The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-11-21
STATE NEWS
IN BRIEF.

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Olympia. The public service com
mission has announced the appoint
ment of L. D. Grove. Spokane, to sue
coed G. ]. Kelst as chief grain in
spector.
Yakima.-Parents of Yakima boys
who died in the great war overseas
and whose bodies are in French ceme- |
teries have received inquiries from
the war department as to their wishes
regarding disinterment and removal
of the bodies to this country.
Spokane. -That Spokane has a good
opportunity to secure the 1920 conven-
ton of the American Mining congress
is the information received by Frank
G. Bailey, secretary Of the Northwest
Mining association, from members Of
the Spokane delegation to this years
congress at st. Louis.
Yakima.-B. F. Barge, IS years of
age, pioneer educator Of the state,
first president of the Ellensburg nor
NAL and widely known throughout the
state, is preparing to make a tour
around the world next year. Such a
trip has long been his ambition; but
until now he never has been able to-
crafty it.
Walla Walla.-Suit for $4,000 for
alleged alienation Of affections of his
wife, Mary A. Barber, has been filed
by George Y. Barber against Nesmith
Ankeny. son of ex-United States sena-
tor Levi Ankeny. Mrs. Barber about
two weeks ago sued for divorce, charg-
ing that her husband was too lazy to
support her and that she had to make
her own living.
Morton.-Joseph Morcraft, one of
the most successful and, incidentally,
one of the hardest working farmers in
the Big Bottom, who does not believe
in feeding striking coal miners,
shipped a carload of beef out of Nor
ton Tuesday, which averaged 1117
pounds each. There were "a head in
the car. Mr.. Morcraft received cents
.. on the hoof +. o. b. Morton stockyards.
i Spokane.-A contract for the pur-
chase on consignment of carload of
white navy beans was closed by the
city with Idaho growers Friday. They
will be put ON sale to the public at an
estimated cost of cents a pound, as
compared with the local retail price of
10 and Is cents pound. A ton of
salmon from the state fish hatchery at
Chehalis was placed on sale in the
, municipal market here.
Yakima.-In an exchange of reports
recently on their returns from their
apiaries by beekeepers attending the
extension short course here, the larg
est return was reported by John He'll
man of Oak Point, who said he har
vested $4,000 pounds of honey from
3 1876 colonies of bees. This would make
I. an average of 1876 pounds. Others re
ported yields of more than 80 pounds
! per colony, but none as high as 10(
pounds.
Chehalis.-There will be a hearing
at Portland December 2, when the ap
> Iplication Of the Newaukum Valley
> Railroad company for joint rates OF
. lumber and various other products
carried to eastern points will be heard
The Newaukum Valley line is the one
9 built and operated to connect Napa
!. vine and Onalaska direct with the saw
q mill of the Onalaska Lumber company
q which operates there one of the big
= gest mills in southwest Washington.
Chehalis.-At MONDAY luncheon
. T. recently of the Chehalis Citizens clul
F. Angeles of the Angeles Aircraft
. corporation of Seattle announced tina
. his company is looking over this fielt
q with view to building factory here
owing to the nearness of the spruce
supply in southwest Washington. Since
it's business was started, Mr.. Angelo!
u said, great demand for planes hat
4 developed, mostly, however, for thu
''flivver" type, that can be put on thu
market for about $1,000.
Spokane.-In a militant mood, ant
! accepting as challenge to the Ameri
K can Legion, the action of Industrial
!. Workers of the World in shooting
down at Centralia Tuesday member
of the legion, the Spokane post of tn
y legion at crowded meeting her
: adopted resolutions demanding tina
! the city and county authorities TAX
Il immediate steps to deport all I. w. W
= and offering the services of it's 270