROM HIGH BRED
LEGHORNS
One Hen Laid 122 Eggs in 1873
Days. Up to Date Incubator
Equipment Helps Business.

The business of sending Henry out
to the barn to see if the red hen has
laid an egg so that we can have bread
pudding for supper has faded into the
distant past and today we have ex-
perts who can make the flock lay more
or less eggs as they think the hens
physically able of producing. Such an
establishment is the "Yesterlaid Egg
Ranch" of F. L. Allen near Kent
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13

whom were a large number of Alaskans
residing in both places, the new steel
mot orship Kennecott vessel of 5000
tons and the largest of her type built on
the Pacific Coast to date, was recently
sent into the waters of Commencement
Bay at the plant of the Todd Dry Dock
& Construction Company.
ELLENSBURG: Further indication
of the increased interest in the teaching
profession is indicated by the fact that
there was a considerable increase in the
attendance of the State Normal School
at Ellensburg when the second quarter
opened.
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W0rId Items

PUEBLO. Colo: By agreement be-
tweel employees and the management,
erected here recently, reduction of 15
per cent in wages will become effective
Jan. 16 in the local plant of the Colo
RADIO Fuel & Iron Company. The COM
pany has agreed to start up several idle
mills on part time.
CHICAGO: Establishment of the Eu-
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13

A child should gain in weight about
4 pounds a year between two and sew
en- years, and pounds year from
seven to thirteen.
The Lynden tribune. [volume] (Lynden, Wash.) 1908-current, 1921-01-13
CHEER UP, GIRLS, LIFE
HOLDS HOPE-FRENCH
GOWNS CHEAPER

PARIS: The government has
abolished the 10 per cent tax on
gowns, cloaks, millinery, lace
and feathers exported. The tax
was abolished because it caused
a decrease in foreign buying.
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-08-01
ALL AMERICANS SOON TO Get
FREEDOM IN RUSSIA BAL lMORE
WOMAN Tells OF EXPERIENCE

Riga, July s1.-(By The Associated
Press.)-The release of all Americans
still imprisoned in Russia may be ex-
pected within a few days, according
to Mrs. Marguerite E. Harrison, of
Baltimore, who came here under the
protection of United States Senator
France of Maryland, after spending
several months in Moscow prison.
She was informed before leaving
Moscow that all Americans would be
out soon.
No formal notification of the re-
lease of the Americans mas been re-
ceived at Riga, and the American Of
flcials have not been advised as to
whether the prisoners will be freed
one at time or in a group.
Mrs. Harrison related her story to-
day and pictured her life in prison as
differing from sketches of her suf-
ferings drawn from time by travellers
arriving from Russia.
Although under close confinement,
for considerable time. Mrs. Harrison
save an Unconditional statement of her
experiences. She was thin and frail,
ard her recital was interrupted oc-
casiorally by deep cough. She un-
CONTINUED on Page 5-Co!. 81
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MinnOW-COW
Combination Bad
for Mr.. MOSQUITO

New York. July 31.-The successful
use of the cow and the top minnow III
lighting the malaria spreading mos
quito known as anophelcs is described
in the third installmcnt CT the annual
review of the Rockefeller Foundation 5
work, made public today.
The experiments were made In tho
bayor region of Louisiana where the
mosquito. if unmolested. multiplies
at. tremendous rate The top min
nows, it was found, devourcd mosuEi-
tos' cgss as fast as they were depos-
tied, save in the zones near the snore
where vegetation afforded protect ion.
Here the cows played their part. Tic
banks were turr.ed into pastures and
the cows devoured the grasses along
the water edge, leaving the mosquito
eggs to the mercy OF The top mii:nows.
Work against tire ravages of hook
worm has been undertaken in Brazil.
Australia and Papua, besides :hc
American southern states, the report
declared
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Sharp Call Given !
American Legion Head

