The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-11-21
WORLD HAPPENINGS
OF CURRENT week
Brief Resume Most important
Daily News Items.
COMPILED FOR YOU
Events of Noted People, Governments
and Pacific Northwest, and Other
Things Worth Knowing.


Things Worth knowing.
The peace conference has received
information that the Bulgarian gov
eminent has decided to sign the peace
treaty.
Agents of the department of justice
are en- route to the coal mining dis
tricts Of northern West Virginia, Gov
ernor Cornwell announced, following
advices from Washington to that ef-
feet.
The war department has received
10000 requests from relatives for re-
turn of the bodies of soldier dead in
France, Colonel e. w. Anderson Of
Richmond, Va, told the house foreign
affairs committee Friday.
A decree making operative the in
junction against the enforcement of
wartime prohibition granted recently
by Federal Judge Arthur L. Brown was
entered late Friday In the United
States district court at Providence,
r. /.
A deal entailing a consideration Of
$1,300,000 was closed in Astoria, Fri
day, when the Blodget company Of
Grand Rapids, Mich, sold $3.50 acres
Of timber lands in the Knappa and
Blind slough districts to the Cros-
sett Timber company of Davenport, Ia.
Deputy United States marshals at
Seattle Thursday seized the office of
the Seattle Union Record, a daily news
paper owned by the Seattle central
labor council, and arrested e. B. Ault,
the editor, and G. p. Listman and
Frank S. Rust, prominent labor men,
on the papers board of directors.
William E. johnson, an American
prohibition worker, and Anti-Saloon
league organizer, Familiarity known in
London and elsewhere as "Pussyfoot,' y
was dragged from platform from
which he was speaking, severely
beaten and paraded on plank through
two miles of crowded west end streets
The extended dispute between Texas
and Oklahoma over the right to claim
valuable oil properties lying along the
Red river in Wichita county assumed
a new phase Friday when, according
to information coming to John w
Hornsby of Austin, the Texas receiver
for the land, an Oklahoma sheriff and
IL deputies appeared on the property
and demanded possession.
Squarely joining the issue with
President Wilson, the senate adopted
Thursday reservation qualifying the
obligations of the United States undel
article 10, of the league Of nations
covenant. A solid republican lineup
reinforced by four democratic votes
put the reservation across exactly al
it came from the foreign relations com
mittee and in virtually the languag,
which the president declared on hi
western tour would cut the heart GU
of the covenant and mean the re
lection of the treaty. The vote b!
which the reservation won was A
to 80.
The cost of living in France ha
risen 161 per cent since the armistice
This is the estimate made by tn
French minister of labor
Twenty-Five more policemen wer'
added to Seattle's force by action o
the council in approving request TO
that number. To provide for their pa.
$4,000 was appropriated.
A strong earthquake shock lasting
several seconds was felt at Salta, Al
gentina, shortly after midnight Mon
day. The tremors were repeated at
o'clock in the morning with less in
tensity.
Since the prohibition law went int
effect New York's insistent and en-
thusiastic drinkers have been consum
ing the "non-beverage" alcohol whicl
usually goes into hair tonic, cologn
and patent medicines at 80 to 40 cent
glass, according to Colonel DAME
l. Porter, supervising internal revenu
agent.
Victor L. Berger, Milwaukee socia
list, was denied his seat in the hous
Monday by an overwhelming vote, tn
house holding he was ineligible fo
membership because of his open OF
position to the war with Germany.
A detailed plan of organizatio
which will provide for full particip'
tion of republican women in the futu1
affairs of their party was adopted b
the republican national committee