The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1919-11-14
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Countrywide attempts to organize
German branches of the Industrial
Workers Of the World were disclosed
| by New York police Saturday.
Disbursement of $576,349,2O5 by the
government in October, was the low
est in any month since June, 1917,
Secretary Glass announced Saturday.
Extension of the Lever food and
fuel control law for six months after
the proclamation of peace is necessary
to protect the country from high
prices, Acknowledgement Palmer Sat
urday told the house agriculture COM
mittee.
Advices from Omsk say Siberia is
threatened with one of history's great
est typhus epidemics, according to re-
ports received from Colonel R. B.
Teusler and party of American Red
Cross workers.
The bill providing a graduated in
crease in the pay of postal employees,
pending action of the congressional
committee investigating the salaries
of such employees, became law Sat
urday without President Wilson's sig
nature.
i Blind, or nearly blind, 40 strong,
healthy, able-bodied men are in Gus
tody at the King county stockade and
will be wards of the taxpayers of the
state of Washington during the rest
of their natural lives as a result of
drinking denatured alcohol
Helpless because of an infected leg
and slowly starving and freezing in a
cabin near Webena lake, Minnesota,
James Francisco, 60 years old, camp
caretaker, fired cartridge after car
fridge in an unsuccessful attempt to
summon assistance. Then he commitN
1 ted suicide with his last revolver bull
let.
The monarchist party has issued a
statement saying that while it is de-
sirous of re-establishing a kingdom,<
it does not favor the restoration of
the throne to any member of the
Hapsburg family. This statement was
provoked by reports that 7-year-old
Archduke Otto would be placed on
the throne under regency.
In keynote speech Friday night at
Springfield, ILL.,, launching the candi-
dacy of Governor Frank o. Lowden of
Illinois for the presidency of the Uni
ted States, Representative William A.
Rodenburg of East st. Louis presented
the name of Governor Calvin Coolidge
of Massachusetts as a running mate
for Lowden, at meeting of the Illi-
nois republican editorial association
The mention Of Governor Coolidges
name brought storm of applause.
/ Operations at the southwest ship
yards at Los Angeles harbor, closed by
strike since October 1, are to be re-
sumed November 10, according to an
nouncement.
The mining town of Jarbidge, New,
was laid in ruins by fire Monday
night. The blaze started in the Com
mercial club building and got beyond
control before it was discovered.
) Colonel William L. Kenly, who rose
l to major-general during the war and
who built up the army air service to
the point of efficiency, has retired
from the service on his own applica-
ton.
Further indications that the peace
treaty fight may lead to continuing
deadlock developed Monday while the
senate leaders were trying in vain to
fix definite date for a roll call on
l ratification.
All building trades strikes in Seattle
are off. Work is to be resumed at
once at wages in effect September 2
and adjustment of strike demands will
be made by R, J. Rohde, the govern
ment concii.ator, who was brought
there by the building trades unions
and given authority to act by them.
II The suspension of railway passenger
traffic determined upon by the Ger
man government in order to make pos
sible the distribution of urgently
needed coal, potatoes and other sup
: plies, will take effect November 5.
Persons between is and 81 years of
age in California who cannot read,
write or speak the English language
and who refuse to attend school at
least four hours weekly, may be ar
rested as violators of the law under
provisions of assembly bill SIC.