The Kennewick courier-reporter. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1914-1938, 1920-04-22
Mrs. Fre,i A. Ne,fs. tears failed 10

Mrs. Fred A. Nerfs' tears failed to
save her husband from sentence in the
federal court at Tacoma. Neff was
fined $500 by Judge Cushman on the.
charge of having brought opium from
Canada into the United States.
Plans to revive yachting along the
Pacific coast will be discussed at a
reorganization meeting of the Pacific
Power Boat association at Seattle May
| Is. Yachting and power boat men from
all Pacific coast ports have been asked
to attend. ~
Strikes and lockouts should be for.
hidden by law, compulsory arbitration
and mediation should rule in industry
and any court or commission set up to
handle industrial disputes should be
elected rather than appointed, accord
ing to 95 per cent of the persons re-
plying to questionnaires sent out by
the Associated Industries of Seattle.
Rev. George E. Kline of Spokane
| was reelected elder of Spokane district
of the Free Methodist Columbia River
conference, in session at Walla Walla.
The Rev. H. E. Krieder of Walla Walla
was reelected elder OF Walla Walla dis
trict. Cloverland, Wash, and Sum-
mitt, Idaho, were taken out Of the Wall
la Walla district and added to Spo-
kane district.
Hay prices at Prosser have gone sky
high within the past two weeks. The
sudden appearance of Alberta buyers
in the district tributary to Prosser has
crowded prices upward until practical
Ily the entire visible supply has been
sold and offers as high as $35 per ton
has been made for No. 1 hay. Inas-
much as it will be about two months
before the new crop is ready for mar
ket, it is predicted by many that the
price of hay will reach $40 by June J..
Senator Wesley l.. Jones, at the in
stance of M. l.. Dean, chief of the di-
vision of horticulture of Washington
state, called the attention of the In
dian office to the existence of San Jose
scale and other pests in the orchards
on the Yakima Indian reservation ir-
rigation project. Mr.. Dean said the
state authorities were not authorized
to enter the project and 1t was neces-
sary that something be done to protect
orchardists outside, but near the prof.
ect. The chief of the federal bureau of
entomology promised to give attention.
What is pronounced by experts to be
genuine oil sand has been penetrated
by the oil drills on the north side of
the hills Is miles northeast of Prosser.
This .accords with the predictions of
biologists of national repute who ex-
amined the field. Thus far oil has not
materialized, although the signs are
steadily improving. Gas in sufficient
quantity to supply Spokane. Portland,
Walla Walla, Yakima and the Puget
Sound district has been flowing from
at least two wells and plans are. under
discussion for piping this gas to the
principal cities,
Potatoes, selling at 5000 ton, have
been put under the boycott OF the Seat
! tie Restaurant Caterers association,
and have disappeared from the menu
of every members establishment until
the price has again reached normal
levels. Hundreds of tons OF potatoes,
now held in storage by caterers and
restaurant men, will be put on the mar
ket to farmers only for seeding pur.
poses, accoI ding to announcement. The
price, it YVES said, would be that paid
for them last fall. approximately 500
q ton. More than 100 Seattle restaur'
ants are represented in the association