Washington, July 3l.-Margin G..
sperry, national president OF the Pri-
waite Soldiers end Sailors Legion. in
a letter to President Harding made
public tonight declared that the
amazing insolencc and effrontery II
the language used =. .ohn q. Emery
commander OF the American Legion,
in his telegram to You on ,the Debs
pardon case certainly should b. sharp
IL rebuked."
II dc1ounce as absolutely false,
Mr.. Sperry's letter continued, Tho
claim of Colonel Emery that Re rep.
rcssnts the sentiment of the Srca:
mass OF eX-scr,lcc men and women in
his deliberately malicious and mislead-
ms statements"
Mr.. Sperry referred to Debs as "a
peaceful, big-hcarted, kindly man fill
cd with a martyrs enthusiasm ani
willing, cheerful, self-sacr ifcing for
the cause of the poor. the helpless and
the oppressed
Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1921-08-01
so Wounded in,
IRioting at Kobe
Due to Labor Trouble

Kobe, Japan, July, 31-(By the AS
ISOLATED Press)-The strike situation
here continues menacing. The mu-
nicipal assembly has adopted resolu-
tions condemning the police for using
their swords on the strikers.
Rioting occurred Friday in which it
is estimated that at least so persons
We're wounded, and a sanguinary
clash occurred Saturday when 1900
ship yard strikers on parade We're
stopped by 500 police, who attacked
them with sabres and clubs. One
hundred infantrymen were called out
to reinforce the police.
The japanese cabinet discussed the
situation at Kobe today and decided
to adopt drastic measures in the be-
lief that the riots there may be in
cited by some influences not discern
ible on the surface.
Many of the newspapers attack the
government for alleged favoritism
toward capitalists in the Kobe labor
troubles, which they think will have
serious consequences.
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GOMPERS MOVES TO
BOOST MEMBERSHIP
LABOR FEDERATION

Washington, July 31-Samuel Com
pers, president of the American Fed :
Grafton of Labor has written pres
idents of local unions and organizers
to aid in the fight against the prison
contract system in various states, TO
urge improvement in federal and
state vocational systems and to as
sist in increasing the membership OF
the federation to 100000 before the
next convention. In his letter TO
union organizers, Mr.. Gompers said,
thousands and thousands of thu UNI
organized have been discharged .oclS-
ed out, for the single purpose of
starving them into accepting lower
wage scales" adding that from re-
ports received from all parts Of
America the one cry that is going up
from the unorganized is Come and
help us " sa
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Workmen 70 Have Say on Form
Of Representation-Board
Refuses to Discuss Open
Shop-Help was Denied Le-
gal Rights in Recent Elec.
tiGns. :

Chicago, July 31-(By The Associ-
rted Press)-Declaring election OF
employees committees held by the
Pennsylvania Railroad and by the
Pennsylvania Shop Crafts Unions IL
legal ard void, the United States
Railroad Labor Board today issued a
decision ordering a new ballot to Sc
lcct a committee on negotiations of
rules covering working conditions to
replaced the national agreements
established during federal control.
The decision also cancelled rules
row in force as a result of agree
ments reached by the railroad with
the committee elected on the Penn
s,lvcnia ballot.
The Shop Crafts Unions are fully
recognized in the boards decision al
though ron-unio2l mon were declared
to have full and equal rights. In a
form ballot drafted for use in the
new election employees are to be
given their choice of representation
by the Pennsylvania system, the
federation affiliated with the railway
employees department of the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor, the Ameri-
can Federation of Railroad Workers
OF by any other organization or in
6ividual for whom majority vote is
cast.
\ The Labor Board refused to be
drawn into a discussion of the open
shop. for which the Pennsylvania has
openly contended. 1t was on this
principle that the railroad refused
recently to recognize the unions
claims to representation of the ma
iority of shop employees and pro-
cccded to hold a general election.
The beard, however, said the dispute
which arose over the unions claims
was merely one of procedure"
Neither the Pennsylvania general
election nor a ballot conducted by
the system federation was fair or
lngal, the board said. and the en-
r,oyes have consequently been de-
ned their legal right to select rep
representatives. for this important con-
fsrence on rules"