The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-12-26

New, York on the steamer Chicago
from Brest.
Frank Hugo, an American citizen,
manager of the J.. M. DOVES ranch
near Muzquiz, state Of Coahuila, is
being held for $4,000 n by the
villistas who raided Muzquiz last
Tuesday.
The British steamship Messina, re-
ported Monday as in a sinking condi-
ton 43O miles off the Newfoundland
coast, has been abandoned. This was
announced in q radio message received
at Halifax, N. s.
1t developed with Premier Clemen-
ceau's return to Paris Sunday from the
conference in London that he had suf-
fered q fracture Of a rib on his trip
to England through a fall on board the
destroyer in which he crossed the
channel.
Captain Sir Arthur Written Brown,
who navigated an airplane across the
Atlantic in company with Lieutenant
Alcock in the worlds first nonstop
trans-ocean flight, has entered a Wick
ers-vimy plane in the proposed trans
Pacific flight.
Announcement was made Monday
by the department Of justice that an
investigation was being made of re-
ports of alleged "leaks" on supreme
court decisions by which spectators
had attempted to profit in stock mar
ket transactions.
Gold dust worth approximately $4O0,-
900, brought by dog teams over the
winter trail from the Kuskokwim and
Iditarod sections of Alaska arrived in
Seward Monday for shipment to Seat
tie. The gold was the product Of clean
ups in the districts since the freeze.
Edward Reineck walked into the
Portland police headquarters Sunday
night and surrendered to Patrolman
Drapeau after ~confessing that he had
escaped from the Oregon insane asy-
lum at Salem. He said he wanted to
go back to the institution to escape
exposure to the cold weather.
Principles underlying President Will
sons plan for the settlement of the
coal strike, accepted by the miners,
are fundamentally wrong as a mat
ter of government" DR.. Harry A. Gar
field, federal fuel administrator until
Saturday, told a hastily assembled sub
committee of the senate. His resigna-
ton, sent to the president because of
his views, was accepted with those of
one or two of his associates, he said.
Juneau, Alaska, and vicinity were
rocked Sunday afternoon at 4:10
o'clock by one of the heaviest earth
quake shocks experienced in years.
Buildings were badly shaken but no
material damage has been reported.
1t is believed the shock centers about
the Katmai volcano, lear Kodiak, and
that the volcano may be in eruption
again.
Complete government control of
prices and distribution of sugar is
necessary for the protection of family
from profiteers, members
of congress declared Monday before
the house agricultural committee. At
the same time G.. A. Zabriskie, presi-
dent of the sugar equalization board,
advised the committee that continu-
ance of the board would be useless un-
less it received control over prices and
distribution. These powers, Zabriskie
pointed out in a telegram to the com
mittee, are not included in the pending
McNary bill.
By unanimous decision, constitution.
ality of the war time prohibition act
was sustained Monday by the supreme
court. The opinion, given by associ-
ate Justice Brandeis, held in effect
however, that the war-invoked dry
period still may be terminated by
presidential proclamation of demobili
cation. In rendering its opinion, the
court, however, did not act upon the
validity of the Volstead prohibition en-
forcement act nor or appeals involv
ign the alcoholic content Of beer
leaving those cases to future opinions
which may be handed down next Mon
day before the court recesses for tn,
Christmas holidays. The decision
practically swept away all hopes Of
"wet" Christmas.