The Kendrick gazette., 1920-03-26
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Snow Falls In California.

-TULARE, Cal-Several miles OF
country between Tulare and Vlsaiia
were covered with almost on men Vi
snow Monday.
Tacoma Retailers Organize.
TACOMA.-One hundred retail mer-
chants here have formed the PIERCE
County Retail association as a branch
of the Washington State Retail asso-
citation.
Cut Portland Milk Prices.
PORTLAND, Ore.-A wholesale
price of $3.50 hundred pounds 1or
milk sold to Portland distributors was
agreed upon this week by the Oregon
Dairymen's league that makes IL ID
cents a quart to the consumers.
"Newsies" Are Independent.
SACRAMENTO, Cal.-Newsboys are
independent merchants and not en-
ployes," and therefore the state IN.
dustrial welfare commission cannot
regulate their occupation, according
to an opinion by the attorney gen.
eral.
Burn Way Through Vault.
CROWS LANDING, Cal.-F1fty safe
deposit boxes of the First Natlonal
bank here were robbed of several
thousand dollars in bonds recently by
robbers who burned their way through
the vault door with an acetylene gas
torch.
Arrest Police Magistrate.
SAN FRANCISCO.-Bench warrants
we're issued recently for the arrest OF
John ]. Sullivan, police magistrate; !;
Peter j. McDonough and Caterina
Bernardino, indicted by the county
grand jury last Friday, Sullivan on
charge of accepting bribe.
School Caste Condemned.
STANFORD UNIVERSITY. CAL
Condemnation of the sorority system
and recommendations that sorority
houses at Stanford be abolished iI
favor of women's dormitories were
voiced by Miss Harriet Bradford, dear
of women, in a report to the presi
dent
Sailor Kills Yank Skipper.
VANCOUVER, B. CA specia
cable from Sydney, N. S. W., states
that Captain Fred West of the schoon
er John A. Campbell, arriving ther'
from San Francisco, was stabbed t.
death by seaman, probably from hi
ship, as he went ashore.
Baby StartIes Undertaken.
SAN FRANCISCO. - Undertaken
Saturday preparing to embalm tn
body of a two-year-old baby, Harr,
Frietzche, abruptly ceased when
feeble cry apprised them that life wa
not. extinct. The infant was hurrie
to hospital, where it was said h
was expected to live, but he died
few hours later.
| Nab Alleged Bank Robbers.
| PORTLAND, Ore.-Two allege
members of a band of bank robbers
said by federal officials to be respor
sible for the looting of safety deposi
vaults at Scio, Dayton, Wilsonvillt
Cascade Locks. Harrisburg and Je
ferson, Ore, are in the custody of fec
eral authorities here pending the fl
ing of charges against them. The me
are Fred Peterson, alias "Swede
|
Raise Sugar Price.
SAN FRANCISCO.-The price {
sugar from the refiners to the whole
salers was advanced one dollar hun
dred pounds Monday by the Wester
Sugar Refinery and the Honolul
Plantation company The previou
figure was $14 hundred, and the me-
price of SIS was the highest on recort
: it was stated. The advance was i
response to a change in the raw suga
market at New York, it was stated i
commercial circles.
Oregon Dairymen Organize.
PORTLAND. Ore. - Reorganizatio
or the milk producers of Oregon no
members of the Oregon Dairymen
league, with Alma D. Katz as pres
r dent, into an amalgamated associate
on cooperative basis, is about cor
pleted. 1t was announced that a s
ries of meetings have been he
throughout some of the princip
dairying counties with the result tn.
at each of these sessions from 60
l 80 per cent of the owners of here
have signed contracts running f,
five and half years to deliver the
) milk to cooperative association e
! clusively.